{"id":11636,"date":"2019-05-06T22:02:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T22:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/three-mistakes-in-the-article-about-srbuks-eurovision-song\/"},"modified":"2019-05-06T22:02:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T22:02:54","slug":"three-mistakes-in-the-article-about-srbuks-eurovision-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/verified\/2019\/05\/06\/11636\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Mistakes In The Article About Srbuk\u2019s \u201cEurovision\u201d Song"},"content":{"rendered":"

On May 2, several media outlets reported that Srbuk\u2019s video clip, representing Armenia at Eurovision, is \u201cthe second most watched Eurovision music video ever.\u201d The article, however, gives false information.<\/p>\n

The article, published by rusarminfo.ru<\/a>, on Shant TV company\u2019s website<\/a>, Haykakan Zhamanak<\/a> and a number of other media outlets announced that Armenia\u2019s video was the second most watched one and that the first was The Netherlands\u2019, and the third most-watched vieo was Sweden\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Journalist Alen Avagyan, who had been conducting research for his Master\u2019s thesis on Eurovision PR, noticed that the material was problematic.<\/p>\n

There are three claims in the article that either do not correspond to reality or which reflect something incomplete. However, the incorrect text has been republished word for word across a few websites.<\/p>\n

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Srbuk is the third not the second<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The article claims that Srbuhi Sargsyan\u2019s song is the second in the list of most widely watched.\u201d That is not so. The official YouTube channel of Eurovision, the Netherlands\u2019 representative with 6.37 million views is followed by Malta\u2019s performer with 6.2 million views<\/a>. Armenia is in third place with 4.6 million views.<\/p>\n

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The most-watched Eurovision song is an Italian performer<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The article points out that \u201cthe first place is taken by the Dutch representative\u2019s song Arcade with 6.3 million views.\u201d<\/p>\n

It should be taken into consideration that besides the Eurovision YouTube channel, clips are often posted separately in the official channels of singers.<\/p>\n

The Netherlands is only the first in the Eurovision Song Contest\u2019 official channel, and the Italian representative\u2019s music video in their channel (from the time that this article was written) has 76 million views<\/a>, about ten times more than Holland.<\/p>\n

Not one of the media outlets mentioned that the article about the \u201cMost Viewed Videos off Eurovision\u201d refers only to the YouTube content of the official channel.<\/p>\n

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Not Sweden but Switzerland<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Finally, the article argues that \u201cSweden\u2019s representative\u2019s She got Me was in the third place, with 3.04 million views.\u201d This song is performed not by the representative from Sweden but from Switzerland. And it isn\u2019t in the third place of the official channel of the competition.<\/p>\n

Karine Ghazaryan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On May 2, several media outlets reported that Srbuk\u2019s video clip, representing Armenia at Eurovision, is \u201cthe second most watched Eurovision music video ever.\u201d The article, however, gives false information. The article, published by rusarminfo.ru, on Shant TV company\u2019s website, Haykakan Zhamanak and a number of other media outlets announced that Armenia\u2019s video was the Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-verified","author_posts-karine-ghazaryan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}