My Singing Monsters - Reviving a Dying Genre 

The peak in 2013 is thanks to the Ethereal Island update. The Island was the first new island since the islands planned from release and attracted lots of new people as it was the first to feature completely new monsters. It was featured across google play and the App Store when the update came, which is why it hit its peak then. And the reason why the trailer has so many views is because up until around a year ago Google Play used the RU-vid trailer and this contributed to the videos views. It's so cool to see so many people discovering the game, awesome editing! 😁

To me, I think msm has thrived because it had soul put into it, you could tell the love poured into every second of animation and song.

this is not any ordinary mobile game, this is a game that uses actual talent and gets updates that almost never disappoint

The reason why Composer exists as an app is because of the fact that the actual Composer Island was too limiting with its monsters. (Basically meaning that there weren’t enough monsters on that island to compose up of a good song). Composer includes things such as Rares, Ethereals, etc. (And it seems like BBB didn’t bother updating the actual Composer Island, which is fair I guess).

While other games of their era had died out or become lazy, Msm has done nothing but improve over the past 10 YEARS! That’s insane. The dedication to their craft is unrivaled, and a game is always better when it’s developers enjoy what they do. I love how the game and its creators can be as funny as they want to be. While it isn’t many people’s taste, it’s still an incredible game for multiple audiences of people.

The absolute passion behind My Singing Monsters is so damn intriguing to me. The musical talent that goes behind some of these songs is staggering! like the funky (completely real, yup its not a soundfont) double bass of Thwok give Wublin Island a jazzy kick, the gorgeous bassoon of Blassoom on Starhenge lasting 12 WHOLE MEASURES OF NO REPEATING TRACKS, the surprising yet welcome collaboration with country singer/songwriter Kristian Bush to make Shugabush Island, and the incredible complexity and funkiness of Bone Island. The insane amount of musical talent and passion behind this awe-inspiring game series is what many other games should aspire to do! And that artstyle OOOOH that artstyle! it perfectly mixes detailed, creepy, and charming to make some incredible designs (except everything on celestial island, screw you celestial island). And finally... The charm! The main thing that has kept me interested all these years is... well yeah the music, but the charm of the universe big blue bubble has created! From the ancient times of the Dawn of Fire with the continent splitting apart at the end, to the colossals sacrificing themselves for all the monsters, and finally to the modern monster world where new islands and friends are being discovered all the time! Just do yourself a favor and look up the lore of these games, its so fascinating! well... sorry for ranting so long, I just love this series so much and I want to see it do great thing! For whoever read this whole thing, I thank you oh so much!

After all these years, we finally get a video about MSM!

As someone who has been supporting My Singing Monsters almost since it's release, it's WILD the amount of random popularity it's getting. It comes with it's pros and cons, and I'm willing to accept the trend with open arms. The quiet resilience of the Monster-Handlers has finally payed off! Speaking of that resilience, isn't it kinda crazy that they release 2 new islands EVERY YEAR, even during the low points? If that isn't passion, I don't know WHAT is.

When I was a kid, this had to be my favorite game. I used to spent so much time on it. And I haven't heard of it in a long time. And just seeing this made me a bit happy since I see people that still remember this game. It used to be one of my favorites. Even if it was a bit weird to have monsters making noises to make a song it was very fun to do for some reason. Overall I'm just happy that people still remember this. Because I don't want it to die it was part of my childhood.

Everything about my singing monsters has always just felt perfect for me… the idea of collecting different unique creatures is always fun, but being REWARDED and having your song grow?! Its genius!

From someone who is very active in the community and has been playing since 2013, I approve 👍

Dude, this was my favorite game in middle school. I just checked out the game again out of curiosity, and it seems like it’s still doing great!

Im so glad this game is finally reviving, the community used to be so big yet tiny at the same time, it’s like the community of MSM wasn’t expanding but wasn’t dying, this game was a HUGE part of my childhood.

Also, here’s a reason on why I believed the game sparked up so high. Updates. Plain and simple. Their updates such as new island, monsters, etc. have been improving the game and its success, and while its successors aren’t getting as much love, they are still liked by many.

I decided to get My Singing Monsters again as a joke, and eventually getting some of my friends into it. This was before the massive wave of popularity. Then, I realised that My Singing Monsters started spreading through my school. I started seeing it way more often, and heard people talking about it sometimes. It's funny because as soon as I start playing it again, there is a massive spike in popularity.

the fact that every anniversary year past few years now have had something big happen with the game just shows the sheer dedication that the big blue bubble team have for MSM. what's truly the most insane thing about this game though is the fact that this game has lore. Edit: and just like that they're waking up the islands now so we're probably going to see a new era for this game very soon.

