Chapter 531 531 Bulletin Board Name
Billboard was founded in 1894. After nearly a century of development, it has become the world's most authoritative ranking of song popularity.
The bulletin board is mainly based on data such as sales volume, radio on demand, and jukebox on demand, which is converted into points, and then lists various charts, the most famous of which are the album chart (Top200 album chart) and singles chart. (Hot100 singles chart), as well as charts in various music categories, becoming the most watched music charts in the world.
Because Billboard not only considers sales, but also comprehensively considers the data of the most influential radio stations in North America, as well as other related factors, so it can achieve excellent results on Billboard, which means that this album or single is in the entire North America. Regions have received corresponding commercial recognition.
In 2014, before Hugo Crossover, the most successful artists on the Billboard were super big names. It's the Beatles' 20, followed by Mariah Carey and Elvis Presley's 18; the number one single for weeks at number one is Maria- Kelly's seventy-nine weeks was king, and the Beatles were runner-up at fifty-nine weeks.
Billboard's album chart record belongs to another diva singer, Whitney Houston, whose 1992 "Bodyguard" soundtrack won the title for twenty weeks, and the runner-up position belongs to the 1997 "Titanic" "No." soundtrack to the movie, and the third place was Whitney Houston's self-titled debut album.
Each of these names is a big man who has left a mark on the history of American music, including Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, as well as bands such as Nirvana and Pearl Jam. Their glory in the American music market is also due to announcements. recorded on the card.
It can be said that the Billboard is not only an authority, but also a record board for the American music market, recording the brilliant footprints of the top stars who have risen and fallen in the North American music field in the past century.
The Glory To Death album was officially released on December 2nd, and it sold 110,000 in the first week of December, and it landed at No. 27 on the Billboard album chart, a remarkable achievement! And in the rock category rankings, "Almost Famous" is only behind Pearl Jam's "VS" and Meat. Loaf's "Hellbat 2: Back." Hell (Bat. Out. Of. Hell: Back. Into. Hell)”, Nirvana’s “In. Utero”, Smashed Pumpkin’s “Siamese. Dream” four albums, among the four albums The top five, and finally occupy the excellent results of fifth place!
1993 was indeed a year when rock and roll went to glory, allowing the entire music market to witness the brilliance of rock and roll.
Pearl Jam's second album "Duel" released in October this year has been on the charts for more than ten weeks, and has won the number one spot for three consecutive weeks. This album has sold one million sales in its first week of release. And this kind of strength has continued, and it has achieved more than 5 million sales so far. This posture also continues the current trend of the American music scene's extreme respect for grunge.
In the first week of December, Pearl Jam defeated Frank Sinatra and Michael Bolton to claim the title, continuing the trend of rock music this year. Immediately behind these three singers, it is Mitt Laufer who won the runner-up of the week.
Mitt Laufer, who released his first album in 1977, the golden year of rock and roll, is a representative of theater rock in the American music circle. He has a strong dramatic color, which also makes him have the most unique place in the American rock scene.
Mitt Laufer spent thirty years from 1977 to 2006, launched his own "Hell Bat" trilogy, and was able to go down in history, entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999! Launched at the beginning of this year, "Hell Bat 2: Back to Hell" has achieved remarkable results. It still ranks at the top of the list for 54 weeks and is widely loved by the audience.
On this week's album charts, Nirvana's "Inside the Womb," which had Kurt-Cobain taking the sea in preparation, was only No. 15. The attempted suicide of a drug overdose almost brought Nirvana to a complete collapse, and the record company was very dissatisfied with the non-commercial handling of the band's master tape, but even so, the album still easily topped the Billboard after its release. The title of champion continues the wave of Nirvana in the world.
In terms of sales alone, "Inside the Womb" has no "showdown" that can surpass Pearl Jam, but Kurt Cobain's extraordinary talent is still the most eye-catching focus of the entire music scene.
Smashed Pumpkin's "Siamese Dream" hit No. 19 on the album chart, and the album catapulted the alternative rock band, which was formed in 1988 but didn't release its debut album until 1991, to fame.
