How many views did “Ariana Grande - Too Close (official audio)” get?

Ariana Grande · published 2024-08-21 · TubeCount #70, played 2026-08-20

Why this one

Ariana Grande has 57 million subscribers and a career that defined late-2010s pop — seven Billboard Hot 100 number ones, a Grammy, 'thank u, next' as a cultural moment. Her official audio for 'Too Close,' released in August 2024, has 1.1 million views. Audio uploads are the platform's most systematically ignored format — subscribers want a thumbnail with visual identity, not a waveform. Even 'thank u, next' the music video did 700 million views; the same song as an audio upload would do a fraction of that. This is not a commentary on the song: it is a measurement of how much the thumbnail matters to the algorithm, and how far any creator is from their subscriber count when the product they post doesn't match the reason people subscribed.

How everyone did

13 players called this one. The average score was 17 out of 100, and on the thumbnail alone people were typically 107× off.