The Lil' Monsters give and YouTube takes away. Lady Gaga has been stripped of 156 million YouTube views. The site cleared out stats it considered fraudulent by hackers and view count generators.

The development comes one month after the YouTube pages of Sony and Universal lost 2 billion YouTube views. Why? Because of Sony, Universal and EMI's decision to bet on VEVO. Other artists affected by YouTube's clean-up include Beyonce', Michael Jackson and Chris Brown. At the time of the original clean-up, singer Leona Lewis lost 24 million views. OUCH!

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