Remember our Sons of Admirals project?
We dented the charts and got a lot of interest.
Now Alex and Charlie (apart from anything else, they have the great taste to be the biggest Me Me Me fans of all time - indeed, Charlie was my original Johnny Bambino and Tommy was Jay Fratello) have made a great track and superb video and we're pointing it at the charts to become the surprise Xmas Day No1.

Check it out and please, if you like it, support it.

Strange, it went on today, has had 301 views and 11,422 likes.... How is that possible?

It always takes a few hours to register proper views; check it out tomorrow morning; it should be in the high thousands.

I'll be 67 on the 6th December; let's aim for 670,000 views by then (5 days).

Anyone prepared to place a bet?

Good start; 44,000 in 3 hours.

I like it, it's fresh, catchy and energetic.

Up to 187,000 in 12 hours.

308,000 and growing fast.
A hit is a hit is a hit... get your bets into William Hill before the world catches on!

david wrote:
I like it, it's fresh, catchy and energetic.

I've heard worse, but it just sounds like a 1981 Depeche Mode b-side or something from new musik (living by numbers) and the video looks like a 6th form art project. As an amateur production by youngsters I would say that its very good, but as a competitor for a top 30 hit, let alone number 1, I would say it has very little chance.

The difference between people clicking on a link and saying that they like it and actually paying money for it is massive.

It's naff enough to be No1 but I think it's too easy to copy the audio off Youtube (and other places) so that's the way that most people will get their copy.

I think the song is ok but it's a bit lame. There is better stuff out there IMHO

If it makes it - William Hill are at 25-1 so I could make £2500!

Pumpkinhead wrote:
It's naff enough to be No1 but I think it's too easy to copy the audio off Youtube (and other places) so that's the way that most people will get their copy.

I think the song is ok but it's a bit lame. There is better stuff out there IMHO
The video is full of opportunity to add sound FX and had they have done that people would be less likely to want to rip it and more likely to buy it. Shame really 'cause it's a good track, fans of "The Feeling" or "Scouting for Girls" should like it.

A minor criticism of the song, the staccato bit around 02:35 didn't work for me, re-listened a few times as well but it just sounds wrong.

Wish them the best of luck with it though, the video is great fun and they come across as good characters.

Well it's worked before...

And very nearly 12 years ago...

404,000 in 24 hours.

484,000 and climbing fast; could be the biggest You Tube viral ever.

579,000 - I think we can assume views will have well passed the 670,000 mark by Tuesday when I'm 67. Possibly even double that.

617,000 and it's only Saturday! I'd better change my 67th Birthday demand by Tuesday from 670,000 to 6.7 million.

Just topped 700,000 so they reached my birthday (670,000) three days early.

It's growing on me after a second play. Its also available on spotify under Alex Day.

Just passed 800,000 - I wonder if it will be over a million by the time I wake up tomorrow morning.

And I wonder if the clueless "music industry" has noticed how real hits are made and broken?