John Michael Howell takes his Warrior to an Irish castle

Cia Cloud and Jack Gassmann join the singer in a medieval-fantasy music video directed by Hudson Hopper.

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John Michael Howell - Story Of A Warrior [Official Music Video]

John Michael Howell puts on armor and rides toward a castle, giving "Story Of A Warrior" a screen adventure months after its lyric video arrived. Ocean cliffs, torchlit ruins and a letter carried by a black horse make this rather more elaborate than a performance in costume.

Howell plays the knight, with Cia Cloud as the maiden he is trying to reach and Jack Gassmann as the crowned king standing in their way. The king knocks a ring from her hand; she secretly sends a message beyond the castle walls. Director Hudson Hopper builds the journey around exhaustion, persistence and an increasingly perilous approach to the tower. The credits bring the fantasy back down to earth with footage of makeup, camera work and the Irish locations, including Lough Cutra Castle.

"John Michael Howell - Story Of A Warrior [Official Music Video]" was the bigger of two new uploads, reaching roughly 364,000 views. Alongside it came "John Michael Howell "The Poet" [Official Album Trailer]". Viewers are asking for the Warrior story to become a film or TV show, while several discuss Christian readings of the song and its imagery.

The new music video has the most daily momentum on the channel, but the June lyric video remains active too, along with an older "Making a song in the style of…" upload. That leaves both sides of Howell's channel in motion: the finished songs and the playful business of making them.

The channel added 20,000 subscribers over the week, bringing it close to two million. Its subscriber total sits alongside doddleoddle's and just above RAYE's, both unchanged this week. Howell's return to posting has supplied something distinctly new to that growing audience: a familiar song with an armored lead role for its singer.

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The videos drawing views on JohnMichaelHowell right now

John Michael Howell "The Poet" [Official Album Trailer]48,517 views · 2026-10-31 John Michael Howell - Story Of A Warrior [OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO]12,433,880 views Making a song in the style of…4,116,903 views

The numbers

Here is how John Michael Howell's channel and new uploads did this week.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

JohnMichaelHowell

11,740,610

Hayley Kiyoko

806,754

JENerationDIY

87,705

subscribers

1,960,000

▲ 20,000 in the last 7 days

total views

765,698,377

first-day views of each video posted this week

John Michael Howell - Story Of A Warrio…

172,761

John Michael Howell "The Poet" [Officia…

41,722

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

JENerationDIY

2,690,000

PARTYNEXTDOOR

2,520,000

Hayley Kiyoko

2,400,000

JohnMichaelHowell

1,960,000

doddleoddle

1,960,000

RAYE

1,940,000

MALINDA

1,760,000

ParryGripp

1,670,000

Simply Three

1,510,000

As of November 2, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.