A video of Ziggy Marley performing songs from her legendary father Bob on the rules on the latter’s Facebook page BillboardThe ranking of the best live videos on Facebook for July 2020.
The chart, the latest of which recaps activity for July 2020, is a monthly snapshot of the largest and most responsive videos posted by musicians on Facebook Live, as tracked by media analytics firm Shareablee. Rankings are determined by a formula that mixes reactions, comments, shares, and views from the first seven days.
Since its removal from Bob Marley’s page, the hour-long download, which was released on July 19, featured Ziggy Marley performing several songs, the latest in a series of tributes to Bob in 2020, during of which he would have been 75 years old.
The video tops the ranking of best live video on Facebook for July 2020 in two of its four measures: reactions (99,000) and views in the first seven days (9.4 million), according to Shareablee.
It is followed by a July 6 post from Ted Nugent, who reigned on the June 2020 list. The upload paid tribute to the late Charlie Daniels, who died that day at the age of 83.
As well as being one of five videos uploaded by musicians to surpass one million views on Facebook Live in July 2020 (Nugent and Marley were joined by music videos from Garth Brooks, Metallica and Carabao), Nugent’s music video was also the most shared video in July. 2020, with 22,000 shares.
See the full top 10 below.
10. Metallica
Since deleted; originally uploaded July 14 with the caption: “The #MetallicaMondays are back! Tune in tonight at 5:00 PM PDT / 8:00 PM EDT to watch the free and full performance of Metallica: Live at Shoreline – the July 22, 1994.
9. Metallica
Since deleted; originally uploaded on July 7 with the caption: “The #MetallicaMondays are back! Tune in tonight at 5:00 PM PDT / 8:00 PM EDT to watch the free and full performance of Metallica: Live in Lisbon – the June 28, 2007. ”
8. Miss Pooja
7. Luke Combs
6. Carabao
5. Metallica
Since deleted; originally uploaded July 21 with caption: “#MetallicaMondays is back with an Escape from the Studio ’06 tour concert celebrating 20 years of Master of Puppets!” Tune in tonight at 5:00 PM PDT / 8:00 PM EDT to watch the full free performance of Metallica: Live in Berlin – June 6, 2006, with “Master of Puppets” performed in its entirety. “
4. Garth Brooks
Since deleted; originally uploaded July 14 with caption “SHOWTIME !!! We mustache YOU to enjoy the show # GarthRequestLive2 love, g & TY “
3. Damares
2. Ted Nugent
1. Bob Marley
Since deleted; originally uploaded July 19 with caption: “Watch Ziggy Marley perform a special tribute set to # BobMarley75!”