ANDREW HUANG
SUBSCRIBERS: 750,000*
VIDEO VIEWS: 87 MILLION*
*All figures from mid-April, 2017
Andrew Huang strictly adheres to a schedule of releasing a video through his YouTube channel every Monday and Thursday. His output is a mixture of vlogs — often about music production and music theory — and videos with musical content that could range from original songs, to feats like rapping 300 words in 60 seconds, and his breakthrough novelty children’s song Pink Fluffy Unicorns Dancing On Rainbows. His ‘Song Challenges’ are also wildly popular, where Huang reconstructs 99 Luftballons entirely from samples made using red balloons, or limits himself to using the notes in CABBAGE to write a metal song… about cabbage, or makes a beat using samples harvested from beets.
Hailing from Ottawa, Ontario in Canada, where he was born in 1984, Huang started playing piano as a teenager and also developed a keen interest in music technology. He went on to study composition at York University in Toronto, but switched to a Fine Arts degree because it allowed him to take courses on a far wider variety of different musical topics. While still in his last year at University he hit on his first Big Idea, which was to sell his songwriting skills on Ebay to the highest bidders. Just two years later, in 2004, when he was still only 20, he turned this idea into a website called Songs To.
