Canon Rock (song)
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"Canon Rock" is a rock arrangement of Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D major by the Taiwanese musician and composer Jerry Chang (JerryC). The song became popular on the internet after a video of JerryC's playing the song was posted online. The rendition has been featured on newspapers, magazines, and television shows. Canon Rock has been covered many times on various internet communities such as YouTube and Google Video. The arrangement was composed within two weeks.
[edit] Covers
The most famous of the covers is by a South Korean guitarist named Jeong-Hyun Lim, who is more popularly known by his internet alias, "funtwo". funtwo's video is the fifth most viewed video in YouTube history with over 17,500,000 views, and counting, the second most viewed music video of all time, the first most discussed of all time, the second most favorited of all time and the 84th top rated video as of the 31st of March, 2007.
Some other notable covers include versions by Learz and MattRach. Various other guitarists have covered the song, and opinions vary as to which cover is best.
The 10 most popular covers of Canon rock are as follows. Links are given to the video with the most views.
As of April 2007
1.Jeong-Hyun Lim (funtwo) - 21,922,000 views
2.Jerry Chang (JerryC) - 5,405,000 views
3.Learz - 805,000 views
4.theshredda - 468,000 views
5.Matt Rach - 443,000 views
6.Nick B. - 372,000 views
7.Carl Fernandes - 192,000 views
8.Jeong-Hyun Lim (funtwo, first attempt) - 162,000 views
9.Matt Rach (original JerryC cover) - 154,000 views
10.Hellman - 144,000 views
(Results from Google Video and Youtube only. Only videos with 50,000+ views counted towards total view count and rounded towards the nearest thousand)
The song has even been covered on other instruments, such as the violin and piano. There have been covers using cell phones [1] as well. Covers of Canon Rock can be found on the unofficial JerryC Video listing [2].
