Esmee & Justin

A little bit of Dutch pride in today's post - Dutch YouTube star Esmee Denters (an 18 year old girl who started posting videos of herself singing current pop songs on YouTube last October and became an overnight sensation) has become the first artists signed to Tennman Records, Justin Timberlake's new record label. Her YouTube videos have received more than 20 million views in the past nine months, and she is now slated to open for some of Timberlake's European shows as well as an album release later this year.

And to think, this is a Dutch teenager that just for fun started singing into a karaoke machine in her bedroom and posted the results, again just for fun, on YouTube. Just one more sign of how much impact these new media can have in today's music world.