A Very Silent Night

The Underdogs are a New Zealand music or charity project with A Very Silent Night Christmas 2007 produced the best-selling single in the country.

A Very Silent Night

The song A Very Silent Night ( " A very silent night " ) was marketed as a Christmas single for dogs and the music recording was made in the highest on an audio CD widest frequency range which is at the limit of human hearing and man can almost be heard no more. For this purpose, a video was shot in the 14 Danes, two models as Santa's elves, and the New Zealand rapper Dei Hamo are seen as Santa Claus. Director Chris Graham, who had already shot the music video for New Zealand's star rapper Scribe, among other things, it bonds held in the video for Drop It Like It's Hot by Snoop Dogg and Not Many by Scribe. You can see a dog when Santa Claus finally pleased with the gift of Christmas CD. His thoughts are thereby made ​​visible with speech bubbles and icons, as well as in the video is no sound to human ears.

However, animal ears can begin only with the original CD bit, since compression methods such as MP3 or video compression used on YouTube, the extreme frequency ranges are truncated. With a CD- presentation in a shelter in Wellington, the dogs should have but responds to the high musical tones.

The single was released in early December by Universal in 2007 and rose from 6th place on 3rd place in the Christmas week at the top of the New Zealand charts.

The revenue from the sale of (4.99 NZD about 2.60 EUR per CD) to benefit fully of the New Zealand SPCA animal protection organization ( Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ).

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