British comedian, onetime Hot Chip video director, and, yes, voice-of-Darth-Maul Peter Serafinowicz has just posted a highly entertaining clip for Daft Punk’s track, “Get Lucky.” According to the French duo’s publicist, the video is not authorized (although can robots really “authorize” anything anyway?) and we’re not sure quite why Serafinowicz decided to make the clip. But we’re glad he did!
You can check out the video below. READ FULL STORY »
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Rihanna’s “Stay” is here to stay … one way or another.
When RiRi performed the slow-burn ballad solo on SNL earlier this year, and then again with Mikky Ekko at the Grammys in February, America got to see a new, more vulnerable side to the perpetually hard-shelled pop diva.
And America has gotten to see a whole lot of “Stay” covers, too; from Vin Diesel’s indescribable basement-karaoke rendition to Rebecca Black’s latest bid for relevancy, we’ve rounded up the most memorable ones thus far:
Excited about this weekend’s arrival of Coachella — and all of the hologram possibilities that come with it? Of course you are (you clicked on this post)!
But if you weren’t one of the lucky 45,923,583 people* who snagged a ticket to one of the Indio festival’s two identical weekends, there’s a solution. For the third straight year, Coachella producers has announced the festival will stream live on its official YouTube page.
Viewers will be able to stream the first weekend’s five-stage action starting this Friday at 3:30 p.m. PT, because there’s nothing better than spending a nice, warm spring weekend indoors with Sigur Rós on your computer.
If you only watch one black-and-white video of Otis Redding dancing to his version of the Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction” in a San Francisco park with a crew of small, supernaturally funky children, make it this one:
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After a five-week run with the number one song in the country, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ “Thrift Shop” has finally abdicated its throne — thanks partly to a whole new chart formula.
As of this week, Billboard‘s Hot 100 now includes YouTube streams in its chart calculations, which means the king of the hill this week is Baauer’s nonstop meme instigator “Harlem Shake.”
Previously, the Hot 100 had used radio airplay, sales, and various forms of streaming through services like Spotify and Rhapsody to tabulate what the biggest song in the country was. Including YouTube numbers makes perfect sense, since in a way the online video service is the biggest streaming service available.
The extra numbers will undoubtedly mean a big boost for songs that do well with sales and streaming but can’t quite break into radio. “Harlem Shake,” for example, did an impressive 262,000 downloads last week, but is barely on satellite or terrestrial radio. It only scored a handful of impressions on radio, but its 103 million spins on YouTube easily confirm the track’s ubiquity.
The new tabulations have reconfigured the chart success of other songs that have been bigger than their old chart positions would have suggested. READ FULL STORY »
Despite the scandalous outfits, and the dances with strippers, and the dupstep songs about figurative cake that end in literal food fights, Miley Cyrus is more than a wild child — she’s a singer, y’all.
Need proof? Just check out this new video of Miley wailing Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” in the comfort of her own backyard. The clip — the third in a series of stripped-down “Backyard Sessions” — was filmed before Cyrus underwent the snip heard ’round the world, which makes the former Hannah Montana star look a little softer than she does in her current incarnation. And from her tightly closed eyes and involuntary swaying, you can tell that she really cares about what she’s singing. (As she should; after all, Dolly is Miley’s godmother.) Here, have a look-see:
PSY can now make the same claim McDonald’s does: Over a billion served.
That’s because PSY, that Korean Big Mac of a sensation, has seen his “Gangnam Style” video pass the one-billion mark in YouTube views, becoming the first video to ever reach that milestone. The clip, which the K-pop star posted in June, rakes in seven million views a day on average, according to Google (which owns YouTube).
For some perspective, consider the fact that PSY’s number of YouTube views — which YouTube currently clocks at 1,000,382,639 – is approximately one-seventh of the total world population. Of course, that doesn’t mean that many individual people have actually seen the video; no doubt, at least 750 million of those views come from haggard music bloggers embedding the clip countless times into posts like this one.
Still, it’s quite an achievement for the once-obscure Korean rapper. One expert told the BBC that he “reckons” PSY’s earned “something like $8 million” this year on the power of the “Gangnam Style” video alone.
Help PSY reach a trillion views by giving the clip another play with the video below:
Oh, Bruno, you always know how to woo us.
During a recent performance at the BBC Live Lounge, the “Locked Out of Heaven” singer unlocked the Disney vault and pulled out “Part of Your World,” from The Little Mermaid.
“It’s the best song ever written,” Mars says, adding that he can never get through it without choking up. (All together now: “awww.”)
Watch the video below to see if Mars is able to suppress the waterworks for the underwater ballad. And catch a bonus Little Mermaid track at the end of the clip:
