The YouTube Music Awards (commonly abbreviated as YTMA ) was an awards show presented by the American video platform YouTube to honor the best in the music video medium.
77-554: For the 2013 edition , the YTMAs were held at Pier 36 in New York City and broadcast live at Youtube.com/YTMA . The live award show was preceded by a series of events all-day in locations around the world; including Seoul, Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, and London, respectively. Performers included Arcade Fire , Lindsey Stirling , Tyler, The Creator , M.I.A. , Lady Gaga and Eminem , among others. The award show started at 6pm EST and
154-561: A Dota 2 tournament which had the biggest prize pool in eSports history. Later Stirling also appeared in a Schön! magazine photoshoot and feature interview. In September 2016, Stirling started her Brave Enough Tour in San Diego , California that would continue worldwide for 79 dates. Stirling also performed the national anthem and a pre-game concert wearing a 49ers jersey for the San Francisco 49ers season opener against
231-594: A PledgeMusic account where consumers could buy her new album, signed or not, and also exclusive items, such as signed posters, personalized videos, and even Skype calls with Stirling herself. At the end of the first day, the signed Shatter Me CD was already sold out. On March 25, Stirling officially released her first single from Shatter Me , entitled " Beyond the Veil ", along with its accompanying music video. On April 3, Stirling posted that she collaborated with Owl City for his fifth album. The song, " Beautiful Times ",
308-517: A Boy ". The 2013 edition was directed by Spike Jonze . The show was mostly unscripted because Jonze wanted the show to "..feel like a YouTube video — the raw messiness of making stuff..." The winners of the 2015 edition of the award show were announced on March 2, 2015. Fifty winners were chosen based on the "growth in views, subscribers, and engagement over the last six months." With that YouTube personally gives out plaque/button for milestones reached on subscriber counts. These can be reached through
385-674: A No. 2 position on the Billboard 200 for her second album Shatter Me in 2014, and her 11 million subscribers on YouTube. Stirling's debut album was a commercial success in Europe, selling 200,000 copies in Germany, winning a platinum certification; three additional certifications were given by Austria, Switzerland, and Poland. The album was nominated for the 2014 Billboard Music Awards for Top Dance/Electronic Albums . Stirling's second album Shatter Me won Top Dance/Electronic Album at
462-518: A guest appearance on the October 15, 2018, episode, dancing a "trio dance" with Bobby Bones and Sharna Burgess . Later that month, Stirling appeared in an episode of the first series of The Outpost , playing the character Pock. In November, Stirling was on the cover of French lifestyle publication, Grumpy Magazine. She would also release a video for " You're a Mean One Mr Grinch " featuring Sabrina Carpenter, originally from her 2017 album Warmer in
539-465: A knee injury during a rehearsal for a group dance. Stirling's performance in week 4 of the competition was in memory of her father, Stephen, who died in January of that year from cancer. Professional dance partner Ballas wore a hat and scarf of Stirling's father for the performance. Stirling and Ballas finished in second place, averaging a score of 27.1, and secured 5 perfect score performances across
616-578: A live-chat, Stirling explained, "It is very unnatural to dance while playing the violin. I had to practice so hard to learn how to do it, but now it is part of my expression and it comes naturally. I have to know a song perfectly before I can even begin to move. Once I know a song really well, I can then have fun dancing." Dancing made a huge impact not only in her performances, but also with her music: "I loved dance music so I started with that and wrote 'Transcendence', 'Electric Daisy', and 'Spontaneous Me'." Stirling's performances were dubbed "electrifying" by
693-536: A new music video " The Arena " to her main channel. Brave Enough debuted at number one on the US Dance/Electronic Albums chart and peaked at number 5 on the Billboard 200. Stirling released an exclusive track "Firefly" with Brave Enough via Pledge Music , with Stirling on vocals. The song would later be used in the movie Barbie: Star Light Adventure . In August 2016, Stirling released
