Burlington, Ontario based band Walk Off The Earth’s amazing cover of Gotye’s smash hit, ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ has officially been announced as being, “the most popular cover song ever posted on YouTube.”
The song, which features all five of Walk Off The Earth’s members playing the one guitar, recently passed 107,000,000 views on YouTube and has also been certified Platinum in Canada, after the single version of the cover song sold over 165 thousand copies.
The success of the clip has seen Walk Off The Earth’s popularity grow in staggering proportions; the groups recent YouTube clips of covers of the Weeds theme song ‘Little Boxes’ and The Beatles ‘From Me To You’ have each gotten over 3 million views, while their most recent cover of Nirvana’s ‘Polly,’ which is also now available on iTunes, has already topped 1 million views.
In a statement on their website, Walk Off The Earth thanked fans for getting behind them. “We thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for buying our music. It helps us on our mission in taking over this shitty music industry. We are definitely rattling a few cages lately and it’s a direct result of the passion and support of the WOTE fans…you guys are sic!”
Walk Off the Earth is currently in the final phase of recording their debut album on Columbia Records and are preparing to embark on a U.S. tour. Dates are listed below.
Click here to purchase ‘Somebody That I Used To Know.’
Click here to purchase ‘Polly.’
Walk Off the Earth tour dates:
5/30 -Mercy Lounge, Nashville, TN
5/31 – Juanita’s, Little Rock, AR
6/1 – KXT Summer Cut, Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas, TX
6/2 – Stubb’s Bar-B-Q, Austin, TX
6/3 – House of Blues Bronze Peacock, Houston, TX
6/14 – El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
6/15 -Slim’s, San Francisco, CA (2 shows)
6/16 – Central Coast Oyster Festival, Morro Bay, CA
6/17 – Sound of Music Festival, Burlington, ON
6/23 – Elevation Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria
6/28 – Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland, OH
6/29 – Summerfest, Milwaukee, WI
7/8 – Bluesfest, Ottawa, ON
7/9 – Festival D’ete, Quebec, QC
7/13 – Common Grounds Music Festival, Lansing, MI
7/27 – Hillside Festival Guelph, ON
7/29 – Rock the Peach Music Festival, Penticton, BC
8/4 – Lollapalooza, Chicago, IL
8/10 – Fredrock Festival, Fredricton, NB
8/23 – Coca Cola Events Center, Oklahoma City
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