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anyone else find it ironic the music was by chris brown?
 
anyone else find it ironic the music was by chris brown?

YouTube Wedding Video Spurs Music Sales

Over the last ten days, 12 million people have watched Jill Peterson and Kevin Heinz’s funky wedding march on YouTube, demonstrating the video site’s enduring viral power — and that (at least some) people from Minnesota have some pretty good dance moves.

Now YouTube, which is owned by Google, is pointing to the video as a sign that it is forging a positive and profitable relationship with the music industry. In a blog post this morning, the company said that the amateur video, set to the Chris Brown song “Forever,” had sent sales of the year-old song skyrocketing to #4 on the iTunes chart and #3 on Amazon’s MP3 store.

In the past, labels like Warner Music have sometime objected when people (or their cats) used copyrighted songs in homemade YouTube videos. Sony Music, Chris Brown’s label, used YouTube’s content management tools to claim the song and overlay a click-to-buy ad on the video, which directs viewers to download the song from either iTunes or Amazon (earning YouTube a commission).

YouTube is not specifying exactly how many sales the video is responsible for, but says the number of users clicking through to buy the song is twice the average of other videos on the site.

In their blog post, Chris LaRosa, YouTube’s technical account manager, and Ali Sandler, the site’s music partner manager, write: “One of our main goals at YouTube is to help content creators effectively make money from the distribution of their content online. That they can do so in a way that brings artists and our community together to create fun, spontaneous and inspiring works, is one of the best and most exciting things about YouTube.”
 
anybody see this one? its on my recommended list from you tube

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