"Friday" Singer Rebecca Black Releases New Track "My Moment" Next Monday

Yes, it's Rebecca Black again! The 14-year-old YouTube star has been making news during the past months. No doubt she has become a celebrity with her Internet viral video "Friday". Accroding to USA Today, Black will release her follow-up track dubbed "My Moment" at 7:00 p.m. next Monday on July 18, 2011. Can Black again perform miracles? Let's wait and see.

"The Moment" will debut on Rebecca's website and her YouTube channel on July 18. Then it will be available for digital download on iTunes the next day.

"My Moment" was written by Brandon "Blue" Hamilton and Quinton Tolbert. Music video of the song will feature her moments in real life, including moments of her childhood, moments of her attending her junior high school and some music awards ceremonies.

In addition to "My Moment", Black has a bigger plan - she is going to release her own EP including five tracks in this August, according to a statement from E! Online. EP with five tracks? Wow! What else we would expect from a only 14-year-old girl?

Previously, Rebecca Black posted a video of her performing her song "Friday" to YouTube. She and the video have suddendly become Internet sensation. Lots of comments and video parodies to the song emerge across the Intenet. However, the "Friday" video was removed from YouTube due to Black's claim of a copyright dispute. The video has drawn 167 million views before its removal.

Britney Spears Shines at Billboard.com 2011 Mid-Year Music Awards

Since July 1st, the beginning of the second half of 2011, Billboard.com has been asking people to vote their favorite artists and works for its 2011 Mid-Year Music Awards. Now the poll is over. Finally, Britney Spears turns out to be getting the most votes in the poll. The "Femme Fatale" singer leads the poll on 5 categories, including the First-Half MVP, Favorite Hot 100 No. 1 Song, Favorite Billboard 200 No. 1 Album, Best Music Video and Best Tour. Lady Gaga is the runner-up of the above 5 awards. Besides, Gaga also won the Best Festival Performance and the Best Dressed.

The list below is the top threes in all categories of the Billboard.com 2011 Mid-Year Music Awards. It was declared by Billboard.com. Check out the list and you can talk about your opinion of the result in the comment.

FIRST-HALF MVP:
1. Britney Spears (42.8%)
2. Lady Gaga (40.0%)
3. Adele (10.7%)


BEST NEWCOMER:
1. Wiz Khalifa (56.2%)
2. Bon Iver (15.8%)
3. Odd Future (7.8%)


FAVORITE HOT 100 NO. 1 SONG:
1. Britney Spears, "Hold It Against Me" (35.6%)
2. Lady Gaga, "Born This Way" (34.2%)
3. Adele, "Rolling in the Deep" (18.0%)


FAVORITE BILLBOARD 200 NO. 1 ALBUM:
1. Britney Spears, "Femme Fatale" (36.8%)
2. Lady Gaga, "Born This Way" (35.9%)
3. Adele, "21" (18.6%)


BEST MUSIC VIDEO:
1. Britney Spears, "I Wanna Go" (43.5%)
2. Lady Gaga, "Judas" (24.7%)
3. Katy Perry, "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" (15.2%)


BEST COMEBACK:
1. Jennifer Lopez (68.7%)
2. Lupe Fiasco (13.9%)
3. Britney Spears (6.5%)


MOST MEMORABLE MELTDOWN:
1. Chris Brown at "Good Morning America" (32.3%)
2. Amy Winehouse's Serbia concert (22.9%)
3. Odd Future at Billboard's SXSW Showcase (3.4%)


BEST FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE:
1. Lady Gaga at Radio 1's Big Weekend (35.6%)
2. Beyonce at Glastonbury (34.8%)
3. Kanye West at Coachella (13.8%)


BEST TOUR:
1. Britney Spears' Femme Fatale Tour (48.5%)
2. Lady Gaga's Monster Ball Tour (30.1%)
3. U2's 360 Tour (7.1%)


BEST AWARDS SHOW PERFORMANCE:
1. Beyonce, 2011 Billboard Music Awards (35.3%)
2. Cee Lo Green, 2011 Grammy Awards (9.2%)
3. Jason Aldean & Ludacris, 2011 CMT Awards (3.6%)


BEST MUSIC REALITY SHOW:
1 . "American Idol" (50.7%)
2. "The Voice" (33.6%)
3. "America's Got Talent" (11.2%)


BEST DRESSED:
1. Lady Gaga (51.2%)
2. Nicki Minaj (24.2%)
3. Britney Spears (7.7%)


MOST ANTICIPATED RELEASE OF 2011'S SECOND HALF:
1. Lil Wayne, "Tha Carter IV" (32.7%)
2. Lady Antebellum, "Own the Night" (29.5%)
3. Red Hot Chili Peppers, "I'm With You" (18.4%)

Transformers 3 Scenes Sample from Michael Bay's Film The Island

Director Michael Bay's Transformers 3 (Transformers: Dark of the Moon) just premiered last week on June 29 in United States. The film has earned $97.5 million during its first weekend, topping the weekend box office and setting a new Fourth of July box-office record.

However, some footage of Transformers 3 are found in Michael Bay's 2005 action film "The Island". YouTube user Cinefilo found this and made a short video comparing the similar scenes of the two films. The video was uploaded to YouTube on June 30 and has quickly become viral on the Internet. This is the video (download it with Leawo Free YouTube Downloader):


It's too obvious that Michael Bay has reused footage from The Island to Transformers 3. From the video, we can see that mainly two scenes of Dark of the Moon sample from The Island.

Scene 1: the truck (on the left) and the smashed car (on the right)

Scene 2: the rolling car and the smoke

Personally, I don't mind if Michael Bay samples a few scenes from his own film. Anyway, it's a good way to save time and money on filming a new scene. After all, Transformer: Dark of the Moon is a good film that has received generally negative reviews, which praising the film's excellent 3D visual effects.

Beyonce New Album 4 Tops Billboard 200

Beyonce debuted her highly-anticipated fourth solo album "4" last week on June 28, 2011. According to Nielsen SoundScan, after a week of sales, Queen B's new album easily tops Billboard 200 and UK Album Chart with 310,000 copies sold.

Prior to the album's debut, female empowering single "Run The World (Girls)", which serves as the lead single of the album was officially released on April 21, 2011. After this, the album's second single "Best Thing I Never Had" was released on June 1, 2011. The video below is the music video of Beyonce's Run The World (Girls). (Download it with this Free YouTube Downloader. If you are on Mac, go to get this YouTube Downloader for Mac)


However, according to Billboard magazine:

"4's" sales launch is lowest of her four releases: 2008's "I Am ... Sasha Fierce" entered with 482,000; 2006's "B'Day" bowed with 541,000 and 2003's "Dangerously In Love" started with 317,000.

What's more, both of "Run The World (Girls)" and "Best Thing I Never Had" failed to reach the top 10 of Billboard Hot 100, which was the first time for Beyonce's lead single from her album missed the top 10.

Previously, Beyonce received the Billboard Millennium Award on the Billboard Music Award. She performed "Run The Word (Girl)" during the presentation.

Aussie Girl Madelaine Zammit's Facebook Song Goes Viral

Recently, a video dubbed "facebook song.wmv" has gone viral on YouTube. The video is created by a 16-year-old girl from Australia whose name is Madelaine Zammit. In the video, Madelaine performs guitar solo for her song "Facebook Song" which was written totally by herself. Previously, We've heard several 'Facebook song'. However, this one is one of the best, or ever the best one. You can download Madelaine Zammit's Facebook Song from YouTube with Leawo YouTube Downloader (Free). This is the tutorial about how to get the song from the video. This is the video.


The lyrics of the song describes the things that most people do on Facebook. Besides that, Madelaine adds her own feeling about her experience on Facebook into the song.

The video was uploaded onto YouTube on June 1, 2011. After famous blogs such as Mashable, The Daily What, made a cover of the it last weekend, traffic to the video began to rise sharply. Just as shown in the below picture of the statistics of the video:

Madelaine's manager and close friend Sam Helyard, who is also 16 years old, told us that Madelaine was "hysterical with excitement" about her song getting viral on the Internet.

According to Sam, below are some more information about Madelaine Zammit:

1. Madelaine "always had a passion for singing".
2. When she's bored she just writes music. She has five other songs.
3. She hadn't done any "proper (music) gigs yet" but hoped to do one soon.

YouTube Singer Maria Aragon Featured in HTC Sensation 4G US Commercial

10-year-old YouTube sensation Maria Aragon has proven she's more than a nine day's wonder. Aragon covered Lady Gaga's hit "Born This Way" at her piano earlier this year. Her elder sister uploaded the video of Aragon's performance to YouTube on Feb 16, 2011. The video has quickly become an Internet sensation and driven 28 million views in six weeks. Recently, Aragon features as a star in HTC's latest US commercial for HTC Sensation 4G for T-Mobile, which again brings her a good reputation.

The HTC Sensation 4G smartphone commercial titled "You are the next...", features real life famous people and organizations including Joshua Roman (the street artist), Surfrider Foundation (a non-profit environmental organization that aims to protect and preserve the oceans), Bamboo Bike Studio (developed the bamboo bicycle) and Maria Aragon (Born This Way cover and Internet sensation). Here is the commercial. (Download the video to your computer)


The visual commercial references some social networking languages from Twitter and FourSqure , such as "You are the next Trending Topic" and "You are the next mayor of this bar".

Aragon is at the last part of the video. She is seen being filmed by the HTC Sensation 4G smartphone as she was playing piano solo as the background music and singing lines "When I get older, I will be stronger" from K'naan's Wavin' Flag, which was Coca-Cola's promotional anthem for the South Africa 2010 FIFA World Cup.

As stated above, Maria Aragon is a 10-year-old normal girl who learns in the Isaac Brock School fifth grader. She became a darling of the people after her cover of Lady Gaga's Born This Way was posted to YouTube. After that, she appears on several US TV shows and sang a duet with Lady Gaga in Gaga's concert in Canada. Here is Aragon's cover of Born This Way, which has driven 36 million views to date.

Rebecca Black's Friday Music Video Removed from YouTube

It's Thursday today and tomorrow will be Friday. But this Friday we might not able to see Rebecca Black's viral music video "Friday", as the YouTube sensation was removed from the site a few hours ago. From now on, we might not be able to hear Black singing "fun, fun, fun, fun" bringing us the happy Friday on the site. What a shame!

Previously, Rebecca Black's Friday official music video was here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0. But now you open the page and get the message on the YouTube video player "'Rebecca Black – Fri…' This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Rebecca Black. Sorry about that."

Rebecca Black's "Friday" music video has drawn over 167 million views before its removal from YouTube. (how to download) The 14-year-old singer just signed a copyright claim and then the video was gone. This video's removal is due to the dispute between Black's family and Ark Music Factory that who own the copyright to the video. Earlier this week, ARK Music Factory, who produced the video and ran the YouTube account that hosted the video, set the video up as a $2.99 YouTube rental. Black's family got angry about this and submitted a takedown notice of the video to YouTube. After that, the video disappeared from YouTube.

According to Wikipedia:

The ownership of "Friday" is unclear. In a March 29, 2011 letter from Kelly's (Black's mother) lawyer to Ark Music, she alleged that Ark Music failed to fulfill the terms of their November 2010 agreement by not giving her the song and video's master recordings; falsely claimed Black as exclusively signed to the label; and exploited the song without permission by, for example, selling a "Friday" ringtone. While Wilson stated that Kelly "will get the masters and the song. They can have it all" and agreed that Black was not exclusive to Ark, his attorney claimed that Ark owns the copyright for the song and the November agreement is invalid.

Google Chrome, Lady Gaga, Edge of Glory, Advertisement

You might think the title of this post is so strange. I just don't know how to express myself about knowing this news in a sentence.

The news is that Google Chrome has shot a short video advertisement with Lady Gaga featuring her fans; and the background music of the video is Gaga's new single 'The Edge of Glory'! Little monsters, now paws up and watch this amazing video. To download it, you can use Leawo YouTube Downloader.


Google Chrome is my favorite web browser. Lady Gaga is one of my favorite pop singers. Google Chrome makes me browse web pages more faster than using other web browsers. Lady Gaga bring me good music and teach me to be proud of myself. I mean both Chrome and Gaga make me a better life to live. I appreciate them much.

Just as ChipChick said:"The commercial is quite brilliant and pretty much a win-win for both Gaga and Google, since it helps Gaga promote her upcoming Edge of Glory single as well as Google Chrome to all of Gaga's fans."

It took Gaga and Google 10 days to shoot the video ad (from May 8th to May 18th). Let's As Gaga's The Edge of Glory begins, the video shows that Gaga contacts her fans with Google's owned developed web browse – Chrome and tells the little monsters:"listen up, little monsters!". Then Gaga is seen running on a bridge. In fact, the bridge is Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. The video continues with Gaga's fans' own-made covers of The Edge of Glory. The videos switches scenes between Gaga dancing on the bridge and contacting with her fans in front of a computer, telling them 'you are all beautiful' and 'You're all superstars. You inspire me!'. It's a touching video though it's an advertisement.

And don't forget that Gaga's Born This Way album is going to hit the web tomorrow!

Lady Gaga - Hair Single Premiered

Thanks for your interest in my blog and hope I can offer you more and better information in the future.

Today I would like to talk about Mother Monster Lady Gaga's new 'Born This Way' single 'Hair'. Her BTW album will be released next Monday on May 23, 2011. 'Hair', the BTW single, was released to iTunes for digital download this Monday afternoon. Now listen to the song from the YouTube audio clip below and tell us how do you like it in the comment section.

To download the song, check Leawo Free YouTube Downloader.

So far 4 singles from the forthcoming album has been released, they are 'Born This Way', 'Judas', 'The Edge of Glory' and 'Hair'. Gaga has expressed who she is very well with these songs. 'Born This Way' tells us that we all born in a special way and just be confident no matter who you are. 'Judas' is a metaphor for the darkness in your mind, "honoring your darkness in order to bring yourself into the light", as Gaga explained the song's meaning. 'The Edge of Glory' is inspired by the death of her grandfather. As for 'Hair', it's similar to 'Born This Way', preaches the importance of embracing your personality and being comfortable with who you are.

From the song, I think Gaga remembers where she came from and how she grew her personality in her adolescence. Gaga was thought to be different from her classmates whe she was in high school. At that time, her look, her clothes and her hair are 'wired' in her parents' eyes. Previously, Gaga said that "My mom would even cut my hair when I was asleep because I had really long split hairs, because I liked it really long like a hippy", as reported by Contact Music. As you can imagine the feeling that Gaga wants to express in the song.

Here is the lyrics of Lady Gaga – Hair

[Lady Gaga - Verse 1]

Whenever I dress cool,
My parents put up a fight
And if I'm a hotshot,
Mom will cut hair at night
In the morning I'm sure of my identity
I scream Mom and Dad
Why can't I be who I wanna be?

I just wanna be myself,
And I want you to love me for who I am
I just wanna be myself,
And I want you to know, I am my Hair

[Chorus]

I've had enough
This is my prayer
That I'll die living just as free as my hair

I've had enough
This is my prayer
That I'll die living just as free as my hair

I've had enough
I'm not a freak
I must keep fighting to stay cool on the streets

I've had enough, enough, enough
And this is my prayer, I swear
I'm as free as my hair

[Lady Gaga - Verse 2]

Sometimes I want to rock on some highlights
Just because
I want my friend to think that I am dynamite
And on party, roxy, high school dance
I got my bangs too hard
That I don't stand a chance
A chance

I just wanna be myself,
And I want you to love me for who I am
I just wanna be myself,
And I want you to know, I am my Hair

[Chorus]
I've had enough
This is my prayer
That I'll die living just as free as my hair

I've had enough
This is my prayer
That I'll die living just as free as my hair

I've had enough
I'm not a freak
I must keep fighting to stay cool on the streets

I've had enough, enough, enough
And this is my prayer, I swear
I'm as free as my hair

[Bridge]

I just want to be free, I just want to be me
And I want lots of friends that invite me to their parties

I don't wanna change,
And I don't wanna be ashamed
I'm the spirit of my Hair
It's all the glory that I bare
I am my Hair!

I'm my hair, I am my hair
It's all the glory that I bare
I'm my hair-am my hair
I'm my hair-am my hair yeah!

[Chorus]

I've had enough
This is my prayer
That I'll die living just as free as my hair

I've had enough
This is my prayer
That I'll die living just as free as my hair

I've had enough
I'm not a freak
I must keep fighting to stay cool on the streets

I've had enough, enough, enough
And this is my prayer, I swear
I'm as free as my hair

Top 9 YouTube Videos for the Last Week

Hello, this is the beginning of the third week in May. When entering the new week, let's first look back at the most popular videos last week on YouTube. Things have been changing all the times. So do people's favorite videos on YouTube.

According to YouTube Trends - YouTube's official trending topics indicator that updates very day to show you what videos are having the most views at the moment on the video site, YouTube hit maker Ray has been hot on the site. Two videos made by him have been included in the top 9 chart. Also, newly uploaded video of a deadly twister closely tracked by a brave guy with camera has drawn 5 million views. And don't forget the talking dog and President Obama's speech at the White House Correspondents' dinner.

The videos below are the videos that have drawn the most views during last week. They are ordered by total views. Now let's begin the top 9 viral videos review and tell us which one is your favorite video in the comment section. You can simply use (Leawo) Free YouTube Downloader to download them to your hard drive.

#9 OFFICIAL HD Let's Move! "Move Your Body" Music Video with Beyoncé – NABEF


#8 Talk to Me, Goose!


#7 4/27/11 - Tuscaloosa Tornado


#6 Elephants Touch Me


#5 "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2" Trailer 1 (Download it)


#4 President Obama on Death of Osama bin Laden


#3 President Obama at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner


#2 AA-12 Fully Automatic Shotgun!!!


#1 Ultimate Dog Tease


BTW, Lady Gaga's Judas music video is even more popular than the 'Ultimate Dog Tease' video.

YouTube, Gmail and LinkedIn 2011 April Fools' Day Pranks

If you're YouTube's regular user, you'll find something weird on YouTube today. The video site announces that it was established 100 years ago in 1911, "when videos were sent to us for uploading via horse-drawn carriage." You would see the message under the YouTube video player. The below picture is the screengrab of the message:

Is that true? Isn't it that YouTube was founded in 2005? Don't take it seriously as it's just an April Fools joke.

What's more, YouTube is even offering us today the 'Top 5 Viral Pictures of 1911'. This is crazy! Even my grandfather hasn't been born in 1911. YouTube must be kidding around. Haha, it's also an April Fools prank made by YouTube. The video is here and you could download it with this Leawo YouTube Downloader, which is free.


Other April Fools pranks include 'Gmail motion' and weird people in LinkedIn.
For instance, a YouTube video titled 'Introducing Gmail Motion' shows Google's Product Manger Paul McDonald introducing 'Gmail motion', which claims that "Now you can control Gmail with your body!". The video has drawn 2.5 million views as of this writing. Also, you could download it with Leawo YouTube video downloader.


And if you are an registered user of LinkedIn, log in to your account, under 'People You May Know', today you will find some late celebrities including Albert Einstein, Hemingway, Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Robin Hood and more. You could even browse their profiles if click their names.

Check out the above 2011 Aprial Fools pranks and Happy April Fools' Day!

Google Goes Gaga - Google Exclusive Interview for Lady Gaga Video Watch and Download

Yesterday, 'Born This Way' singer Lady Gaga was at Google's Headquarter in Mountain View, California to have a personal interview with the search giant Google. VP of Google's consumer products Marissa Mayer conducted the interview, in which Gaga talked about her live, her upcoming album 'Born This Way', her opinion of the latest YouTube viral video Friday and Rebecca Black, and answered the questions from her fans. BTW, Gaga was in the Bay Area for her show at Oracle Arena in Oakland.

Video of the hourlong interview has been posted to YouTube in the Google Talks channel. The video has drawn half a million views during the past two days. For a clear view of the interview, you could download Google Goes Gaga video from YouTube with this free YouTube video downloader.


The video begins with an intro with Gaga's songs as backgroud music. Using Google Insights, the intro shows how popular Lady Gaga is on the Internet: 'Lady Gaga' is one of the most searched queries in the world, she has been one of the fastest-rising searches in 2009 and 2010 on Google, and Gaga's video "Bad Romance" alone has had 360 million views on YouTube.

Then Gaga walked into the stage with her super high-heeled boots and sat down with Marissa Mayer, and the interview began. In the interview, mother monsters has answered questions that had been gathered from her little monsters over three days via YouTube. She also talked about how she writes her songs, what she likes and dislikes, her faith, her tattoos, her history and so on. She also talked about the 'Friday' girl Rebecca Black.

Some Gaga revelations from the interview:

She loves yoga very much
She likes the YouTube viral video 'David After the Dentist'
Gaga knows Rebecca Black but doesn't know the song 'Friday'
All of Lady Gaga's tattoos are on the left side of her body
Her entourage taunts her with food; her security peeps kind of hate her
Kids that used to bully her in school contact her for concert tickets now
Gaga does the same vocal exercises she's been doing since age 11
Lady Gaga would like to take her fans "away from the computer."
Despite writing the song "Paparazzi," she doesn't hate them

Download Fake Angry Birds Movie Trailer from YouTube

A video titled 'Angry Birds: The Movie (Trailer)' are getting viral on YouTube these days. It was produced by gaming website RoosterTooth.com, which is the creator of popular humorous parodies series 'Red vs. Blue'. However, the trailer is just a parody of the popular mobile game Angry Birds. Actually, there is no such a movie as described in the trailer.

However, the alleged Angry Birds movie trailer is really hot and looks incredibly real. It has yielded 2 million views since its debut on March 25 on YouTube. Here is the trailer. If you want to download it, you could check out the Free YouTube Downloader.


Although it's a fake movie trailer, I think that the movie for Angry Birds is just a matter of time. In fact, there has been a film titled 'Rio' which is highly relevant to Angry Birds. Rio is an upcoming 3D computer-animated film and scheduled to hit theatres on April 15 this year. On January 27, 2011, Angry Bird's developer Rovio Mobile announced a partnership with 20th Century Fox to promote the film Rio.

What is Angry Birds (Source is Wikipedia)

Angry Birds is a puzzle video game developed by Finland-based Rovio Mobile. Inspired primarily by a sketch of stylized wingless birds, the game was first released for Apple's iOS in December 2009. Since that time, over 12 million copies of the game have been purchased from Apple's App Store, which has prompted the company to design versions for other touchscreen-based smartphones, such as those using the Android operating system, among others.

Slow Loris with Tiny Umbrella Becomes New Favorite Internet Video

A video showing a bleary-eyed slow loris with a tiny umbrella now goes viral on YouTube and the Internet. You could use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader to download the video to your computer for sharing it with your friends.


The slow loris looks very cute in the video. Tamely sitting on a man's hand, the cute creature holds a tiny umbrella with its small 'hand' for about twenty seconds. It's the most adorable animal you may have seen these days.

However, a lot of people think that it's a sad video.

YouTube user 'elusis' commented the video that 'loris are endangered species. They are nocturnal - the light hurts their eyes. They usually have their sharpest teeth removed without anesthesia. They should not be kept as pets'.

Another YouTube user 'Deadflyte' commented that 'At all you people saying hes happy you are very ignorant, Slow loris are nocturnal and hide from the light because it hurts there eyes badly, Notice he is almost always squinting or has his eyes shut , this is animal abuse...'

Well, I agree with the above two YouTube users and hope that people should set the loris free and let them be back to the jungle and forest – their home.

The 83rd Oscar Awards Winners Full List

Hello, movie lovers! The 83rd Oscar Annual Academy Awards has just been handed out at Kodak Theatre. Many stars have arrived at the top class film awards ceremony. All the winners have been announced as shown in the list below:

1. Best Picture - The King's Speech

2. Best Actor - Colin Firth, "The King's Speech"

3. Best Actress - Natalie Portman, "Black Swan"

4. Supporting Actor - Christian Bale, "The Fighter"

5. Supporting Actress - Melissa Leo, "The Fighter"

6. Director - Tom Hooper, "The King's Speech"

7. Foreign Language Film - "In a Better World," Denmark

8. Adapted Screenplay - Aaron Sorkin, "The Social Network"

9. Original Screenplay - David Seidler, "The King's Speech"

10. Animated Feature Film - Toy Story 3

11. Art Direction - Alice in Wonderland

12. Cinematography - Inception

13. Sound Mixing - Inception

14. Sound Editing - Inception

15. Original Score - "The Social Network", Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

16. Original Song - "We Belong Together" from "Toy Story 3", Randy Newman.

17. Costume Design - Alice in Wonderland

18. Documentary Feature - Inside Job

19. Documentary (short subject) - Strangers No More

20. Film Editing - The Social Network

21. Makeup - The Wolfman

22. Animated Short Film - The Lost Thing

23. Live Action Short Film - God of Love

24. Visual Effects - Inception

Off topic:

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Eminem Joins the Billion YouTube Views Club

Congratulations on Eminem's achieving the 1 billion YouTube views milestone earlier this morning. Eminem's YouTube VEVO Official Channel has gained 1,001,007,298 views so far.

The fame rapper is the third person ever to reach the 1 billion milestone, the other two 'billionaries' are Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber. Eminem is also the first rapper to achieve the 1 billion YouTube views. Lady Gaga is the first person to hit the milestone, while Justin Bieber is the second one. Justin Bieber's music video 'Baby' is the most-viewed video ever on YouTube, with 0.46 billion views.

Eminem has been nominated for 10 awards in the 2011 Grammy Awards, but finally only won 2 awards of them. However, Eminem is still making major advances among music artists. Since the release of hist most recent album 'Recovery' in June 2010, Eminem's popularity via social media has climbed dramatically in the past 9 months. His most popular YouTube music video 'Love The Way You Lie ft. Rihanna' currently has 0.29 billion views.

The fourth billion YouTube views artist will be Rihanna, enjoying 979,000,000 views so far.

Directly download YouTube HTML5 videos - is that true?

If you like to watch the HTML5 videos on YouTube, you might have noticed the 'Save Video As' sub-menu in right-click menu over a HTML5 video. It seems that we can download the HTML videos from YouTube. Oh, my God! Is that true? We can directly save the chosen HTML5 video to computer without any third-party software, add-on or website? Is Google Crazy or just want to give up Flash to push HTML5?

But wait a minute, when click the 'Save Video As' sub-menu, YouTube will send you to Rick Astley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up' video page:


Yes, YOU ARE FOOLED by YouTube! Though it's not April Fool's Day today. Haha.. That menu can't help you to save any YouTube HTML5 video to your computer.

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Predict the 83rd Oscar Winners via Google Oscar Search Trends

Hey, buddy, you know that the 83rd Annualy Oscar Academy Awards will be held on February 27, 2011; believe or not, I know who will be the 83rd Oscar winners! You might think that I've got to be kidding you. I just 'know' it, as I have Google Oscar Search Trends, a tool newly released by the world best search engine Google to predict the Oscar winners.

Niv Efron, member of Google Insights' search team, said that

in the past three years the Best Picture winners (The Hurt Locker, Slumdog Millionaire and No Country for Old Men) have all shown an upward trend in searches for at least four weeks before the awards.

Currently searches of Black Swan is far beyond Inception and The Fighter. If the above prediction pattern applied to this year's Oscar-nominated films, Black Swan will be the Oscar Best Picture winner! Funny! Everyone know the winners of Oscar before the award! Just go to Google Oscar Search Trends and make your own prediction! The tool collects all nominees in all categories.

However, Efron said that 'We can't say for sure what will happen this year, since searches can only reflect what people are interested in, but it's fun to look for patterns that persist year after year'.

Off topic: YouTube users can use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader to download Flash videos from YouTube and any other websites. It is free.

2011 The 53rd Grammy Awards Winners Full List

The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards was held last night (February 13, 2011) on at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. 109 Winners has all been awarded in the ceremony. The country music trio Lady Antebellum swept five awards including 'Record Of The Year', 'Song Of The Year', 'Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals', 'Best Country Album' and 'Best Country Song'. Unsurprisingly Lady Gaga won the 'Best Female Pop Vocal Performance', and Bruno Mars won the 'Best Male Pop Vocal Performance'.

Below is the full list of 109 winners in all 32 genres of the 2011 Grammy Awards.

General
1. Record Of The Year: Need You Now - Lady Antebellum
2. Album Of The Year: The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
3. Song Of The Year: Need You Now - Dave Haywood, Josh Kear, Charles Kelley & Hillary Scott, songwriters (Lady
Antebellum)
4. Best New Artist: - Esperanza Spalding

Pop
5. Best Female Pop Vocal Performance: Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
6. Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: Just The Way You Are - Bruno Mars
7. Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals: Hey, Soul Sister (Live) - Train
8. Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals: Imagine - Herbie Hancock, Pink, India.Arie, Seal, Konono No 1, Jeff Beck & Oumou Sangare
9. Best Pop Instrumental Performance: Nessun Dorma - Jeff Beck
10. Best Pop Instrumental Album: Take Your Pick - Larry Carlton & Tak Matsumoto
11. Best Pop Vocal Album: The Fame Monster - Lady Gaga

Dance
12. Best Dance Recording: Only Girl (In The World) - Rihanna
13. Best Electronic/Dance Album: La Roux - La Roux

Trad Pop
14. Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Crazy Love - Michael Bublé

Rock
15. Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance: Helter Skelter - Paul McCartney
16. Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals: Tighten Up - The Black Keys
17. Best Hard Rock Performance: New Fang - Them Crooked Vultures
18. Best Metal Performance: El Dorado - Iron Maiden
19. Best Rock Instrumental Performance: Hammerhead - Jeff Beck
20. Best Rock Song: Angry World - Neil Young, songwriter (Neil Young)
21. Best Rock Album: The Resistance – Muse

Alternative
22. Best Alternative Music Album: Brothers - The Black Keys

R&B
23. Best Female R&B Vocal Performance: Bittersweet - Fantasia
24. Best Male R&B Vocal Performance: There Goes My Baby - Usher
25. Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals: Soldier Of Love - Sade
26. Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance: Hang On In There - John Legend & The Roots
27. Best Urban/Alternative Performance: Fuck You - Cee Lo Green
28. Best R&B Song: Shine - John Stephens, songwriter (John Legend & The Roots)
29. Best R&B Album: Wake Up! - John Legend & The Roots
30. Best Contemporary R&B Album: Raymond V Raymond – Usher

Rap
31. Best Rap Solo Performance: Not Afraid - Eminem
32. Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group: On To The Next One - Jay-Z & Swizz Beatz
33. Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: Empire State Of Mind - Jay-Z & Alicia Keys
34. Best Rap Song: Empire State Of Mind - Shawn Carter, Angela Hunte, Alicia Keys, Jane't "Jnay" Sewell-Ulepic & Alexander Shuckburgh
35. Best Rap Album: Recovery – Eminem

Country
36. Best Female Country Vocal Performance: The House That Built Me - Miranda Lambert
37. Best Male Country Vocal Performance: 'Til Summer Comes Around - Keith Urban
38. Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals: Need You Now - Lady Antebellum
39. Best Country Collaboration With Vocals: As She's Walking Away - Zac Brown Band & Alan Jackson
40. Best Country Instrumental Performance: Hummingbyrd - Marty Stuart
41. Best Country Song: Need You Now - Dave Haywood, Josh Kear, Charles Kelley & Hillary Scott, songwriters (Lady Antebellum)
42. Best Country Album: Need You Now - Lady Antebellum

New Age
43. Best New Age Album: Miho: Journey To The Mountain - Paul Winter Consort

Jazz
44. Best Contemporary Jazz Album: The Stanley Clarke Band - The Stanley Clarke Band
45. Best Jazz Vocal Album: Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee - Dee Dee Bridgewater
46. Best Improvised Jazz Solo: A Change Is Gonna Come - Herbie Hancock, soloist
47. Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group: Moody 4B - James Moody
48. Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: Mingus Big Band Live At Jazz Standard - Mingus Big Band
49. Best Latin Jazz Album: Chucho's Steps - Chucho Valdés And The Afro-Cuban Messengers

Gospel
50. Best Gospel Performance: Grace - BeBe & CeCe Winans
51. Best Gospel Song: It's What I Do - Jerry Peters & Kirk Whalum, songwriters (Kirk Whalum & Lalah Hathaway)
52. Best Rock Or Rap Gospel Album: Hello Hurricane - Switchfoot
53. Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album: Love God. Love People. - Israel Houghton
54. Best Southern, Country, Or Bluegrass Gospel Album: The Reason - Diamond Rio
55. Best Traditional Gospel Album: Downtown Church - Patty Griffin
56. Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album: Still - BeBe & CeCe Winans

Latin
57. Best Latin Pop Album: Paraiso Express - Alejandro Sanz
58. Best Latin Rock, Alternative Or Urban Album: El Existential - Grupo Fantasma
59. Best Tropical Latin Album: Viva La Tradición - Spanish Harlem Orchestra
60. Best Regional Mexican Album: NO NOMINEES
61. Best Tejano Album: Recuerdos - Little Joe & La Familia
62. Best Norteño Album: Classic - Intocable
63. Best Banda Album: Enamórate De Mí - El Güero Y Su Banda Centenario

American Roots
64. Best Americana Album: You Are Not Alone - Mavis Staples
65. Best Bluegrass Album: Mountain Soul II - Patty Loveless
66. Best Traditional Blues Album: Joined At The Hip - Pinetop Perkins & Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith
67. Best Contemporary Blues Album: Living Proof - Buddy Guy
68. Best Traditional Folk Album: Genuine Negro Jig - Carolina Chocolate Drops
69. Best Contemporary Folk Album: God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise - Ray LaMontagne And The Pariah Dogs
70. Best Hawaiian Music Album: Huana Ke Aloha - Tia Carrere
71. Best Native American Music Album: 2010 Gathering Of Nations Pow Wow: A Spirit's Dance - (Various Artists)
72. Best Zydeco Or Cajun Music Album: Zydeco Junkie - Chubby Carrier And The Bayou Swamp Band

Reggae
73. Best Reggae Album: Before The Dawn - Buju Banton

World
74. Best Traditional World Music Album: Ali And Toumani - Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté
75. Best Contemporary World Music Album: Throw Down Your Heart , Africa Sessions Part 2: Unreleased Tracks - Béla Fleck

Childrens
76. Best Musical Album For Children: Tomorrow's Children - Pete Seeger With The Rivertown Kids And Friends
77. Best Spoken Word Album For Children: Julie Andrews' Collection Of Poems, Songs, And Lullabies - Julie Andrews & Emma Walton Hamilton

Spoken
78. Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Story Telling): The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Audiobook) - Jon Stewart (With Samantha Bee, Wyatt Cenac, Jason Jones, John Oliver &
Sigourney Weaver)

Comedy
79. Best Comedy Album: Stark Raving Black - Lewis Black

Musical Show
80. Best Musical Show Album: American Idiot (Featuring Green Day) - Billie Joe Armstrong

Film/TV/Media
81. Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media: Crazy Heart - (Various Artists)
82. Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media: Toy Story 3 - Randy Newman, composer
83. Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media: The Weary Kind (From Crazy Heart) - Ryan Bingham & T Bone Burnett, songwriters (Ryan Bingham)

Composing
84. Best Instrumental Composition: The Path Among The Trees - Billy Childs, composer (Billy Childs Ensemble)

Arranging
85. Best Instrumental Arrangement: Carlos - Vince Mendoza, arranger (John Scofield, Vince Mendoza & Metropole Orkest)
86. Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s): Baba Yetu - Christopher Tin, arranger (Christopher Tin, Soweto Gospel Choir & Royal

Packaging
87. Best Recording Package: Brothers - Michael Carney, art director (The Black Keys)
88. Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package: Under Great White Northern Lights (Limited Edition Box Set) - Rob Jones & Jack White III, art directors (The White Stripes)

Notes
89. Best Album Notes: Keep An Eye On The Sky - Robert Gordon, album notes writer (Big Star)

Historical
90. Best Historical Album: The Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings) - Jeff Jones & Allan Rouse, compilation producers; Paul Hicks, Sean Magee, Guy Massey, Sam Okell
& Steve Rooke, mastering engineers (The Beatles)

Engineer
91. Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: Battle Studies - Michael H. Brauer, Joe Ferla, Chad Franscoviak & Manny Marroquin, engineers
(John Mayer)
95. Best Engineered Album, Classical: Daugherty: Metropolis Symphony; Deus Ex Machina - Mark Donahue, John Hill & Dirk Sobotka, engineers (Giancarlo Guerrero &
Nashville Symphony Orchestra)

Producer
92. Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical: Danger Mouse - for Broken Bells
96. Producer Of The Year, Classical: David Frost – for Britten's Orchestra (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony)

Remixer
93. Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical: Revolver (David Guetta's One Love Club Remix) - David Guetta & Afrojack, remixers (Madonna)

Surround Sound
94. Best Surround Sound Album: Britten's Orchestra - Keith O. Johnson, surround mix engineer; Keith O. Johnson, surround mastering
engineer; David Frost, surround producer (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony)

Classical
97. Best Classical Album: Verdi: Requiem - Riccardo Muti, conductor
98. Best Orchestral Performance: Daugherty: Metropolis Symphony; Deus Ex Machina - Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor (Terrence Wilson; Nashville Symphony)
99. Best Opera Recording: Saariaho: L'Amour De Loin - Kent Nagano, conductor
100. Best Choral Performance: Verdi: Requiem - Riccardo Muti, conductor
101. Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra): Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 23 & 24 - Mitsuko Uchida (The Cleveland Orchestra)
102. Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra): Messiaen: Livre Du Saint-Sacrement - Paul Jacobs
103. Best Chamber Music Performance: Ligeti: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 - Parker Quartet
104. Best Small Ensemble Performance: Dinastia Borja - Jordi Savall, conductor
105. Best Classical Vocal Performance: Sacrificium - Cecilia Bartoli (Giovanni Antonini; Il Giardino Armonico)
106. Best Classical Contemporary Composition: Daugherty, Michael: Deus Ex Machina - Michael Daugherty (Giancarlo Guerrero)
107. Best Classical Crossover Album: Tin, Christopher: Calling All Dawns - Lucas Richman, conductor

Music Video
108. Best Short Form Music Video: Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
109. Best Long Form Music Video: When You're Strange - (The Doors)

Source is Grammy.com

YouTube to Stream NBA Live Games

Google owned company YouTube signaled ongoing talks with NBA (National Basketball Association) and NHL (National Hockey League) to stream the live games. If the negotiation is successful, it will bring YouTube more advertising revenue.

Gautam Anand, Google's director of content partnerships for Asia Pacific, said that YouTube is shedulded to broadcast more live games in the second half of the year. But he declined to disclose more content about the negotiation.

Anand also said that Last year, YouTube broadcasted live cricket games of Indian Premier League, racking up 55 million unique visitors from more than 250 countries, and shared advertising revenue from matches videos and league's website. During the broadcast, online users spent average 40 minutes on watching each match. Hunter Walk, director of product management of YouTube, said that YouTube needs to do more to keep its users stay on the site for longer than the average daily 15-minutes session, compared with the multiple hours consumers spend in front of televisions.

"It's fair to say that there will be a lot more appealing sports content you'll see on YouTube," Anand said. "We have ongoing conversations with pretty much everyone."

Besides Sports game, YouTube is also prepared to provide more live music video clips, such as concerts, Anand said. Shishir Mehrotra, director of product management at YouTube, said that video advertisements on YouTube videos are hit 3 billion times a week, a 50 percent increase from May.

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