Charlie McDonnell

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Charlie McDonnell
Charlie McDonnell (2014)
Charlie McDonnell (2014)
YouTube channel
language English
founding April 3, 2007
channels charlieissocoollike
Subscribers over 2,200,000
Calls over 250,000,000
Videos over 200

Charles Joseph McDonnell (born October 1, 1990 in Bath ) is a British video blogger , director and musician, who became known through the video platform YouTube . With charlieissocoollike he operates one of the most subscribed channels in the UK .

Video blog

McDonnell started posting his own videos on YouTube in April 2007 . After the video How to get featured on YouTube was presented on the platform's homepage, it already had 4,400 subscribers in June of that year. His breakthrough came with How to be English , in which he portrays a stereotypical British who explains , among other things, how to prepare tea correctly . This video, which garnered more than 1.5 million views in a short period of time, caught the media attention of McDonnell. So reported the BBC and the American talk show The View .

As a result, McDonnell established himself as a video blogger, was active in various collaborations and took part in conferences. He spoke at the Google Zeitgeist Conference in 2008 and was invited by the company to speak at Tech @ Google and Tomorrow's Web in 2009.

In 2009 he and three other YouTube members were part of the BBC Switch's Chartjackers project , which successfully placed a charity single in the UK charts.

With over 2.3 million subscribers (as of August 2014), the charlieissocoollike channel is the 30th most-subscribed YouTube channel in the United Kingdom , making McDonnell the first Briton to have over a million subscribers. In total, the videos were viewed over 280 million times, with the music video Duet With Myself being the most viewed contribution with over 8 million views . British writer and actor Stephen Fry is currently doing the outro .

music

In June 2009, Chameleon Circuit , consisting of McDonnell, Alex Day , Liam Dryden and Chris Beattie, released their equally named debut album. The band's songs are thematically based on the television series Doctor Who . On July 12, 2011, the second album with the name Still Got Legs followed with a slightly different line-up , which made it to number 27 in the UK iTunes Album Charts and number 4 in the iTunes Rock Album Charts.

In 2010 McDonnell founded the band Sons of Admirals together with Alex Day, Tom Milsom and Ed "Eddplant" Blann, who were all already known as musicians on YouTube . In June they released the Cat Stevens cover Here Comes My Baby as their first single , which reached number 61 on the British charts. It reported, among other things, The Sun , which also invited the band to a live session.

In December 2010, McDonnell released This Is Me, a first solo album with titles from his video blog.

Discography

  • 2009: Chameleon Circuit (with Chameleon Circuit, DFTBA Records)
  • 2010: This Is Me (DFTBA)
  • 2011: Still Got Legs (with Chameleon Circuit, DFTBA Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ charlieissocoollike: Thoughts From Home Published on March 23, 2011. Accessed April 5 2011th
  2. ↑ charliemcdonnell.com: Fact Sheet ( Memento of 5 April 2011 at the Internet Archive ). Retrieved February 6, 2014.
  3. ↑ BBC News: Teenager's tea tips cause a stir Published October 1, 2007. Retrieved April 5, 2011.
  4. ↑ The Telegraph : Schoolboy's 'how to be English' guide a US hit Published October 1, 2007. Retrieved April 5, 2011.
  5. ↑ a b charliemcdonnell.com: Bio ( Memento of 7 April 2011 at the Internet Archive ) Accessed April 5 2011th
  6. ↑ a b charlieissocoollike on YouTube . Retrieved August 5, 2014.
  7. ↑ Kate Jackson: Uke-tube hit: Brit musician Charlie McDonnell has million fans Published in The Sun . Retrieved September 12, 2011.
  8. ↑ charlieissocoollike: Duet With Myself Published November 30, 2009. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
  9. ↑ charlieissocoollike: Here Comes My Baby ( Memento of July 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Published on June 14, 2010. Retrieved on April 5, 2011.
  10. ↑ database polyhex.com , search input Sons of Admirals . Retrieved April 5, 2011.
  11. ↑ The Sun : Internet geeks to storm to No1. Published September 30, 2010. Retrieved April 5, 2011.
  12. ^ The Sun : Meet the Suns of Admirals. Published October 11, 2010. Retrieved April 5, 2011.
  13. ↑ DTFBA.com: Charlie McDonnel: This Is Me.Retrieved April 5, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME McDonnell, Charlie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McDonnell, Charles Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British video blogger, director and musician
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Bath