{"id":441055,"date":"2026-02-23T10:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/441055\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:21:10","slug":"two-connors-oldham-brothers-reached-number-one-on-download-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/441055\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Connors: Oldham brothers reached number one on download chart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The brothers said their hit song Familiar Faces is about &#8220;the legends, places and characters of Oldham&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Callum said he had a feeling about the song very early on in the writing stages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When I wrote it, I got a mad feeling through me writing it with Danny in the studio,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We were meant to be working on another song but we did this one in the studio instead. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And then we put a performance up online of us doing it live and it just went insane.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Looking back over their journey to success, Danny said he and Callum &#8220;started everything from scratch&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We just made a Facebook page and I remember getting like 64 followers at the time &#8211; and now we&#8217;re on over a hundred thousand followers and millions of views and stuff like that &#8211;  it&#8217;s just gone through the roof for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Callum said: &#8220;It kind of doesn&#8217;t sink in sometimes when you get to that point it&#8217;s a bit like all right like &#8211; I&#8217;m extremely grateful.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The brothers said their hit song Familiar Faces is about &#8220;the legends, places and characters of Oldham&#8221;. Callum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-441055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}