Eight Hundred and Fifty-Six New Heights

No. 1 on the Billboard Albums Chart for six consecutive weeks! Sales exceeded 200,000 for six consecutive weeks! Dominate the Top Topic List for six consecutive weeks!

Not even Kanye West, not even the Spitfire, not even Taylor Swift, not even Miss Gaga, not even Rihanna in 2011; Bobby Dylan in the 1990s was not able to achieve such market recognition.

Besides Adele and Bruno Mars, Renly Hall is the third of a handful.

However, "Don Quixote" is a folk album!

Such a contrast is enough to clearly feel the unparalleled and powerful influence of this album. On the Internet, in life, bits and pieces about this album, spread by word of mouth, gradually began to spread:

"Don Quixote" wouldn't have been possible without George Srender's desperate gamble, because Renly believes that such an album would be impossible to recognize in the contemporary music market; , George Slender and Herbert Jones had concerns and debates over the album's repertoire, and even dropped two of their best works.

Including a number of independent record companies, they all retreated in the face of the album "Don Quixote", and finally Eleven Studio took over, otherwise the album could not be released at all; after the official release, Eleven Studio's The publicity budget was stretched, and it was completely impossible to carry out relevant publicity. Therefore, it is unbelievable that the album "Don Quixote" has no official channel so far.

On YouTube, the birth of "Night of Pioneer Village" was not a coincidence, but because the album "Don Quixote" was brewed and born there; more importantly, Pioneer Village is the whole album, The most important promoter of production and publicity, where there is always a group of real Don Quixotes, sticking to a spiritual paradise.

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With the advancement of time, March has passed, April has passed, and spring and summer have come.

The popularity of the album "Don Quixote" gradually settled down, but it did not disappear completely. The details were added little by little, and it flowed slowly in the long river of time, like a big wave washing away the sand, and the crowd of onlookers who blindly followed the trend gradually left. However, the loyal listeners who stayed in place discovered more and more details, and the whole album became more and more complete, more vivid, and more profound, so they became more and more fond of it.

Gradually, people finally understand why this album is so special, why this album has gone from obscure to highly sought after, seems to have no context but is so taken for granted, why this album can be awarded a Grammy, why the media Thinking that Grammy's choice is an important reform of the industry, and why the audience who watched "One Man's Concert" became supporters of Renly...

"Don Quixote" is never an instant stunning album,

What it needs is the precipitation of time and the polishing of years. Only by calming down and listening with your heart can you discover the soul and truth behind the melody. Grammy's three gramophones just opened a door, and countless people poured in, but only a small number of people stayed.

In just six weeks, "Don Quixote" has exploded with 1.53 million sales, and the cumulative sales since its release will cross the 2 million threshold.

A miracle, this is a real miracle; but when I think about it, it is not a miracle, but a journey: in the increasingly fast-paced modern society, there are still so many Don Quixotes hidden, Quietly, quietly waiting, waiting, insisting, until the appearance of "Don Quixote".

Even if it is ten or twenty years later, looking back again, there is no broadcast, no music video, no publicity, "Don Quixote" from conception to creation to distribution, to glory, and finally to casting a classic, this journey, Not in a hurry, neither arrogant nor impetuous, neither humble nor arrogant, in the erosion and precipitation of time, he has opened up a path of his own.

Unique and irreplaceable.

In the fifth week of March, Bruce Springsteen's new solo album "Hammer Breaker" debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Albums Chart, ending "Don Quixote"'s six-peat and breaking "Don Quixote" " and " " are combined to block. However, the popularity of these two albums has not diminished, and they just slipped to the runner-up and third-place positions correspondingly.

After that, the competition on the Billboard album chart was reopened, and the top of the list changed almost every week. You sang and I came on stage. It was not that the competition was too fierce, but that the competitiveness of the newly released albums was not strong enough. After the outbreak, and then began to weaken, this is the status quo of the entire market.

In this, the firmness of "" and "Don Quixote" is more and more valuable.

After the fifth week of March, "" stayed in the top three positions for thirteen weeks, and then returned to the championship in an incredible way. After only one week, he fell back to the runner-up and continued to dominate the list. , I can't see the decline at all, and the subsequent explosive force has completely made the language useless.

In comparison, the endurance of "Don Quixote" is still inherently insufficient. After giving up the championship, it stayed in the runner-up position for a full eight weeks, and it suppressed the "" for eight weeks again. All potential and The energy was finally exhausted, and it fell directly out of the top three. It fell to the fifth place in one go, and then continued to decline, hovering in the top ten rankings, temporarily slowing down the downward momentum.

