Music Video Success Criteria

There are many ways that a music video to tell if a music video is successful or not, such as :

• Whether it wins a VMA award or not. 
• Whether it is talked about or not, or features in magazines, newspapers and online.
• Whether it has a lot of hits on Youtube. 
• How many times its been shown on TV.
• The amount of publicity, whether or not that is positive or negative. 
• How many times its been downloaded.
• How many CD's its sold.

A video that i would consider to be successful is Gangnam Style by PSY. This video is 'foreign' to most countries and the lyrics make no sense to most people, however due to video and dance routine it hit number 1 in many countries, including the UK, and is one of the most successful Youtube videos, having a lot of likes and views.