I've played this game and most of it's spinoffs (actually I think I have played all of them except for Furcorn's Jelly Dreams because it doesn't exist) and I am really happy this series got a lot more attention as of lately. It is one of the 3 good things that stiktok has done to humanity

I literally saw an ad on this game years ago and kinda thought it was scary lol, but my friends told me I had to play it, so I did, knowing I’d delete it the same day, I got addicted, and now here I am, stuck playing this game over and over again without losing any joy from it, I can’t believe I had seen the game so many years beforehand, if I had just started playing the game when I saw the ad, I can’t imagine what my stats would be like today!

As an OG Fan of My Singing Monsters that's been following this game for years I've gotta say that I am IMPRESSED with the growth of this game. I'm surprised it still stands tall after a decade. I never thought after that one memorable ad this game would grow to fame. I'm just hoping Gen Z doesn't ruin the game like how they sometimes do. It's a genuienly good game with lots of work and heart put into it! The community is loveable and I hope that doesn't get ruined.

I’ve been a huge fan of the game for many years, and it’s been a big part of my life for a while. On one hand, I’m a bit worried that the mostly-niche fanbase will soon end up like other communities such as Minecraft, but on the other hand I’m honestly pretty happy with its newfound success (which I DEFINITELY did not expect). It’s such an amazing franchise with so many passionate developers, artists and composers behind it. So even if it does continue to rise in popularity, it deserves every last bit of it.

As a msm player, I love the game so much because,unlike most world building games, you can get gems in organic means by just playing a bit and getting either a mine or zynth farm

I've been an MSM fan since October 2013 so seeing it hit the mainstream has been really surreal

I've stuck with this game for almost a decade. I'm so glad people are giving it the attention it deserves.

ive been playing msm since 2013, and seeing the community grow this quickly makes my life complete.

I have followed this franchise since the beggining and it makes me happy to see how far they have come *also Magical Sanctum is the best song and you can't change my mind*

I'm a msm og and I'm so happy to see its back. I never grew out of it. The community before 2022 was extremely tiny and chill, there are like 3 popular msm youtubers out there. I'm so happy to see videos on this jem from people who haven't played it for years. Thank you 😊.

I’ve been quite pleased to see my singing monsters to finally receive the popularity it has gotten. The amount of love and effort put into the game is incredible, not only that but the music is just as amazing. I’ve played since 2013 and i’ve loved it ever since, its inspired me to make music and art. The game is just incredible and i’m happy to see it grow. thank you for making this great video to shortly cover its history, editing and quality is fantastic. (the cheesiest thing i’ve written bro 😭😭 literally hate the tiktok community though dude its so garbage ☠️☠️☠️)

A ton of people in a TF2 discord server I'm in just got active on their old MSM accounts again (me included) so this video was a well-timed surprise.

Oh my god I remember getting an ad for this game on my crappy iPad constantly. How is they nostalgic

played this wayyy back in the day when i was younger, and then early 2022 i rediscovered it. its cool how the game is suddenly starting to take off in popularity. thank you mr terror guy, very cool

So glad to be a part of this community. Amazing to see you make a video about this! Remember; You're all Wubtastic!

I joined in 2017 and still actively playing. I love watching the game grow up! Especially the improvements of the songs and animation!

This guy is the embodiment of the question:” Hey remember that game we played when we were young? I wonder what happened to it”

as a prevalent editor of the wiki, as well as a pretty frequent player (just look at my pfp) im both glad, and distraught at the surge in popularity, because if it gets too popular, itll lose its niche, obscureish, mobile game charm

It's amazing to see a game i've been playing for 9+ years now grow to an immense popularity like this. It's nice to see it grow like this because I remember back in 2015-2016 when the community was so small and there were only like 2-3 large creators. Since then many more have arrived and now there is more competition. Many of the old creators though have either retried, faded into obsurity, or just simply stepped down from their high positions in the community. I will miss many of them, but I also welcome the new creators who can bring new ideas to the table. I am proud to have been in the My Singing Monsters community long enough to see it start, fall, enter the golden age, fall again, and then grow to what it is now (by fall I don't mean disappear I mean a long period of time without new creators or content being made.)

9 years ago my friend and I would be so addicted to Maw, and whenever he started singing we would turn our ipods' volumes to the max and stick them in our ears to listen.

Seeing My Singing Monsters peak in player count in the past few months has…well, peaked my interest on how that came to be, but it came to the simple answer of TikTok fame. Aside of that, it’s mostly the updates that the game brings with new monsters, and islands to discover, as well as new songs to build up. Also to fix an error in the video, My Singing Monsters Dawn of Fire is the game’s prequel, not sequel. Dawn of Fire takes place in the past before the continent split apart, before it was formed into the monster world that’s in the main game. Edit: The My Singing Monsters Composer app is meant to be an extension of the Composer Island in the main game, but with more monsters to use in the song, and more options to use than originally before in the original game.

