Adam Buxton’s Counting Song video has hit one million views on YouTube. The video is directed by Cyriak, illustrated by Sarah Brown and features Adam’s insanely catchy song (produced by Stuart Earl). The video was first broadcast on BUG on Sky Atlantic (episode 4, 30th July 2012).
‘Counting Song’ has been embedded and linked everywhere on the web: from Boing Boing, reddit, Twitter, CreativeBloq, 9gag, Cheezburger, Tumblr and many more.
It’s certainly no fluke – Adam now has three videos on his YouTube channel with over a million views:
SONGS OF PRAISE (WITH SUBTITLES) – 1,484,863 views
YOU SAY WE PAY – 1,075,196 views
ADAM BUXTON – COUNTING SONG (BUG TV) – 1,005,932 views
And a few more that will soon join the club:
NO NEWS – 986,310 views
A NEW POPE – 718,605 views
The main difference being the others have been online since 2006, whereas Counting Song was uploaded just eight months ago (Aug 2012).
Here’s an image showing the YouTube stats since it was uploaded:
You can listen and download to the song via Adam’s Soundcloud page
And here’s the words for you to sing along like a mentalist:
Adam Buxton – Counting Song lyrics
Do you count?
I do,
Let’s count together!
Counting, counting, counting, counting,
Counting things you like,
1, 2 bits of cake,
1, 2, 3 wheels upon a trike,
1, 2, 3, 4 dollies,
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 balloons,
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 monkeys wearing pantaloons!
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 fluffy little cats,
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 old fashioned hats
Counting is a lot of fun
If you are under 4
Try again in 30 years
It’s not so fun no more
You will find that there’s a lot of boring things to count
Count them, count them, count them
You must have the right amount!
Calories and speeding points
And pennies in your purse
Count your blessings too because it daily gets much worse!
Problems, problems, problems, problems,
Piling up on you,
They just keep on coming and there’s nothing you can do
Relationships and health and sex and God and jobs and sex
There are far more problems than a four year old expects!
Counting opportunities that got away from you
Regrets and disappointments
Don’t forget the failures too
Counting all the so-called friends that stab you in the back
There’s so many it becomes a problem keeping track
Counting all the ways the World’s a giant ball of crap
War and famine all around
But here’s a funny app!
Count up all the ways that you could change it if you tried
But there is too much else to do
Then suddenly you die!
I found this lovely GIF on therebloggingneverends’ Tumblr:
And finally – here’s a screengrab documenting the million. Well done Count Buckules!
YouTube URL: http://youtu.be/WXvsl8xgRxc
