YouTube Phenomenon Greyson Chance Gets Record Label

This week saw the rise to incredible fame of a 12-year-old boy who posted videos of himself singing and playing the piano on his own YouTube channel. He also included one which saw him cover Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi” at a school play and which now counts over 14 million hits, literally making of him the hottest commodity there is. As such, it’s no wonder a record label has already jumped at the chance of signing him.

As of now, nothing has yet been confirmed officially but, according to CrazedHits, citing inside sources who cannot reveal their identity in the press, Greyson Michael Chance is already a recording artist, in the sense that he’s been signed to a label. Before anyone else had the chance to approach him with an offer for a deal, Interscope jumped at the chance and, as the saying goes, made him an offer he could not refuse. Details of said deal are yet unknown though, if the report is accurate, more on it should surface in the following days.

“According to our sources, Interscope Records have signed 12-year old Greyson Chance, who has attracted over 13 million views on YouTube with his cover of Lady Gaga’s ‘Paparazzi.’ Our sources tell us that Interscope closed the deal before any other label could even step in and meet the kid,” the aforementioned music-oriented e-zine writes. If true, this would mean Greyson will soon release an album or even come out sooner with a single, so that the label capitalizes on his instant boost in popularity to the maximum, it is being said.

Also this week, only a day after he became the talk of the town and a YouTube VIP (of sorts) in terms of number of views per hour, Greyson was also invited on Ellen DeGeneres. Here, the 12-year-old 6th grader talked about how he received 3 years in piano lessons but literally no vocal training, which is truly an incredible thing given his deep and strong voice. He also revealed he sometimes wrote his own music, and that he already had two songs of his own: one about death and one about heartbreak.

Speaking of which, Greyson also said that, since his rise to international fame, he’d started to get more attention from girls. This is when Lady Gaga herself personally called in on the show to congratulate him for his amazing achievement and to tell him to continue pursuing his dreams – and a word of advice: forget about girls if you want to make it big, she said.