YouTube Stars!

Welcome to YouTubeStars where we write about interesting videomakers and their videos. This time, we have 4 music videos for you. Two of the four are covers of Paperweight by Joshua Radin. The other two videos are original tunes. All are by talented YouTube musicians.

Have you visited our YouTube Top 100 - A Weekly Chart of the 100 Most Subscribed YouTube Members, and our new Top 200 Weekly Chart, which has the top 200 Most Subscribed channels on YouTube? Each week we feature a video on the charts. This week's video is Michelle Waugh's cover of Paperweight, which we are also presenting here, below. Check out the Featured Video on our Top 100 and Top 200 Charts every week!

Featured Videos on our Weekly Charts get a few thousand views. The numbers do not appear on the videos on YouTube anymore like they once did. But our Google Analytics account shows that the Featured Video page on our charts get between 1500 and 2000 pageviews every week.

Here's something new! We have our own URL Shortening Service. http://TwHub.com serves short URLs that are needed on Twitter so links don't use up too many of the 140 characters Twitter allows. Links like http://TwHub.com/FV and http://TwHub.com/200 are shortened URLs to our Featured Video and Top 200 Chart. Here is a list of all URLs we shorten.


We will be watching four Music Videos by four talented women today...

But first, The News!


Tiffany Jo Allen gave us great news this week. She made it to the next round of the Jive Records / Sony Music Six Flags contest. Tiffany will be performing at the Six Flags Fiesta Texas park in San Antonio this Wednesday, August 18th, between 4:30 and 5 PM. Go see her if you can! Congrats on your success, Tiffany Jo!


Eveliiine gave us good news too. She is in the finals of the Joepie Sonic Angel contest and needs your votes between now and the 21st of August. Watch the video and go here to vote. Congrats on making it to the finals, Eveline!


11 year old Emily Brooke is in the Colgate Country Showdown songwriter's contest and has entered her excellent original song "Wild & Free." Click the pic to watch her play it at Tootsie's in Nashville. The contest ends August 31st. Click here to vote for Emily; I did! Good luck, Emily!

Funnyman Michael Boyce of YouTraxTVNews is back with another parody of the News. He makes fun of President Obama, Miley Cyrus, Dolly Parton, Steven Slater, Charlie Rangel, Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton's wedding, Lindsay Lohan, Sarah Palin, Mel Gibson, Hugh Hefner, the Hollywood Sign, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Betty White. He also has a guest star, TheHandyGoddess. Funny stuff!


Thanks for reading our news items! Now, as a reward, here's a video of a Corgi dog taking a leap off a pier like Superman and doing a belly flop. It has over a million views in its first week online. Click the pic and enjoy!


Now, watch our four Music Videos!



Lauren Goodsmith just put up a wonderful music video for a song called "Never Enough." Lauren is 17 and lives in the UK. She does an awesome job singing and playing the guitar in this ballad, beautifully filmed by her Dad Martin. This haunting song will be stuck in your head; it's great! Check it out!





Michelle Waugh is a talented 15 year old singer / songwriter who lives in California. She has a great voice and is also good at playing the guitar. Recently, she really improved the sound of her music videos. Watch her cover of Paperweight by Joshua Radin. You'll love it! Also watch her great original song "When You Smile" here.





While watching Michelle's cover of Paperweight, I saw this video's thumbnail in the Suggestions column. I clicked and I'm glad I did. This is Melanie on the mellonbaby80 channel doing a very different version of Paperweight by Joshua Radin. She is a bit quieter than Michelle, but Melanie adds a lot of expressiveness which makes this a joy to watch. I've watched it four times already!





Katie on the acoustickatie24 channel is out with a new original song. This one is "about verbally abusive relationships and finally taking back your voice and attaining the strength to walk away." It's been just over a year since her last original song "Not Enough" came out. That one now has well over a million views! Katie has a great voice that sounds as good in the loud parts as it does in the soft ones. She also plays the guitar very well. Enjoy her latest original tune!

