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 :)

Which Video Has The Most Smiles?

From Connie's management team: A comment on Facebook from one of our friends, about the effect of all the smiles in one of Connie's videos, started us to wondering if we could find the answer to a very important question.

Of all the 100 or so videos on Connie's YouTube channel, which one has the greatest number of smiles?

Naturally, a question like this can only be solved by a careful and detailed observation of all the evidence. So we decided the best way was to watch every one of all the 100 or so videos, and count the number of smiles in each one. The trouble was that after a while we found we were enjoying Connie's music so much that we started to lose count.

So the question still needs an answer.

Whatever the final answer proves to be, we'd like to suggest that, of all the 100 or so videos, this next video would be definitely one of the top contenders. It's a cover made just for fun at home of "Just The Way You Are" by Bruno Mars, who is one of Connie's favorite singers.

This video is not far away from one million views on YouTube.
Please click through to watch on YouTube, and please Comment, Like, Subscribe, and Share with all your friends. Thanks!

An interesting thing happened to this video some months ago. All of a sudden, people started to write comments sending love from their own country. It had not been planned, it was just spontaneous. This went on and on for several days, until almost every country was represented.

It was brilliant!

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.

SAIL AWAY at #1 for 5th Straight Week!

We just received this message from our friend, YT user leon25911132 on Connie's video page
Connie Talbot Visits California - Sail Away - Preview

☼ 5th Week at N° 1 for Connie!

From Tween Pop Radio ~ "The new TWEEN POP 40 chart has just been released and for the 5th straight week the number 1 song is SAIL AWAY by 11 year old singer CONNIE TALBOT from England. Congrats to Connie and all her Connie friends. The chart is based on TPR listening activity from August 3rd through August 25th.

and this from another friend, YT user 9012505

Congratulations on your 5th week at number one on Tween Pop Radio.

Thanks to those two friends for letting us know, and thanks to all the many friends who helped Connie rise to the top of the TPR chart. You're all amazing!

You can listen to Connie's single, Sail Away, on TPR at ReverbNation

CT Official Staff

Connie Talbot is on Viddy

This is just to let you know that Connie is now on Viddy.

The way we found out about Viddy was rather curious. Connie’s manager, Rod Paul, happened to be reading the newspapers one day (as you do) and he came across an article in the Los Angeles Times about a mobile app/website known as Viddy which has been attracting followers very fast recently. 

Viddy has been called "the Twitter for videos" - you follow people, they follow you, and everyone uploads videos, but they must be 15 seconds or less. The mobile app is only available on the iPhone right now, but an Android version will be ready soon, they tell us. Of course, you can always watch Viddy from a PC or a Mac, if you prefer that.

So, Rod showed the article to Connie and her sister Mollie, and they checked out the Viddy app. They thought it was a really good idea, and Connie was eager to get started with it. 

Later that day, Connie showed me her list of ideas for possible viddys. At first glance, all I could see was a page full of amazing pictures and words and colors and swirly bits everywhere. I said, “Wow, Connie, that’s a great piece of artwork! Maybe you should put it on exhibition at the National Gallery in London?” 

It took Connie a while to convince me it was actually a list. I’m sure everyone will forgive me for being a bit slow on the uptake. When I make lists, they look kind of... list-like and, well, a bit dull really. It takes some time for me to adjust to the idea of working with someone like Connie, who makes lists that look like works of art.

If you follow Connie on Viddy, you can expect to see some of the ideas on that list turned into viddys very soon. Click here to go to Viddy.com and watch some viddys from Connie!

Anyway, what I’m trying to say is, that the LA Times article tells us that Justin Bieber has a keen interest in Viddy, and that he is giving it his full support. So, Justin, if you happen to be reading this, just to let you know that Connie Talbot is also now on Viddy, and that she supports it too!

Posted by Simon.

Videos

I was making some new video's with Connie yesterday where she took me by surprise and 'rapped' the whole ludacris verse of baby, Justin Bieber! Crazy Girl!

Mollie,
           xxx

Creating new video's...

Creating new video's with my big sister Mollie...

Love connie xxx

Your Favorite Video - Results

Voting is now closed on the poll "What is your favorite video from last weekend?"
Of the 154 votes cast, the results were as follows:

1. Make You Feel My Love 55 votes (36%)
2. Fix A Heart 39 votes (25%)
3. Disneyland 31 votes (20%)
4. Payphone 29 votes (19%)
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We hereby declare "Make You Feel My Love" to be, under due process, elected!

We do realize you guys were given a very tough decision to make, because they're all such great videos from Connie. But you came through it bravely, and made your choices, so we'd just like to say well done to everyone who voted!

And now we have a couple more questions for you.
1. What do you think it was about the MYFML video that made more people vote for it?
2. Would you like to see more voting polls here, on the Connie Talbot official blog?
You can put your answers in the comments section below. This is your chance to have your say. Go for it!

New Hong Kong Video

New video from evosoundmusic, with a medley of some of Connie's performances in Hong Kong. We love it, and it's nice to see the happy, smiling faces of the people in the audience!

Which One Is YOUR Favorite?

You probably noticed that Connie uploaded no fewer than FOUR videos last weekend. :-)

In date order, they are:

Make You Feel My Love
Fix A Heart
Payphone
Disneyland

Now we have a question for you!
Which one of them is your favorite?

(If you want to view them again, they are all currently in the video bar to the right of this post.)

Register Your Vote!


You can vote in the poll on the right for your favorite video of the four. ======>