He probably would have made $500,000 to $1,000,000 from that video, seeing as the average cpm for YouTube in general is $2, which is $2 per 1000 views. With 1.6 billion, views that might be around $3 million but most music videos are replayed, and ads aren’t shown every time a video is played because its kind of short Edit: I got an ad on the video
gaminologyyt
Anyone else use YouTube Music and gets this song spammed in autoplay? Now I know why.. They don’t have to pay out for it
Such_Capital
There’s having artistic integrity, and then there’s turning down millions of dollars for a xylophone cover of Baa Baa Black Sheep.
Lurking_For_Trouble
For those wondering, he did it on purpose because he was not interested in selling his music and had a strong aversion to ads.
naiad_es
That song had stayed with me. It was once appliccable and stuck. Sometimes history repeats. But I guess it kinda sucks for him too.
DWGer