The Smashed Pumpkin Band is the most typical representative of alternative rock in the current music market. Like Glory to Death, they are also in the market where grunge is popular, integrating radical rock, goth rock, and heavy metal into one. While the Smashed Pumpkins didn't overthrow the whole rock framework in one fell swoop like Death of Glory, their alternative to rock was hampered in 1991, when their debut album sold just 400,000 copies. , can be described as very depressed.
The Smashed Pumpkin Band, like Pearl Jam, has won the respect of fans by relying on the tour at the Junjie Music Festival. After the release of "Siam Dream" this year, although the album's best result was only the tenth place on the Billboard, this The band has won a place that cannot be ignored in today's rock market.
Pearl Jam, Mitt Laufer, Nirvana, and Smashed Pumpkin, these four groups of rock singers are all great musicians enough to go down in history. This is also the tip of the iceberg in the rock world in 1993, the first album of glory to death "Almost Dead". In this atmosphere, "Fame" bravely broke into the Billboard list.
In fact, in terms of sales, "Almost Famous" is even better than "Siamese Dream" with broken pumpkins, but due to the huge disadvantage of radio on-demand rate, it can only be ranked after "Siamese Dream" in the end. But even so, the excellent result of No. 27 on the album chart and No. 5 on the rock category list is not an exaggeration to describe it as "born out of nowhere"!
In the second week of December, the initial promotion of the album's Glory to Death attracted wider attention, and the heated discussions in the three professional magazines "Rotation", "Alternative Choice" and "Q Magazine" even more The album "Almost Famous" was placed on the grill, and countless radio shows kept adding fuel to it. I just hope that this time the bonfire will be more and more warm. After the first batch of music reviews, magazines that originally cared about this album also began to write music reviews, and those magazines that did not care about the album at least paid attention to them even if they didn’t write music reviews. After all All the bells and whistles in the music field are their job.
The most interesting thing is that those news media that have nothing to do with music have come to join in the fun one after another after the second week. The insiders watch the doorway, and the laymen watch the excitement. These media did not come to watch because of the reform trend set off by rock music, but because the hot topic of Hugo was trying to get a share.
A year ago, with the release of "The Hero of the Sea of Righteousness", people accidentally discovered Hugo's talent in music. Later, platforms such as "Oprah's Talk Show" appeared to allow Hugo to show his musical talent. The spotlight was once focused on the possibility that Hugo might release an album.
Times have changed, and now Hugo has really released an album, and he has also caused such an uproar in the music field, which naturally aroused strong interest in all newspapers and magazines. Among the media who participated in the fan meeting on the first day of Berkeley's album release, a large number of them joined in the fun, but they only issued a press release at that time, because there was no breaking point worth reporting that day, but only a few. Days later, the breaking point came, which completely triggered a frenzy in the news media.
Under such circumstances, the sales of "Almost Famous" in the second week had a good increase, and the sales figure of 190,000 was achieved in one fell swoop, nearly doubling the sales in the first week, and its ranking on the bulletin board was even higher. Climbing up, he entered the top 20 in one fell swoop, fell behind at the 17th place, and once again rose up one place to occupy the fourth place on the rock classification chart!
Taking the top spot in the second week of December is hip-hop rap superstar Snoop. Doggy. Dogg, who just released his new album last week, his new album "Doggy. Style" In just the second week of its release, it relied on its strong appeal to surpass the "showdown" of Pearl Jam and won the championship.
"Duel" can only retreat to the runner-up position, Maria - Carey's new album "Music Box" rose to the third place.
The biggest highlight of the week also comes from a rock album, Guns & Roses' new album "The. Spaghetti. Incident?", which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart in its first week of release! It also occupies the runner-up position in the rock category chart.
The emergence of Guns and Roses has also brought about a huge change in the rock category rankings. The sales of "Inside the Womb" have further declined and the competition for the top five has been withdrawn. The sales of "Siamese Dream" have risen again but not enough. 5th; Nearly Famous' performance in its second week saw the album climb a spot to number 4, while also becoming one of the top performers of the year-end 1993 rock rookies one.