Alex Day
Alex Day ( born April 8, 1989, civil Alex Richard George Day ) is a British video blogger and musician who was known by the video platform YouTube. He runs there one of the most watched channels in the United Kingdom.
Video Blog
Day began in 2006 to publish under the name nerimon video blogs on YouTube. The stage name he had invented as a child for a character of his self-penned Digimon fanfiction, he passed the end of 2013 and vloggt on Youtube since then under his name Alex Day. 2009 Day was part of the Chartjackers project of BBC Switch, the successfully placed a charity single in the British charts.
Days Youtube channel passed in November 2013, the mark of one million subscribers, its posted there videos have been viewed more than a total of 120 million times. Most Viewed contribution is explained with over 2 million views in 3 Minutes LOST, in the Day the television series Lost.
Music
Published in 2009 Alex Day with Parrot Stories his first solo album, which was produced by Tom Milsom. 2010 published The World Is Mine ( I Do not Know Anything ).
In addition to his activities as a solo artist is Day founding member of the band Chameleon Circuit, whose songs thematically based on the television series Doctor Who. This released her self-titled debut album, which sold in the first week more than 1000 units in June 2009. The published 12 July 2011 second album Still Got Legs was also placed on the UK iTunes album charts at number 27 and in the iTunes rock album charts at rank 4. Apart Day are Charlie McDonnell, Liam Dryden, and in 2011 added butted Ed Blann and Michael Aranda member of the band. Founding member Chris Beattie got out before the production of the second plate.
In addition, Alex Day, together with McDonnell, Ed Blann and Tom Milsom was a member of the band Sons of Admirals that the Cat Stevens Cover Here Comes My Baby, published in June 2010. The single reached number 61 on the British charts, it reported, among others, The Sun, which also invited the band to a live session.
In November 2011, Day asked its subscribers to support his song Forever Yours to surprise the Christmas charts in the United Kingdom with an original song that is not from the talent show - cast of The X Factor. November 13, 2011 Day released his single Forever Yours on iTunes and from 18 December, the first day of the charts counting, followed thirteen Remixes - partly from other YouTubers, partly created by himself - to go their entire income to charitable associations are, for the most part to World Vision. This and the additional publication on Amazon MP3 and his call to give the songs via iTunes also to others, he took advantage of loopholes in the online charts that recorded all these sales on its origin song. On December 25, it was announced by the UK charts that Forever Yours had gained the fourth place, ahead of artists such as Coldplay. This Day is the first artist to ever reached the top ten of the UK charts, without having a recording contract and without the support of radio or television. In this case, his own testimony were collected after over £ 20,000 for charity.
Other activities
In addition to his activities as Vloger and musician Alex Day is working on other projects. So he developed which take place regularly Championships with his cousin Danny Hooper the card game Sopio. He also created the Project Life Scouts in which he sold badges for certain experiences, which collect the buyer; the name and idea inspired by the badge of the Boy Scouts.
Currently Day is also working on a book on the London Underground, for which he still has no publisher.
Discography
- 2009: Chameleon Circuit ( with Chameleon Circuit, DFTBA Records)
- 2009: Parrot Stories ( CD / Download, DFTBA Records)
- 2010: 117 % Complete (EP, CD / download, DFTBA Records)
- 2010: The World Is Mine ( I Do not Know Anything ) (CD / download, DFTBA Records)
- 2010: Soup Acoustic Sessions (EP, CD / download, DFTBA Records)
- 2011: Still Got Legs ( Chameleon Circuit, DFTBA Records)
- 2013: I've Got What It Takes (CD / download, DFTBA Records)