Chapter 2082 Chapter 2082
Last year, Elton John's "Candle in the Wind/Goodbye, English Rose" exploded with amazing energy, almost completely changing the pattern of the single market with a gesture of sweeping away thousands of troops, coupled with glory to death and bragging Due to Papa's strength, the sales of three singles exceeded 3 million copies at the end of the year, making it the most outstanding year in the long history of music.
Among them, there are five singles with a total sales volume exceeding two million, and the overall momentum has reached an incredible height.
But this year the overall singles market has fallen sharply - just like the movie market in 1995 - there are only two albums with annual sales exceeding two million, and none of the singles has surpassed the three million threshold. . Not to mention the myth of breaking 10 million like "Candle in the Wind / Goodbye, English Rose".
In the end, the single "This Is My Boy (The. Boy. Is. Mine)" co-produced by Brandy and Monica (Monica) achieved a sales volume of 2.33 million throughout the year and successfully won the top spot. Topped the year-end single sales chart. This result is the worst data for winning the championship in the past five years, temporarily stagnating the prosperous and lively singles market.
The runner-up at the end of the year is Faith Hill. Her single "This Kiss (This. Kiss)" became another song with a sales volume of 2.04 million in 1998. Wan's single has done well.
One rhythm and blues song, one country song, the two types of music complement each other, but they have not been able to break out the momentum of the previous pop and rock confrontation, which has also become a major feature of this year's singles market.
After these two singles, Divine's 'Lately', Next's 'Too. Close', Master P's 'Let Them Say (Make.' Em. Say. Uhh), Montell - Jordan (Montell. Jordan's "Let's. Ride)", R. Kelly and Celine Dion's "I'm Your Angel (I'm. Your Angel) Angel), Backstreet Boys' Everybody, Britney Spears' Baby, One. More. Time, Death Glory's Sail , occupying the remaining positions in the top ten respectively.
Among the top ten, rock bands won three seats, and the overall strength of the performance is impressive. The most striking thing on the list is undoubtedly the rise of the two idols, the Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears. , coupled with Superboy who achieved good results in the year-end album list, and Brandy and Monica who performed well throughout the year, the trend of teenage idols is already unstoppable.
Although the singles charts are showing a collective downturn, there are only two singles with more than two million sales, and they have also created a new low in five years; but in fact, the music market as a whole is rising steadily , the number of singles with annual sales of over one million reached 33, which is the most in music history-compared with the same data, last year's number was 17.
It can be seen that the entire market is booming, and the purchasing power of singles has skyrocketed. In previous years, works with a sales volume of one million can be counted on two hands. The overall scale of the single market cannot be compared with that of albums. of. But now, the situation is quite different.
People in the industry know clearly: the prosperity of the singles market means the maturity of business operations. People no longer buy albums just because they like the singer, but they will walk into the record store and take out their wallets because of the sound of the single. . This is not only because of the overwhelming promotion of singles and the increasing influence on listeners; but also because there are a lot of singers in the market, and listeners choose more and more rightly. They may not necessarily like a certain singer or a certain album, but they are willing to support a certain song. 's single.
Such scenes coincide with the overall trend of the film market. The influence of "Entertainment to Death" has penetrated into all aspects of entertainment-related industries, and audiences have become a crucial part of it.
It is worth mentioning that the "voyage" to the glory of death once again has a place for them, which is almost a myth. Just like the history that listeners have always paid little attention to singles, it is almost impossible for a single to stay on the sales list for a long time.
Compared with the 892 weeks of the current record holder "Dark Side of the Moon" on the Billboard album chart, the time that the single has stayed on the chart can hardly be said to be shorter.
At present, the single with the longest time on the Billboard singles list is "Voyage", which stayed on the list for 118 weeks, writing an incredible record, and the second place is Li An Rhyme's "How. Do. I. Live" spent just sixty-nine weeks on the chart; No. A total of 67 weeks before and after the list, the results are outstanding; and apart from this, there is no single single that has been on the list for more than 60 weeks.
