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First one day the Kings lead the nomination list with seven Grammy nominations and people go, "Wait, where did this band come from"; The album garnered incredible acclaim among professional music critics.

If there were no Grammy nominations, maybe "Seven" would be like "Ten Free Summers", a typical representative of the high and the low - professional music critics liked it very much, but the mainstream market did not hear any wind at all, the same reason Here's another album with an average score of ninety-three:

"Chanel-Orange," from up-and-comer soul singer Frank-Ocean.

In fact, Frank Ocean has entered the public eye last year, including Beyoncé, Kanye-West (Kanye-West) and other top big names have recommended his mixtape, which also makes his debut The solo album "Channel Orange" has won a lot of attention. It sold 110,000 copies in the first week of its release, and it airborne the runner-up of Billboard's album list.

Such an achievement, compared with the king of the day, is simply a sky and an earth. But the North American music market is so complicated and difficult. Even though "Channel Orange" has achieved such excellent results and has endorsements from top superstars, the impact of the album is still limited——

Remember the discussion about the difference between the Billboard singles and album charts? None of the tracks in the entire "Channel Orange" album entered the singles chart, which also means that Frank Ocean is still an "invisible man" in the eyes of the general public, and the excellence of the album has not been able to be promoted.

In the end, it was also Grammy's discerning eye who found Frank Ocean in the vast ocean of music.

With "Channel Orange" earning six nominations and "Seven" right behind, it's just another album with such a good professional average score.

However, don’t think that it’s very easy to score 90% by professional media—in 2012, there were only five albums scored above 90% by professional media on MetaCritic; the average score was 80%. A total of one hundred and thirty-six albums have gathered in the area from ten to eighty-nine points, and it can be seen from the side that from eighty-nine points to ninety-nine points, what a difficult gap this is.

By the way, Taylor Swift's new album "Red" released in October has a comprehensive media score of 77 points, tying her last album and the highest in her career, which proves once again that Now, "both refined and popular" has never been such a common thing.

The line of sight returned to the king for a day.

The album "Seven" seems to have popped out of a crack in the stone, and it has won seven Grammy nominations, causing an uproar among the general public, just as people are angrily preparing to protest and complain At that time, the figures of the media's comprehensive score solved the confusion: New 81 Chinese website is updated the fastest computer terminal: www.x-on:x81zwx-on:x-on:

It's not that "Seven" is not good enough, but that people haven't discovered this album for the time being.

Recording of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Newcomer of the Year, all four nominations for comprehensive awards were in the bag, and the three nominations for Best Rock Performance, Best Rock Song, and Best Rock Album were the icing on the cake, successfully pushing the One Day King to career pinnacle.

Without warning.

Unprepared.

Moreover, the very, very important detail is that the song that won many nominations for the king for a day is not the widely circulated "Chasing the Light", but "My Demon", which has just recently attracted attention.

Including the four nominations for Recording of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song, all belong to "My Demons."

Is this an accident, or... strength?

Could it be that Atlantic Records heard about the internal information early on, so they released "My Demon" as the second single in advance, even at the expense of "Chasing the Light"'s plan to hit the charts, or is it all just a coincidence?

But that doesn't matter anymore, because "My Demon" has already won a lot of attention.

Continue to pay attention to the Grammy nomination list. Behind the king for a day, there are six groups of singers who have won six nominations. The competition is fierce:

The--Keys, Jay-Z, Mumford & Sons, Frank Ocean, Kanye West, Fun.

Among them, the Black Keys, Sons of Mumford, and Joyful Entertainment all belong to the rock group - but the Joyful Entertainment team is assigned to the pop faction at the Grammys, Jay-Z and Kanye-West belong to the rap group, and Frank- Orson is the soul, from which one can get a glimpse of the popular direction of the entire music market.

Of course, pop genres headed by Adele, Taylor Swift, Katy-Perry, Rihanna, and Maroon 5 are still the most popular genres in the mainstream market, but Greg Les Mills clearly hopes to find more balance between business and art.

It can be seen from the above seven groups of singers that they are obviously younger. Both Jay-Z and Kanye West have been industry leaders in the music industry for many years. Except for the ten-year-old rock band, the other four groups of singers are all very young.

Sons of Mumford and Joyful Entertainment only released their first official albums in 2009, while Frank Ocean and King for a Day both just debuted this year——

Leaving aside the turbulent and dark years leading up to the release of their first official album, they are indeed fresh faces appearing in the public eye for the first time; Young batch of nominees.

This can be seen from the list of nominations for the four major comprehensive awards. A genius remembers 噺バ一Chinese in a second m.x/8/1/z/w.c/o/m/

So, what are the four comprehensive awards?

Grammy has a total of about 80 categories of awards, but the award ceremony is limited by time, it is impossible to announce and award them one by one. In the end, only 20% of the awards were officially awarded in the form of live broadcast, and all other awards were presented at the ceremony. Before the start, it will be awarded in a non-live format.

The awards that can finally appear on the live broadcast stage, including rock, pop, country and other important awards in the mainstream music department, there are also four comprehensive awards, which are also the most important awards among all Grammy awards—— Recording of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Newcomer of the Year.

Each of the four comprehensive awards is a supreme honor, and it is a great honor to win any one of them; and in history, the only singer who "won" the four comprehensive awards is Norah-Jones (Norah-Jones).

Ten years ago, at the 45th Annual Grammy Awards, up-and-comer Nora won six Grammys for her debut album, "Come-Away-With-Me," including Recording of the Year , Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Newcomer of the Year.

However, song of the year is a separate award for songwriters, and songwriter Jess-Harris, who wrote the title track "Doesn't-Know-Why," won the award. Trophies - For the media, they all think that Norah Jones has swept the four major awards, but strictly speaking, the song of the year is not a trophy for Nora.

Despite this, Norah Jones is still the only singer in the long history of the Grammys who can be infinitely close to "sweeping" the four comprehensive awards.