If you have ever searched for an artist and found two channels that both look official, you have probably met a Vevo channel. It is a second official channel that carries the artist's name followed by VEVO in the channel name. It is a real channel, not an impostor, and it is the usual source of the confusion over why there are two.
Vevo is a music video distribution service. The artist or label supplies the video, and Vevo runs the channel that hosts it, which is why the channel name is the artist's name plus VEVO. Music videos, official audio uploads and live sessions tend to land there. Vevo also produces its own live session formats with artists, and an upload from one of those usually says so in the title. That is a plain signal that the recording was made for that format rather than being a music video or a concert clip.
In practice, a video can sit on the artist's own channel, on the Vevo channel, or on both. Views are counted per upload, so two uploads of the same song hold two separate counts, and neither number is the whole picture on its own. If you are comparing a video's numbers, check which upload you are looking at before drawing a conclusion, because the same song can appear under two different channel names.
To tell a Vevo channel is genuine, check two things: the channel name is the artist's name plus VEVO, and the videos carry that artist's official releases. That is different from the general impostor problem, which our separate guide on spotting fake channels covers. It is also different from a distributor channel, which carries many different artists, while a Vevo channel belongs to one artist. One honest limit applies: which artists have a Vevo channel, and which videos go where, is decided by the artist's label and Vevo. It is not a rule a fan can predict.