Although it can't be compared with the """, at least, "Don Quixote" stayed in the top five for fourteen weeks, and after fourteen weeks, it still stayed in the top ten, and there was no avalanche at all. sign.

Regardless of the follow-up momentum, "Don Quixote" has become the best-selling folk album of the twenty-first century, and the most well-known folk album since Bob Dylan. Such achievements are enough to go down in history. After this, every step of "Don Quixote" is refreshing its own record and creating its own history!

The strong sales of the "Don Quixote" album have naturally boosted the singles' performance, especially the performance of selling over 200,000 for six consecutive weeks, which can be regarded as a great spectacle after the start of 2012!

In the third week of February, the week after the Grammys ended, on the newly announced Billboard singles chart, all eighteen singles from the entire album of "Don Quixote" entered the chart! There are a full eighteen songs, without any omissions, all of them are included in the list!

This performance, combined with the album sales of 450,000 in a single week, is amazing! At the same time, it also created a whole new history on Billboard: the artist with the most tracks at one time! The singer with the most songs on the chart at the same time! Also, the singer with the longest gap between the release of an album and a single hit the charts!

Of course, of the 18 singles, 15 of them were in the 50th to 100th chart range, and as many as nine were densely subdivided after the 75th; and a week later, more than ten One song was directly on the list, and the four longest songs only stayed for four weeks.

Overall, the singles scores are not that bright, with the highest ranking being "Time" at No. 53.

In addition, "Ophelia" re-entered the chart. After lingering on the Billboard singles chart for 68 weeks, it fell off the chart, and the record of consecutive weeks on the chart came to an abrupt end, temporarily ranking fourth in history. .

It is worth mentioning that Adele's "Falling into the Abyss" failed to overtake "Ophelia", and finally stayed above 64 weeks on the chart, but this single won the championship for seven consecutive weeks. Naturally, it is not something that can be compared to a low-level self-promotion like "Ophelia".

After a lapse of two months, "Ophelia" entered the list again, temporarily ranking fifty-seventh.

And "Cleopatra" has always stayed on the list unbelievably. Last week, it had slipped to the 94th place and is about to be released. This week, thanks to the momentum of the Grammys, it has recovered to the sixth place. sixteen.

So far, this single has been on the chart for ninety weeks, far exceeding the seventy-six weeks achieved by the original holder of the historical record, "I Am Yours", establishing an almost unsurpassable history. .

After that, "Cleopatra" stayed on the list for another three weeks, officially appeared on the list, and fixed the historical record of the number of weeks on the list at 93 weeks, creating a journey for this trip. A perfect ending.

Of the eighteen singles, only three made it to the top fifty.

"The Beast," "Believe," "Your Bones."

The first is "Your Bones". Since the "Ellen Show", the popularity and popularity of this single have always existed, but it has not been able to officially ignite and detonate. With this Grammy Awards ceremony, Ellen- DeGeneres took the initiative to mention it again on the show, so the digital audio download data jumped into the rocket.

Not only did it break into the Billboard Singles Chart for the first time without any publicity, but it also peaked at number 41, a remarkable achievement.

Followed by "Believe in No Doubt", with the popularity of "Crazy Love", the highest ranking of this single once reached the second place, which is also the highest ranking record for folk songs since the millennium. But the endurance of the single is average. After reaching the peak of the second place, it only stayed for three weeks, and then slowly and slowly all the way down.

In the week before the Grammys, "Believe in Doubt" was temporarily ranked thirty-seventh on the list. Compared with the incredible ability of "Cleopatra" and "Ophelia" to stay on the list, "Believe" is only on the fifteenth week of the list, and its stamina is really not on the same level.

However, this week, "Believe" returned to the top 20 and returned to the 14th place, which is a good performance.

Finally, "The Beast", a single that never made it to the charts, became an overnight hit thanks to the classic moment of the album of the year acceptance speech. The number of listening times has also increased exponentially, which also made the single's performance skyrocket, and it directly landed at the fourth place on the Billboard singles chart.

A year ago, the ballad singles topped the millennium at No. 6; a year later, the singles "Be Sure" and "The Beast" both broke that high.

Just the album "Don Quixote", the record and the brilliance of writing, is enough to go down in history! 8)