I've been playing My Singing Monsters since 2015, it's crazy to see how popular it's been getting recently!

This video is absolutely amazing, ive been in the msm community since 2020 and seeing it blow up like this really makes me glad for the game. This video is easily one of the best videos covering my singing monsters, if not big blue bubbles whole history.

I started playing msm kinda early, (I think around 2016 or 2015) and honestly I love this game and it deserves all the attention it got Edit: I think the composer app exists is because it has way more stuff you can do than composer island, it has more monsters, and a much more advanced way to compose them. and since its another app, its more likely to draw in people who use it to compose ACTUAL songs so you won't get a bunch of memes like on composer island

I've always loved this game since it's Ethereal Island update, watching this game grow, die, grow, die again, and than absolutely SPIKE in popularity was one of the best journeys of my life, seeing the game grow and it's playerbase was truly fascinating, and all the way worth it.

I have been playing this game since 2012, and it is one of my favorite games of all-time. I am really happy it is resurging in popularity. I love this game because the singing aspect, every monster adding their own piece to the song really adds an incentive to collect more monsters, and the songs in this game are iconic (especially plant island). Thank you for doing a review on this game that I love so much.

Brooo I rediscovered MSM 2 years ago in summer. I remembered having the game downloaded as a kid, and was like ‘hey, I never finished the islands, I wonder what they sounded like?’ Looked up the songs and instantly got hooked again. (Shoutout to msmpokegamer for single-handedly carrying the fandom on his back!!!) I love the game!! There’s so much care in it and the musical skill is genuinely so good. Every monster is so unique and I adore the monster handlers and their attitude haha. I’m so glad everyone’s finally paying attention to it. Hail Galvana everybody

MattShea also had a play in MSM getting revived. Many have stated going back into the game because of him and many like myself have played the game for the first time because of him.

I've been getting My Singing Monsters shorts on my Recommended and now there's a full ass video

Makes me super happy to see it back, I remember playing it when I was 8 or 9. Good times.

I just remembered this game a few months ago, and I felt really nostalgic about it so I decided to download it again. Personally, all of the advertisements are annoying to me, but it brings back good memories about when I was younger. Amazing video btw!

As someone who played MSM, CoC, Dragon City, and Monster Legends, what kept me playing MSM to this day is the passion that is clearly put into every aspect of the game. The other games (Especially Dragon City) felt more and more pay to win as you progressed. MSM? It always felt like they WANTED you to progress, though the process can be a bit of a tedious waiting game at times, it pays off with a new addition to the island song. The way each monster is so thoughtfully designed from their names to their sound. The lore behind the game. I've been playing since 2013, I've got a lot of memories with this game. I'm happy to see it doing well. I've gotten the younger family members into the game so that they may have their own fond memories of funny cartoon monsters

Oh my god. I remember playing this in olden days. I still play it now, but I kinda stopped playing it.

The only thing I’m worried about with the new popularity it’s gaining right now is the fan base becoming too big and becoming toxic or problematic, but it’s been a while and it hasn’t happened, so i have hope for the future because they’re releasing updates frequently and the community isn’t bored.

I have been with this game since the beginning, seeing it trying to revive is beutiful! Thanks for making this masterpiece video!

Just a week ago I was looking for a video like this. And it definitely delivered.

I'm surprised you didn't even mention the my singing monsters FanMade community (people that make their own islands and monsters)

I have and still am playing My Singing Monsters - ever since 2014. (New account in 2016.) Still one of my favorite games out there!

the edit had me giggling all the way through, thank you for this video on msm hahaha

Thank you for making this video!

I never expected you to cover this

I stopped playing this game years ago, but I'm still impressed by how over the years, they made tens of great songs and animation with new and different monsters doing different parts.

Thank you for talking about this, my singing monsters is my favorite game

ive been playing msm ever since it came out, im so happy seeing how far its come

BBB never expected that tiktok revived a game made 10 years ago

The game was never dead, the game was always doing good

i was obsessed with the game years ago, ive become deathly obsessed again and I couldn't be any happier msm is getting the attention it's always deserved

Airport Security:What's this large object in your bag? Me: Bom Bom Bom

9:25 holy crap nostalgia overload

MSM was honestly really creative on the already existing concept. Slowly building a song by breeding monsters is WAY more creative than just buying random dragons to fight them or buying a 5000 pack of clash of clans gems so you can get that level 14 Town Hall without having to grow old and die 5 times over. Also MSM composer is basically an expanded version of Composer Island. You can use basically EVERY monster, not just naturals from the first 5 islands. Rares and Epics also have their own sounds. You can place more than 1 note per line allowing for more variety, and in general it’s a 10x better music maker than the main composer island.

super early! I've loved msm ever since it came out,(I LOST ALL MY PROGRESS >:( ) its always had so much passion and love put into it and im so glad you decided to make a video on it T3rr0r!

