A Million Views for Connie!

I think a good way to start off this post is to wish a huge congratulations to Connie Talbot. Why? Because... check out the view count on her “Someone Like You” cover.


The view count on the video page hasn’t updated yet, but look at the view count on the search page.


I really hope that screen shot shows up big enough to see it clearly. But if it doesn't, it's showing the current view-count at 1,001,738 views. CLICK HERE to see it, if you want to.

That's over 1,000,000 views. One million views. One million. And that's something special. I know there's people out there who will say "it's only special because she's 10" or some other nonsense like that. But it's not "just because" she's ten years old that this is impressive; it's an impressive number for anyone, at any age.

But, keeping her age in mind, how many other 10 year olds have over a million hits on one of their videos? Willow Smith and Jackie Evancho are the only two who come to mind. But neither of them have had a simple home video, recorded just for fun, hit the million mark yet.

This isn't the first Connie video to go over a million views. Her audition video for Britain's Got Talent, on the channel behindthesecret, has nearly a hundred million views. And there's a video of her singing "I Will Always Love You" on a channel called XDeathLoRdz with over 27 million views. But this is the first video on Connie's own, official, youtube channel to hit a million. And it's just a simple home recording. It's not a song she recorded in a studio. It wasn't an appearance on a television show. It wasn't a concert. It was Connie singing at home in a hallway by the staircase. And that's what makes it special - the fact that it's a nice, simple, home video that the Talbot family decided to share with the world.

Thank you to the Talbot's for posting that video. Thank you, Connie, for singing that song. Thank you, all of Connie's fans and everyone who watched the video and passed it along, for doing just that. And, again, congratulations on a million, Connie. We're all here supporting you, and it'll be no time at all before we're celebrating another million milestone!

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