Connie Talbot Imagine Live Hits Half Million Views

Connie Talbot sings Imagine by John Lennon of the legendary Beatles. Live performance in the studio by Connie Talbot accompanied on guitar by Grammy award winning producer/songwriter Kipper Eldridge. This video has recently achieved over half a million views on YouTube ConnieTalbotOfficial channel.

IMAGINE - Connie Talbot with Kipper Eldridge

Message from Connie

I'm really looking forward to the rest of the Young Voices concerts that I'm doing; they're so much fun. I enjoy singing my new song "Building Bridges", and meeting all the really nice and kind people who I've met so far, but most of all I really love having the opportunity to sing with all the amazing people in the Young Voices choir. I can't wait for the next performance! ♥ Connie xx

Young Voices Concert Tour 2013

Connie Talbot will be performing in the UK as a celebrity guest star in the Young Voices concert tour 2013 later this month. The dates are listed below.

This is the second year in a row that Connie has featured as a guest in this series.

Connie has just returned from her amazing 3 week tour of south east Asia, promoting her new album Beautiful World, so she will have a couple of weeks rest before she starts into this UK tour.

Young Voices, now in its 16th year, provides a unique opportunity for thousands of children to participate in a large arena concert.
You can find more details about the Young Voices initiative here http://www.youngvoices.co.uk/
Being present at a Young Voices concert is an unforgettable experience - and it's loud! (If you don't believe us, scroll down now to watch the video below.)

Most of the tickets are sold to parents and friends of the children in the choirs, but usually there are a few tickets left over for sale to the public. Check with the individual venues for availability.

YOUNG VOICES CONCERT DATES 2013

14th January 2013 – The O2 Arena London

15th January 2013 – The O2 Arena London

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16th January 2013 – Manchester Arena

17th January 2013 – Manchester Arena

18th January 2013 – Manchester Arena

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21st January 2013 – Sheffield Motorpoint Arena

22nd January 2013 – Sheffield Motorpoint Arena

23rd January 2013 – Sheffield Motorpoint Arena

24th January 2013 – Sheffield Motorpoint Arena

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28th January 2013 – The O2 Arena London

29th January 2013 – The O2 Arena London

30th January 2013 – The O2 Arena London

Young Voices make their own professionally produced DVDs of the events for sale, so naturally they discourage people from recording the concerts. This means that a lot of the videos of YV on YouTube are rather shaky and distant, using hand-held phones etc.

However, last year a member of Connie's team, Daniel Smart, was allowed to film one of Connie's performances using a tripod-held HD camera at the LG Arena, Birmingham, England. Connie Talbot sings "Run" by Snow Patrol, a song that means a lot to her, and which she performed with the backing of thousands of young singers.

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

We like this clip. It shows Connie appearing on a TV show in Jakarta, Indonesia. It's really nice to see all those happy, smiling faces, and everybody having fun.
Connie sings her own song BEAUTIFUL WORLD, from her new album of the same name, and also the traditional song TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE STAR.

Happy New Year to everyone around the world. :)

Many New Friends

In the past few days, there have been lots of people from Indonesia, coming to read this Connie Talbot Official blog, and also Connie's Facebook page and Twitter. Connie's management would like to welcome all these new friends, and to thank you for your support for Connie.

Indonesia is a great country, and very beautiful, and Connie has really enjoyed her first visit there. She has made many new friends. We hope it won't be long before she can visit again, and maybe next time she will be able to stay longer.

Connie has felt a lot of positive emotion at the warm welcome she has received in all the countries she has visited in south east Asia during the Beautiful World tour in the past two weeks - Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia. Everyone has been very friendly and kind in every place she has visited.

Once again, on Connie's behalf, thank you all for your kindness and support.

#ConnieFriends forever :)

Connie's "Price Tag" Video Reaches Half Million Views

Connie's "Price Tag" home video has just reached over 500,000 (half a million) views on YouTube. It was uploaded on August 27th, 2011 when Connie was 10 years old.

If you listen very carefully, you might just hear someone ringing the doorbell!

You probably will also notice that Connie is wearing a thick woolly sweater even though the video was made in the middle of the summer. That gives you some idea of what the weather in England can be like occasionally. :)

Best wishes from Connie's team :)

Connie Talbot Arrives in Hong Kong

Connie has now arrived in Hong Kong for the first stage of her mini tour of South East Asia to promote her new album, Beautiful World. One of the first things she did was to tweet a photo of the view across the harbour from her hotel room.

Today, Connie will be settling in and getting some rest. Then she will be starting rehearsals for her first performance of the tour, at Windsor House, which is a 17-storey shopping and entertainment complex in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong. That will take place at 3pm on Saturday, December 15th.

Then it's off to the Philippines for 3 performances in different locations in Manila on the 16th and 17th. A busy schedule.

Hope she will be able to find some spare time to go shopping!

Viddy 10K

Another milestone! Connie's page on Viddy.com has now reached 10,000 followers. On Viddy, they write that number as 10K. This is an amazing success, and puts Connie into the top ranks on this relatively new social media platform. We are very proud of her achievement.

Connie has already made some waves at Viddy. Only last week, her videos were #1 in all the main charts on Viddy, Featured, Popular, and Trending, all at the same time!

Why not swing by Connie's page, and follow (if you're not already doing so). Also, why not watch all the viddys there? Each one lasts only 15 seconds, so you could watch them all in less than half an hour.

http://www.viddy.com/connietalbot607

Beneath Your Beautiful

Connie's upload on YouTube today of a song she learned only yesterday: Beneath Your Beautiful by Labrinth ft. Emeli Sande.

