Bob’s son performed a set on his father’s official Facebook page to help commemorate his 75th birthday year.
A video of Ziggy Marley performing songs by his legendary father Bob on the latter’s Facebook page rules Billboard’s Top Facebook Live Videos chart for July 2020.
The chart, the latest of which recaps July 2020 activity, is a monthly look at the widest-reaching and most-reacted-to videos posted by musicians on Facebook Live, as tracked by media analytics company Shareablee. Rankings are determined by a formula that blends reactions, comments, shares and first-seven-days views.
Since removed from Bob Marley’s page, the hour-long upload, which was posted July 19, featured Ziggy Marley performing multiple songs, the latest in a series of tributes to Bob in 2020, during which he would have turned 75.
The video leads the July 2020 Top Facebook Live Videos chart in two of its four metrics: reactions (99,000) and first-seven-days views (9.4 million), according to Shareablee.
It’s followed by a July 6 post by Ted Nugent, who ruled the June 2020 list. The upload honored the late Charlie Daniels, who died that day at age 83.
In addition to being one of five musician-uploaded videos to break 1 million views on Facebook Live in July 2020 (Nugent and Marley were joined by clips from Garth Brooks, Metallica and Carabao), Nugent’s clip was also the most-shared video in July 2020, with 22,000 shares.
See the full top 10 below.
10. Metallica
Since removed; originally uploaded July 14 with the caption, “#MetallicaMondays are back! Tune in tonight at 5 PM PDT / 8 PM EDT to watch the free, full performance of Metallica: Live at Shoreline – July 22, 1994.”
9. Metallica
Since removed; originally uploaded July 7 with the caption, “#MetallicaMondays are back! Tune in tonight at 5 PM PDT / 8 PM EDT to watch the free, full performance of Metallica: Live in Lisbon – June 28, 2007.”
8. Miss Pooja
7. Luke Combs
6. Carabao
5. Metallica
Since removed; originally uploaded July 21 with the caption, “#MetallicaMondays are back with a gig from the Escape from the Studio ‘06 tour celebrating 20 Years of Master of Puppets! Tune in tonight at 5 PM PDT / 8 PM EDT to watch the free, full performance of Metallica: Live in Berlin – June 6, 2006 featuring “Master of Puppets” performed in its entirety.”
4. Garth Brooks
Since removed; originally uploaded July 14 with the caption, “SHOWTIME!!! We mustache YOU to enjoy the show #GarthRequestLive2 love, g & TY”
3. Damares
2. Ted Nugent
1. Bob Marley
Since removed; originally uploaded July 19 with the caption, “Watch as Ziggy Marley performs a special #BobMarley75 tribute set!”
