Chapter 1288: 1288 Yuliang Complex
In the face of the strong debut of "Fantasy", even if winning the championship for one week is a breakthrough, "Apologize" has won the championship for eight consecutive weeks. A showdown that will delight listeners in the booming music market!
"Apologize" and "Fantasy" teamed up to present a high-quality confrontation. Glory to the Dead demonstrated its unrivaled sturdy dominance and pushed the new wave of rock and roll launched in 1993 to a new peak. ; Mariah Carey relied on the outstanding performance of the new album "Daydream" to show her true queen again, but she was repeatedly frustrated in the singles chart, and was subject to the strength of glory to death, unable to break through for eight consecutive weeks" "Apologize" for the blockade of the champion, which is nothing short of a shame for Maria.
In fact, many people have experienced the "tragedy" Maria experienced before, for example, the foursome, and the boy-man group. All have been well received by music critics, and have also been warmly welcomed by listeners. Whether it is sales or radio on-demand rate, including word of mouth, they have achieved great success, but they have not been able to experience real glory. , the only reason is that they all met the glory of death.
Especially boy boy groups.
This rhythm and blues group that swept through the 1990s is enough to occupy a place in the long history of music, not to mention the direct promotion of the great success of men's groups such as Backstreet Boys, West Side Boys, Super Boys and so on. The success of the boy and boy group is not only because their music has opened a frenzy of perfect fusion of rhythm and blues, soul and pop, but also because they have shown the power of harmony and parting between the members of the group, and their singing has enriched the music. more exciting.
Different from the establishment of the later group, because the members all have their own shortcomings, it is not enough to be successful as a single singer, so they have to form a group. The four members of the boy-man group have super abilities, and their harmony is more. Is to create a new trend, thus creating countless miracles.
The boy-boy group is undoubtedly one of the most marketable singers in the entire pop music market at present. Their appearance and peaceful demeanor have won the love of countless teenagers, but they have repeatedly encountered Glory on the road of continuous miracles. The sniping to the death, to be more precise, is the suppression of the glory to the death.
The boy-boy group and the Yuliang complex of Glory to Death have become the main theme of the entire North American music market. Although the boy-boy group has a great reputation and was even recognized at the Grammys, Glory to Death seems to lie in front of them. A big mountain that can never be climbed, which has also become the biggest regret of the boy-man group's brilliant career.
Similarly, although Maria would not use the words "Yu Liang complex" to describe the competition between her and Glory to Death, in her opinion, she is the one who has the absolute upper hand, and Glory to Death is not even qualified to be compared with her , is just a clown jumping on the beam relying on the topic of the moment; but the objective fact is that from the "Music Box" the previous year to this year's "Daydream", Maria has two consecutive albums. Get the upper hand.
It is worth mentioning that although "Music Box" was a success over "Almost Famous" in 1993, by the time of the release of "Daydream", the total sales of "Almost Famous" had exceeded that of "Music Box". ".
This time, the "fantasy" was suppressed by the "apology", and it was an indelible shame for Maria!
Under such circumstances, the classic song "Sweet Day" jointly presented by Maria and the boy-man group came to the fore. , Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt's "Interview with the Vampire" and "Pulp Fiction" confrontation.
The results of the confrontation at that time are still fresh in everyone's memory. "Interview with the Vampire" only lasted for four weeks, and then it collapsed. "Pulp Fiction" achieved an incredible victory. So what about this time?
In the face of "Sweet Day", which will be released in the fourth week of November, the major media have launched a heated discussion. "Apologize" has completed eight consecutive championships at this time, so can it continue to be strong?
Glory to Death has swept the Billboard Singles Chart for 42 weeks in the past year, and has had two double-digit number-one singles over the past year. Elvis Presley and Glory to Death enjoy this honor, such a feat has been achieved by the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Whitney Houston, Madonna and countless other top stars Can't.
Well, if "Apologize" becomes the third single to win the title for ten weeks, it is undoubtedly the last driving force to push the rock revival wave of the past few years to its peak, and it is also the achievement of Glory to Death. The decisive weapon of the supreme glory of the 1970s!
But obviously, this task is not easy. Don't say "apology" is not a disadvantage that everyone is optimistic about. It is not easy to deal with the menacing "sweet day". Can "Apologize" continue to shock the entire North American music market when winning eight consecutive championships has been called a "miracle"?
