Sunday 27 November 2016

"Welcome to the Show" hits 100 million views!


Equestria Daily has already reported on this, but I'd like to mark the milestone here too. Letupita725HD's upload of the Rainbow Rocks song "Welcome to the Show" has become the first My Little Pony video on YouTube to manage a nine-figure viewer count. Considering that it's only been on the site for just over two years (uploaded 30 Oct 2014), that's impressive stuff. And in the wake of "You're Gonna Go Far Kid" being blocked, it's also good to reflect on the fact that Hasbro's generally calm response to song video uploads – they simply monetise them – means this one is unlikely to go the same way.

As it happens, it may not be all that long before a second MLP video breaks the 100 million barrier – and this time it'll be an actual pony vid: "What My Cutie Mark is Telling Me", uploaded (it says here) by one "Pinkie Pie", is at the time of writing sitting on 96.8 million views! Weirdly, next up seems to be a different upload of "Welcome to the Show", this one with a mere 74.9 million views...
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6 comments:

  1. Griffin27 November 2016 at 15:29

    Any reason for this? the cafeteria song, if you take the top five uploads for that combined, fails to break 40Million. Why is this one so popular? and "What My Cutie Mark is Telling Me", seems to be random songs, though something has to make it I guess

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    1. Logan27 November 2016 at 15:41

      I honestly don't have a clue, except that the uploader is very well known and has always had songs up extremely fast.

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  2. Oilyvalves27 November 2016 at 16:51

    I guess 'Welcome to the Show' is not only a great sounding song, but a visual spectacle too. These are Youtube *videos* we're talking about after all.

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    1. Logan29 November 2016 at 02:12

      True, but I'd still have thought something like "This Day Aria", also a very cinematic video, might do better.

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  3. xjuggernaughtx28 November 2016 at 02:24

    I just can never get over how great The Dazzlings are. I never get enough.

    I do really wish that the lyric was"

    Now you needs us!
    Come and FEED us!
    Nothing can stop us now!

    It seems so much better to me than "heed us."

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    1. Logan29 November 2016 at 02:12

      And now I'm wondering whether it was supposed to be "feed", but Hasbro blocked it. No evidence for that whatever, just a wild guess.

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