Today 'Material Girl' was finally uploaded by the Warner Bros. Records channel after previously only existing via unofficial fan accounts, such as QueenMadonnaHD where the video has nearly 20m views.

 

'I Want You' and 'Dress You Up' were also uploaded. Could this be the start of the mess regarding Madonna and YouTube finally being cleared up?

They're hearing your prayers Liam! Hopefully they upload them all officially <3

I hope so! It's annoying seeing her videos repeatedly getting taken down because they've been uploaded by unofficial channels, yet the official channels don't do anything to combat that. Like, how is it acceptable that only now one of her most iconic songs has been uploaded to YouTube?

Great news. :yahoo:

 

"Material Girl" always was my favourite Madonna's song.

So 'Erotica' already appeared on the Warner Bros. channel but it's now been uploaded to Madonna's official channel too, along with the live performance on The Girlie Show Tour:

 

 

Erotica is 25 years old.

Yeah, Madonna's Twitter account has been celebrating #MadonnaErotica25. They've got a link to behind-the-scenes photos of the video here and the opportunity to win a signed original 'Erotica' 12" vinyl single here.

 

The Confessions Tour performance of 'Erotica' has also been uploaded:

 

Human Nature now on the Warner Bros. channel!

 

 

Previous mainly existed through an unofficial account called "Rｉｔａ" where it had 4.2m views. Love this video so much! :wub:

'Love Don't Live Here Anymore' and 'American Pie' are next:

 

 

What odd choices !!!

 

Just add them all at a quicker rate !

They're ones that weren't already officially uploaded.

Isn’t there more ?

Yeah there's quite a lot that still need officially uploading. The quality of them isn't that great but first things first.

'Hollywood' uploaded!

 

I'll post this here as it's kinda relevant:

 

YouTube Will Merge Vevo Channel Subscribers Into Unified ‘Official’ Music Artist Accounts

By Todd Spangler

Music is hugely popular on YouTube, and artists with Vevo-branded channels are among the most-followed channels on the platform.

 

Now, YouTube is about to consolidate the millions of subscribers to Vevo’s channels — as well as those on “unofficial” artist-related channels — under a single account for each artist. A YouTube spokesman said artists will not be able to opt out of the subscriber-migration process.

 

Over the next few weeks, fans currently subscribed to artists’ Vevo or topic channel will now be subscribed to their Official Artist Channels. According to YouTube, Vevo channels will still be accessible via the advanced channel filter in search, and they will also be available if a user is specifically searching for the Vevo channel. In addition, if an artist has only a Vevo channel (and not an Official Artist Channel) the Vevo channel will still appear in search.

 

“Vevo’s reach and business can continue to grow on YouTube as a direct result of simplifying the user experience through consolidation of an entire artist’s catalog into one channel, where Vevo videos are featured prominently,” the YouTube rep said in a statement.

 

YouTube says the consolidation of music artists’ subscribers means they’ll get bigger overall reach. They also will be able to use YouTube features like community posts, mobile live-streaming, and ticketing.

 

Still, the move will effectively eliminate Vevo branding in the channel names; the YouTube rep added that “these changes will impact all music partners equally.” A Vevo rep declined to comment.

 

Today, Vevo-branded channels are frequently bigger than artists’ “official” ones. The JustinBieberVEVO channel on YouTube has 33.6 million subscribers, while his separate official YouTube channel currently has 4.2 million. TaylorSwiftVEVO has 27.3 million followers, while the official Taylor Swift channel has 2 million.

 

Vevo’s investors include Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube. The New York-based company’s other owners are Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and Abu Dhabi Media. YouTube has remained a key partner for Vevo, but has in recent years moved to boost its distribution through other platforms including its own apps.

 

YouTube said it will expand the rollout of the new Official Artist Channels to artists on the platform over the coming weeks.

 

For example, 'Girl Gone Wild' has 17m views on Madonna's Vevo and 40m views on her 'official music artist' channel and the two will be combined so that the video has 57m views instead.

 

Whether or not the Warner Bros. channel will be included in this combining, I'm not completely sure, but it's certainly a step in the right direction.

'Fever' and 'Drowned World' now have official uploads: