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Simultaneous MLT YouTube Views
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This graph shows the same information as the previous one, but for the MLT original songs. They follow the same sort of trend, but notice that the scaling is different.
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Hi David and Tomás,
I haven’t been able to check in much lately, but it’s nice to see the resident MLT statisticians are still hard at work. David, it’s cool to see some of the analysis you’re doing, addressing some of the questions I’ve had about viewing trends with new posts. I’ve got daily channel views and subscriber counts for pretty much every day since August 2022, but my spreadsheet skills are too rudimentary to do any legitimate analysis.
As for screenshots, as Tomás says, the snipping tool is the way to go for Windows users. It’s got much more flexibility than the venerable Print Screen.
David, keep up the amazing analytical work. It’s really fascinating stuff.
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Thanks, David. My spreadsheet skills are pretty rudimentary too, but if you have your data arranged in an Excel file I could probably do some basic calculations and charts with them.
I had been wondering why there tends to be a plateau in views for videos on days five through seven that defies the general downward trend. Then it occurred to me that MLT releases most of their videos on Sundays (day zero), so the plateau corresponds to the weekend.
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Thanks for the graphs David, the logarithmic scale is a great idea. It’s always fascinating to me to see these things.
A tip on getting screen grabs on Windows:
1- The PrtScn button captures the whole monitor display to the clipboard, use it with the Alt key and it only copies the active window, add the Win key and it automatically saves it to the Pictures\Screenshots folder (unless you’ve set another folder) as a PNG2- You can use the “Snipping Tool” in the Windows Accessories with which you can snip any part of the screen (rectangular or freeform) and save a PNG, JPG, etc.
Thanks for the data & graphs!
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Thanks, Tomás. It actually occurred to me yesterday that I could be doing these with “Print Screen” rather than taking photos… and then I forgot today!
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For the last hour of January 14th, the public livestream is at V = 28896 and C = 1537. (The C values are going to be insanely high because the video is so long!)
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Averaged over the past week, Kansas City is at V = 990 and C = 2.46.
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Recent data for the public livestream:
For January 15th, V = 14823 and C = 789. For January 16th, V = 6788 and C = 361. For January 17th, V = 4756 and C = 253. For January 18th, V = 2719 and C = 145. And for January 19th, V = 2845 and C = 151.
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Recent data for the public livestream:
For January 20th, V = 3083 and C = 164. For January 21st, V = 1737 and C = 92.4. For January 22nd, V = 1419 and C = 75.5. For January 23rd, V = 1307 and C = 69.5. And for January 24th, V = 1009 and C = 53.7.
Meanwhile, averaged over the past week, Kansas City is at V = 643 and C = 1.60.
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Averaged over the past week, the public livestream is at V = 699 and C = 37.2, and Kansas City is at V = 548 and C = 1.36.
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That’s great to see so many thousands and thousands of view of the public livestream. Thanks for pulling those stats David. A very successful livestream I would say, they filled a huge football dome and more.
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Here are the numbers for January. All data are averaged over the period from January 1st through 31st, except for Kansas City and the public livestream, which are for just the last week.
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simultaneous views:
1) MonaLisa Twins Music Livestream!!: C = 37.2 (new)
2) Please Mr. Postman / Wipe Out: C = 9.75 (+0.33)
3) Drive My Car (2012): C = 9.57 (+5.93)
4) I’m Looking Through You: C = 6.54 (+5.66)
5) While My Guitar Gently Weeps: C = 5.95 (+2.22)
6) Here Comes the Sun: C = 5.55 (+1.31)
7) She Loves You: C = 4.36 (+1.31)
8) When I’m Sixty-Four: C = 3.59 (+1.78)
9) You Can’t Do That: C = 3.20 (+1.00)
10) I Saw Her Standing There: C = 2.35 (+0.17)
11) Nowhere Man: C = 2.35 (+0.61)
12) If I Fell: C = 2.22 (+0.54)
13) Everybody’s Talkin’: C = 2.02 (-0.37)
14) Wish You Were Here: C = 1.92 (+0.54)
15) This Boy: C = 1.64 (+0.31)
16) Vincent: C = 1.64 (-2.22)
17) Day Tripper: C = 1.63 (+0.41)
18) MonaLisa Twins Interview 2016: C = 1.62 (+0.90)
19) Till There Was You: C = 1.58 (+0.25)
20) In My Life: C = 1.51 (+0.42)
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views per day:
1) Drive My Car (2012): V = 4953 (+3072)
2) Please Mr. Postman / Wipe Out: V = 3438 (+116)
3) I’m Looking Through You: V = 3231 (+2798)
4) Here Comes the Sun: V = 2283 (+539)
5) She Loves You: V = 2129 (+641)
6) While My Guitar Gently Weeps: V = 1877 (+701)
7) When I’m Sixty-Four: V = 1772 (+877)
8) You Can’t Do That: V = 1470 (+461)
9) Nowhere Man: V = 1045 (+270)
10) If I Fell: V = 1006 (+246)
11) I Saw Her Standing There: V = 1000 (+71)
12) In My Life: V = 900 (+251)
13) Till There Was You: V = 831 (+131)
14) Everybody’s Talkin’: V = 824 (-148)
15) Day Tripper: V = 710 (+179)
16) MonaLisa Twins Music Livestream!!: V = 699 (new)
17) This Boy: V = 696 (+130)
18) Please Please Me: V = 596 (+141)
19) Sound of Silence: V = 585 (+72)
20) Wish You Were Here: V = 569 (+162)
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Almost all video views are up substantially! Now I’m not certain that it was because of the public livestream… but I’m certain that it was because of the public livestream. The most surprising one is I’m Looking Through You, which typically gets about 400 views a day: in January it averaged eight times that!
