How many views did “Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia (Official Music Video)” get?

Taylor Swift · published 2025-10-01 · TubeCount #87, played 2026-09-06

Why this one

Taylor Swift is the most-streamed artist on both Spotify and YouTube; her top videos clear a billion with ease, and 'Shake It Off' sits at 3.6 billion. 'The Fate of Ophelia' is the official music video for a track from The Tortured Poets Department, released in October 2025 — her most commercially successful album cycle. Four hundred and twenty-three million views. The number is large; for Taylor Swift it registers as a mid-catalog entry. The mechanism is catalog compression at absolute scale: when a creator's baseline approaches tens of millions per release, individual videos accumulate views proportionally to listener intent rather than discovery traffic — fans who own every album don't re-watch every music video, they stream the audio. The 423 million are specifically the people who came to the visual: concert-preparation playlist builders, choreography references, fans who watch every official production. The fans who listened 400 times on Spotify did not each add a YouTube view.

How everyone did

10 players called this one. The average score was 44 out of 100, and on the thumbnail alone people were typically 10× off.