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  • I like this version - but this is clearly pre-recorded.

  • Fantastic singer...Josh Groban.

  • You Americans are so lucky to have such a great national anthem. Our UK one sucks balls!!

  • @jbates1under don't hate on yourself, my country wouldn't be this country w/o you brits and your harsh king 200+ years ago.

  • I swear to God, this performance gave me goosebumps.

  • Wonderful!

  • im goin out on a limb here, but this is the best rendition of the national anthem that has ever been performed

  • @jro222

    I think Whitney in 91 will always have any rendition beat

  • what can't he do?

  • @Scene163 I haven't come across anything yet that he can't do, so I'm going with nothing....hels amazing!!

    

  • This was the best performance of the national anthem i have ever heard...So powerful So beautiful

  • chris daughtry and him are the men! they can sing anything!

  • 2 years ago two parents went out for dinner. A few hours later, the babysitter was calling to see if she could cover up the clown statue in the kids' room, the father said Get the kids and get out of the house, we'll call the police we don't have a clown statue".The "clown statue"was actually a killer that escaped from jail. If you don't post this on 10 videos tonight the clown will be in yor bed at3:00am with a chainsaw in his hand Sorry don't want this to happen to

  • @puppyluv2021 Sounds like The boogie woogie woo Violent J.

  • Nice! Loved it!

  • I'm not a big fan of baseball, but I am a HUGE fan of Josh Groban. He could sing the phone book and sound fantastic ♥♥

  • Chills all through the body when he sings, when he sings this particular song, its so powerful!!! Wonderful, talented and awesome singer!

  • Yay!!!! Go Sox!!!!

  • Oh gosh I love him<3

  • what is up with this accompaniment? Just do it a capella Joshy

  • beter,dan,wilhelmus,nou,daar,h­eb,ik,niks,mee,jy

  • hy,kan,zingen,he,voor,usa,volk­slied,gevraagd,dan,heb,je,klas­se,talent

  • ALMOST MAKES YOU PROUD TO BE AMERICAN !!!

  • @keabler77 almost.

    

  • josh groban is a god. he can sing his balls off.

  • @ElectrikkPaperClipxx its funny you say that, because at his concert i went to he told us "the least i can do is sing my ass off for you" hahaha!

  • I guess we all have heard this from time we were to young to remember the first time. It’s very hard to sing and so few do it justice; I think that Linda Ronstadt, Whitney Houston and Josh Groban are the few that sing and deliver the anthem with the beauty that leaves one with the emotion that is expected from it.

  • This is the BEST Star-Spangled Banner I've ever heard. Thank you Josh Groban!

  • what can one say , just great 

  • When the Star Spangled Banner is sung correctly it is magificent. The critics say its too dificult to sing and I 'm surprised they haven't replaced it or dumbed it down (like everything else) so the people who really don't care about our counrty can sing along.

  • There is no one better to sing this! Luv u Josh!!

  • He did a good job.

  • 1:38 DAMN!!!!

  • 1:05

  • 1:02

  • josh groban should just sing the national anthem everywhere.

  • Chills. The whole time. Absolutely amazing.

  • This is the best the Star Spangled Banner has ever been sang. Great Job!!

  • I swear the sports industry should just give Josh a billion dollar contract to sing at all events

  • Now, that's our national anthem!! I get really sick of singers changing it to make it their 'own'. Some things shouldn't be changed, and our national anthem is one of them.

  • @carroll1956 Oh, hush. There is no standard for how the song should be performed. The only standard is that you get the lyrics right.

  • @carroll1956

    Hmm - well please correct your statement and say that you liked the changes that he made, he changed many of the notes, added a very different musical track along with it, the tempo is changed, it actually could not have been changed more... maybe you aren't sick because of WHO made these changes but if this isn't making it your own, I don't know what is.....

  • He could sing the contents of the phone book to me and I'd still be like OMG YES. SING IT AGAIN. SING ANYTHING.

  • THATS a national anthem!!!

  • EPIC!

    

  • He should sing the National Anthem all the time. Every sport, every game, ever is being sung, he should sing it. Like a Monopoly on The Star Spangled Banner.

  • Aww...i wish the music wasn't there. Not that it was bad, but i was hoping it'd be just him sing this acapella.

  • Amazing!!! His voice is so beautiful, it makes me cry! Best performance of the Anthem ever IMHO!

  • cute perfect voice i love josh groban xx

  • OMg best national anthem ever

  • i love josh groban

  • Josh Has The  Most Glorious Relaxing Voice!

  • That woman with the hands over her mouth looks like she came in her pants at his perfect voice! LOL

  • I vote him to sing at the super bowl.

  • LOL at 2:24-2:26 them people scared of harmless fireworks

  • He's great!

  • I love his voice sosososososososo much. I don't necessarily like the music he does, but his voice is to die for. And he's cute. That helps. ;)

  • Hot damn!

