Our Choir in the Media

Thanks to all who have watched and shared our videos. We have gotten some incredible media attention in the past and have recently been recognized in a couple of special ways.

Our Still Alive videos have been receiving a lot of views lately. The sequel to Portal came out a few days ago. NPR’s “Morning Edition” had an interview with Jonathan Coulton and he mentioned our video. Then they played a portion of the audio! JoCo’s new ending song for Portal 2 is really great and Valve did an incredible job keeping the quirky humor and exciting puzzles going. The saying “Now you’re thinking with Portals” will now replace the antiquated “Now you’re cooking with gas.” The game is rated E 10+.

KnowYourMeme.com is the foremost authority on internet memes. Our original “Still Alive” video is now posted there in the “Still Alive” section along with only two other covers including one by Jonathan Coulton himself! Our “A Christmas Trololo” video was posted there earlier this year in the “Trololo: section.

A Christmas Trololo was on G4 TV’s Attack of the Show

The choir has been featured in the Escapist Magazine three times, G4’s “The Feed” twice and on the front page of Digg and Reddit. See the media links to the right.

Here is a run down of some of the view counts (updated: 2/19/12):
Total upload views 2,655,042
“Kids Sing Still Alive Portal” 1,312,805 views
“A Christmas Trololo” 692,027 views
“Still Alive Choir Better Video (Honestly)” 258,587 views
“Kids Sing Still Alive Again” 136,654 views
“Still Alive Full View” 131,970 views
“Kids Sing Radiohead No Surprises” 54,781 views
“Kids Sing Acapella Kelis” 14,257 views
“Kids Sing Gaga/Pomplamoose Telephone at UWP” 10,602 views

Videos of the choirs have been viewed in 198 of the 239 countries and regions of the world. There are 67 countries and 50 US states plus the District of Columbia that have watched the kids more than 1,000 times. Over 90% of the views have come from the top 31
countries, each having viewed the kids more than 10,000 times.

#1 USA:  1,265,690
#2  United Kingdom:  167,928
#3 Brazil: 167,538
#4 Canada: 163,619
#5 Germany: 100,991
#6 Spain: 67,122
#7 Australia: 59,681
#8 Russia: 49,172
#9 France: 46,489
#10 Sweden: 40,689
#11 Poland: 37,588
#12 Netherlands: 33,937
#13 Mexico: 33,303
#14 Norway: 20,740
#15 Italy: 20,256
#16 Finland: 19,384
#17  Japan: 17,653
#18 South Korea: 17,335
#19 Denmark: 16,141
#20 Belgium: 15,338
#21 Chili: 14,896
#22  Argentina: 13,959
#23 Philippines: 13,682
#24 Portugal: 13,550
#25 Singapore: 13,361
#26 Hungary: 12,106
#27 Ireland: 11,716
#28 Ukraine: 11,584
#29 Czech Republic 11,217
#30 Austria 10,030
#31 New Zealand 10,015

Videos of the choir have received 65 YouTube honors:
(55 weekly honors and 10 monthly honors)
Here are the honors they were given

#5 Top Favorited (4/3/10)) – Music
#5 Top Rated (4/3/10)) – Music
#6 Most Viewed (12/22/10) Entertainment – Russia
#6 Most Viewed (4/3/10)) – Music – Sweden
#8 Most Viewed (4/10/10)) – Music – Canada
#9 Most Viewed (4/3/10)) – Music – Australia
#10 Most Viewed (4/3/10)) – Music
#10 Most Viewed (4/10/10)) – Music
#10 Most Viewed (12/22/10) Entertainment – Spain
#11 Most Viewed (12/22/10) Entertainment – Poland
#13 Most Viewed (4/3/10)) – Music – New Zealand
#15 Most Viewed (4/3/10)) – Music – United Kingdom
#15 Most Viewed (4/3/10)) – Music – Ireland
#15 Most Viewed (12/22/10) Entertainment -Netherlands
#17 Most Viewed (4/10/10)) – Music – Spain
#17 Most Viewed (12/22/10) Entertainment -Canada
#18 Top Favorited (4/3/10))
#18 Most Viewed (12/22/10)) – Entertainment – Sweden
#19 Most Viewed (12/22/10) – Entertainment -New Zealand
#19 Most Viewed (12/22/10) – Entertainment
#19 Most Viewed (12/22/10) – Entertainment – New Zealand
#19 Most Viewed (12/22/10)) – Entertainment
#25 Most Viewed (12/22/10)) – Entertainment – Australia
#30 Most Viewed 12/22/10)) – Entertainment – United Kingdom
#30 Most Viewed (12/22/10)) – Entertainment – France
#31 Most Viewed (12/22/10)) – Entertainment – Mexico
#39 Most Viewed (4/3/10)) – Music – Russia
#40 Most Viewed (12/22/10)) – Entertainment – Germany
#40 Most Viewed (12/22/10)) – Entertainment – Ireland
#40 Most Viewed (12/22/10)) – Entertainment – South Africa
#42 Most Viewed (4/3/10)) – Sweden
#46 Most Viewed (4/3/10)) – Music – India
#52 Top Rated (4/3/10))
#52 Most Viewed (12/22/10)) – Entertainment – Czech Republic
#53 Most Viewed (4/10/10)) – Music – Netherlands
#56 Most Viewed (4/10/10)) – Canada
#59 Most Viewed (4/3/10))
#65 Most Viewed (12/22/10)) – Entertainment – Israel
#67 Most Viewed (12/22/10)) – Entertainment – Brazil
#69 Most Viewed (4/3/10)) – Music – Mexico
#72 Most Viewed (4/3/10)) – Music – Israel
#77 Most Viewed (4/3/10)) – United Kingdom
#78 Most Viewed (4/3/10)) – Music – Czech Republic
#78 – Most Viewed (12/22/10)) – Entertainment – Italy
#83 Most Viewed (4/3/10)) – New Zealand
#83 Most Viewed (12/22/10)) – Spain
#87 – Most Viewed (12/22/10)) – Entertainment – Argentina
#88 Most Viewed (4/10/10)) – Music
#91 Most Viewed (4/10/10)) – Music – Poland
#92 Most Viewed (4/10/10))
#93 Most Viewed (12/22/10)) – Russia
#104 Most Viewed (12/22/10)) – Poland
#148 Most Viewed (12/22/10)) – Netherlands
#155 Most Viewed (12/22/10))
#159 Most Viewed (12/22/10)) – New Zealand

Monthly Honors (10)
#10 Top Rated (April,2010)) – Music – Global
#12 Top Rated (April, 2010)) – Music
#14 Most Discussed (April, 2010)- Music
#22 Top Favourited (April,2010)) – Music – Global
#34 Top Favorited (April, 2010)) – Music
#53 Most Viewed (April,2010)) – Music – Global
#61 Most Discussed (April,2010)) – Music – Global
#68 Top Favorited (January, 2011) Entertainment- US
#79 Most Discussed (April, 2010)) – Music #85 – Top Favourited
#106 Most Viewed (January, 2011) Entertainment- US