MLT Club Member David Herrick
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Here are some data for the first few days for the Why? Q&A video:
For May 29th, V = 3272 and C = 51.7. For May 30th, V = 1032 and C = 16.3. For May 31st, V = 697 and C = 11.0. For June 1st, V = 526 and C = 8.32. And for June 2nd, V = 370 and C = 5.85.
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Here are the milestone predictions for the next month or so:
Still a Friend of Mine: 500,000 views on June 2nd
June: 300,000 views on June 6th
If You Raise Your Head: 100,000 views on June 16th
The Last Time: 700,000 views on June 20th
Nowhere Man: 1,000,000 views on June 20th
Junk: 100,000 views on July 6th
Looking ahead, sometime in July, I Saw Her Standing There should reach 3,000,000 views and While My Guitar Gently Weeps should reach 6,000,000 views.
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Okay, here are the numbers for May. All data are averaged over the period from May 1st through May 31st except for Sugar Man, which is just for the last week. The Why? Q&A video is new and still rapidly evolving, so it is not included.
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simultaneous views:
1) Please Mr. Postman / Wipe Out: C = 6.10 (-3.85)
2) While My Guitar Gently Weeps: C = 3.08 (-0.47)
3) Drive My Car (2012): C = 2.90 (+0.28)
4) Here Comes the Sun: C = 2.28 (-0.74)
5) You Can’t Do That: C = 2.02 (-1.03)
6) I Saw Her Standing There: C = 1.70 (-0.76)
7) Wish You Were Here: C = 1.62 (-0.05)
8) Nowhere Man: C = 1.58 (-0.54)
9) If I Fell: C = 1.56 (-0.31)
10) When I’m Sixty-Four: C = 1.37 (-0.56)
11) Tell Me Why: C = 1.35 (-0.51)
12) This Boy: C = 1.34 (-0.35)
13) Day Tripper: C = 1.34 (-0.34)
14) Morning Has Broken: C = 1.19 (+0.26)
15) Vincent: C = 1.14 (+0.00)
16) Lola: C = 1.13 (-0.15)
17) Till There Was You: C = 1.11 (-0.25)
18) Africa: C = 1.06 (-0.27)
19) If You Raise Your Head: C = 1.02 (-0.40)
20) Twist and Shout (w/ Mike Sweeney): C = 1.00 (-0.29)
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views per day:
1) Please Mr. Postman / Wipe Out: V = 2151 (-1357)
2) Drive My Car (2012): V = 1501 (+143)
3) While My Guitar Gently Weeps: V = 970 (-150)
4) Here Comes the Sun: V = 939 (-304)
5) You Can’t Do That: V = 927 (-474)
6) Tell Me Why: V = 746 (-283)
7) I Saw Her Standing There: V = 725 (-323)
8) If I Fell: V = 706 (-140)
9) Nowhere Man: V = 705 (-241)
10) When I’m Sixty-Four: V = 678 (-274)
11) Till There Was You: V = 587 (-131)
12) Day Tripper: V = 583 (-152)
13) This Boy: V = 571 (-147)
14) Wish You Were Here: V = 479 (-14)
15) Morning Has Broken: V = 461 (+97)
16) You’re Going to Lose That Girl: V = 453 (-88)
17) San Francisco: V = 422 (+69)
18) I’m Looking Through You: V = 419 (-96)
19) Sound of Silence: V = 413 (-29)
20) Twist and Shout (w/ Mike Sweeney): V = 410 (-122)
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All in all it was a rather brutal month for viewing rates, with the gains of April pretty much being wiped out. (David Y., do you see a similar pattern for total views?) Perhaps April views spiked because of the release of Tell Me Why (which is still doing very well), and things have now returned to normal. As always, time will tell. Interestingly, Morning Has Broken has broken into the top 20 for the first time.
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For the Why? Q&A video, for the last hour of May 28th, V = 4416 and C = 69.8. (The C values are going to be crazy high for the number of views because the video is so long.) More daily data on this one in a few days.
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Averaged over the last six days, Sugar Man is at V = 328 and C = 0.87.
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All right, another major milestone passed! And 100M should be just months away!
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Averaged over the last eight days, Sugar Man is at V = 442 and C = 1.18.
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This is a very insightful narrative, Jung! I can picture a movie of your life, with these songs playing in the background at key moments.
Predictably, I’m going to invoke the Monkees for my experience. I was 20 when I discovered their TV show and their music, and although most of their early stuff was aimed at 12-year-olds, they did record this sober and introspective song that really crystallized where my mind was at at that time. I think of it as their equivalent of When I Grow Up to Be a Man:
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I just discovered a vocal group called It’s My Party, which has been doing covers of 60’s songs for nearly 40 years in various incarnations. Here they nail both the singing and the choreography of a Shangri-Las classic:
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This is a fantastic article, Jung! Can you tell us where it was published?
Over thirty years ago, after I had completed my initial reconnaissance of classic rock-and-roll and learned what songs came out when, I decided that for my tastes the peak year was 1966, with the number of songs I really liked gradually decreasing in both directions from that peak. And going through songs from 1966, I concluded that Good Vibrations sat at the very top of that peak. I even narrowed down the instant that the genre reached its zenith to the “aaaaah” at 3:27.
This article helps me see why I came to that conclusion. Good Vibrations masterfully interweaves the best musical structures from earlier times with new styles that became commonplace shortly thereafter, so it’s truly a fusion of everything I love about music.
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Yes, Tim, it’s amazing how many views per day the channel gets overall! Despite the fact that Please Mr. Postman / Wipe Out gets about three times as many views per day as any other single video, it accounts for only about 10% of the total views per day. That tells you that MLT has made a LOT of videos that people are watching.
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Good point, Jung. Actually, when I was looking up the writing credits on that song I discovered that it was originally recorded and released by a group called the Will-O-Bees, who performed it in a sunshine pop style that is totally inappropriate for the message. The Monkees’ version appeared on an album in which the group did all the arrangements themselves, so we know it’s really how they wanted the song to sound.
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Hey, Jung. My perpetual feeling of guilt as a Monkees fan compels me to point out that Shades of Gray was actually written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. They were a great under-the-radar songwriting team in the 60’s who also composed On Broadway (the Drifters), You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ (the Righteous Brothers), We Gotta Get Out of This Place (the Animals), Kicks (Paul Revere and the Raiders), and many others.
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David, you previously mentioned tracking likes, so I jotted those down for the first ten days of Sugar Man. As you predicted, the like-to-view ratio stayed pretty constant, with maybe a slight decrease. But yeah, it would be interesting to compare the early ratio with longer-term figures for this and other videos.
Hooray, we have an emerging community of statisticians within the MLT club! We need to design our own T-shirt.
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Juergen, the cereal box records were actually cut out from the packaging! You took a pair of scissors to the back of the box. My mom always insisted that we finish the cereal before destroying the box, so we went through it really fast!
I can’t believe that record car works, unless it has some very accurate positional sensors. I doubt the grooves provide enough friction to guide it, and it somehow has to slow down as it moves inward to maintain a constant number of RPM’s.
