1. Alex Richard George Day was born on 8 April 1989 and is an English musician, vlogger and writer.
42 Facts About Alex Day
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Alex Day worked in the Regent Street Apple Store during 2009.
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Until 2013, Alex Day lived with friend, collaborator and bandmate Charlotte McDonnell.
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Alex Day announced on 14 February 2014 that he had been dating fellow YouTuber Carrie Hope Fletcher since October 2013.
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Alex Day has identified as an atheist, and as a mindful Vegan began to follow Buddhist teachings after visiting the Plum Village Monastery in mid 2014.
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In March 2014, Alex Day admitted to having engaged in "manipulative relationships" with some women and having "created situations that put people under enormous pressure".
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Alex Day announced via his blog that he had taken down his merchandise and artist pages from his label's website.
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On 5 October 2014, after a seven-month hiatus, Alex Day released a statement regarding the allegations, claiming that he "didn't realise at the time that [the women] felt pressured", and apologising.
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Alex Day's response was criticised by several YouTube contributors such as Laci Green, Jack Howard and Tomska.
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Alex Day first became interested in music in 2005 when he bought an electric guitar at the age of 15.
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Alex Day started his YouTube account one year later on 4 August 2006.
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In 2008, Alex Day founded Chameleon Circuit, a Trock band that wrote music inspired by the British TV show Doctor Who.
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Alex Day released his debut album Parrot Stories in April 2009 through DFTBA Records, which was produced by fellow musician and friend Tom Milsom.
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Alex Day was a featured artist on the BBC Two reality show Chartjackers in 2009.
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Alex Day appeared with the Chartjackers at the Hammersmith Apollo for the BBC Switch Live 2009 show, along with artists such as Black Eyed Peas, N-Dubz, and Pixie Lott.
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Alex Day was a member of Youstage, an ad hoc group of YouTube vloggers who competed successfully on the BBC Three talent show Upstaged during March 2008.
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For Christmas 2011, Alex Day released his single "Forever Yours", which reached No 4 in the UK Singles chart after selling over 50,000 copies in one week.
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Alex Day released the single without support from a record label or TV coverage, and outsold songs from multi-platinum artists such as Coldplay, Rihanna, and Katy Perry.
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On 1 April 2012, Alex Day released his second single, "Lady Godiva", a cover of the 1966 Peter and Gordon song.
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Alex Day has received millions of plays for his music by releasing music videos on YouTube, with his most popular being the 2011 single "Forever Yours", whose music video reached 1.5 million views in its first week of release.
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Alex Day released his third album, Epigrams and Interludes, on 17 March 2013.
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Alex Day released a music video for 'I've Got What It Takes' starring Tom Ridgewell, Carrie Hope Fletcher and Khyan Mansley.
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Alex Day partnered with the file sharing service BitTorrent for an exclusive bundle with the release of Epigrams and Interludes.
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In March 2014, Alex Day removed his artist pages, merchandise and information from his record label, DFTBA Records.
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On 5 October 2014, Alex Day uploaded a video on his YouTube channel, his first video since February 2014.
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Alex Day mentioned that he planned on creating and uploading more videos talking about the situation.
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On 10 January 2015, Alex Day uploaded his new single, "Scared Like Me", to YouTube and thus announced his musical return.
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Alex Day announced that he would be releasing a new album on 4 October 2015 and throughout the year he would release three more singles from this album.
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Alex Day aimed for the single to chart at number 1 in the UK on the track's week of release; however, it failed to chart.
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On 17 May 2015, Alex Day released a new single available to download on his website, entitled 'Keep Me Up'.
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Alex Day announced that rather than a physical CD edition, Nowhere Left To Hide would be released as a physical USB with the album on.
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In December 2015, Alex Day announced he had recorded five new songs for an untitled studio release in the future.
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Day further found success through a popular series of videos entitled Alex Reads Twilight, in which he read and critically analysed the popular young-adult novel Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer.
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On his celebrity, Alex Day has stated he became disillusioned with it.
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In early 2015, Alex Day stated that he was discontinuing his main channel after releasing what was then his final video on that platform, in order to set up a new channel named The Daily Alex Day.
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On 10 May 2015, Alex Day uploaded his final video to his Main channel, titled "Goodbye Nerimon ".
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Alex Day stated that the creation of a new channel was to "define a fresh start and have a channel focused on my new direction, with an active audience I know is there just for that", and to clear out dead subscribers from the old channel after the loss of viewership.
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The Daily Alex Day channel became inactive during late 2015, and has since been stripped of all public content.
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In late 2013, Alex Day announced that he had completed work on his first book, with the working title The Underground Storyteller, the book was about his experiences with the London Underground.
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On 13 October 2014, Alex Day announced online that he was releasing his book independently, keeping the name of The Underground Storyteller, and that he will sign and number the first thousand copies.
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Alex Day has been profiled on BBC and CNN and in world publications like Forbes, The Guardian and Holy Moly.
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Alex Day was featured in the book Choose Yourself by James Altucher, where Altucher encourages others to bypass the "middle man" and build their own audience online.