770-623: A single in June. Stirling toured with the band in the U.S. during that summer. Stirling also appeared at the Yamaha All-Star Concert in Anaheim in January 2018. Stirling collaborated with Alexander Jean on the song "Deeper" released in mid-2018. This made a re-connection between Stirling and her DWTS partner Mark Ballas. In late 2018, Stirling made a number of television appearances. She returned to Dancing With The Stars, for
847-520: A single version and video of her song " Love's Just a Feeling " featuring Rooty . Later in the year Stirling and Rooty would perform the song on Live with Kelly and Ryan . Bebe Rexha sampled "First Light" from Brave Enough and credited Lindsey Stirling in the song Small Doses as violinist on her EP All Your Fault: Pt. 1 released in February. In April, following her performance in London for
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#1732790848408924-682: A song with singer Jessie J for J's upcoming album Sweet Talker . On September 14, it was announced that Stirling would join a YouTube marketing campaign for a new selection of Lindt chocolate candy bars. On September 29, Stirling announced she would be joining tenor Andrea Bocelli for his UK and Ireland Tour in November 2014. On October 4, Stirling started the European leg of her second world tour in Finland, in support of her album Shatter Me . On November 24, Stirling extended her tour to
1001-553: A special Holiday Edition picture disc vinyl. The record featured images of Stirling from her Warmer in the Winter photoshoot imprinted onto the vinyl record itself. The dual-sided single had two tracks - You're A Mean One Mr. Grinch and Dance Of the Sugar Plum Fairy . It was limited to 2350 copies. In 2018, she appeared on the track "Hi-Lo", the third track of Evanescence 's fourth studio album Synthesis released as
1078-462: A week", her parents persisted, and at the age of five, she began taking violin lessons. Living in Gilbert, Arizona , Stirling attended Greenfield Junior High, and at age sixteen, Stirling attended Mesquite High School and joined four friends in a rock band called Stomp on Melvin. As part of her experience with the group, Stirling wrote a solo violin rock song, and her performance helped her to win
1155-567: Is an American violinist, songwriter and dancer. She presents choreographed violin performances, in live and music videos found on her official YouTube channel, which she created in 2007. Stirling performs a variety of music styles, from classical to pop and rock to electronic dance music . Aside from original work, her discography contains covers of works by other musicians such as Johann Sebastian Bach , Ludwig van Beethoven , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , and Antonio Vivaldi and various soundtracks. Her music video "Crystallize" finished as
1232-494: Is because a frequent criticism was that being the YouTube Music Awards, homegrown YouTube musicians should have been more frequently nominated than they were. The Los Angeles Times stated, "He is hardly a YouTube sensation in the traditional sense. He's more of an MTV kind of guy. Shouldn't YouTube try harder to honor its own?", referring to Eminem and his victory at the YTMAs. Attendee and performer Tyler,
1309-471: Is kind of a fulfillment – it's funny to say, but this is something I've always wanted to do." In 2010, at the age of 23, Stirling was a quarter-finalist on season five of America's Got Talent , where she was described as a " hip hop violinist". She impressed the judges not only by mixing hip-hop, pop, and classical music on the violin, but by incorporating dancing with playing the violin, which she also does on her tours and official music videos. On
1386-690: Is no room in showbiz for a dancing violinist — well then, by all means, pull out your eye patch, my friend, and take to the high seas. In January 2016, Stirling's autobiography was released and later reached tenth place on The New York Times hardcover nonfiction best-seller list. Three days later, a collaboration between Stirling and the Swedish DJ/producer Otto Knows was released under the title "Dying for You", with its video premiering on February 1. In June 2016, Stirling announced her new studio album Brave Enough , set for release on August 19, 2016. Shortly after, she uploaded
1463-531: Is not enough to fill a theater in Vegas." In her blog, Stirling confided: "I was devastated at the results ... It was painful, and a bit humiliating; however, I had to relearn where it was that I drew my strength." Stirling decided to continue to embrace her unique style of performance, promoting herself on the Internet. In a 2012 interview she remarked: "A lot of people have told me along the way that my style and
