At least on YouTube, where searches for his name came in second only to "sex" during last month. Compete.com has released the top 25 search terms on the video-sharing site for last month, and there is some good news for the music business buried within: music-related search terms made up 16 of the 25 top queries, with the number of hunts for Chris Brown and "No Air" even beating out the number of searches for "porn." (OK, so people looking for that sort of thing are probably over at YouPorn, but never let it be said that searching for sex on the Internet isn't something of an eternal quest.) Full list after the jump.
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If episode 3—with its stalling narrative and repetitive dialogue—was the filler episode of the ongoing Jobromance series, episode 4 is its tour-de-force masterwork. Emogurl810 kicks things up a notch with yet another love subplot, and an almost entirely indecipherable (and therefore possibly brilliant?) match-making sequence in the park, complete with slapstick clichés and an amusing accidental double-entendre.
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The JoBromance—the YouTubed Jonas Brothers homage that combines the art of the cobbled-together tribute video with the hair-raising creepiness of fan fiction—continues full steam ahead in episode three, as the gang investigates a mysterious dispute, and emogurl810 once again eschews the conventions of the narrative form.
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If you've been on YouTube today, you may have noticed that the front page is curiously devoid of videos like "Todd's Oscars rant" and "Monkey eats cheese." Instead, Iceland's second-most-famous weirdo musicians, Sigur Ròs, have taken over the site for the day, and anyone can watch their tour documentary Heima in its entirety (for free!). They've also selected ten fan-made videos submitted to the Minn Heima contest to be featured on the front page. Most of the videos use leftover footage from Heima, but at least one out of ten Sigur Ròs fans is going to be artsy enough to dabble in stop-motion animation. Let's review a few of the more notable entires.
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The above clip for Cansei de Ser Sexy's "Music Is My Hot, Hot Sex" isn't an official clip by the Brazilian glitch outfit—it was made by an Italian music blogger who decided to take some viral-video contest footage and set it to the song that was made middlingly famous by an iPod Touch ad a few months back. Somehow, the clip has become the most-watched video in the history of YouTube, racking up 89,750,739 views and overtaking the (really stupid) "Evolution Of Dance" for the top spot. Lest you think that this success is a testament to the power of Apple's music placement, Andy Baio at waxy.org is here to let you know: The clip may have actually cheated its way to the top. No, really. This is what the world has come to, everyone.
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In light of what they see as Clive Davis's neglect toward the promotion of Kelly Clarkson's My December, the Kelly Clarkson Express—a group that sounds like it should serve as a dual-purpose fan club for the first American Idol and trains—has put together a video for the song "How I Feel," which its members think should be the next single. This is but one facet of the How I Feel Project, a campaign to get the song played on the radio, or maybe very quietly in the background of an MTV show. While strong fan support is essential when you're a pop star being ignored by one of the world's most powerful music bigwigs, that devotion can come with a price—and in this case, that price is a well-intentioned but sadly incompetent tribute video.
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Latest by krazygemini1980: The Album is not a FLOP as many are compelled to Call it.. It has gone Platium in the US as of December 07, (yes look it up if you wish on the RIAA website) Also the album world wide more »
While looking for videos by the Fastbacks (how is there only one on YouTube??), I stumbled across the YouTube channel for Bohemia Visual Music Grunge TV, a Portland-based YouTuber who's uploading "music videos clips and concert footage along with interviews from Seattle to Portland and the rest of "The Great NorthWest" music scene from 1980's to 90's." There's a lot of worthy footage within, but something tells me that a lot of Idolator readers will be thrilled by the channel's top clip, a 30-minute session by the killer pop combo Hazel. [YouTube]
Perhaps chastened by the low ratings for Sunday's telecast, the Grammy powers that be have allowed YouTube bootlegs of segments from the show to run wild, and right now the entire first page of the video-sharing site's most popular music videos is made up of Grammy clips. (Click the image for a larger version of the top-12 screenshot; unsurprisingly, Universal Music Group artists Amy Winehouse and Kanye West are in there multiple times. But where's Herbie Hancock?) In the grand scheme of YouTube, though, none of the Grammy clips are as popular right now as that one where the hockey player gets sliced in the neck, a fact that is no doubt causing the awards show's producers to rethink next year's centerpiece entertainment. [YouTube]
Channel-I-just-realized-I-have Russia Today spoke with Pirate Bay head Gottfried Svartholm Warg for a TV package on the site, which is currently facing legal action in its home country of Sweden. Warg's interview was distilled down to the the now-standard answer that anyone charged with facilitating copyright infringement via hosting BitTorrent servers gives, which is that they've actually done no wrong because they're merely pointing users to files that other people have uploaded. They're really just like Google! Especially with the whole part about "monetizing searches," according to the report.
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Latest by Hallux Valgus: this was my favorite:"It's a win for all because even movie studios measure their future success based on how many torrent downloads their work get."
