ARR in Youtube
I have done this exercise earlier but seeing the popularity of Raayan's songs, redid this exercise and found many videos of 90s’ ARR songs have been deleted from Youtube by the copyright holders. Youtube views are considered a benchmark for popularity and thus,it can be seen that since 1992 till today, there are A.R.Rahman’s songs in every year which have breached the 10 million view mark. If 2005 is discounted, 25 Million view count is breached every year. If 1993 and 2003 are also discounted, 50 million view count is breached every year by a song. (Raayan songs will easily breach 50 Million view count soon). It just shows the sheer longevity and consistency of Rahman in terms of staying popular in the music charts. Of course, Youtube view count is not the clincher in such arguments. For example, Sakhiye Nee than thunaiye, one of my most favorite ARR songs, does not have a count of even one lakh on Youtube. 1992 - Yeh Haseen Vadiyan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-vcE-UTc-0
