{"id":13026,"date":"2018-07-27T09:02:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T16:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=13026"},"modified":"2018-07-27T09:02:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T16:02:23","slug":"2018-07-27-alan-walker-faded-1-8-billion-youtube-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=13026","title":{"rendered":"2018-07-27 Alan Walker &#8211; Faded 1.8 Billion YouTube Views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve watched a lot of YouTube videos totally unrelated to music, and I hear the instrumental version of this over and over, but until now I was never able to find out about it. I had the earworm, I just recorded it and played it while on the road. I found out that since he purposely didn&#8217;t copyright it, there were scores or hundreds of similar derivative tunes. I backtracked and finally came across these other artists, and I finally caught up with this guy, Alan Walker. This one song, &#8220;Faded&#8221; has over 1.8 Billion (with a B! ) views on YouTube alone! Looks like hundreds of millions of others are loving his music! You can search for his name on YouTube and find his and other artists.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alan Walker - Faded\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/60ItHLz5WEA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the matter with me? This version is so melancholy it brings tears to my eyes. Faded: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bDmzGLrdjxQ&amp;list=PLa84ByUjbtqNalEYnkql2_mAGBY2Xkhi1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve watched a lot of YouTube videos totally unrelated to music, and I hear the instrumental version of this over and over, but until now I was never able to find out about it. I had the earworm, I just recorded it and played it while on the road. I found out that since he<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=13026\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[345],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13027,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13026\/revisions\/13027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}