1540-964: Is the main repository for her music videos. Throughout 2011, the channel rapidly gained popularity and has since reached over 3 billion total views and over 12 million subscribers, as of November 2018 . Stirling has experimented in combining violin playing with hip hop and dubstep . Stirling's collaborations with other musicians and singers have included Amy Lee (Evanescence) ( Love Goes On And On ), Shaun Barrowes ("Don't Carry It All" – The Decemberists ), Jake Bruene and Frank Sacramone ("Party Rock Anthem" – LMFAO ), Tay Zonday ("Mama Economy"), Peter Hollens ("Skyrim", "A Thousand Years", "Game of Thrones" and "Star Wars"), Lzzy Hale ("Shatter Me"), Alisha Popat ("We Found Love"), John Allred ("Tomb"), Amiee Proal ("A Thousand Years"), Megan Nicole ("Starships"), The Piano Guys ("Mission Impossible"), Debi Richards (née Johanson) ("River Flows in You", "Phantom of
1617-495: The 2015 Billboard Music Awards . Stirling is the middle child of three daughters of Stephen and Diane Stirling. Stirling describes her childhood as being raised in a modest household and stated "I would not trade my humble childhood years for anything else." Due to her family's financial limitations, her parents could only afford to find a violin teacher who would give her half lessons. Although they were told by instructors that "a child isn't going to learn how to play in 15 minutes
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#17327908484081694-764: The Greek goddess Artemis , and drew parallels to her own experiences and challenges. The first single released from the album was " Underground ". It was a joint audio and music video release. On the same day, Stirling announced her Artemis Tour . The tour began in Mexico and Europe in 2019, but was postponed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The tour returned in North America in 2021, however tour dates in Australia, Russia and Ukraine were later canceled. Alongside
1771-472: The Los Angeles Rams at Levi's Stadium . September also marked the release of three special editions of Brave Enough. All released exclusively on vinyl, there was a red swirl disc edition, a Barnes & Noble exclusive featuring the bonus track "Activate" and an Urban Outfitters edition limited to 500 copies with an autographed postcard from Stiring enclosed. Stirling was also featured on
1848-527: The Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Stirling performed as part of a line up with Julia Michaels and Noah Cyrus The following month, a documentary called Lindsey Stirling: Brave Enough was released as paid content via YouTube. The documentary was filmed during Stirling's Brave Enough Tour and featured concert footage, interviews and personal footage. In the same month, Stirling
1925-710: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir at the 21,000-seat LDS Conference Center in Salt Lake City, UT for their annual Pioneer Day concert where she performed Scotland the Brave and Simple Gifts . Stirling also announced her first tour dates in Australia, South Korea and Japan. Stirling's YouTube channel reached three million subscribers on August 31 and on September 4, after almost a year of touring, she completed her first world tour with her last appearance in London. On September 12, Stirling performed at
2002-537: The Warmer in the Winter Christmas Tour across 26 dates in North America. This was her third holiday-themed tour based around the album " Warmer in the Winter ". During the tour, her video for "We Three Gentlemen" was released. Stirling was featured on the cover of Guitar Girl Magazine for their Winter 2019 issue. In November, Stirling's collaboration with Switchfoot on the song Voices was released. It
2079-579: The 17 dances. In early October 2017, a Bollywood themed music video for the song "Mirage" was released featuring Raja Kumari . Later that month, Stirling released her fourth studio album " Warmer in the Winter " , a holiday themed record. The album features Becky G , Trombone Shorty , Alex Gaskarth of All Time Low , and Sabrina Carpenter . The album opened at #32 on the Billboard 200 , selling 15,000 copies, making her fourth Top 40 album. In November, Stirling went on her North American " Warmer in
2156-603: The Brave Enough Tour, Stirling gave an interview and live performance on BBC's The One Show in the UK. On the same trip, Stirling also appeared on BBC Radio 2 . For Record Store Day 2017, Stirling released a limited edition vinyl copy of Brave Enough. The gatefold was signed by Stirling and limited to 650 copies worldwide. Later that month, she would perform at the Radio Disney Music Awards at
