Jake Wood: Salsa = 14,548

Alison Hammond: Foxtrot = 2,309
Frankie Bridge: Charleston = 2,056

Pixie Lott: Waltz = 1,789
Caroline Flack: Tango = 1,671
Thom Evans: Salsa = 1,378
Simon Webbe: Tango = 1,054
Gregg Wallace: Charleson = 1,007

Mark Wright: American Smooth = 956
Jenny Gibney: Waltz = 911
Steve Backshall: Cha Cha = 813
Scott Mills: Tango = 733
Judy Murray: Cha Cha = 657
Sunetra Sarker: Cha Cha = 685
Tim Wonnacott: Waltz = 425


https://www.youtube.com/user/bbcstrictly/videos

We need a press campaign for Sunetra, she definitely deserves more views for her Cha-Cha, I thought it was a fair bit undermarked.

Jake's Salsa is already approaching 19k views.

For comparison - Sophie's Charleston had 24k after 36 hours, so he's definitely on track to beat that.

And here's how the first week dances look one week on:

Pixie & Trent's Jive - 60,499
Jake & Janette's Tango - 54,720
Caroline & Pasha's Cha-Cha-Cha - 41,246
Frankie & Kevin's Waltz - 31,237
Scott & Joanne's Cha-Cha-Cha - 25,583
Alison & Aljaz's Cha-Cha-Cha - 23,094
Mark & Iveta's Cha-Cha-Cha - 20,785
Simon & Kristina's Jive - 16,729
Gregg & Aliona's Cha-Cha-Cha - 13,717
Jennifer & Tristan's Jive - 12,953
Judy & Anton's Waltz - 10,771
Steve & Ola's Tango - 10,528
Tim & Natalie's Cha-Cha-Cha - 8,504
Thom & Iveta's Waltz - 8,300
Sunetra & Brendan's Tango - 5,594

Facebook likes:

Jake - 19.812

Alison - 8.375
Pixie - 7.119

Frankie - 5.939
Sunetra - 4.933
Mark - 4.878
Caroline - 4.690
Thom - 4.309
Simon - 3.948

Steve - 2.994
Tim - 2.782
Gregg - 2.478
Jennifer - 2.421

Judy - 1.820
Scott - 1.651

Outside of the banner number of Jake's performance, Alison has done very well to get that high up with a poorly-marked foxtrot buried in the middle of the show. What sort of figures was Lisa pulling for her ballroom/side by side jazz hands fests?

Jake and alison the only two dances i've re watched, so i seem to be on trend

Jake is now on 32k views after 15 hours, well over 26k clear of anyone else.

WOW Jake is now 39,526 after 17 hours, almost 34K ahead of Alison in 2nd place

Current state of play for week 2:

Jake & Janette - 45,551
Alison & Aljaz - 6,759
Frankie & Kevin - 5,633
Pixie & Trent - 5,062
Caroline & Pasha - 4,126
Thom & Iveta - 3,387
Gregg & Aliona - 2,686
Mark & Karen - 2,665
Simon & Kristina - 2,541
Jennifer & Tristan - 2,217
Scott & Joanne - 1,867
Steve & Ola - 1,796
Sunetra & Brendan - 1,685
Judy & Anton - 1,553
Tim & Natalie - 930

In terms of week 1 dances, Pixie and Jake have put on one or two thousand more views.

Current state of play for week 2:

Jake & Janette - 222,640
Frankie & Kevin - 23,913
Alison & Aljaz - 23,896
Pixie & Trent - 20,482
Caroline & Pasha - 19,958
Thom & Iveta - 13,744
Mark & Karen - 13,478
Judy & Anton - 11,030
Gregg & Aliona - 10,471
Sunetra & Brendan - 10,425
Scott & Joanne - 9,591
Simon & Kristina - 9,406
Steve & Ola - 8,945
Jennifer & Tristan - 6,238
Tim & Natalie - 4,094

Frankie has finally made the move on Alison, while Pixie & Caroline drift away even further. Jennifer takes a tumble, while Sunetra and Judy take a leap forwards.

Back sometime in the eighties, that height of automotive mediocrity,the Mk 111 escort, was the bestselling car in Britain.

A popular pastime and spectator sport involves hitting a ball with a stick.

I have long since ceased to be surprized by populist phenomena.

It's possible some of those views for J & J's salsa are people trying to figure out what all the fuss was about,but I suspect it's just proof the Chris Hollins effect is alive and well.

The usual suspects are leading the youtube hits this week, with Mark as the comedy routine also doing well.

Shame about the loop though, as it gives a false number of hits (if you play one vid from the BBC wall it automatically starts up the next one; saying I viewed something that I clearly didn't).


Anyway, I will leave the youtube hits to other people. My post is about the facebook likes from yesterday's show:


Frankie & Kevin - 9.676

Jake & Janette - 8.238
Sunetra & Brendan - 8.110

Caroline & Pasha - 6.548
Pixie & Trent - 6.307
Steve & Ola - 6.163
Alison & Aljaz - 6.045



Thom & Iveta - 3.570
Mark & Karen - 3.235

Simon & Kristina - 2.648
Jennifer & Tristan - 2.484
Tim & Natalie - 2.155
Judy & Anton- 1.984
Scott & Joanne- 1.709


Rising (on last week): Sunetra, Frankie, Caroline, Steve
Falling (on last week): Jake, Alison, Mark, Simon

Most surprising is probably the fact that Simon is on a bunch with the 4 worst dancers left in the competition and that some of the pretty men aren't doing that great either (surprisingly both Thom and Mark are currently doing worse then last week, yet they were both at the end of the show now and had memorable dances to booth).

Thanks for the link.
People watch for all kinds of reasons, i usually watch see it was really as bad/hilarious as I first thought it was. I rewatched Mark's superman and tried to decide if he was sending himself up or was oblivious of what a pratt he looked. For me, that was almost as bad as Scott's choreography.