~um, I work for a movie studio, and no, no we don't. more »
People have watched one billion Universal Music Group videos on YouTube, according to a press release issued by the recorded-music behemoth and the video-sharing site. Just think how much higher that number would be if it counted all the "unofficial" versions of videos that are lurking within the site in an effort to get around UMG's annoying, archaic, and more-adjectives-that-begin-with-"a" anti-embeddng policies. [Billboard.biz]
What with their ability to make the young girls scream, it would be inevitable that angry teenagers have started to rail against the scourge of the Jonas Brothers. But instead of composing a ditty like "New Kids Got Run Over By A Reindeer" or graffiting "MORE LIKE N SUCK!!!" in their school's ladies' room, members of the Web 2.0 generation have taken their anti-moptop crusade to the Internet. On YouTube, for example, a video that opens with the greeting "Hello. If you are watching this and you are a Jonas Brothers fan you should kill yourself." is rising up the "Most Popular" charts, no doubt in large part because lots of kids have vacation this week. The clip lays out boilerplate anti-boy-band rhetoric while also big-upping Slipknot and ripping the JBs' bulletin board-posting fans for having "no clue of proper grammer and punctuation." (Sigh. Kids today.) And it's garnered 700-plus comments so far, which are so far evenly split between Jonas Brothers fans and their older brothers haters. But I'm pretty impressed by the rebuttals from young laurennmariexo, who composed an 18-point (!) treatise responding to the allegations laid out in the video:
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After much speculation over who, exactly, was trying to get clips from Led Zeppelin's Monday show at the O2 arena removed from YouTube, the culprit has come forth. And it's not anyone at Warner Music Group, or even Jimmy Page himself. Instead, it's the Brooklyn-based outfit GrayZone, which calls itself "the 'bootbusters' of the entertainment industry." (Yes, really.) And it turns out that the mass removal being attributed to WMG was the result of a glitch, or at least what the company claimed as it explained itself to Silicon Alley Insider:
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Latest by SonOfSlam: Part of filing a DMCA takedown notice is the signed claim that they are acting at the request of the copyright owners under penalty of perjury. I wonder if anything is going to happen to these folks. more »
Diddy announced the winner of his YouTube personal assistant contest yesterday on Oprah: Lawyer Heather "Spelmansweetie" Thompson, whose slightly wooden audition video big-ups her time in the Peace Corps and her subscriptions to New York and The Economist. Those qualities will probably not be considered in Diddy's next assistant search, which will take place through the tried and true "VH1 reality show" method. [YouTube via Whudat / Photo: AP]
The mournful cover of "Umbrella" above, by the singer Marié Digby, became something of a YouTube "hit" over the summer; to date, this clip alone has been watched 860,989 times, and her take on the Rihanna song even got play on the radio and The Hills. But today's Wall Street Journal reveals that, perhaps unsurprisingly, Digby's rise to YouTube "fame" was aided and abetted in a big way by the higher-ups at Disney's Hollywood Records, who have had her on their roster since 2005:
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Latest by David Flores:
The tipoff if the amount of makeup she's wearing + perfect hair and too good looks. Most people don't go on Youtube looking like that. In fact, most Youtube videos feature some dude who looks like he just rolled out more »
YouTube and Universal Music Group are best friends forever, since apparently UMG's channel is the Web site's most must-see moneymaker. Surely being the site's most-viewed channel has nothing to do with UMG forcing you to link to YouTube by cruelly disallowing any sort of embedding on its videos, like when you're, say, trying to post an Erykah Badu clip on a list your mom put together for your blog. [Billboard.biz]
YouTube is rolling out "overlay ads"—ads that pop up over the bottom half of a video's screen for about 10 seconds—on the channels of 1,000 content partners today; during trials, the video-sharing site found that these ads had a staggering 75% click-through rate. Sure, these are much preferable to pre-rolls (those ads that air before videos and serve as little more than an annoying obstacle to content) but I have to wonder if part of those "click-throughs" were actually people clicking on the ads in hopes that they would stop messing up the view. Looks like the linked Telegraph story was missing a "who"; 75% of the people who clicked watched the whole advertisement they were led to. This, my friends, is why the world needs more copyeditors. [Coolfer]
Like most music nerds in their late twenties, MTV's 120 Minutes was a staple of my adolescence, and a prime influence on my taste in indie and alternative rock. Thanks to the miracle of YouTube, anyone can troll around for almost any video that would have ever aired on the program, but the anonymous curator of 120minutes.tumblr.com improves on that by posting five embedded alt-rock classics per page, roughly approximating the experience of watching the show by adding a sense of continuity and an element of surprise.
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Ditto. 20 something? Try mid-Thirties and a heaping helping of the weekday PostModern MTV.
Thusly did my love for Love and Rockets, Smiths, Siouxsie, SugarCubes, Depeche Mode, et. al. find soil and a chance to bloom. more »
Note to any parents in the audience: If you're going to post a clip of your baby adorably dancing on YouTube, don't use music with publishing rights owned by Universal Music Publishing Group. Even if you use less than 30 seconds of said song—as the mom who shot the above video of her baby bopping around while Prince's Super Bowl performance played in the background did—a copyright claim will be filed by the company, and YouTube will cave:
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At least on YouTube, where searches for his name came in second only to "sex" during last month. Compete.com has released the top 25 search terms on the video-sharing site for last month, and there is some good news for the music business buried within: music-related search terms made up 16 of the 25 top queries, with the number of hunts for Chris Brown and "No Air" even beating out the number of searches for "porn." (OK, so people looking for that sort of thing are probably over at YouPorn, but never let it be said that searching for sex on the Internet isn't something of an eternal quest.) Full list after the jump.
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While looking for videos by the Fastbacks (how is there only one on YouTube??), I stumbled across the YouTube channel for 