Connie Talbot's Beautiful World

The record company, Evolution, has announced the release date of Connie's new "Asian album". The album is called BEAUTIFUL WORLD and it will be released in South East Asia on November 26. We understand that anyone residing outside that area will be able to purchase the album online, or as an MP3 download.

Connie has chosen the songs for the album very carefully, to be appropriate for her age, and to contain several songs by her favorite artists, such as Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato, Michael Jackson and others. She has also included some classic songs, and also one of her own songs, Beautiful World, in a completely new arrangement.

YouTube View Counters

Some fans may have noticed that the view counts on Connie's YouTube channel have been stuck on the same numbers for a few days now.

At first sight, this might seem worrying. It makes you think: "Has everyone stopped watching?" Of course, it's no such thing. In fact, as long-time YT followers will know, it's one of those things that happens on YouTube from time to time.

It's similar to the so-called "301 effect", the way a new video often gets stuck on 301 views. This is because it gets views so fast that the security software panics and shuts down the counter for a while.

Connie's videos are getting a healthy number of views - they're just not showing the numbers yet.

So we suggest to everyone:

Keep Calm and Carry On!

Best wishes from Connie's team :-)

Some More Important Numbers

From Connie's team:

Yesterday, the number of Connie's Twitter followers reached 75,000. That's a lot of people. At this rate, it won't be long before Connie's followers could fill Wembley Stadium in London to capacity! That would be when the number reaches 90,000. Can you guess what date that will be?

Answers in the comments section below please!

Congratulations to all the 75,000 followers. You have great musical taste!

Also this week, the old video on YouTube of Connie's first audition on Britain's Got Talent reached 120 MILLION views. That's like the population of an entire country (and a large country at that), but the people are spread all over the world.

That video has become almost an icon, but it is not the original copy of the audition. There was a whole bunch of copies around on YouTube at the time, and this is just the one that survived and made it to the charts. Connie doesn't own this video, so we have no control over it, but we hope you enjoy it anyway.

Two Great New Milestones

Just this week, Connie reached two great new milestones on her social media pages.

The first was Connie's Facebook page, which reached and surpassed 10,000 likes!






The second was Connie's page on Viddy.com, where the number of followers showed for the first time in K numbers! The page hit the first K about 11 days ago, and has since raced up to 2.41K.

Not sure what a K number is? Well, K stands for 1,000, and that means 2.41K stands for 2,410 followers (rounded to the nearest 10). So now you know!

Well done Connie! And One K of thanks to all of you lovely people who have joined Connie's social media pages. You are all showing excellent musical taste when you choose Connie as your favorite pop music star!

See you later,

Simon

"SAIL AWAY" Preview - Connie in California video passes 500,000 view mark!

When Connie came to Los Angeles in April, we thought it would be interesting for her to record an original "Pop" song.  Noted songwriter/producer Robbie Nevil, came up with SAIL AWAY for us and on a Sunday morning, at Robbie's studio in Santa Monica, Connie stepped up to the microphone.

We all loved what we heard.  What started out as an "experiment" turned into a fun and popular song for Connie.  The little video we put together just passed 500,000 views on YouTube!

Produced and released independently, the song is doing well on iTunes and the other digital download sites.  We are starting to get radio airplay worldwide and we've made a distribution deal for the song in Japan, where Connie has many fans.  The popular teen music website TweenPopRadio has a Top 40 list and Connie has been at #1 for five straight weeks... ahead of One Direction, Demi Lovato, Maroon5, Carly Rae Jepsen, even Justin Bieber.

As most of you know, Connie has recorded 4 new songs with multi-platinum songwriter/producer Toby Gad.  Two of the songs, Connie co-wrote!  Hopefully, she will be back in the studio with Toby soon, to produce more tracks with the goal of an album in mind.

Plans are in the works for Connie to record an album for the Asian market and a trip to Hong Kong in December to promote it.

Going back to SAIL AWAY for a moment... it is really important that folks support the single by purchasing it.  Unfortunately, today, only about half of the digital downloads for songs are legal ones.  Piracy has really hurt the music industry, the artists and all of the supporting people who make music for us to listen to possible.  So, just remember how hard artists like Connie work to entertain us all and share with us their special talent.  Isn't a dollar worth it to keep the music coming from people like Connie?  If you haven't done it yet, please visit iTunes, CDBaby, Amazon or your favorite legitimate download site and do your part to support your favorite artists.

If you haven't seen the SAIL AWAY preview video yet, have a look... it's pure Connie!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPVrrCQDzd4

Posted by Connie's manager, Rod Paul.

SAIL AWAY Covers

Since the karaoke version of Connie's original song SAIL AWAY has been released, we have been amazed to see so many people uploading covers of the song on YouTube! Connie is really delighted by them. She said in her recent interview with Sina, the gigantic media company from China, that it was one of her ambitions to have other people covering her songs.

All the covers are brilliant, each one in its own different way. You all did a great job!

Now the plan is to collect all the covers together on one video page on Connie's website. So if you have made a cover of SAIL AWAY, and you would like it to appear on the website, please place it on the timeline of Connie's Facebook page.

If you haven't yet made a cover, why not give it a try? Now's your chance! :-)

Connie's song SAIL AWAY is available worldwide in vocal or karaoke versions from iTunes, Amazon, or CDBaby.