Just for the record, Kansas City premiered at C = 1.36 (ranked 25) and V = 548 (ranked 24).
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VERY encouraging, Dave! Thanks again! Only slight downer is ‘Vincent’ is sadly underrated just as it was back in the day for Don McLean. And ‘Everybody’s Talkin’ could use some recognition, too!
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This reply was modified 3 months, 2 weeks ago by Jeffery Ohlwine.
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Agreed, Jeffery. Vincent isn’t too far out of the top 20 in views, though (V = 552, ranked 23rd). It usually gets between 300 and 400 views per day, but spiked in December for some reason. And Everybody’s Talkin’ is probably just suffering from the “sophomore slump” that all relatively new videos undergo as they seek their plateau viewing levels.
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Averaged over the past week, the public livestream is at V = 409 and C = 21.8.
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Looking at other numbers, the MLT Club membership was sitting in the 690 range for a while, glad to see it crossed the 700 threshold to 704 members.
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One last weekly update on the public livestream: averaged over the past week, V = 357 and C = 19.0.
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For the last hour of February 21st, I Don’t Mind is at V = 13584 and C = 30.2.
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Recent data for I Don’t Mind:
For February 22nd, V = 9739 and C = 21.6. For February 23rd, V = 3980 and C = 8.84. For February 24th, V = 3045 and C = 6.77. For February 25th, V = 2181 and C = 4.85. And For February 26th, V = 1307 and C = 2.90.
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Time for the top 20 lists for February. All data cover the period from Feb. 1st through Feb. 29th, except for the public livestream, which is averaged over just the last two weeks, and I Don’t Mind, which is for just the last day of the month.
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simultaneous views:
1) MonaLisa Twins Music Livestream!!: C = 15.6 (-21.6)
2) Please Mr. Postman / Wipe Out: C = 7.91 (-1.84)
3) Here Comes the Sun: C = 4.64 (-0.91)
4) Drive My Car (2012): C = 4.16 (-5.41)
5) While My Guitar Gently Weeps: C = 4.13 (-1.82)
6) She Loves You: C = 3.46 (-0.90)
7) When I’m Sixty-Four: C = 2.88 (-0.71)
8) You Can’t Do That: C = 2.79 (-0.41)
9) Nowhere Man: C = 2.19 (-0.16)
10) I’m Looking Through You: C = 2.15 (-4.39)
11) I Saw Her Standing There: C = 2.07 (-0.28)
12) If I Fell: C = 1.91 (-0.31)
13) I Don’t Mind: C = 1.78 (new)
14) Till There Was You: C = 1.74 (+0.16)
15) Wish You Were Here: C = 1.43 (-0.49)
16) This Boy: C = 1.43 (-0.21)
17) MonaLisa Twins Interview 2016: C = 1.41 (-0.21)
18) Vincent: C = 1.30 (-0.34)
19) Sound of Silence: C = 1.28 (-0.11)
20) Day Tripper: C = 1.27 (-0.36)
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views per day:
1) Please Mr. Postman / Wipe Out: V = 2791 (-647)
2) Drive My Car (2012): V = 2154 (-2799)
3) Here Comes the Sun: V = 1907 (-376)
4) She Loves You: V = 1689 (-440)
5) When I’m Sixty-Four: V = 1422 (-350)
6) While My Guitar Gently Weeps: V = 1302 (-575)
7) You Can’t Do That: V = 1284 (-186)
8) I’m Looking Through You: V = 1060 (-2171)
9) Nowhere Man: V = 974 (-71)
10) Till There Was You: V = 914 (+83)
11) I Saw Her Standing There: V = 881 (-119)
12) If I Fell: V = 864 (-142)
13) I Don’t Mind: V = 800 (new)
14) This Boy: V = 608 (-88)
15) In My Life: V = 594 (-306)
16) Day Tripper: V = 552 (-158)
17) Sound of Silence: V = 538 (-47)
18) You’re Going to Lose That Girl: V = 502 (-52)
19) Everybody’s Talkin’: V = 495 (-329)
20) Please Please Me: V = 474 (-122)
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So it looks like the abrupt upturn last month, presumably due to the public livestream, may have been just a spike and not a new plateau. However, the total number of views per day in February was about 3% higher than in December, so there was a modest net gain.
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