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Walk Off The Earth Gotye Video Scores 7m Views In Four Days

by Paul Cashmere on January 10, 2012

in News

Canadian band Walk Off The Earth’s cover of the Gotye featuring Kimbra hit ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ has now clocked up over 7 million views on YouTube in just 4 days.

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The Walk Off The Earth version, featuring Sarah Blackwood doing the Kimbra bits, features five people playing one guitar simultaneously.

YouTube has registered 7,789,202 views for the video at publication time. The video was posted on January 5, 2012.

The Gotye and Kimbra video now has over 35 million views.

The video grabbed the attention of both Gotye and Kimbra who retweeted their approval of the clip and also attracted actor Russell Crowe who pitched his own songs to the Canadian band.

Russell might even get some action out of Walk Off The Earth. Today they tweeted “We’ve been listening to your tunes all night. There is some Gems in there”.

Crowe was in the band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts who released three albums. A new album from Russell Crowe and the Ordinary Fear of God is also being worked on. Russell is married to Aussie singer/songwriter Danielle Spencer who released her second album ‘Calling All Magicians’ in 2010.

His father-in-law is Don Spencer, the long running presenter of Play School in Australia and the UK. Don reached no. 32 on the UK chart in 1962 with ‘Fireball XL5’ but is best known for his catalogue of children’s albums.

UPDATE: Ellen awards Walk Off The Earth with Fender guitars and amps

UPDATE: Ellen invites Walk Off The Earth on her show

UPDATE: Watch the Gotye and Walk Off The Earth videos played simultaneously 

UPDATE: Walk Off The Earth Gotye cover reaches 10 million views

Check out Walk Off The Earth ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ here:

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