2081 Chapter 2081
The music market in 1998 showed a scene of prosperity. There were ten albums sold over four million albums at the end of the year, and this number was only five last year, and it has doubled this year; however, last year's top three Album sales have exceeded 6 million, but this year there is only one album with 6 million sales.
From this point of view, the development of the music market and the film market are surprisingly consistent: the collective momentum is constantly rising, while the dominance of Yiqi Juechen's works is declining, but the potential of the overall market has been tapped to a new high.
On the year-end sales list in 1998, country singer Garth Brooks ushered in the pinnacle of his career. After his last new album ranked first at the end of the year last year, he released a double live album again in October this year. Live (Double. Live), this non-studio album recorded the entire process of Garth's live performances, and received a frenzy from country fans. In less than three months, it sold 1,000 copies. The sales volume of 2 million shocked the entire market!
Last year, "Storm" sold 10.17 million albums in a single year, becoming the first album in the 1990s to break through 10 million sales within a year. The momentum of the album has reached its peak; but now Garth's "Double Live" has reached a new high, easily breaking the achievements of "Storm" and making people deeply feel that country music is unshakable in the North American market. absolute dominance!
In the past few years, rock, pop, rhythm and blues, and hip-hop have taken turns, setting off a bloodbath in the North American market. However, amidst this excitement, country has always occupied an unshakable place, from LeAnn-Lime to Sunny Ya Twain, and then Garth Brook, were a part of the market distribution that could not be ignored from the beginning to the end.
This year, Gass relied on a "Double Live", which not only proved the dominance of country music, the huge mass base and long historical background make this type of work enduring; The sales volume in a single year has pushed the prosperity of the music market to a new peak. In the past three years, the number of works that have won the year-end sales champion in North America has been higher than the previous year. The situation of step by step has made North America lead the global boom. Spread slowly.
The dominance of the album "Double Live" is manifested in that it has broken the achievements of last year's "Storm" and became the best-selling work at the end of the 1990s; it is also manifested in that it is the only An album that sold over six million copies.
It can be seen that the absolute dominance of "dual scene" can be called the most in the 1990s.
The work that topped the year-end album sales list was beyond everyone's expectations, and it was actually a "storm" that was glorious to death! This almost fell through everyone's glasses. This album released in October 1996 has stayed in the top 20 of the billboard album chart for more than 115 weeks. Any signs of weakening, on the contrary, after entering 1998, sales actually showed a slow recovery. This year, the cumulative number of weeks to return to the top ten ranks reached 21 weeks—the number of weeks in the top three was also Reached ten weeks, the results are remarkable.
In the end, "Storm" won 5.95 million sales for the whole year, infinitely approaching 6 million sales, which not only made "Storm" a high runner-up in the year-end sales list in 1998 , At the same time, it also made the cumulative sales of this album exceed 20 million, reaching 24.4 million copies!
24.4 million, what does that mean? This means that "Storm" has become the tenth album in the history of North American local music with cumulative sales exceeding 20 million. Morning Light"; it also means that Glory to Death has officially qualified to challenge the Eagles' best hits and Michael Jackson's "Thriller" sales records.
In fact, as early as the end of last year, the history-making pace of "Squall" was already unstoppable. People had long expected the arrival of "20 million", and it was only a matter of time. After entering 1998, "Bath in the Morning Light" took the lead, breaking through 20 million sales before the end of April, while "Storm" was half a step behind, reaching such a height in the middle of May.
"Dawn in the Morning" ended 1998 with final sales of 21.8 million, and cumulative sales of "The Storm" tentatively settled at 24.4 million.
This makes Glory to Death the only singer in the long history of music who can have two North American sales of 20 million - judging from the current momentum, Garth is very likely to become the second. Moreover, "Bath in the Morning Light" currently ranks seventh in history, while "Storm" has surpassed Pink Floyd's album "The Wall (The. Wall)" and has come to the third place in history.
Now, only the last two bastions stand in front of "Storm," the Eagles' 1976 hits and Michael Jackson's "Thriller," which had cumulative sales of 1998 by the end of 1998. 26 million copies, while the latter's cumulative sales exceeded 25 million copies, followed closely behind.
