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'Do You Wanna Date My Avatar' Breaks 1M Views, #1 On iTunes, Amazon

Quick update on The Guild’s promo music video, “Do You Wanna Date My Avatar,” which has been creating quite the buzz before the hit comedy web series returns for Season 3 next week. Today the video broke the 1 million views mark on YouTube, and has taken the #1 spot on as the top music video on iTunes (see below).

The video hit YouTube on Monday

, taking just two days to reach the million view mark. The $0.99 MP3 is also selling well on Amazon, currently the #6 #1 best selling MP3 download on the site. UPDATE (via Felicia): The song itself is the #1 MP3 on Amazon, while it is also listed as an ‘MP3 album’ where it is #6 overall.

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Guild creator and star Felicia Day wrote the lyrics to the song and Jed Whedon composed the music and directed the video. While originally available on XBox Live as a free download as part of the company’s distribution deal with the web series, the video really took off once set free for embedding via YouTube. Season 3 of The Guild premieres August 25th on MSN, XBox and Zune.

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