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Zheleva dances higher in YouTube hits

Thu, Jan 14 2010 15:04 CET

byThe Sofia Echo Staff

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Zheleva dances higher in YouTube hits

Roumyana Zheleva has not yet – and may never – match the popularity of Bulgaria’s record YouTube hit "Ken Lee" but already the bathos of her performance at European Parliament hearings has overtaken the popularity of footage of her dancing on reality television.
 
Zheleva, Bulgaria’s controversial nominee for the next European Commission, appears in YouTube clips of an episode from the country’s VIP Dance show, so far drawing 2830 views.
 
But extracts from her performance at the European Parliament committee are doing much better. One, entitled simply "Rumiana Jeleva" had 13 224 hits by the afternoon of January 14 2010, less than 48 hours after the original show.
 
Recordings of the hearings turn up elsewhere – her post-hearing news conference has drawn 3160 views, a separate clip of the hearings had 531 views, another clip 720 views and an extract from a Bulgarian National Television report about the hearing had drawn 849 views.
 
Given the furore that has broken around her head, probably the least of her concerns is beating the Ken Lee clip, which by January 14 had more than 13.5 million hits.

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