Viral Friday: Hollie Steel On Britain’s Got Talent
Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 5 most popular viral videos, commercials, games or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to Hollie Steel On Britain’s Got Talent. Another sensation at Britain’s Got Talent! Last Saturday a 10-year-old ballerina Hollie Steel stunned the crowd and jury with her voice. The runner up spot is for Lindsay Lohan’s eHarmony Profile. After Lindsay Lohan broke up with Samantha Ronson, she now tries to find her new love online. Pac Man completes this week’s top 3. Prankster Remi Gaillard is disrupting everyday life again, now dressed in a Pac-Man suit.
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1. Britain’s Got Talent: Hollie Steel
Susan Boyle has a new competitor on Britain’s Got Talent. 10-year-old ballerina Hollie Steel. Hollie left a stunning impression on the crowd and judges Simon Cowell, Piers Morgan, Amanda Holden and Kelly Brooks with her impersonation of “I Could Have Danced All Night” from My Fair Lady. The video and dozens of copies scores almost 9 million views on YouTube and Dailymotion.
2. Lindsay Lohan’s eHarmony Profile
After Lindsay Lohan broke up with Samantha Ronson, she now tries to find her new love online. Lindsay stars in a dating profile posted at funnyordie.com, where the 22-year-old actrice parodies the ubiquitous ads for the dating service eHarmony. In the video she starts by saying, “Hi, I’m Lindsay Lohan, and I’m single, I think”. Later on she tells: “A little bit about me, I’m an actrice, a singer, an entrepreneur and I singlehandedly kept 90% of all gossip-websites in business. I’m a workaholic, shopaholic and according to the state of California an alcoholic. The video is viewed around 3 million times in two and a half weeks.
3. Pac Man
Remi Gaillard is a phenomenon in France. The 34-year-old prankster obtained national fame at the 2002 cup final when he mingled with the players of Lorient during their triumph. He even managed to shake hands with the president, Jacques Chirac. After the huge success of Real Life Mario Kart (12+ million views), Remi now jumps in a Pac-Man suit. Once again, Remi is disrupting the public lives in his latest video. Dressed as Pac-Man, he is chased by different kinds of “ghosts”, leaving a trail of destruction and very confused people in a French supermarket.
4. Trident: 100 Single Ladies
Chewing gum brand Trident has teamed up with superstar Beyoncé to put on an exclusive concert in November 2009 at the O2 Arena for 13,000 lucky Trident chewing gum shoppers. As part of the £2.5 million marketing campaign Trident launched a ’spontaneous’ flash mob dance on Monday April 20th in London’s Piccadilly Circus. Hundred girls, dressed in sexy leotards, performed the famous and frequently copied “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” dance routine – in nearly perfect harmony. The video has been viewed over 1 million times on YouTube since begin this week.
5. NOM: Gathering Storm
The National Organisation for Marriage (NOM) is an American organisation which is against the legalizing of the gay marriage. In the spot A Gathering Storm the NOM warns for “a impending danger”. The objective of the video is to mobilize supporters against the gay marriage. Alicia Silverstone, Sarah Chalke and Lance Bass have made a spoof and published this on FunnyOrDie. The popular host Stephen Colbert of The Colby Report also made this version of the NOM video. The NOM video has over 1,5 million views, the spoof 800,000 views and Stephen’s version 450.000 views.
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