The Norwegian duo on their top-selling children"s book and what else is next after the "tanked tuy vậy project" that drew 275 million YouTube views: "We"ll return to our office in Norway and still be happy."
Over the past few months, Ylvis has performed at the star-studded iHeartradio Festival, signed with a major label, appeared on U.S. Talk shows and landed a Simon & Schusterdeal brokered by CAA for the “joke” book. What Does the Fox Say?, featuring the song’s lyrics, was released Dec. 10 & has made Amazon’s đứng top 50 sales ranking. But the brothers cite receiving an award for international favorite artist at Hong Kong’s Mnet Asian Music Awards as their most memorable event.“The whole thing was so big, so for us, that was really crazy,” says Vegard, 34.Bạn vẫn xem: Steven lim
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The Norwegian comedy duo even started working on a book for the stunt. “We thought it would be funny if we had, like, a tanked tuy nhiên project & merchandise that was really well made,” explains Bard, 31. But the video clip of their tuy vậy quickly went viral on YouTube, racking up trăng tròn million views in a week. As of early December, the đoạn phim had more than 275 million views and was named YouTube’s top trending video clip of 2013.
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Over the past few months, Ylvis has performed at the star-studded iHeartRadio Festival, signed with a major label, appeared on U.S. Talk shows and landed a Simon & Schuster khuyến mãi brokered by CAA for the “joke” book. What Does the Fox Say?, featuring the song’s lyrics, was released Dec. 10 và has made Amazon’s top 50 sales ranking. But the brothers cite receiving an award for international favorite artist at Hong Kong’s Mnet Asian Music Awards as their most memorable event. “The whole thing was so big, so for us, that was really crazy,” says Vegard, 34.
Although Ylvis is amazed at the success they’ve had — and they did have lớn rewrite their talk-show script after their prank plan went awry — they’re thrilled by what’s happened. “This is lượt thích our big dream coming true,” says Bard. “This is what we have been working for for years.”
The brothers say they wouldn’t be upset if their stateside success is short-lived, noting they still have a career in Norway to lớn fall back on. “If you guys like what we vì in the future, that’s a good thing. If you don’t, we’ll return lớn our office in Norway & still be happy,” says Bard. “Everything’s a bonus. And we won’t be disappointed if we’re kicked out of the country.