MLT Club Member David Herrick
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Recent data for For What it’s Worth:
For July 29th, V = 930 and C = 2.43. For July 30th, V = 820 and C = 2.14. For July 31st, V = 767 and C = 2.01. For August 1st, V = 754 and C = 1.97. And for August 2nd, V = 451 and C = 1.18.
Meanwhile, averaged over the past week, June is at V = 343 and C = 0.89, Paint it Black is at V = 801 and C = 2.03, and She’s a Woman is at V = 1085 and C = 3.05.
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For my money this is one of MLT’s most underrated videos. I love the playful innocence and the 1930’s-like setting. Altogether it just looks like the inspiration for a Norman Rockwell portrait. Thanks for the plug, Jung!
My dad died a year ago, and now my mom is all alone in the house we kids grew up in, getting around with a wheelchair and a walker. She’s fine for now, but I’m sure my siblings and I are all thinking about the day not too far off when we have to say goodbye to our childhood home. We’ve already gone through a few boxes of old stuff, but that pales into comparison to eventually clearing out all the furniture and leaving an empty shell for some stranger to occupy from then on.
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I can’t mentally process the Monday-to-Sunday week either, especially when all my other calendars are Sunday-to-Saturday, so I display the MLT calendar just for the pretty pictures. I thought about snipping off the Sunday column for each month and taping it to the other side, but that would turn the next month’s photo into a Picasso painting.
Do you think it would be out of line to suggest that future calendars be printed in both formats?
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Here are the milestone predictions for the next month or so:
All My Lovin’: 700,000 views on August 6th
Questionable: 400,000 views on August 6th
And that’s pretty much it, although we’re probably about a month and a half from Here, There and Everywhere reaching 1,000,000 views, and two months from If I Fell reaching 3,000,000.
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Here are the numbers for July. All data cover the range from July 1st through July 31st, except for the really recent videos: Hey Bulldog, June, Paint it Black, and She’s a Woman are for just the last five days, and For What it’s Worth is for just the last day. She Loves You is not included because it was just released yesterday and is rapidly evolving, but the early numbers for it look spectacular!
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simultaneous views:
1) Please Mr. Postman / Wipe Out: C = 5.85 (+0.08)
2) Drive My Car (2012): C = 5.09 (+0.93)
3) While My Guitar Gently Weeps: C = 3.29 (+0.37)
4) She’s a Woman: C = 3.25 (new)
5) Hey Bulldog: C = 2.89 (new)
6) Here Comes the Sun: C = 2.83 (+0.73)
7) You Can’t Do That: C = 2.27 (+0.35)
8) Paint it Black: C = 2.14 (new)
9) For What it’s Worth: C = 2.01 (new)
10) I Saw Her Standing There: C = 1.76 (+0.08)
11) Tell Me Why: C = 1.63 (+0.15)
12) Nowhere Man: C = 1.50 (+0.20)
13) Day Tripper: C = 1.50 (+0.23)
14) When I’m Sixty-Four: C = 1.45 (-0.01)
15) If I Fell: C = 1.45 (+0.04)
16) Wish You Were Here: C = 1.39 (+0.08)
17) San Francisco: C = 1.26 (-0.03)
18) Africa: C = 1.24 (+0.14)
19) This Boy: C = 1.17 (-0.02)
20) I’m a Believer: C = 1.17 (+0.14)
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views per day:
1) Drive My Car (2012): V = 2636 (+484)
2) Please Mr. Postman / Wipe Out: V = 2065 (+30)
3) Hey Bulldog: V = 1250 (new)
4) Here Comes the Sun: V = 1163 (+297)
5) She’s a Woman: V = 1134 (new)
6) You Can’t Do That: V = 1043 (+162)
7) While My Guitar Gently Weeps: V = 1039 (+120)
8) Tell Me Why: V = 905 (+83)
9) Paint it Black: V = 844 (new)
10) For What it’s Worth: V = 767 (new)
11) I Saw Her Standing There: V = 749 (+33)
12) When I’m Sixty-Four: V = 717 (-2)
13) Nowhere Man: V = 670 (+90)
14) If I Fell: V = 656 (+16)
15) Day Tripper: V = 654 (+98)
16) Till There Was You: V = 617 (+20)
17) San Francisco: V = 554 (-10)
18) This Boy: V = 499 (-9)
19) I’m Looking Through You: V = 473 (+51)
20) I’m a Believer: V = 468 (+55)
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It appears the saturation bombing strategy has paid off: almost all the top videos show increased viewership, probably riding the coattails of the new releases, all of which are doing very well. (The Cavern Club version of June currently ranks in the low 30’s.) And Drive My Car has padded its lead over Please Mr. Postman, so maybe this is a real trend at the top.
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For the last hour of July 30th, She Loves You is at V = 41328 and C = 84.7.
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Recent data for For What it’s Worth:
For July 24th, V = 12983 and C = 34.0. For July 25th, V = 5749 and C = 15.0. For July 26th, V = 2445 and C = 6.40. For July 27th, V = 2268 and C = 5.93. And for July 28th, V = 976 and C = 2.55.
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Hi, Fred! Thanks for the feedback. A new video being released to YouTube every week is keeping me really busy with the stats! I feel almost apologetic for cluttering the forum lately with so many numbers, but I’m glad you find it entertaining, or at least informative.
All the points you make are good ones! My inner scientist keeps trying to correct for these factors and find an underlying universal trajectory for viewership, but I’m probably eventually going to throw up my hands and blame people in general for being just too unpredictable.
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Well played, Juergen! But if this proxy war is to be fought via children’s educational shows circa 1970, behold the compelling certitude of Mr. Rogers:
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Well, okay, but now the U.N. has taken on the responsibility for re-writing the Happy Days theme song:
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Juergen, I’ve been in the U.S. all my life, and until joining this club I never saw or even heard of a calendar whose week didn’t begin with Sunday. I can also cite several American songs that name all the days of the week, and they all start with Sunday. So yes, I’d say it’s a universal practice in the U.S.
I do recall, when learning the days of the week in French class in high school, that the teacher (a European native) always started with Monday, but I figured that was just a quirk of hers.
Oddly enough, this topic actually came up on the discussion boards a couple of years ago. I looked up the history, and if I recall correctly the difference stems from a religious disagreement hundreds of years ago about whether the Sabbath should be considered the first day or the last day of the week.
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Jung, you’re bringing something to mind…
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I agree: what this guy says about learning music in the same way as we learn our native language makes so much sense in retrospect, and yet it probably never would have occurred to me.
I’m also struck by his “pedestal” comment near the end. It’s really worthy of contemplation.
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Hi, Lynn.
It’s fun to speculate, especially with the recent glut of releases, as to what causes some new MLT videos on YouTube to catch fire relative to others. Certainly Beatles covers as a whole get the most views. Beyond that, the hottest ones seem to me to be either mega-hit singles such as She Loves You, or well-loved album tracks that aren’t covered much such as She’s a Woman. Of course, as a whole the Beatles’ early stuff is more amenable to being performed live. And I’m sure most subscribers aren’t club members and therefore haven’t seen these videos before at all.
But yeah, She Loves You is on a record pace so far!
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Hey, that’s true! Great observation, Tomás! I just went back and checked the numbers, and This Boy Is Mine has been getting more views per month than That’s Life for about the last year. It looks like the “pass” occurred in late April.
