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30/04/2010 by
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Viral Friday: M.I.A, Born Free

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.
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This week’s Viral Friday #1 position goes to M.I.A, Born Free. British artist M.I.A. released a new song, Born Free, and the video that goes with the song is quite graphic and (thus?) very viral. The runner up spot is for BlackBerry 6 Sneak Peak. RIM provided a sneak peek of the new BlackBerry 6 operating system at WES 2010. Heineken: Men With Talent completes this week’s top 3. In Heineken’s latest commercial ‘Men with Talent’ the worlds of men and women we know so well are turned upside down.

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1. M.I.A, Born Free

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British artist M.I.A. released a new song, Born Free, and the video that goes with the song is quite graphic. So watch when the boss is away for a minute or 9. The video is directed by Romain Gavras, the same guy that previously made Justice’s Stress video which was quite a controversy. The video got over 1.4 million views in four days on Vimeo. Now can we please leave the gingers alone? They do have souls you know.

2. BlackBerry 6 Sneak Peak

Research in Motion, the manufacturer of the BlackBerry, will later this year introduce its new BlackBerry operating system. RIM provided a sneak peek of BlackBerry 6 at WES 2010, the annual Wireless Enterprise Symposium for BlackBerry users. A video demonstrated flipping through album art, pinch-to-zoom on images, typing, and making calls – all with a touchscreen. The demo video got over half a million views in two days.

3. Heineken: Men With Talent

In Heineken‘s latest commercial ‘Men with Talent’ the worlds of men and women we know so well are turned upside down. In this video we see some women getting ready for their favorite TV talent show when all of a sudden it appears to be a show where men show off their talent with beer. The stuff they are talented at is quite absurd to say the least. The commercial was created by TBWA\Neboko. In 4 days it has been viewed 509,787 times.

4. I Like Big Butterfingers!

The new Butterfinger Defense League video is on number 4 this Viral Friday. The members Erik ‘Sexy’ Estrada, Charisma ‘Sassy’ Carpenter & Lou ‘Strong’ Ferrigno are featured by Sir Mix-A-Lot, who naturally is known for his big hit ‘Baby got Back‘. It’s no coincidence that this is a butterfinger remake of that classic. For more Butterfinger Defense League video’s you can visit their YouTube channel or go to the website. The video was uploaded on 14 April and it is viewed by over 500,000 since.

5. Jacques: The Sports Issue

The glossy erotic quarterly-magazine Jacques Magazine is working it hard for their fifth edition, it’s an erotic sports edition with a touch of fashion. To give us a preview of what a great edition this is going to be, they shot two trailers of fashionable and athletic ladies. ‘Squash‘ was the first trailer on their Vimeo channel and ten days ago they added ‘Bowling’. The bowling video is viewed 201,000 times since.