Buddhism and nuclear war: Rick Springfield's "Tao" gets its Trainwreckords

Todd's look at the 1985 album that followed "Jessie's Girl" has passed 450,000 views in nine days, while a podcast asks for the VMAs to be put out of their misery.

Channel: Todd in the ShadowsStory of October 6, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

TRAINWRECKORDS: Rick Springfield's "Tao"

Rick Springfield had a hit about wanting Jessie's girl. A few years later he was writing about Buddhism and nuclear war, and Todd in the Shadows has given that turn the full Trainwreckords treatment, the series where he walks through albums that went badly wrong for the artists who made them.

"TRAINWRECKORDS: Rick Springfield's "Tao"" went up nine days ago and is the busiest thing on the channel, now past 450,000 views. The description credits Kevin Anderson with additional writing. Close behind it sits a podcast episode with a blunt title, "PODCAST: Please put the VMAs out of its misery", in which Todd argues that the awards show has turned into a zombie brand that mostly exists to pay tribute to the old and the dead.

Nothing new went up over the past seven days, and the channel ran at roughly half its usual daily pace, which is about what a week off tends to look like here. The back catalog kept some of the load, led by his worst hit songs of 2025 list, which has passed a million and a half views since January.

Among the music channels close to his size, only Riot Games Music and CMT gathered more views over the week, and Todd's 836,000 still put him ahead of Amazon Music and OVO Sound.

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The videos drawing views on Todd in the Shadows right now

PODCAST: Please put the VMAs out of its misery185,882 views The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 20251,516,402 views

The numbers

Here is how Todd in the Shadows' channel moved over the past week.

views gained this week, compared with similar channels

Riot Games Music

1,904,383

CMT

1,017,282

Todd in the Shadows

836,101

Amazon Music

327,845

OVO Sound

110,001

subscribers

678,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

221,920,926

views per day

56,381

typical day: 100,235

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Riot Games Music

730,000

3 Beat

691,000

Todd in the Shadows

678,000

alanjacksonVEVO

661,000

Amazon Music

650,000

OVO Sound

644,000

BRADPAISLEYVEVO

621,000

CMT

617,000

P110: Music

597,000

As of October 6, 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.

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