5 Billion Views – How Much is it Worth?
It Will Be Revealed Here
In 2024, Rednex have had 5 billion views on YouTube. The view count on TikTok is probably somewhat similar, but it is impossible for us to say since TikTok isn't providing statistics, and definitely no money.
Since Gedagedigedagedago is a game-changing event, probably bonking the entertainment industry into a new era, it is my intention to be as forthcoming and transparent as I can with financial data, for the sake of all its participants.
How much is it really worth? Don't we all want to know?! :)
In about 2 months the first indications should show. Maybe midsummer will be a nice time for royalty takers to celebrate, or maybe it will be a time of confusion and numb-drinking (as usual).
The financial statements are lagging with about 3-4 months from when a view took place, so there should be some numbers by then.
Anyway, here are some interesting numbers about the Geda spill to other ways to make money:
The main video of Cotton Eye Joe on YouTube has gone up by 200%, from 2M/month to 6M/month. It has also entered the Top 100 (but not Top 50) YouTube charts of UK, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. Nice comeback in a sense.
This means that every 400th (0.25%) view spills over from a Geda video to the Cotton Original.
Every 75th unique viewer of a Geda video spills over to the Cotton original.
At Spotify the numbers are much less noticable. There Cotton has gone up by 25-30%, but as Spotify normally goes up after New Year, my guess is that only half of that is contributable to Geda. So roughly from 5 billion YouTube views to 3 million extra Spotify views in 3 months. This is one Spotify view per 1700 YouTube views, or one Spotify view per 150 unique viewer.
On YouTube music streaming service, Cotton has also gone up by 200%. From 160K to 500K per month.
One noticable thing is that one Cotton remix – Industrial Boogie remix by Öban – has gone up by 2000% on Spotify, in a diagram that exactly matches Geda. It is now Rednex's 8th most popular track there, and the most popular that was never a single. But still at only 50K/month. It will pass Wild'n Free in a week. Other remixes have moved slightly, but nowhere near that one.
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There is of course a legal side to sharing financial data that makes me somewhat nervous, so I can't make too many promises on details, but ballpark figures should be possible. Usable for all players to make their own evaluations. Transparency and sharing is the intention. But don't count on any stat-videos, you will have to trust me on this one.
A rough guess is that in total over the year, the royalty takers could look forward to between $500,000-1,000,000 extra, because of Geda. It sounds quite little, considering the billions of views, but keep in mind that YouTube shorts is a rather new thing and being cautious is sometimes preferable. Don't buy any Lamborghini's just yet, guys!
On TikTok there are currently at least 3 million videos made using the Gedagedigedagedago sound track. On YouTube there is probably less.
In the 80's & 90's, if a song got played at the Swedish national radio, it would get $10 per minute to be shared among the publisher and songwriters. This money would be paid to STIM, the Swedish songwriter agency, and then distributed. Today, they are also collecting fees from streaming services to give to the songwriters.
If we, the songwriters of Armagedton (Geda & Cotton), would get $10 per minute today, for every view on YouTube in 2024, we would share 22,5 billion dollars (37,5M hours). Time's change :)
But perhaps more interestingly, tomorrow we will probably release the official video for Gedagedigedagedago on YouTube. Can it muster becoming a hit in itself? Because that might be where the bigger money is at the moment.