Una great controversy has been unleashed with Youtube and Avril Lavigne: let's see, the video clip of the song "Girlfriend»Is reaching 100 million views on YouTube and when it reaches that figure, the Canadian would receive a check for two million dollars.
Why? By page views that together with some YouTube ads are transformed into earnings. Amazing. Many say that the figures are inflated and that in reality there are not so many visits.
But that's hard to be sure, so we'll see when that Avril clip hits 100 million views if she gets the millionaire check. And to all this, to think that there are record companies that do not even insert the videos of their artists on YouTube and others that remove them when someone uploads them to the site.
In short, the music earnings more than ever they seem to be on stage and in the agreements that record companies make on the Internet.