MLT Club Member David Herrick
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As far as “bright fun upbeat feel”, I would submit this one for consideration:
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Or if you want to focus more on the message and the spirit, maybe this one:
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Jung, this is one of my favorites from MLT’s first album. The first time I heard it was when I realized that they had an amazing talent for channeling the Beatles without overtly copying them. And the video is so creative and just pure fantasy fun!
This is the Beatles song that comes to mind that has the most similar structure, but I Wanna Kiss You improves quite a bit on the energy level:
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The latest numbers for Questionable, averaged over the past week, are V = 2420 and C = 6.44. For comparison, these are about twice as high as the figures for IBMAP at the same amount of time after release.
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Happy 64th, Bill! We still need you, and we’ll still feed you.
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Juergen, I think we had a discussion about Schlager music before. I actually kind of like it; it appeals to the kid in me, and it would have been fun to have sung some of these songs in my high school German class.
The term also reminds me of how the German word for drum, “Schlagzeug”, literally translates “hit thing”. It always amuses me that so many German words have such pragmatic constructions.
Jung, I don’t think Eurovision was much of a launching pad for the careers of any artists other than ABBA. Nowadays, of course, we expect the winners of TV talent show contests to become major players on the music scene. Can anyone here explain why Eurovision is (or at least was) such a big deal, and yet not much of a star-making machine? Is it just more about the competition among nations rather than the artists themselves?
After I discovered the Norwegian video I posted (about ten years ago), I searched YouTube to see what else that group had done. Most of their songs didn’t impress me much, but I did find this ballad (in English) that reminds me of something that could have worked for Donny and Marie:
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The only Norwegian song I know is from the Eurovision 1983 audio cassette that my high school pen pal from France sent me. It seems almost like a children’s song. The first line of the lyrics sets up the premise: “The scale is a song in its own right.” But frankly I think that notion was better supported in The Sound of Music.
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Some projections for the next month or so based on the latest figures:
Nowhere Man: 700,000 views on March 23rd
The Last Time: 600,000 views on March 23rd
A World Without Love: 400,000 views on March 29th
Blackbird: 500,000 views on March 30th
Drive My Car: 6,000,000 views on April 2nd
Wish You Were Here: 2,000,000 views on April 5th
Once Upon a Time: 200,000 views on April 11th
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Here are the numbers for February. As usual, the baby of the family (currently Questionable) is averaged over just the last five days due to growing pains, while the others are averaged over the span from February 5th through March 4th.
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simultaneous views:
1) Questionable: C = 13.74 (new)
2) Please Mr. Postman / Wipeout: C = 7.91 (0.00)
3) While My Guitar Gently Weeps: C = 5.53 (+0.90)
4) Drive My Car (2012): C = 3.98 (+0.67)
5) Wish You Were Here: C = 3.66 (+0.61)
6) I’m Looking Through You: C = 3.06 (+0.51)
7) Africa: C = 2.22 (+0.41)
8) You Can’t Do That: C = 2.21 (+0.23)
9) I Saw Her Standing There: C = 2.21 (+0.24)
10) Sound of Silence: C = 2.19 (+0.26)
11) When I’m Sixty-Four: C = 2.18 (+0.08)
12) MonaLisa Twins Interview 2016: C = 2.13 (+0.30)
13) If I Fell: C = 2.13 (-0.03)
14) Nowhere Man: C = 1.97 (-0.15)
15) This Boy: C = 1.73 (+0.25)
16) Tonight You Belong to Me: C = 1.69 (-2.06)
17) Lola: C = 1.61 (-0.08)
18) Till There Was You: C = 1.59 (+0.13)
19) I Bought Myself a Politician: C = 1.52 (+0.42)
20) Stuck in the Middle With You: C = 1.41 (+0.14)
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views per day:
1) Questionable: V = 5163 (new)
2) Please Mr. Postman / Wipeout: V = 2789 (0)
3) Drive My Car (2012): V = 2061 (+346)
4) While My Guitar Gently Weeps: V = 1743 (+284)
5) I’m Looking Through You: V = 1509 (+249)
6) Wish You Were Here: V = 1082 (+179)
7) When I’m Sixty-Four: V = 1078 (+43)
8) You Can’t Do That: V = 1014 (+103)
9) If I Fell: V = 964 (-12)
10) I Saw Her Standing There: V = 939 (+99)
11) Tonight You Belong to Me: V = 934 (-1141)
12) Sound of Silence: V = 923 (+112)
13) Nowhere Man: V = 879 (-64)
14) Till There Was You: V = 839 (+68)
15) This Boy: V = 736 (+105)
16) You’re Going to Lose That Girl: V = 683 (+58)
17) Africa: V = 660 (+121)
18) Please Please Me: V = 610 (+80)
19) I Bought Myself a Politician: V = 587 (+164)
20) In My Life: V = 587 (+76)
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All in all, it was a great month! Viewership was up significantly on most songs. (Ironically, If I Fell was one of the few that fell.) IBMAP roared back up into the top 20. And which song is being viewed the most is not questionable. (Wait a minute… it IS Questionable.)
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Happy birthday, Rudi, and thank you for all that you do behind the scenes for this enterprise. You must be so proud of your daughters as they “March 4th” in pursuit of their dreams.
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This intro does the same thing for me as that of I Want to Hold Your Hand, in that it quickly ramps up my energy level to match that of the song:
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We can’t leave this one out when it comes to unique intros. The first time I heard it on the radio, I thought the station had abandoned the oldies format and was broadcasting a church service.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3iPP-tHdA
The vocalist just passed away a couple of days ago.
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Circus, amusement park, whatever. It still has a distinctive festive intro.
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Hi, Nicholas.
I have no idea how many different people are associated with a given number of views, since YouTube doesn’t tell you who is watching. I’ve read that their algorithms weed out individual viewers’ attempts to drive up the numbers by watching the same video over and over, which helps to bring the number of views more in line with the number of people.
One unaddressable assumption that goes into the calculation of the number of simultaneous views is that each view is from start to finish. Assuming YouTube counts all partial views as views, then the C numbers are overestimates that need to be scaled down somewhat. For example, if the average view is of only half the video, then C should be half as large as reported.
