You guys arguing about Internet Views and shit fucking missed the point, This Guy is still making a boatload of money because he's invested well and has a decent following...
For some 18 year old kid with minimal vocal talent he's a god damn genius
Myspace doesn't mean shit in the music world nowdays. I can tell you this because I'm a music producer as well. Youtube views, do you realise people most of the time use youtube to rip the song from there and convert it to mp3. I've done it myself, not hard to do. So he's lost a bit of money there. So out of the 400 million views, 300 million of those people / views have gone to conversion to mp3 from youtube.
The other factors I won't complain about. Granted he made it as a good aertist, but don't count an artists potential by how many views hes got on myspace.