![]() ![]() If you’ve spent time on the internet, it’s almost a guarantee that you’ve heard his work. In his vast library, there is bound to be at least one song that is suitable for any sort of project. His work has become popular because of that fact and because he works in a variety of genres. For those not familiar, MacLeod has made thousands of songs available under Creative Commons licenses so creators can use them for various purposes, and indeed they have. ![]() ![]() Silent Partner seems to be a Kevin MacLeod-type of artist. However, we can learn a bit more more about Silent Partner, but not much more. The song’s listing there notes it was added to the platform in November 2014 and describes its genre as “ambient” and its mood as “bright.” Downloading the MP3 file of the song from YouTube and viewing its ID3 tags - metadata used by programs like iTunes (rest in peace) to indicate the file’s title, artist, and so on - doesn’t reveal much more info, aside from the fact that the album is listed as “YouTube Audio Library.”Īs far as publicly available information about “Space Walk,” this seems to be the end of the road. YouTube themselves offers a free download of the song as part of the audio library in their YouTube Studio, a set of back-end tools for video creators to freely use. One thing we can tell is that the song wasn’t specifically made to be used for YouTube countdowns: The oldest uploads of the song on YouTube date back to early 2015, which pre-dates the premiere feature by over three years. Beyond that, it’s not immediately obvious where the song comes from. Some answers about the track can be easily found: A quick Google search for “YouTube premiere song” reveals that the tune is called “Space Walk” and it’s credited to an artist named Silent Partner. Keep reading for context and find an update about Silent Partner’s true identity at the end of this feature. Update (March 3, 2022): As of January 2022, the mystery has been solved. The odd thing, though, is that the story behind the YouTube premiere song and the identity of the person (or people, or something else) who made it is mostly a mystery. Ed Sheeran’s “Shape Of You,” the most popular all-time song on Spotify, has nearly 3 billion spins, and it wouldn’t be surprising to learn that the YouTube premiere song - across every YouTube premiere ever, music video or otherwise - has been heard more times than that. ![]() The song is beloved and has been heard millions (perhaps billions) of times at this point. Just this music and a few minutes to remember everything that has happened on this site over the decades before it all goes away.” One person noted, “People in 2030/2040 will be like: This is soooo nostalgic!! Only real ones remember this.” Somebody else wrote, “This is honestly such a fitting song for YouTube Premiere countdowns, it just perfectly goes with your imagination running wild about what you’re about to see.” Another user painted a picture of the end of YouTube with “Space Walk” as the soundtrack: “I feel like this is something that would play in the final minutes of youtube before the site shuts down. It has replaced 009 Sound System’s “Dreamscape” as the unofficial YouTube national anthem.Ĭommenters on YouTube re-uploads of the song agree, as they’ve shared a variety of feelings about the track. The song was supposed to be minutiae, an accompaniment to something of greater priority than it, but it has become emblematic of an era, like how the Nintendo Wii’s system music has become nostalgia bait for 2000s kids. It comes across like a brighter cousin of Washed Out’s “ Feel It All Around” (which is famous for the snippet of it that was used as the Portlandia theme song). Every countdown also includes the same song playing front and center, a two-minute instrumental track that stirs up anticipation with its nostalgic electronic synths, drum machine percussion, and orchestral string plucks. There’s one key factor those two videos have in common, both with each other and with every other video that has ever premiered on YouTube since the feature was introduced in June 2018: the countdown.Įvery YouTube premiere is preceded by a colorful countdown that features vibrant, abstract animations and a clock ticking its way down to zero. Just a couple months later, that record was broken by BTS’ YouTube premiere of their “ Dynamite” video, which is estimated to have had somewhere between 3 and 4 million people watching live. About 1.6 million people tuned in to watch the clip’s live premiere, which was a record for platform. In June 2020, Blackpink debuted the video for “How You Like That,” which was then their first new song in a year, on YouTube. ![]()
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