The Billboard Singles Chart for the fourth week of November has the answer: No.
Judging from the share of music types in the global market, rhythm and blues and pop are undoubtedly the absolute mainstream, and they also have an irreplaceable position in the North American countryside. The nature of rock and roll itself determines their personality, their stubbornness, their rebelliousness, and their thinking is difficult to completely conform to the mainstream. Therefore, rock is always at a disadvantage in the face of rhythm and blues.
Before that, Glory to the Dead had successively achieved advantages over the representatives of rhythm and blues such as the Four in One, Maria, and the Boys and Boys, including the feat of "Apologize" defeating "Fantasy", which is already a performance against the market. But this time, "Apologize" finally exhausted after winning the championship for eight consecutive weeks, and was unable to continue his miraculous journey.
Originally, "Apologize" completed the eighth consecutive championship, and stepped on Maria's shoulder, which is already an absolute victory worthy of a big book; but when the Billboard singles chart in the fourth week of November was announced, people found that When "Apologize" failed to bring his championship week number to "Nine", they all expressed their disappointment. For a single that has completed the feat of eight consecutive championships, and it is still from an album released sixteen months ago, to have such high expectations, such a scene is also a big wonder.
But what is surprising is that this week's championship is not "apology", but not "sweet day", but another queen Whitney Houston!
Whitney's theme song "Exhale" for the movie "Waiting. To. Exhale," starring Whitney and starring future Oscar winner Forest Whitney Turk (Forest. Whitaker) directed the film, the box office and reputation in the film market can only be said to be average, but the theme song sung by Whitney was very popular, airborne to the number one position on the Billboard singles chart, Became the first female singer in music history to win an airborne single, once again proving her status as a queen.
This undoubtedly gave Maria another shot.
In the fourth week of November, "Exhausted," "Apologize," "Fantasy," "You're Not Alone," and "Gangster Paradise" ranked in the top five, while "Sweet Day" just entered the list. Ranked eighty-first.
But from an objective standpoint, although "Sweet Day" was released this week, it was officially released on Saturday. In other words, it only had two days to accumulate sales and hit the charts. Faced with this situation, The 81st result in the first week is just an accumulation, and it can be seen as an intentional intention of Sony Records: they hope that "Sweet Day" can build up a little bit of energy, and then complete the explosion in both sales and radio on demand next week.
Therefore, such a situation is unexpected, but reasonable.
Then, in the first week of December, the Billboard singles charts were reshuffled. "Sweet Day" easily won the championship this week with sales figures of 240,000. "Exhausted" and "Apologize" ranked second and third respectively. !
In an instant, all the news media were happy, which also marked the first time that Maria and the boy-man group won a hearty victory with an absolute advantage in the face of the power of glory to death.
Although it was a strong team up against the fourth single from the album, which was released last August -- and it's a single that's been out for more than 12 weeks, the victory is a bit of a bummer. But none of that matters, what matters is that they won!
This also pushes the Yuliang complex between Glory to Death and Maria and the boy-man group to a new peak: Now it is no longer the Glory to Death family that dominates, Maria and the boy-man group have also achieved a counterattack, and several singers will be in the future. The competition will only become more and more intense and interesting. How this Yuliang complex will end is worth everyone's expectation.
After "Sweet Day" won its first victory, it seemed like a broken bamboo. It pushed the confrontation of Yu Liang's complex to the peak in one go. The song gained unprecedented popularity in the North American market, and the number of consecutive championship weeks ranged from one to five. To ten, and then to fifteen, surpassing the fourteen-week consecutive championship records of "I will always love you" and "Beautiful. Day" with a sweeping trend, and then tied the "Beautiful Wall". (Wonderwall)" for consecutive weeks, which caused a sensation in the entire North American music market.
Immediately following the third week of April, "Sweet Day" once again defeated a number of competitors and achieved an incredible 16-week winning streak, surpassing "The Wall" and taking this historical record into his arms alone and became a billboard. The single most consecutive number one week in history.
The combination of Maria and the boy-man group created this great miracle, and at the same time declared the absolute position of R&B in the North American music market. Now, Maria and the boy-man group have created an insurmountable peak, and the gauntlet has been submitted. Who will break this record in the future?
Will it be glory to death?