  • I like how guys like him can sing this amazingly, and yet the apparently more popular people who can't sing for crap get picked to sing it for the Super Bowl. >:O

  • i love how his voice is so deep, yet he's not afriad to hit those high notes... he didnt mess up once one of the best singers ever hands down

  • I love these pre-major sport events national anthems. Where it gets super-americanized and the singer is like crying the red white and blue.

    It's kind of like "America, sports, beer and hot dogs. Support the troops! The fuck is wrong with it?"

  • marvin gaye together with his daughter's version was great too

  • Classically sang. Like it should be.

  • OH MY GOD I JUST GOT CHILLS!!! HE IS ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE! THAT VOICE!!

  • This makes me proud to be an American!

  • Absolutely perfect - they were applauding before he was even done. Well done and Happy Fourth of July 2011 :-)

  • "Too boring"? Seriously? I would much rather hear something straight-forward like this. Josh put his own spin on it, but he didn't go overboard like so many. Beautiful! I just find it sad that people think something is simple and boring if it doesn't include a bunch of showy runs.

  • why the hell did 37 people give thumbs down to this song? I guess they are used to that shit on radio now. what you have here is perfection. MsSharon1031, don't know what to say to you. I'll leave it at that

  • Great vocals but why the music. It's supposed to be sung a capella. Not good.

  • Um...WOW

  • i feel like when this was written this is how frances scott key imagined it should be sung.

  • @TheEmilyBoBemily I would agree with you if I didn't know that Mr. Key wrote this as an ode, a poem. Not a song. The melody is actually an old bar song that some drunk guys put Mr. Key's words to.

  • In my opinion the best ever rendition of this anthem..

  • he makes it seem sooooo easy, so effortless....just perfect!!!!!

  • Why more singers can't sing like that? Without Bull Shit unnecessary butchering notes and not sing every word for a minute

  • I'm not an American but this sends shivers down my spine. Beautiful song and a beautiful rendition

  • you know your country needs a new anthem when you have to make it a new song to make it sound good. I love my country but or anthem is awful

  • got to love the yanks and their patriotism, is awesome

  • haha what was this 2005? Phil Garner....

  • Excellent version. In my opinion, second only to Whitney's Super Bowl 25 version.

  • makes me want to go to a baseball game...and I'm a Brit so I hate baseball!!!!

  • His voice makes me cry...in a good way.

  • You see, Christina, THOSE are the words.

  • it's like a disney movie

  • poor audio

    

  • Cactus Cuties sing it better! :)

  • 0:15 Go MacDonalds <3

  • love love love

  • @kitstj You must be kidding...Clay Aiken is not even in Josh Groban's category when speaking of vocal ability furthermore when comparing the rendition of the same song...

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  • well this is not "a song", this is the national anthem...

  • @wrackdemon The reason artists sometimes do 4/4 time instead of 3/4 time, is because it is easier to sing, and before a big crowd like this, you don't want to miss a beat. And besides, 4/4 time is more "flowy" if u get what i mean. 3/4 time sounds really nice, but is a bit choppy at parts when you need to fill in space.

  • nothing disgusts me more than when the meter is changed form 3/4 to 4/4 it completely kills the flow of the song. As much as i love Groban's voice i feel even he should've done it in 3/4

  • as much as I love this renditon!! and as much as I love him too. I feel like this is a tad bit boring. I mean every note is perfect pitch and osunds amazing. But I thought he could do a little more with this song. ;)

  • What a song! What a voice! I can't stop listening to this. Thanks for posting.

  • I remember saying then "WOW, just WOW"! this is how you sing our National Anthem!!!!!!!

  • Christina made 36 youtube accounts just so she could dislike this video

  • @victimofaguillotine Why won't asses like you give up on the bashing the girl. She made an honest mistake. She still sang it beautifully despite the error and without any purposseful disrespect like Rosseane Barr did.

  • @dropdad honest mistake? the one song you should never mess up ever ever ever because it is your country's national anthem and she bombs it. And (this is just my personal opinion now) I like the traditional way of singing it better. Too many people try to make it their own instead of just singing it the way it was meant to be.

  • @victimofaguillotine  LOL...hahaha

  • You are so amazing and better than anybody in the world literally.

  • I honestly have never heard a person with such a powerful yet soft voice at the same time. Incredible!

  • I hate him. He always bring shivers down my spine and my body hair tingling. XD

  • Super Bowl, take note! Next year have him sing!

  • I'm from England, and I love this!! :)

  • best ever!!

  • 36 people know nothing about good singing.

  • 36 ppl had to pee during the song.

  • @TheEdwardgirl1 OMG this comment made me laugh. Too funny.

  • he's the best for ever!!!!

  • Hell, he could've done it a capello and I still would've died.

