Web Traffic: Gloriana, Eli Young, Aaron Lewis
Gloriana is giving away free downloads of “Soldier Song” in celebration of Independence Day. The track was inspired by the band’s USO tour, and will be on its upcoming album. Gloriana’s Facebook page is hosting the download until Thursday, July 7, and also features fan-submitted photos in a “Soldier Song” music video.
In conjunction with current single, “Wanna Take You Home,” Gloriana and Marco Club Connection are holding a line dance video contest here.
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The Eli Young Band is heating up the web with its new single “Crazy Girl.” With 400,000 paid downloads, and 2 million views of the video on YouTube, the track is inspiring fans to make music videos of their own covers of the hit. After 122 fan videos were posted to EYB’s YouTube Channel, the band decided to turn it into a contest. The winner gets to perform the song onstage with the band at the album release show in Ft. Worth on Aug. 20.
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Aaron Lewis is featured in Yahoo!’s “Ram Country” series. In the interview, he gives a tour of his Massachusetts hometown and farmhouse, and performs two songs: the unreleased “75” and current hit “Country Boy.”
For the Fourth of July, he is saluting the military in a new music video for “Country Boy,” exclusively at CMT.com.
His album Town Line has sold over 170,000 copies, and the single is approaching Gold certification.
