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Simple Statistics: Korean J-Pop Gangnam Style Will Be First Video To Hit 1 Billion Views
Forbes ^ | 11/15/2012 | Anthony Wing Kosner

Posted on 11/15/2012 7:38:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind

ChannelMeter has produced a nifty chart predicting that Korean Pop Star, PSY’s Gangnam Style video will hit 1 billion views on YouTube in December and become the first video to do so (see below).

That he will displace Justin Bieber‘s “Baby,” is a delicious irony considering the fact that Bieber’s manager, Scooter Braun, is now PSY’s champion for growth outside of Asia.



The chart was brought to my attention by Alexis Madrigal’s Atlantic post on Friday. What Madrigal may not have been aware of, though, was the lively discussion on Stack Exchange about how to statistically model this phenomenon. A management consultant from Stockholm, Fredrik Döberl, has provided a couple of models based on epidemiology, one that combines “high risk” and “low-risk” groups (i.e. children and adults), and the other that combines “sharers” with “loners.” Neither of these produce an appropriate shaped curve but raise some interesting ideas about what makes a video go “pandemic.”

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: gangnamstyle; kpop; video
GANGNAM STYLE



SEE These Video Steps for how to dance the Gangnam Style -- The Dance that has gone viral around the world.
1 posted on 11/15/2012 7:39:09 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s nice.


2 posted on 11/15/2012 7:40:25 AM PST by ILS21R
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To: ILS21R
NORTH KOREA's NEW LEADER: KIM JONG UN DOES THE GANGNAM STYLE:


3 posted on 11/15/2012 7:42:26 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: ILS21R
Mitt Romney shoulda done it too to win more of the youth votes...


4 posted on 11/15/2012 7:43:25 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

A billion views, thats a lotta people


5 posted on 11/15/2012 8:01:27 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Go Psy! LOL “Oppaneun Gangnam Style”!
I read that he is working on his next song/video which seems it will be a parody on sports of some sort.

If you haven’t seen his Korea MV, it’s pretty cool. I wonder what it took to organize this many people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpYq1lSce1U


6 posted on 11/15/2012 8:16:10 AM PST by Suz in AZ
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To: Suz in AZ
PSY Does Gangnam style with Britney Spears and Ellen Degeneres


7 posted on 11/15/2012 8:17:24 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

“A girl who covers herself but is more sexy than a girl who bares it all.
A sensible girl like that.”


8 posted on 11/15/2012 8:21:43 AM PST by ari-freedom (It's the bennies, stupid.)
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To: SeekAndFind
One of my favorite music videos in a language other than English is Auch Du Wirst Mich Einmal Betrügen (You, too will someday betray me) by Ilya Livshakoff & His Dance Orchestra, a hit in the spring of 1930. However, it has only 38 views--a long way to go to catch up to "Gangnam Style."
9 posted on 11/15/2012 9:50:09 AM PST by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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To: Fiji Hill

Gangnam Style has nothing on this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMiTJhiWx-k


10 posted on 11/15/2012 9:53:21 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

That video must have been made somewhere in India.


11 posted on 11/15/2012 10:33:16 AM PST by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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To: Fiji Hill

You gotta admit, the guy has some serious moves, even Michael Jackson would have been envious.


12 posted on 11/15/2012 10:34:36 AM PST by dfwgator
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