2233-456: The Creator , was also critical of the awards, noting the mainstream artist presence rather than independent YouTube musicians. Yahoo! News stated, "The 90-minute affair may have split the Internet audience down the middle, judging by comments posted on Twitter, in which some people complained of censorship, when the show's live stream stopped several times." YouTube disabling comments on
2310-537: The Dreamball 2013 charity gala at Ritz Carlton in Berlin, Germany . Two weeks later, Stirling announced on her website that she had started making her second album. In October 2013, Stirling announced that she would take part in season three of Dance Showdown , a dance competition web series created by DanceOn in which the winner is awarded US$ 50,000. Stirling was the second of three finalists, but she did not win
2387-801: The El Plaza Condesa in Mexico City , her first concerts in Latin America. In 2014, Stirling was nominated for the Echo music award in two categories: Crossover National/International and Newcomer International, receiving the Crossover National/International award on March 28. On March 12, 2014, Stirling posted a video announcing her second studio album, Shatter Me , would be released in May. She also created
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2464-612: The Opera"), Sam Tsui ("Heads Up"), Tyler Ward ("I Knew You Were Trouble", Thrift Shop", "Some Kind of Beautiful"), Kurt Hugo Schneider ("Pokémon Dubstep Remix" and "A Thousand Years"), John Legend ("All of Me"), Chester See ("I Knew You Were Trouble"), and Pentatonix ("Radioactive", "Papaoutai", “Over the River”). She has also collaborated with the Salt Lake Pops orchestra and Alex Boye . Stirling's eponymous debut album
2541-689: The Top 5 in Sweden and Germany and number one in Austria. On May 18, Stirling appeared on the Billboard Music Awards where her debut album had been nominated in the category "Top Electronic/Dance Album". Stirling performed her first single "Beyond the Veil" during the ceremony. On May 13, 2014, Stirling performed in San Diego , the first show of her second world tour which totalled 77 shows, 48 in North America and 29 in Europe. This world tour
2618-487: The Winter Tour " celebrating the new album. The following October, Stirling released a Deluxe version of "Warmer in the Winter" which featured five additional tracks. In addition, a music video for "I Wonder as I Wander" was released. Stirling commenced her Wanderland Tour celebrating the festive album across 24 dates in North America. In November 2018 for Record Store Day's Black Friday event, Stirling released
2695-513: The Winter. In December, Stirling was a guest on Darci Lynne : My Hometown Christmas . In an interview later that month, Stirling revealed in an exclusive interview with the Huffington Post , that she was invited to join the first season of America's Got Talent: The Champions but declined. On June 21, 2019, Stirling announced that her fifth album, Artemis would be launching later that year. Stirling said that she had been inspired by
2772-494: The Year recognizes creative video innovations with the most views, likes, shares and comments. [REDACTED] DeStorm – "See Me Standing" The show was documented for being unusual compared to other award shows, as well as having moments of awkward pauses and brief technical difficulties. Eminem's victory of Artist of the Year was, perhaps, the pinnacle of the feeling that the YouTube Music Awards' nominees were puzzling. This
2849-430: The Year recognizes the best fan remixes, covers or parodies, based on views, likes, shares, and comments. [REDACTED] Lindsey Stirling and Pentatonix – " Radioactive " Recognizing the songs that generated the most fan videos. [REDACTED] " I Knew You Were Trouble " Recognizing the artists with the greatest growth in views and subscribers. [REDACTED] Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Innovation of
2926-585: The age of thirty. On the same day Billboard announced that Shatter Me and Lindsey Stirling had reached the first and second positions as the best-selling dance-electronic albums in 2014. On February 7, 2015, Stirling performed at the Grammy Foundation's 17th annual Legacy Concert. A few days later, Stirling announced that public television would be airing her shows from London under the name Lindsey Stirling: Live from London , starting in March. It