Labels: acoustickatie24, chart, LGFiLM, mellonbaby80, MichelleWMusic, TwHub

posted by KennyCrane at 8/16/2010 03:58:00 AM 0 Comments

Happy New Year! YouTube grew quite a bit in 2007. The site is not the same as it was one year ago. At the start of 2007, YouTube had just been bought by Google for 1.65 Billion dollars worth of Google stock. The site was still primarily full of content produced by amateurs. Here is a list of the 20 Most Subscribed Channels, one year ago:

# Channel Subscribers
1 lonelygirl15 73279
2 smosh 39853
3 geriatric1927 34451
4 Brookers 32786
5 WilliamSledd 28083
6 thewinekone 27783
7 BaratsAndBereta 26992
8 GayGod 23691
9 boh3m3 22445
10 LisaNova 21105
11 renetto 19475
12 Danielbeast 19304
13 impytherap 18944
14 TheHill88 17061
15 digitalfilmmaker 16768
16 FilthyWhore 16687
17 wantlieswiththat 16603
18 blamesocietyfilms 16569
19 RyanLeslieTV 16506
20 abbegirl 16353

Compare that with the Top 20 today. You will see that there are now 4 corporate entities in the list: Universal Music Group, CBS, pop singer Ashley Tisdale and rock group Linkin Park. Many have complained that it is harder to get noticed now, with all the corporate channels and people who post nothing but TV show clips, sports clips and porn advertisements. If you look at YouTube's Most Viewed Videos lists, that is mainly what you will see.

Still, there is great amateur content being uploaded to YouTube. The service is still free, the audience is even larger, and some bugs and other annoyances on the site have been fixed. YouTube is still a great site!

For those people who are looking for great content produced by regular people, we continue to spotlight those videos in this blog. We also now offer the Most Viewed NonCorp Videos list. On that site, you will find YouTube's Most Viewed videos from Today, This Week or This Month - but with the corporate produced channels filtered out. The filtering is done by you! Next to each video is a "Flag this channel as corporate!" button. Click that button for channels that do not have content made by regular people. If it is a politician's channel, a TV channel's channel, or a channel with nothing but anime, TV clips, soccer matches, cricket, scantily clad women or the like - click the Flag button! The list has been up for about a month and we've already filtered out almost 600 channels! New corporate channels appear on YouTube every day, so please help us filter it out of our list; thanks!


Now, here are three videos from three interesting and entertaining people. I just recently found them on YouTube and I've subscribed to all three! You should too. Enjoy the videos!



Here is a video from 15-year-old UK lass Lauren who uses the name of LGFiLM on YouTube. Lauren is replying to KevJumba's video asking for advice about girls. Listen closely, Lauren has a British accent and the sound volume is a bit low. Lauren is entertaining as she makes faces and hand gestures; she has a great bubbly personality! Also watch Lauren Attempts American accent! and this video where she sings a Commodores song. Watch more videos of Lauren singing live at this channel.
Please subscribe to Lauren!



Meet 16-year-old Meagan from Maine, a Harry Potter fan who uses the YouTube name kyoxaizawa13. Meagan has recently been doing some fun makeup product reviews. She is smart and very natural on camera. Last week, she did a review of Telescopic: Carbon Black which ended up on the Most Viewed list. It's already had 150 Thousand views!
Please subscribe to Meagan!



Have a look at lively and intelligent teen Hayley who uses the YouTube name hayleyghoover. Hayley, also a Harry Potter fan, makes funny and entertaining skit videos. In this video, she is "making fun of NoHoGirls, Lonelygirl15, WilliamSledd, Brookers, Boh3m3 and TheHill88, with references to charlieissocoollike, thewinekone, danielbeast, HappySlip and smosh." She is a talented and creative videomaker; I've enjoyed every video that I've watched by Hayley! Be sure to watch In Defense of My "Life" and Pros and Cons of Being Female - both are witty and well written, performed and edited!
Please subscribe to Hayley!

Labels: Flag, hayleyghoover, kyoxaizawa13, LGFiLM, Most, NonCorp, Viewed

posted by KennyCrane at 1/06/2008 06:44:00 PM 0 Comments