I just checked one of my youtube accounts, and saw on my analytics page that my total view count was down 78% the past 30 days compared to the previous 30-day period.
Curious to see what was the cause of this (e.g. did one of my videos get a sudden, massive number of views for some reason last month?), I discovered that my upload for Toni Basil's 'Nobody' (the flop follow-up to 'Mickey') went from 27 views in one day (around its normal daily viewcount) to ~18.5k the next day, then ~12k the day after that, before plummeting back down again to 20-something views the next day.
Investigating further, I saw that almost all of the 30k views in those 2 days came from the US, linked from a yahoo 'news' story about Toni Basil turning 70.
Anyway, the main reason for me posting this here was this interesting tidbit from the article:
It was hardly as if she could financially coast on the success of "Mickey," which continues to be the DJ's choice any time some ‘80s tunes are called for on the dance floor. "I don’t think my story is an unusual story for a lot of music performers," she told an English TV interviewer recently. "But I think that since 1982, worldwide, I have probably seen less than 3,000 American dollars in royalties."
I know Toni didn't write 'Mickey' (or 'Kitty' as it was originally known), but I'm still surprised to see that she's made so little money in royalties from such a massive, still-played-today hit.
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