Hey, Ive been watching your vids for awhile. And holy moly you have over 200k now. Thanks for making a video about msm, I really wasn’t expecting that lol

My favorite game of all time still a good game to this day.

Hi

As someone who’s been playing this game since it first came out when I was a little baby seven/eight year old, I’m very excited to see what this video has in store for me :)

One of the biggest reasons why my singing monsters is so fun for me, is how on games like clash of clans, sometimes it’s entertaining just to stare at your base for a while, and just mess around with the layout. In my singing monsters, that’s the entire objective of the game. And while there’s a huge progression, and as of now PvP aspect to the game, at the end of the day it’s all just sitting around and listening to your monsters sing.

I was one of those people who downloaded the game in 2013- Another thing is that a lot of the time the monsters mostly do their own thing yet in a way that doesn't sound cacophonous... and it blends well, like in Mythical Island. It's currently incomplete but you have one monster doing spacey harp effects, one being an entire jungle percussion ensemble, and one that yodels- and yet it somehow blends together really well. It's the kind of music that you can't really get anywhere else.

Wild. Was thinking that I wanted to watch a video like this like, half an hour ago and here this pops up

I love MSM so seeing T3rror revive it is great.

omg i never dreamed you could make a msm vid awesome video :D

Wow man great video!

I remember being in this community, people used to make videos about their own fanmade monsters, hell, even made islands in it, the videos were like watching from the island you have (like earth or cold), they even made their own elements also, like rubber island by mantisgirl If you don't know who mantisgirl nor what rubber island is, go search it up, it's really cool

im new to msm. i fell in love quickly with the monsters, their designs and their songs. specially mammott. they're all so cute and goofy. i don't usually like this kind of gameplay but i absolutely love it here

My singing monsters composer exists because on MSM they only monsters that you can make sing are the naturals, but on msmc you can compose almost every monster (but msmc hasn’t been updated in like 3 years☹️)

I genuinely love this game. The music is great fore one, but I just love how much passion is put into it.

Seeing both my cold island tiktok sound and my oaktapus composer island in a random video on my feed feels so surely to me haha I'm so glad that this game finally got the resurgence it deserved

I’ve been playing msm clash of clans and boom beach since 2013 and I still love them all, absolute masterpieces

I've been waiting for this

I think mattshea had a decent part to play, he was jumping from mobile game to mobile game until someone recommended msm to him a while ago, and now he uploads like 1-2 a week and they are by far is his best videos

This reminded me about My Singing Mammott. I played that a whole lot when I was younger and that game was absolutely hilarious!

I’m so happy that it came back in a big way since this was my childhood. I played from 2013 (when it started to be big) to 2017-2018, then got bored and stopped.. Until my friend started playing at school and went directly back to the game since November of this year and I’m so happy that I can actually enjoy at a mobile game again! MSM forever!

Thank you so much for covering this. I was so confused as to why this game was being joked about by people I thought never played mobile games.

I got back into my singing monsters a little bit before it blew up in October and it was so cool seeing a game I used to love be popular again

i started playing MSM not long ago and it is one of the most if not the most fun game i have ever played

I played this game everyday for years I remember seeing Matt shea make his first video on it and then seeing alot of people come back I was excited because I though the game would have been forgotten this game just brings back eo much memories me and my friend at school would play everyday and talk about it such an amazing game!❤️❤️

I´ve always loved my singing monsters ever since I was a kid and I still love it since it´s getting better and better and has so much heart put into it

This is a game I played when I was younger, but I stopped. But with this new resurgence I can confidently say that this is a mobile game I genuinely love.

It's one of the goats of mobile games for sure, was one of the first mobile games that I actually played for extended amount of time and didn't just download for a few weeks and then get rid of, after not playing it for years I got it again around this time last year and I still play it all the time

I am so glad that the community is still thriving after around 2 years of this video being posted 🎉

I’ve been a fan of my singing monster since 2017 i love seeing it blow up like this

I remembered this game and re-download it in the summer before it blew up again And wow. Watching it go from fame to slowly withering to fame again makes me so proud. This game is so awesome. There's so much love put into it. The fact it was still getting updated, and a lot was pretty crazy

i was so happy to see it on steam that's why i got back into it I already played for years from 2012-2015

I just knew that you were gonna make a video about this

I've been playing since 2019. I had a bout where I didn't play it in 2021, but now I'm back and it's apart of my every day. Making progress more than I ever had the patience to do so before. I'm even drawing some of my favourite monsters now.