From this aspect, we can see what kind of incredible record "Voyage" has created, almost a record that no one can surpass later - in fact, it is also true, until twenty years later, no one can break "Voyage" Even breaking the record of 90 consecutive weeks on the list is extremely difficult, let alone challenging the record of "navigation".
So, more than two years after its release, "Voyage" is in the top 10 of the year-end chart for the third year in a row, and such a good performance is enough to make it one of the best singles in the long history of music. What's even more interesting is that the single that people are most impressed with by Glory to Death is "The Wall"—it's always "The Wall". The single lasted for ten weeks, and its far-reaching influence is unimaginable. Even after it was dropped from the charts, the rate of radio demand remained high. Ten years later, some people even specially collected copies of the first edition of "The Wall".
Later, some people discussed this phenomenon, why it is "masked wall" instead of "navigation". After all, it is "navigation" that makes history. The answers of the young volcanoes are intriguing: they witnessed the glory to the death during the "Magic Wall" period, truly understood the glory to the death's music dream, and then went through a long and magical journey with the glory to the death. The birth of "Young Volcanoes" and "Voyage". People's understanding of "voyage" is only the pinnacle of glory to death, but the "Wall" has witnessed the young volcano and the starting point of glory to death, which represents a journey that cannot be replaced.
Glory to Death had almost no public music activities in 1998, but "Voyage" still represented them occupying a place in the year-end list, and their influence remained undiminished. In fact, Glory to Death released a single in 1998. The theme song "Angel" of "City of Angels" comes from the song of Glory to Death. However, the single was very popular, and even the original soundtrack of the movie achieved outstanding results, successfully ranking among the top ten at the end of the year, so EMI released the single "Angel" accordingly.
As the fifth single in the album "Storm", people have also paid a lot of attention, expecting this single to win the championship again, tying Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album's five championships record of works. But it is a pity that Glory to Death has never been put into publicity, and this song is not a rock style, but a pop style sung by Hugo alone, so its influence is really limited.
After the release of "Angel", the best result was the runner-up for three weeks, and then stayed in the top ten for a period of time, but it never really touched the championship. In fact, everyone knows that if Glory to Death wants to break the record and promote it around "angels", then it is not impossible, but Glory to Death does not. Therefore, this can be regarded as a pity, but it can also be regarded as a label belonging to a rock band.
At the end of 1998, the sales volume of "Angel" reached 1.14 million copies, and it successfully entered the top 30 of the year-end list. Without any publicity and only relying on the movie effect, such a result is already very good .
From the album chart to the single chart, Glory to Death has become a music force that cannot be ignored in North America even though there are no new works or tours. Even more unbelievable is that the global sales volume of "Squall" has finally reached the position of less than one person and more than 10,000!
After entering 1998, the sales momentum of "Storm" has remained unabated. At the end of last year, the sales volume of the album was infinitely approaching 40 million. At the beginning of this year, "Storm" also became the ninth album in history to break four in global sales. Ten million albums, after a year of accumulation, "Storm" made persistent efforts, and the cumulative sales volume finally reached 48 million copies. It is very hopeful that in the next two years, it will become the second largest album after "Thriller". album that sold over 50 million worldwide.
The cumulative sales volume of 48 million is enough to make "Storm" surpass Pink Floyd's best-selling album "Dark Side of the Moon" for 20 years, ranking second on the historical sales list! At present, there is only one king standing in front of "Storm": "Thriller"!
Of course, if you want to surpass the 104 million sales of "Thriller", it may be ten or even twenty years away, and the hope is very slim. But the cumulative sales of 48 million are enough for "Storm" to be recorded in the annals of history, and it is possible to write its own history again at any time. The well-deserved leader of rock's revival in the 1990s.
Someone once said that the advancement of time is actually the writing of history. But for many people, this sentence is meaningless, because the boring life day after day has nothing to do with the so-called "history". But now, every young volcano, every rock lover; every cinephile, every movie buff, is witnessing the traces carved by time in a great and magnificent history.
The sense of reality that "you can change the world with your own strength" makes everyone's blood boil!