aboutviral.com » All time http://aboutviral.com News, Reviews, Viral Videos and How To's in the world of Viral Marketing Mon, 18 Apr 2011 03:07:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 YouTube’s Top 10 Music Videos of All Time Gets Shaken Up http://aboutviral.com/video/youtubes-top-10-music-videos/ http://aboutviral.com/video/youtubes-top-10-music-videos/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:12:46 +0000 Stuart Dykstra http://aboutviral.com/?p=949  Looking back 5 months ago it is not a huge surprise that the top 10 music videos on YouTube have been shaken up.  Of the 7 videos that remain on top, no one would be surprised that Miley Cyrus keeps climbing.  Hey video is trying to close the some odd 20 million view gap between her 7 things and all time leading video by Avril Lavigne.

So who got the axe?

After Chris Brown’s public image fiasco his Kiss Kiss video soon lost appeal.  The Jonas Brothers join Chris as both their top videos SOS and Burnin Up dropped off to make way for the ladies.  Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Venessa Hudgens have since taken the spot light.

Rank Video Total Views      Growth 
1 Avril Lavigne – Girlfriend 126,169,287 6,241,715
2 Miley Cyrus – 7 Things  101,595,574 17,109,592
3 Rihanna – Don’t Stop The Music 99,353,802 10,290,062
4 Chris Brown – With You 98,322,614 5,352,389
5 Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love 90,143,495 4,096,373
6 Alicia Keys – No One 83,796,856 3,606,701
7 Timbaland – Apologize ft. One Republic 77,860,499 2,614,388
8 Lady Gaga – Just Dance 77,075,366      New Addition
9 Katy Perry – Hot’n'cold 73,830,418      New Addition
10 Vanessa Hudgens – Say Ok Music Video 72,305,954      New Addition

*Growth calculated from May 15th

The interesting thing about the three latest editions to chart is that Vanessa’s video was added 2 years ago while Lady Gaga and Katy Perry have only been on YouTube for a year. 

Pay close attention to Hollywood Records and their strategy with Vanessa as they choose not disable the embedding feature.  A strategy that has allowed Miley’s 7 things video to amass over 30 million views since last March.  Now capping 100 million views on one video alone the strategy seems to be paying off.    

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]]> http://aboutviral.com/video/youtubes-top-10-music-videos/feed/ 0 Major Moves on the YouTube All Times Chart http://aboutviral.com/viralnews/major-moves-on-the-youtube-all-time-times-chart/ http://aboutviral.com/viralnews/major-moves-on-the-youtube-all-time-times-chart/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 11:27:21 +0000 Stuart Dykstra http://aboutviral.com/?p=878 In the past two weeks 3 major shifts happened on the YouTube All Time most viewed chart.  

1) Miley Cyrus passed Alicia Keys taking 5th place

2) The Jonas Brothers stepped up from the bottom taking number 9 away from Akon

3) Avril Lavigne stays in the number one spot for music videos but has been shoved to the number 2 slot for all video as The Evolution of Dance reclaims the throne.  

Maybe disabling embedding has played a role?  Look at the two videos with the highest growth, they both allow others to embed.  All the others present on the chart (except Timbaland) disable the embedding feature as we saw just over two weeks ago.      

Source: YouTube

Source: YouTube

 

 
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]]> http://aboutviral.com/viralnews/major-moves-on-the-youtube-all-time-times-chart/feed/ 0 Top Ten All Time YouTube Music Videos – Does Embedding Make a Difference? http://aboutviral.com/music/top-ten-all-time-youtube-music-videos-does-embedding-make-a-difference/ http://aboutviral.com/music/top-ten-all-time-youtube-music-videos-does-embedding-make-a-difference/#comments Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:59:39 +0000 Stuart Dykstra http://aboutviral.com/?p=818 If you have a good music video going should you disable embedding?  Have a look at the current leading songs and which ones disabled embedding.  Also notice the Miley Cyrus clip, it shows an increase in views around the 1 million mark every week for over 6 weeks now.  This is a feat no other video on the chart is accomplishing.  Notice the video 7 Things has not disabled embedding…

Source: YouTube

Source: YouTube, April 18th 2009

Arguably there is another video on this chart that hasn’t disabled embedding (Timbaland) and it is not growing at an unusually high rate.  The Jonas Brother’s on the other hand has embedding enabled and for last the last three 2 week check ups it has grown almost a million every time.  The Jonas Brothers released there song SOS two month before Apologize came out so the time difference doesn’t seem valid here either.   

Timbaland and The Jonas Brothers represent competing points and Miley acts as a tie breaker having been released a year after The Jonas Brothers, 7 Things is climbing faster than any other video on the chart.  

Avril Lavigne – Girlfriend 
Chris Brown – With You
Rihanna – Don’t Stop the Music
Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love
Alicia Keys – No One


Chris Brown – Kiss Kiss
Akon – Don’t Matter

Looking off the first page of the chart.

Here are some recently added videos and their progress as they try to get to these coveted 10 spots. 

Beyonce has 52 million and Single Ladies has embedding disabled.  This video came on the scene in November of 2008 so it has made ground very quickly averaging roughly 866k a month.   

Universal takes a different approach with the video Jizz in my Pants by the The Lonely Island.  It dances annotations and ITunes buttons on the page to direct consumers to a purchase point.  The Lonely Island tunes were available as of February 2009 and Jizz in my Pants has already topped 40 million.  Guess what…It doesn’t disable embedding either.   


 

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