![]() ![]() With the ever-growing popularity of the music media major at BYU that pairs quality creative and marketing services within the music industry, these videos, yea, even these singing groups essentially become an entire enterprise. Looking back on their video uploads is like a time capsule for viral video trends and styles through the mid 2000s until now, showing not only that they have the right stuff to make a good tune, but that they know what it takes to appeal to an audience.That and their mechanism for distribution is getting highly…well…mechanized. Since then it seems they’ve been brewing a body of work and netting a loyal-and-growing audience of viewers on YouTube. ![]() Paving the way, in fact, for their male counterpart crooner colleagues, Vocal Point, Noteworthy showcased their chops on the vocal competition reality show, The Sing Off two years before Vocal Point memorably finished 5th. It doesn’t seem to be slowing down and by all accounts the notoriety seems both hard-earned and well deserved.Īs I said, I’m behind the times with most things, but you may be asking yourself, didn’t Noteworthy go on a reality competition show? Yes. Seriously, if you thought Vocal Point was all the rage when it comes to BYU a cappella singing, as of this writing, Noteworthy’s ‘Amazing Grace’ video is soaring past 36 million views. Now that the Pitch Perfect movies blew the lid off the a cappella culture, especially for women’s groups, it seems this a cappella troupe at BYU is taking the digital world by storm. It’s a far cry from a time not that long ago when you could hear the fledgling singing group practically beg for an audience with random performances at the flag pole and on the quad on BYU’s Provo campus. Seriously, with millions and millions (and MILLIONS!) of views on their impeccably polished YouTube videos-and a noticeable boost in quality from the days I was at BYU-my jaw dropped to the floor. ![]() (Don’t you judge me)-and my first thought was, woah, they sound pretty good. 5, 2016, at the Conference Center Theater during BYU's Winterfest and on April 9, 2016, at the Covey Center for the Arts in Provo.I know I’m behind the times with most things, but seeing Noteworthy, the all-female a cappella group at BYU, randomly come up on a YouTube autoplay list-you know, one of those endless auto lists that starts with something Disney, then somehow autoplays to the Piano Guys, Pentatonix, Lindsey Stirling, Mormon Messages, Meet the Mormons sequence, etc. The group will perform in Salt Lake City Feb. Noteworthy performs religious music along with pop, country, jazz, R&B, spiritual, and Broadway. "Well done would love to hear y'all sing Hallelujah." "Now I'm not religious but this right here makes me wanna go to church," Commenter Ken Bradley wrote on YouTube. The video features the women in the group wearing white dresses in the woods as they sing Chris Tomlins' original rendition with a new verse written by Keith Evans, Noteworthy's director.īYU Performing Arts Management said video viewers of faiths outside the LDS Church and nonreligious viewers commented that the video was "angelic," "beautiful," and "inspiring." 13, it has reached more than 1 million views on YouTube and has been featured as one of the top 10 of iTunes Christian and Gospel Songs, according to BYU Performing Arts Management. Since the Noteworthy cover was released Oct. PROVO - A Brigham Young University vocal group's cover of "Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)" has gained a lot of popularity across the Internet. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use.
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