3003-459: The album launch, it was revealed Stirling would be releasing a six-part comic book series under the title Artemis. In July 2019, Stirling performed The Upside , a single from the album, at PBS's A Capitol Fourth celebration. Later the song was re-released with vocals by Elle King , along with a music video and a television performance on Live with Kelly and Ryan . In November 2019, Stirling reprised her holiday-themed tours, embarking on
3080-549: The beginning of 2014, Stirling's self-titled album hit gold in Poland, received its first platinum certification in Germany and later on in Austria. Stirling received her first RIAA gold certification on February 4 for her hit single "Crystallize". On February 26, Stirling released her debut album in France which entered the charts at number 17 selling 4,900 copies in its first week. On March 5, Stirling performed three concerts at
3157-467: The course of two and a half years, she had written an autobiography, The Only Pirate at the Party , to be published by Gallery Books . Co-authored by Brooke S. Passey, Stirling's sister, the book was released on January 12, 2016, and was listed at #10 on The New York Times hardcover nonfiction best-seller list for January 31, 2016. The book's title came from Stirling's diagnosis of cross-dominance in
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3234-502: The cover of fashion & lifestyle magazine Bello for their Summer edition. In October 2016, Stirling launched a music video for the single "Prism", featuring herself as five clones named "The Violindseys". The same month, Stirling was featured on the cover of Strings Magazine. The following month, Stirling released the single Hold My Heart featuring ZZ Ward along with an Alice in Wonderland themed video. A second video
3311-676: The eighth-most watched video of 2012 on YouTube, and her cover version of " Radioactive " with Pentatonix won Response of the Year in the first YouTube Music Awards in 2013. Stirling achieved one million singles sold worldwide by August 2014. As of May 10, 2023, her Lindseystomp YouTube channel exceeded 13 million subscribers and over 3 billion total views. Stirling has been named in Forbes magazine's 30 Under 30 in Music: The Class of 2015. Forbes notes her quarter-finalist position on America's Got Talent season five in 2010,
3388-771: The fifty thousand dollars despite receiving critical acclaim on her three performances with her partner Anze Skrube. One of the three judges, Laurieann Gibson , classified her second performance as "one of the best" in Dance Showdown and the last one as the best she had ever seen. Almost a year after its official release, Stirling's self-titled studio album was re-released on October 29, 2013, as an exclusive deluxe version featuring newly recorded versions and remixes of her best-known songs such as "Crystallize", "Elements", and "Transcendence". Target carried four bonus tracks while all other retailers had two additional tracks. Stirling sold 10,000 copies of her extended-version album in
3465-461: The final stats results on the votes. Girls' Generation won the Video of the Year with " I Got a Boy ". Video of the Year recognizes the video with most fan engagement based on views, likes, shares, and comments. [REDACTED] Girls' Generation — " I Got a Boy " Artist of the Year recognizes the most watched, shared, liked, and subscribed-to artists. [REDACTED] Eminem Response of
3542-516: The first tour dates in Canada and U.S. on her 2014 World Tour; some pre-sales were sold out after the first day and the first concert to be sold out was in Portland, Oregon , on January 29. Stirling appeared on several Billboard 2013 year-end charts; notably, No. 3 on Classical Album Artists, No. 2 on Classical Albums, and No. 3 on Dance/Electronic Albums (both for Lindsey Stirling ). At
3619-417: The first week, a record for her, and her album surged from No. 79 to No. 23, its peak position in the Billboard 200 . Days earlier, she had performed on Conan on October 24. On November 3, 2013, Stirling and Pentatonix's version of " Radioactive " won a YouTube Music Award in the category Response of the Year. Stirling also performed during the live-streamed event. On December 16, Stirling announced
3696-531: The form of music videos from music industry stars such as Lady Gaga , Eminem , Arcade Fire , and Avicii . The award show was live streamed on YouTube's official channel. with Walk of the Earth: On Monday, October 21, 2013, YouTube announced the nominees for the six categories of its inaugural music award show. The nominees are based on video views, likes, comments, and subscriptions since September 2012. However, YouTube has not yet published
