Written by Josh M. and Erin M.
YouTube itself was a big enough phenomenon in 2006, with everybody from movie studios to handycams nationwide submitting every kind of video you could ever imagine. Do you like sleeping kittens? Click here. How about weird furry bugs? Click here. And so on and so forth.
While sleeping kittens and weird bugs are fine and dandy in their own right, YouTube has cultivated some overnight success stories in the entertainment industry, from music to comedy...to both.
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Miami's favorite sons MAYDAY! exploded onto YouTube with their music video for "Groundhog Day," featuring a piping-hot Cee-Lo (of Gnarls Barkley/Goodie Mob fame), seemingly out of nowhere, culitivating an audience solely through word-of-mouth. In less than one week--and over 2.2 million views later--the hip-hop group's status jumped tenfold, getting major press on CNN and in the New York Times. All of this would be listworthy in its own right, but what makes MAYDAY's "Groundhog Day" so special is the song itself, a fierce concoction of old-school hip-hop and new-school alternative music in the vein of Outkast.
YouTube itself was a big enough phenomenon in 2006, with everybody from movie studios to handycams nationwide submitting every kind of video you could ever imagine. Do you like sleeping kittens? Click here. How about weird furry bugs? Click here. And so on and so forth.
While sleeping kittens and weird bugs are fine and dandy in their own right, YouTube has cultivated some overnight success stories in the entertainment industry, from music to comedy...to both.
Some videos on this list contain explicit language. Please view under parental advisory if you are under 18 years of age.
5. MAYDAY!
Miami's favorite sons MAYDAY! exploded onto YouTube with their music video for "Groundhog Day," featuring a piping-hot Cee-Lo (of Gnarls Barkley/Goodie Mob fame), seemingly out of nowhere, culitivating an audience solely through word-of-mouth. In less than one week--and over 2.2 million views later--the hip-hop group's status jumped tenfold, getting major press on CNN and in the New York Times. All of this would be listworthy in its own right, but what makes MAYDAY's "Groundhog Day" so special is the song itself, a fierce concoction of old-school hip-hop and new-school alternative music in the vein of Outkast.
