Hatsune Miku, the popular vocaloid character from Japan, is leading an online vote titled Singers You’d Like to Perform at the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremonies over on TheTopTens.com. The poll is also getting the attention of many here in Japan, including the very popular Jcast website. Second in the ranking is Korean male idol group Super Junior. Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber are ranked seventh and eighth respectively. Hatsune Miku’s most devoted fans are most likely to be heavy online users though, which would help to explain the current poll results. ...
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Aug 28 2011
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Lady Gaga, Backstreet Boys Banned for Being Vulgar? Not so much.
Earlier this week, we reported that China's Ministry of Culture had released a list of 100 banned songs for music websites to delete. We were very careful to specify that these songs were not banned for content, but rather because their content hasn't yet been inspected by the Ministry of Culture and thus the songs aren't yet eligible for listening or download online. It seems, however, that not everybody was reading carefully. E! Online wrote: 's songs lead a list of 100 tunes China's Ministry of Culture is forcing music websites to ban ...
Jul 28 2011
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Chinese Actress Yao Chen Passes 10 Million Weibo Followers, Closing In On Lady Gaga
Chinese actress Yao Chen has just passed the 10 million follower mark on Sina Weibo, China’s most popular microblogging platform. It means that Yao Chen, aged 32 (here’s her Weibo page), is fast approaching the 12 million count of followers of the singer Lady Gaga on Twitter. With 195 million Chinese now on various microblog sites - such as those from Tencent and Netease - it’s possible that Ms Chen could become the world’s most followed tweeter by the end of the year. This microblogging milestone passed with only a small acknowledgment by ...
Jul 15 2011
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Lady Gaga Greets Indonesia on YouTube
Update: The video was produced by Yahoo Indonesia. The Indonesian version of Yahoo OMG site is what Lady Gaga is referring to in the video. Hat tip: April (see comments) Indonesia is a huge Twitter nation and Lady Gaga apparently knows that too. “I always see your very sweet Twitter messages to me to come to Indonesia and I promise I will be coming there soon…” According to Jakarta Globe, Lady Gaga skipped Indonesia on her recently completed Asian tour and took this video (below) in Singapore after seeing the huge ...
Jul 14 2011
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Lady Gaga Suspended From YouTube Thanks to Japan’s Media Interactive Inc
Lady Gaga is likely questioning her decision to post her recent video appearance on Japanese television on YouTube. Local media company Media Interactive Inc is the apparent party pooper to have submitted the copyright claim, which then resulted in the suspension of Lady Gaga’s Youtube channel today. For Lady Gaga - or her representatives - to post the video (a medley of her own songs) she’d have to have a digital copy to begin with. Unfortunately for her, whoever gave it to her didn’t warn about usage rights at the time. But ...
Dec 4 2010
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@LadyGaga and More Celebrities Digitally Dead
Well-known celebrities like Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Alicia Keys, Usher, Serena Williams, Jennifer Hudson, and Elijah Wood have stopped updating on their Twitter and Facebook accounts. And it looks like they left a last message and testament video before they departed. Their last tweets direct fans to buylife.org where there are pictures of them resting in coffins. On 1st December, they have taken part in 'Digital Death' as part of World Aids Day to raise awareness and garner donations to save millions of real lives affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and ...
Mar 26 2010
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Brilliant Ads: Piracy Kills Your Favourite Artists
The music industry is beating piracy not by trying to eliminate it completely, but by focusing on other revenue sources. Artists are offering their music downloads free on platforms like MySpace. Their goal is to gain a bigger fan base that would eventually pay to go for their concerts, events and tours. However, it is still important to minimize piracy through education. Don't voodoo your musicians, buy music! The ads below show how piracy, with a few clicks, can harm your favourite artists. Though the idea is pretty cool, would it help reduce ...
Aug 28 2009
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YouTube’s Facebook Challenge: Day 14
It has been 14 days since YouTube posted a challenge to top most popular Facebook celebs in getting the most fans. YouTube managed to bag 140k fans since then but the video streaming giant is still falling behind. In fact, Vin diesel and Lady Gaga have outpaced YouTube's fans growth. According to YouTube, this is not surprising as celebs have movie releases, award nominations and hot photos to keep them fans-worthy. Deep inside, we all know that this is all along not much of a challenge to the celebs. However, we appreciate ...
Aug 28 2009
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YouTube Challenges Celebs on Facebook
YouTube has called for a Facebook showdown with top celebrities – Vin Diesel, Megan Fox, Will Smith, Lady Gaga and Adam Sandler. Rules of this Showdown is Simple: "...we're going to pass (no. of fans) these celebs in the next 60 days and if we don't, we'll eat humble pie and spotlight video(s) on our homepage for the nonprofit or non-commercial cause of their choosing" 3 days have passed (57 days left!) and YouTube has only increased its fans from 3.1 million to 3.2 million. For YouTube to win this, it may require ...
Aug 3 2009
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Top 10 Celebrities on Facebook Page
Social media is the new vehicle for celebrities to promote themselves. And when we talk about social media, we can't miss out Facebook. Who's the top celebrity on Facebook page? Who's second? To satisfy your curiosity, I will reveal the top 10 celebrities on Facebook Page. #1 Michael Jackson 9,327,123 fans After the King of Pop’s shocking departure, his fan page quickly surged to number 1, surpassing Obama and Vin Diesel. Prior to his passing, the fan page only had a mere 80,000 fans. #2 Barack Obama 6,458,593 supporters President Obama was once more popular than anyone ...
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