3773-416: The judges, and won the acclaim of the audience, but after she attempted to step up the dance level in her quarter-final performance, judge Piers Morgan buzzed her. He told her: "You're not untalented, but you're not good enough, I don't think, to get away with flying through the air and trying to play the violin at the same time." Sharon Osbourne commented: "You need to be in a group. ... What you're doing
3850-619: The latter category, her first Billboard Music Award. On May 4, a single from Marina Kaye'e Fearless album was released under the title "Sounds Like Heaven", featuring Stirling. A day later a collaboration between Stirling and Joy Enriquez was released on iTunes. On July 1, during an interview by Billboard in New York, Stirling said that when her tour finished in August she would begin work on her third studio album: "As soon as we finish this tour, mid-August, I'm just gonna jump straight into
3927-642: The music I do ... is unmarketable. But the only reason I'm successful is because I have stayed true to myself." Shortly after her performance on America's Got Talent , cinematographer Devin Graham contacted her in hopes of collaborating on a YouTube video. They agreed to shoot a music video for her song, "Spontaneous Me", that was filmed the week of May 9, 2011. The video boosted Stirling's popularity, and she began making music videos regularly for her YouTube channel. Stirling's channel, Lindseystomp, which she created in 2007 and named after her first band Stomp on Melvin,
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#17327908484084004-503: The music video for "Take Flight". On March 26, Stirling participated in the 2015 Echo Music Awards , winning the category of "Best Crossover Act" for the second consecutive year. Stirling also performed at the Echo Awards with artist Andreas Bourani . On April 7, the 2015 Billboard Music Awards nominated Stirling in two categories: Top Dance/Electronic Artist and Top Dance/Electronic Album, for her album Shatter Me . Stirling won
4081-738: The next month, she earned golden certifications from Switzerland and Austria. On August 2, 2013, Billboard announced that Stirling's studio album had sold more than 158,000 copies in the United States and that she was the second best-selling artist on the Classical Crossover charts in 2013, behind Andrea Bocelli 's album Passione . In June 2013, she performed at the Miss Switzerland pageant, and in July, she joined Nathan Pacheco , The Orchestra at Temple Square and
4158-440: The nominees, such as Epic Rap Battles of History and Eminem promoted their videos, in hopes they would win. Innovation of the Year nominee, DeStorm Power , also made a video asking his fans to vote for him stating, "Let's bring one home, and keep it in the family," referring to the fact that he is considered a homegrown YouTube musician. Kia served as the event's main sponsor. The award show featured live performances in
4235-551: The numbers, automatically you could see this girl knew how to move the needle and understood YouTube was a venue to engage fans both online and offline," Carter said. Stirling, who had previously refused to work with other management companies explained her new deal with Carter: "But with Atom Factory, they were up to date on current things and trying new stuff all the time, and I felt so creatively alive when I met with them." On June 21, Stirling received her first golden certification for her album, Lindsey Stirling , in Germany and in
4312-577: The same month, Stirling played the National Anthem before the start of an Arizona Diamondbacks game at Chase Field . In late December 2015, Stirling earned her first US Billboard Hot 100 entry with "Hallelujah" debuting at number 81 on the issue dated January 9, 2016, and peaking at number one on the Hot Christian Songs Chart, being her first single in doing so as well. Stirling had announced in June 2015 that over
4389-472: The second grade, for which an eye patch was prescribed. She was uncomfortable with the treatment until she began pretending she was a pirate. Stirling became intrigued by the pirate lifestyle, and said: Pirates don't take orders or ask permission,... They do what they want. Allow me to clarify. If your mom asks you to do the dishes, do not pull out your pirate attitude. But if someone tells you you're not good enough, says your dreams are too lofty, or claims there
