World of Warcraft is a record-breaking MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game), with over 8.5 million subscribers, according to a recent press release from the publisher, Blizzard Entert
ainment. There are many creative and talented individuals in this community, and they have produced a wide variety of works celebrating this juggernaut of a game. In fact, so many creations have been produced that a person could spend days looking at them and still only scratch the surface of what the World of Warcraft fan community has to offer.
Video is a creative outlet that is becoming increasingly popular with not only fans of World of Warcraft, but also everyone across the Internet who has an interest in expressing themselves to the wide audience that is the World Wide Web. This is demonstrated quite effectively by the overwhelming success of YouTube - a website where anyone can upload a video they have created and share it with the world.
World of Warcraft videos abound on YouTube. Typing 'world of warcraft' into the search function came up with over one hundred thousand hits. Yes, you read that right one hundred thousand. Granted, some of these will be repeats, but it is still an overwhelming number of videos. They come in all varieties; people talking about WoW (shorthand for World of Warcraft), videos of guild raids, PvP battles, machinima movies, music videos, and everything in between.
To keep things simple, this article focuses on one particularly delightful form of video - the music video. For the purposes of this list, a music video is any World of Warcraft video set to music. While the research for this article was not completely exhaustive - as previously mentioned it would take days, weeks, or even months to view every video out there - it does represent some of the best World of Warcraft-based music videos available on YouTube as of this writing.
So, without further ado: The Top 10 World of Warcraft Music Videos are...
10) Horde Does Not Want Paladins
Video is a creative outlet that is becoming increasingly popular with not only fans of World of Warcraft, but also everyone across the Internet who has an interest in expressing themselves to the wide audience that is the World Wide Web. This is demonstrated quite effectively by the overwhelming success of YouTube - a website where anyone can upload a video they have created and share it with the world.
World of Warcraft videos abound on YouTube. Typing 'world of warcraft' into the search function came up with over one hundred thousand hits. Yes, you read that right one hundred thousand. Granted, some of these will be repeats, but it is still an overwhelming number of videos. They come in all varieties; people talking about WoW (shorthand for World of Warcraft), videos of guild raids, PvP battles, machinima movies, music videos, and everything in between.
To keep things simple, this article focuses on one particularly delightful form of video - the music video. For the purposes of this list, a music video is any World of Warcraft video set to music. While the research for this article was not completely exhaustive - as previously mentioned it would take days, weeks, or even months to view every video out there - it does represent some of the best World of Warcraft-based music videos available on YouTube as of this writing.
So, without further ado: The Top 10 World of Warcraft Music Videos are...
10) Horde Does Not Want Paladins