This makes people can't help but start to get excited. Could it be that "Storm" is about to surpass the two great singers in 1999 and write the history of this band again—maybe, glory to death can really become a legend .
Although Glory to Death has hardly had any band activities in the past year, and the promotion of the album has already stopped, but the momentum of "Storm" has not weakened in any way. After winning the North American year-end championship for two consecutive years, This year it still stays in the runner-up position, and it is hoped that it will break through the shackles of the entire North American history just like "Independence Day", hit the height of the entire history, and create a new record belonging to the North American music market.
In particular, the "Twisted Tour" launched by Glory to Death has held more than 80 tour performances in the past year and a half, including 300 rock bands from all over the North American continent. Even compared to the golden age of the 1970s, it is even worse. Even for contemporary young people, this is the true golden age of rock and roll.
Even though it has been more than two years since the release of "Storm", the momentum of Glory to Death is still on the rise, as if it has surpassed Guns and Roses at its peak. , Queen, Pink Floyd, etc. launched an impact.
There were Garth Brooks' smashing and smashing records before, and then there were records of glory and death. This has made the music market in 1998 very lively, and after them, the good performance of other works is even more icing on the cake.
1998 was a memorable year. Following the rise of idol groups such as the Backstreet Boys, Spice Girls, and Destiny's Child, Super Boys came out, challenging the dominance of the Backstreet Boys today. Super Boy's first self-titled album sold 5.13 million copies, ranking third in the year-end list. This performance was even better than last year's Backstreet Boys, and it made North America show a The classic pattern of "Backstreet Boys VS Super Boys" marks the official arrival of the era of idol groups.
Different from the competition between country, rock, pop and other music genres, the emergence of idol groups means the extreme commercialization of music and the complete maturity of the commercialization of the music market. Compared with the music itself, the idol effect began to show its strength gradually. The simple and rude popular arrangement and the powerful dance music selection have given play to the advantages of the idol group members' appearance, personality, and charm, and successfully changed the market structure.
In particular, the confrontation between the Backstreet Boys and the Super Boys has become a decisive factor in stimulating the vitality of the entire North American music market, even surpassing the pattern of "Oasis Band VS Glory to Death VS Mariah Carey", because the three-legged battle of the century It is more of a head-to-head confrontation of strength, but the confrontation between the two idol groups has opened up a beautiful era of fan culture.
The three albums "Double Live", "Squall", and "Super Boy", three works with different shapes, different postures and different styles, jointly occupied the top three in the album sales chart at the end of 1998. It is also one of the most important manifestations of the changes in the music market this year.
After that, Southern Chicks (Dixie. Chicks), Master P (Master. P), R. Kelly, "City. Of. Angels" soundtrack, Brandy, Madonna, Jay. The works of singers such as Z are all shortlisted in the top ten, forming the top ten works of this year's year-end sales list.
Throughout the list, Garth and the Dixie Chicks represent Country, Master P and Jay. Z is for hip hop, R. Kelly and Brandy represent rhythm and blues, Superboy and Madonna represent pop and dance music, glory to death plus Alanis Morissette, who ranks eleventh, represents rock and roll, and finally there is a movie that routinely appears Original soundtrack - The original soundtrack of "City of Angels" can be classified into the pop and rock sectors. It can be seen that the entire music market is now in full bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend.
It is worth mentioning that the "City of Angels" soundtrack contains songs from Glory to Death and Alanis - the song "Angel" in the album "Storm" is the theme song of the movie, as After the release of the single, it was very popular and stayed in the top ten list for a long time.
Among them, the country represented by Gass and the Southern Chicks showed their ability to dominate, one champion and one runner-up, and there is no work that can compete with the outstanding performance of the champion; Historical achievements have gained a firm foothold invisibly, and the collective explosion of rock and roll forces has officially arrived.
Like the pattern shown in the album record market, the single song market is still a colorful scene of fireworks blooming. Sailing (Sail)" is such a powerful work, and the overall average performance is also unsatisfactory.