4466-607: The song " Artemis " at the Kennedy Space Center . The song shares a name with the NASA Artemis program which has the goal to return humans to the moon in 2024, including the first woman. As part of the "Artemis" album, Stirling would release a number of music videos for tracks not released as singles that matched the storyline of the album. In June 2020, the video for "Between Twilight" was released featuring professional dancer Derek Hough . The video storyline
4543-552: The song " Something Wild " which she wrote for the Disney movie, Pete's Dragon . The song played over the end credits and both Brave Enough and the movie soundtrack. Stirling appeared on several television shows in August to promote her new album, including The Today Show and ZDF's Morgenmagazin in Germany , performing The Arena live. During the same month, Stirling performed at the opening ceremony of The International 2016 ,
4620-665: The state title of Arizona's Junior Miss and claim the Spirit Award in the America's Junior Miss Finals competition. Stirling was also a member of Charley Jenkins Band for about a year. From a young age, Stirling had a fascination for dance and desired to take both dancing and violin lessons. In an interview with NewMediaRockstars , she said, "...ever since I was a kid, I've always wished that I could dance, but my parents said, 'You [can] choose violin or you [can] choose dance, but we can't afford both', and I chose violin. So this
4697-405: The studio, it's pretty exciting and it's also terrifying to start thinking about a new album again. But I'm honestly so excited to see where it goes. I have a lot of ideas on directions it could go, and I'm really excited to see which way it could go. But the truth is, I don't know where it's going!" In its July 22 issue, Variety magazine ranked Stirling eleventh on its Digital Star Ranking, of
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#17327908484084774-523: The top twelve stars in the digital world. It was estimated that Stirling's annual ad income was $ 364,000. On August 8, 2015, Stirling released her first video album " Lindsey Stirling: Live from London ", which included part of her Music Box Tour . The album reached the top ten of the German album charts , for the third consecutive time. It also reached the top position on the German music DVD charts. In
4851-568: The video of the award show was also heavily criticized by fans. Additionally, Girls' Generation , the Video of the Year's winner, received a considerable amount of negative backlash on Twitter from fans of the other candidates. Another winner, DeStorm, had his name mispronounced by hosts as he accepted his award. This was used as an example in a common criticism of the ceremony, which was that YouTube pushed its own content creators aside in favor of more traditional celebrities. Lindsey Stirling Lindsey Stirling (born September 21, 1986)
4928-585: The videos. 2013 YouTube Music Awards The 2013 YouTube Music Awards , abbreviated as the YTMA , was the inaugural music award show presented by YouTube . The inaugural award show was held on November 3, 2013, streamed live from Pier 36 in New York City , with additional shows in Seoul, Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, and London. Unlike other award shows, the winners were entirely voted on by fans. The show
5005-608: The year (119,000), behind only Daft Punk 's Random Access Memories and Lady Gaga's Artpop . In the same chart, Stirling's debut studio album held sixth place with 108,000 copies sold in the first half of 2014. On July 27 Stirling's hit single "Crystallize" became her first music video to mark 100 million views. Six days later, on August 2, Stirling posted on her Twitter account that she had been nominated for her first ever Teen Choice award . On August 6, Stirling returned after four years to America's Got Talent to perform with Lzzy Hale their single "Shatter Me". In August, it
5082-502: The year of 2015 by adding dates in North America and Oceania . That same day Stirling performed on The Today Show to promote her album by performing " Roundtable Rival ". On December 5, Stirling performed at the Video Game Awards. On the 2014 Year-End Billboard Charts , Stirling peaked in the categories of Classical Albums with Shatter Me and Classical Album Artists. Her second studio album also appeared tenth in
5159-614: The year-end charts of independent albums and fourth in Dance/Electronic Albums. Stirling had the second position in the Dance/Electronic Album Artists and fifth in the charts of independent artist and Top dance/electronic artists. On January 9, 2015, Stirling was featured on the Forbes list '30 Under 30' as one of the few musicians featured in the top thirty of recognized celebrities under
