NY TIMES: Lyric Videos Are Easy and Popular

By Steven Gottlieb on September 26, 2013 @ 1:41pm PDT | Comments (0)

Cee Lo Green - FUCK YOU

BREAKING: The New York Times is reporting that lyric videos are popular on YouTube.

As our man Doug Stern pointed out here, lyric videos are the perfect placeholder — staking a claim on YouTube while you wait for the "proper" video gets prepped.

And the numbers the Times cites are staggering:

Since 2011, the number of views for lyrics videos have increased seven times, according to YouTube.  The top 500 lyrics videos pulled in 624 million views this year, compared with 84 million in 2011. Also, the number of lyric videos uploaded to the site have doubled over last year.

But, the best part is seeing The Times come up with yet another way to delicately dance around how to refer to Cee-Lo "Fuck You".

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