Sick puppies and ok go are valuable lessons. A viral video doesn’t equate to success.

You are right. The sick puppies video was interesting, not sick puppies themselves. The video connected, the songs apparently did not connect. The video garnered millions of views and the cd didn’t even scan 50K. That’s is a huge disparity.

This was a great article, so funny and so true.

Missy

And come on, Sick Puppies are a band that already arrived in the mainstream? Look at the album sales. If a miracle wont happen, they gonna be done before they even started. The youtube video was a fluke, the idea behind the video got them millions of views, not their music. It was just a byproduct, background music you’d hear in an elevator. Nobody really cared for it. That’s why this band isnt selling any records.

Same goes for OK go. Sure they’d been around for years - but that video would have broke them even if they’d never played a show.

To back up that second point I’ll offer a third - Panic at the Disco got signed soley based upon their myspace before ever playing a show.

Not to say it comes often. But it does occur.

If you’d read the artical, however, you’d realize it was a joke and that the point was that internet fame doesn’t transfer to the actual sale of physical units.

Beau

This has to be a joke. Wonder why KOAR is even posting this. I thought this is a reliable source for music, and not sloppy journalism… because the internet cant make you a star for nothing, and especially not over night. It takes years of development and training.