5236-444: Was directed by Spike Jonze . "None of us have done anything live before or an awards show – in a way we're all like amateurs on YouTube ourselves, making our first video. So even if it's messy, it'll be live," Jonze admitted to Billboard.com . On September 30, 2013, YouTube uploaded Announcing the first-ever YouTube Music Awards , on its own channel. The video revealed that the award show would be presented by Kia . Several of
5313-449: Was featured in digital fashion and lifestyle magazine, Phoenix. In September 2017, Stirling was announced as one of the celebrities to compete on season 25 of Dancing with the Stars . She was paired with professional dancer Mark Ballas . During the course of the show, Stirling had two serious injuries that nearly ruled her out of the competition. First suffering a blunt rib injury and possible separation during training and later
5390-403: Was in support of her new album Shatter Me . The crew consisted of Jason Gaviati and Drew Steen (who had been part of her First World Tour) plus two new dancers: Stephen Jones and Pter Styles and choreographer Anže Škrube. On July 2, Billboard reported that Stirling's second studio album Shatter Me had been the third dance/electronic album to have its highest sales in the first half of
5467-478: Was later added that the shows would also air in the U.S. On March 2, it was announced that Stirling had won a YouTube Music Award among other forty-nine artists. The fifty selected artists were the ones with biggest growth in views, subscribers and engagement over the last six months. This is Stirling's second YouTube Music Award. On March 23, the 2015 YouTube Music Awards were broadcast online, with thirteen artists releasing original music videos. Stirling released
5544-471: Was later released in collaboration with HP , featuring Stirling playing both herself and her alter-ego super fan Phelba. Stirling was one of the first artists to record for the newly launched Spotify Singles . Stirling recorded two acoustic tracks at Spotify Studios in New York City , her single, Something Wild and a cover of 7 Years by Lukas Graham. They were premiered on the streaming service on November 30, 2016. Stirling began 2017 by launching
5621-463: Was released on April 8. On April 23, 2014, Stirling released the second single from her upcoming album: "Shatter Me". The song, the album's title track, accumulated 1.3 million views on its first day online. The album was released in the U.S. on April 29 and in Europe on May 2. In the U.S., the album sold 56,000 copies in its first week and reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200, becoming Stirling's biggest sales week ever. In Europe, Shatter Me reached
5698-460: Was released on September 18, 2012, in conjunction with a North American tour that same month. In December 2012, YouTube announced that Stirling's song, " Crystallize ", was the No. 8 most viewed video of 2012 with over 42 million views. On April 22, 2013, it was announced that Lady Gaga 's manager ( Troy Carter ) signed a deal with Stirling after being impressed by her rise in the media. "By looking at
5775-402: Was revealed that Stirling would be part of two collaborations. The first one was revealed on August 13, and was about Stirling collaborating for a second time with the a cappella group Pentatonix for their third studio album PTX, Vol. III on the song " Papaoutai ", by Stromae . The second collaboration was revealed nine days later, on August 22, when it was announced Stirling had recorded
5852-480: Was scheduled for 90 minutes. Fans voted in each category by sharing specific links from the Youtube.com/YTMA on either their Facebook , Google+ or Twitter accounts or by video views for nominees. The video with the most views, shares, comments, and/or likes in each category was determined the winner. Artist of the Year was won by Eminem and Video of the Year was won by Girls' Generation for their video " I Got
5929-626: Was the lead single from their album Native Tongue . Across 2019, a number of Stirling's songs would be used on television and movie soundtracks. "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" in The Knight Before Christmas , "The Phoenix" in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and the "Phantom of the Opera" medley in The Umbrella Academy . In March 2020, NASA released a video of Stirling performing
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