  • @lilmoosic011 He sang the Star Spangled Banner 'a capella' at the NBA All-star game last sunday :)))))

    /watch?v=EA8g9qwPMvo

  • @lilmoosic011

    He did at the NBA All-Star game recently. Absolutely fantastic performance, in fact, much better than this one.

  • 36 ppl have no heart

  • I REALLY hate it when I hear arrangements of the Star Spangled Banner in 4/4. But Josh Groban is so amazing he can get away with it. <3

  • Every time Josh Groban sings, I get goosebumps!! Beautiful!

  • Why didnt they let Josh perform at the 2011 superbowl??

  • @JohannaGotTalent41 because they would rather have some trash mess it up...

  • This is wonderful.

  • He has one of the best voices out there hands down.

  • Absolutely AMAZING!!!!!!

  • He sings it with the dignity our National Anthem deserves. Very well done Josh!! You make us proud to be Americans!

  • This is by far the best rendition of our anthem that I have ever heard - and it just so happened at the best stadium (The Cell) for the best team (White Sox) in the best city (Chicago) on Earth!

  • Puts a smile on my face every time. :)

  • Josh Groban sings our anthem better than anyone I have ever heard!!!!

  • Josh is great, I can forgive Christina for making a mistake in the SB but I was shocked at how the quality of her voice has gone downhill. By the end she was yelling more than anything and threw in wayyy too many random notes. Josh is pure talent!

  • Why couldn't he have sung at the Super Bowl?!! :(

  • @JoshGrobansLady That's what I'm saying. Would of been better than Christina Aguilera.

  • @JoshGrobansLady it's sang not sung..

  • Unsurprisingly flawless.

  • Josh is singing the National Anthem for the NBA Allstar game on 20 Feb. 2011 :)

  • Okay best ever!!!! Better than any other I've watched for the past almost hour! :D Love you Josh!

  • WHY COULDN'T THEY GET HIM INSTEAD OT CHRISTINA?!?!

  • WOW ... beautiful

  • Gave me chills!!!

  • shyte that was awesome...gave me chills.....christina aguilera sucks big time compared to this !

  • Josh perchè non vieni a cantare "Fratelli d'Italia"?

  • 36 people can go die.

  • Best. Version Ever

  • Now that's how you sing a proper National Anthem!

  • Attention Christina Aguilera - this is how you sing the national anthem.

  • This mans voice is so superb! He can sing to me any day! Beautiful rendition of our National Anthem. Way to go, Josh!

  • Gosh, I needed that after Christina. Beautiful job. Just have different people lip synch to this version from now on. ;)

  • @crcr1 lol iawtc

  • Josh Groban should just have a standing gig of singing the anthem @ all major sporting events from now on.

  • People are not looking for a concert in the music of our National Anthem. It should be sung with a sense of pride and respect to the country. However, when it looses those two key elements then the anthem turns people off from the purpose and meaning it holds. It's ok to add a little something to it, like Josh did here. You can hear the feeling in the words through the music and his voice. Josh should be at Superbowl 2012! Wonderful job!

  • I get chills very single time I listen to him sing it...hope to see him at the Superbowl next year!!

  • I get chills very single time I listen to him sing it...hope to see him at the Superbowl next year!!

  • Thumbs up if Groban's rendition helps you recover from Christina's oversung & botched Superbowl version.

  • @formeyousee I could not agree more! I vote Josh all the way for the Superbowl in 2012. I am so sick of artists "putting their spin" on the National Athem only to royally screw it up. Josh may sing it simply, not adding a lot of additional notes, but his take, while simple, is so much more powerful to me.

  • @formeyousee I agree! I also had to listen to Whitney's, Mariah's, and Beyonce's... This was the final touch and I feel much better now. =-)

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  • he sings it his lovely way...great!

  • to LilBluGal,

    That's because Josh is a TRUE student of music. His amazing voice along with his dedication to detail of sound, notes, and words make virtually everything that he sings like this version of the Star Spangled Banner worthy to listen to, imho.

  • never in my life heard "our song" sang so beautifully NEVER

  • GO White Sox!!!!!

  • Josh your voice was made to make me smile.

  • Man I almost teared up again. Lets Go White Sox.......only on the southside baby!

  • every time i here josh groban sing it makes me fall in love with him again!

  • sucks that he died.....great voice. R.I.P.

  • @Jalapeanut Josh didnt die...who are you talking about

  • chills!

  • The Astros in the World Series AND Josh Groban singing!! yay!!!

  • You should hear Whitney Houston. Is was AMAZING

  • I'm glad he doesn't overly improvise like pop singers do when they "sing" it.

  • How could you possibly hit the dislike button on this?

  • clearly this proves males singers can be super talented!!!

    and for all ur bieber fans out there... do u see a diffrence? if justin bieber sonded like this people would shut up but he sould like a dieing pig

  • Perfect Male singing voice I've ever heard.