the buzz log
Does Phenomenon Conjure Up Buzz?
Mentalist Criss Angel and psychic Uri Geller joined forces Wednesday in the debut performance of NBC's newest reality spectacle, "Phenomenon." The two entertainers play masters of the ceremony and judges as 10 contestants compete to prove themselves the "next great mentalist." Simon Cowell, eat your heart out.
TV Tracker dubbed the show's ratings "disappointing," but buzz revealed something else. After the episode aired, searches for the program flashed upwards 432%. Uri Geller, enemy to spoons everywhere, saw a 170% surge in Search. But the aging trickster lacks clanking neckwear, highlighted tresses, and any popularity with the kids. His buzz was nothing compared to his co-host's.
Driven almost entirely by females under the age of 17, lookups for the "mystifier" Angel, his pictures, and his solo show on A&E surged. Other queries—for his videos, his magic secrets, his MySpace pictures, and his biography—also picked up. Our favorite: "how to levitate like criss angel." Don't try that at home, girls.
One commenter on the NBC message boards predicted that the ratings will drop off after the first episode. Maybe the buzz will, too. But even if "Phenomenon" proves a bust, we have a hunch that Mr. Angel will always be in searchers' good graces.
Filed under: Magic, Criss Angel
We Can Do Magic
Walking on water. Floating above ground. Hypnotizing the masses. Back in the day, these acts either put you in the running for sainthood or made you a candidate to be burned at the stake. Nowadays, miracles of a lifetime have become staples of the magic trade.
In May, magician David Blaine had the whole world watching and searching online on his New York aquarium stunt. That was then, this is now: His sleight-of-hand rival Criss Angel, who just got the thumbs-up for a third season of his A&E show "Mindfreak," currently mesmerizes Buzz. Angel's omnipresence in cable's world of reality TV is beginning to make Blaine's buzz disappear.
As for what secrets people want revealed from these two tricksters, we pulled a couple of lists from up our sleeve. Behold!
Top Criss Angel Trick Searches
- Criss Angel Levitation
- Criss Angel Walk on Water
- Criss Angel Biography
- How Old Is Criss Angel
- Criss Angel Pull Apart Girl
- Criss Angel Hypnosis Flyer
- Criss Angel Blind Episode Video
- Card Trick, Name Written on Card, Criss Angel
- Criss Angel Sawing Himself in Half
- Criss Angel Building Walk Revealed
Top David Blaine Trick Searches
- Psychological Profile of David Blaine
- Project David Blaine
- David Blaine Card Trick
- How to Levitate Like David Blaine
- David Blaine Gossip
- David Blaine Beer Trick
- David Blaine Bird Trick
- David Blaine Anti-Christ
- David Blaine Effects of Being in Water for 7 Days
- David Blaine Dating
Filed under: David Blaine, Magic, Criss Angel
top movers
| Rank | Subject | 1-Day Move |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Worst Airports For Delays 2009 | Breakout! |
| 2 | How To Survive A Recession | Breakout! |
| 3 | Ice Cream Calorie Counter | Breakout! |
| 4 | Jayson Williams | Breakout! |
| 5 | Alexandra Kerry | Breakout! |
| 6 | Chaz Bono | 10707% |
| 7 | Kelly Osbourne | 3298% |
| 8 | Jennifer Hudson | 3218% |
| 9 | Nicole Richie | 2075% |
| 10 | Thierry Henry | 1125% |
top leaders
| Rank | Subject | Move | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black Friday | +413 | 1016 |
| 2 | Elizabeth Lambert | -677 | 263 |
| 3 | NFL | +66 | 235 |
| 4 | New Moon | +74 | 213 |
| 5 | Bing | +83 | 209 |
| 6 | Kelly Osbourne | +193 | 199 |
| 7 | Hulu | +7 | 139 |
| 8 | Nicole Richie | +124 | 130 |
what's the buzz?
A subject's buzz score is the percentage of Yahoo! users searching for that subject on a given day, multiplied by a constant to make the number easier to read. Weekly leaders are the subjects with the greatest average buzz score for a given week.
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