06/24/10: added a new premade mobster account full of goodies
05/23/10: added a new premade mobster account inculdes favor points
05/22/10: adding premade myspace mobster accounts soon some with god father points and skill points
05/27/10: Update on Bieber Blog : Behind the scene footage with usher
05/27/10: updated Bieber Blog with cute video of 2 yr old singing baby
05/26/10: updated Bieber Blog with cute video of two year old Ella singing baby
06/7/10: New Greyson Chance Pictures
05/28/10: New Greyson Chance Pictures
05/27/10: New Greyson Chance Blog with Videos and pics
05/27/10: Update on Bieber Blog : Behind the scene footage with usher
05/27/10: updated Bieber Blog with cute video of 2 yr old singing baby
05/26/10: updated Bieber Blog with cute video of two year old Ella singing baby
05/14/10: added Boo Boo Stewart to the Eclipse Page
04/23/10: added a lady gaga page with her new video bad romance and some really cool pics
04/23/10: added new justin bieber snl skit hot for teacher video
04/23/10: added new rare live footage via tokyo Justin Bieber makes his way across Japan
04/22/10: added new ink to the tatto page
04/22/10: added new retro graphics
04/21/10: new color splash
04/21/10: mothers day pics are up
04/21/10: added new glitter graphics, summer pics & page graphics
04/20/10: put up 3 new twitter lyts, new moon, jessica bieal, lil wayne
04/17/10:new photo graphics created and submitted by mandi
04/15/10: Put up sat night live video spoof robert and kristin
04/15/10: new pics of robert pattinson
04/16/10: put up 3 new Justin Bieber twitter backgrounds
04/15/10: put up 20 new twitter lyts, or backgrounds
04/15/10: put up 3 new twitter lyts, new moon, jessica bieal, lil wayne
04/14/10: mothers day graphics coming soon!!!
Biography
Greyson Michael Chance was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, on August 16, 1997. He is a 6th grader at Cheyenne Middle School in Edmond, Oklahoma, USA for the year 2009-2010. He is the youngest child of Lisa and Scott Chance. He has a sister Alexa (16) and brother Tanner (19), both of whom also play music. Chance has had 3 years of piano lessons, but no formal vocal training. His inspiration comes from Lady Gaga and Augustana.
Discovery and Appearances
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Billboard Magazine has declared Chance a "viral sensation" - with Billboard claiming "Chance has become a viral sensation within days after posting the video". The Paparazzi cover video, however, was posted to YouTube on April 28, 2010 and for almost two weeks the video generated low views. It did not get above 40,000 views total prior to publicity surrounding Ellen. At least two social websites, GossipBoy.ca and reddit.com, posted video embeds on May 10th. On the afternoon of May 11 Yahoo! Music reported: "As of this writing, the video has gotten more than 36,000 views so far, and he's even been invited to perform on The Ellen DeGeneres Show". Mainstream media, including The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, CBS, and Fox as well as bloggers and tweeters, including celebrity-tweeter Ashton Kutcher, reported word of the Ellen show and video and an online sensation was created.
On May 12, 2010 Greyson Chance taped an interview and performance of Paparazzi for Ellen in Los Angeles. On May 13 this taping was broadcast. During this first appearance on Ellen Chance received a "surprise" phone call from Lady Gaga, whom the youth claims as his "true inspiration." Following the May 13 broadcast, Ellen booked broadcast appearances by Chance (May 26) and Kutcher (May 27). Chance now has many fans on online social sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
Management and Label Interest
On May 12, 2010, the night before Chance first appeared on Ellen, Guy Oseary, an L.A.-based entertainment manager whose clients include Madonna, Demi Moore, and Ashton Kutcher, recommended his Paparazzi video on Twitter. On May 15, Crazed Hits, a music industry "tip-sheet" run by Alex Wilhelm, while citing no sources, reported that Interscope Records had signed 12-year-old Chance to a record deal. Meanwhile, Chance's parents told the press that they "will seek opinions from people in the music industry before signing any contracts." Scott Chance is quoted post-Ellen as saying: "We want to regroup and take the weekend to study how we want to proceed. Next week we’ll make some inquiries and start interviewing some people, not to necessarily sign some deals, but get advice on what we need to do next.” On May 18, The New York Post reported: "The boy's school-aged sister and dad confirmed the Interscope deal to The Post, but said they're under orders to keep quiet about it. The Post further reported that "all calls" to Cheyenne Middle School about Chance were "being referred to his new rep -- Hollywood heavyweight Guy Oseary, Madonna's kabbala-preaching manager." On May 25, Ellen DeGeneres announced that she has formed a record label called eleveneleven and Chance is her first artist.
The chronology of events has resulted in media analyses of the marketing phenomenon as separate from musical or biographical elements. Famecrawler has summarized events and a central question raised: “But is this an organic or orchestrated sensation?” The Christian Science Monitor reports: "the nearly flawless march from choirboy to Hollywood’s next 'It Boy' is also a good window into the perplexing problem of the modern digital world: namely media manipulation, say media and marketing experts."UK-based media analyst Alan Stevens questions the legitimacy of the "viral sensation" in a video interview. U.S.-based music industry commentator Bob Lefsetz noted the elements of an orchestrated campaign behind the video in his newsletter of May 18 titled: "Greyson Chance a Fake?"
