ChartJackers is a project being run by four popular YouTubers, in which their goal is to get a song written, recorded and on the UK Charts using nothing but “the goodwill” of people on the internet. Everything in the song and connected to it is done by members of the YouTube and internet communities, and all money made by the project goes to Children In Need. It’s been worked on for a while, and now the song is finished, has a music video on YouTube, and is available for download on iTunes. Listening to it, it’s a good song, and though fairly poppy, the money goes to charity anyway, so it’s a win win by any means.
The music video was posted on CharlieIsSoCoolLike’s channel for our viewing pleasure:
Some more information about the project, from the sidebar of said video:
The lyrics of the song are made up of YouTube comments, compiled into a song by another YouTuber. The lyrics were released and then YouTubers wrote a melody for the lyrics, and we picked our favourite. We held YouTube auditions via video response to pick the band, found the producer of the song through YouTube, and the music video is made up of literal interpretations of the lyrics, clapping and singing along, by YouTubers! It’s a bit YouTubey. All of the money from the song goes directly to Children In Need, so I hope you’ll consider helping us by buying the song, and telling all your friends and family to buy it too! Thanks :)
It’s a good song, and it’s great to see what people can create when joined by the power of the internet.
Another month, another one of these posts. I’ve added nearly my entire music collection to iTunes since purchasing a 120GB iPod. As such, this’ll hopefully mean a more drastic change in songs, as I have access to more on the computer. It also occurred to me that I use my iPod more than I use iTunes to listen to music, choosing to watch DVDs rather than listen to music when I’m on my computer, so these will always not be perfect judges on my music taste for the month. Be that as it may, this is the song list for the month.
As a result of buying a new 120GB iPod, I felt the urge to copy as much of my music collection to my computer humanly possible; this is the end results. This is about 95% of my CD Collection, plus a few extras given to me by some awesome friends. Some of my CDs have problems copying though, so I get to say “THIS ISN’T ALL MY MUSIC GUIS. HEY GUIS, CHEK DIS OOT”.
My songs are going to change a little these coming months; I’ve been given a set of discs by a friend at work full of random music. Swing, gypsy, rockabilly, and so forth are just some of the types of music included, so it should make an interesting change. I tried Gogol Bordello, and as you can see, despite the singers…“interesting” voice, I’ve really gotten into them. I’ve also cut the “genre” bit out of this and future screenshots so as to make it easier to see.
I left this a few days late because I completely forgot about it…but here we are, this past months most played songs, as part of my documenting my changing music tastes this year. This month I was obsessed for awhile with the release of Marilyn Manson’s new album The High End Of Low, but that didn’t stop me getting addicted to Footloose, sadly.
Well it’s been a month since I first decided to start keeping track of my music tastes via monthly captured images of my top 25 most played songs on iTunes. It’s been a long and perilous journey involving Freddy Krueger, Mario Kart and a rather entertaining local band called Prawnhead, but here is this months most listened to songs.
Very blurry still; I don’t know what causes that. But wow, now wasn’t that such an exciting post? I’m shivering from the adrenaline rush.
I am one of many people who have a constantly changing music taste. The foundations are there, but as things happen or I see something, or just my overall mood changes, I find myself listening to different types of music. I might go through a phase where all I can listen to is Mindless Self Indulgence (this happened a couple of months back), or I might feel a compulsion to listen to a whole heap of old school metal records.
To track how my music taste differs from month to month, I’m going to reset my play count on iTunes, and at around the end of every month, post the top 25 most played songs on my computer, and just see how different they are from other months. Here’s this months:
Ok, it’s not the clearest, but there it is, songs artists and albums, as well as some inaccurate genres. Now to reset my playcount and start again.
