Chapter 707

In the first week of December 2011, the billboard album list released a new list again. Drake's album "take care" parachuted the champion, while Adele's album "21" continued to be the runner up. The 21-year-old actress undoubtedly became the biggest winner in the music market this year.

However, in the top ten list, the most eye-catching one is neither Adele, who has maintained a strong momentum, nor Derek, who has made remarkable achievements, but Don Quixote, who has become the top ten new face with 35000 sales this week.

Since its release on August 29, Don Quixote's reputation has continued to rise despite the lack of supporting publicity. It is not only the high praise of professional media, but also the high score rarely seen in recent years. It has become one of the most popular albums in the 21st century; Moreover, it has been widely recognized by the audience. In the major forums, in the fan community, and in the independent music fan group, positive feedback has absolutely gained the upper hand.

Strictly speaking, this is an out and out independent Folk Album, even smaller, more low-key and more focused than the original Jason mayez. From the first song to the last one, from the number of up to 16 songs to the theme core of double-sided and double repair, from packaging to pricing, from music style and theme tone, every link and every detail of the album reveals the self entertainment of high and low, as if living in a sterile isolation world, remembering the 1970s and 1970s The golden age of the 1980s, immersed in the retro melody, dancing.

In the 21st century, there will be more than a dozen albums of this type and style in the field of independent music every year, but most of them are just garage Music - they are not formally processed in the studio, but recorded in the garage. There is no market, no distribution, no performance stage for these works. Naturally, there is no living space.

Ninety percent of these albums may not have been heard of at all. They may only be spread among underground music lovers in Seattle. Simple word-of-mouth communication can not even let them leave the shackles of the city, from Seattle to Houston, let alone spread in the United States.

The network of looking for a needle in a haystack doesn't work either.

Don Quixote is an alien. Whether studio 11 admits it or not, whether George strand admits it or not, the fame and attention maintained by the name of "Langley hall" has become the fertile soil for the album to thrive, just as "Tonight Show" has become the premiere stage of "Don Quixote.", Just like the popularity of oil pipe has become a platform for "Pioneer Village night" to shine, first "speed and passion 5", then "crazy love", and then a series of promotional activities in the award season, the attention of this album is really unusual.

Of course, "Don Quixote" album is doomed to be not accepted by the mainstream market, which is beyond doubt. As a result, the sales volume of the album has not been very big, and it has not produced a surprising sales volume of 100000 or 200000 per week, and it has not shown a surprising curve of 90 degree increase. However, it has spread steadily among real music lovers.

Ten thousand, twenty thousand, thirty thousand... Twelve weeks after the launch of Don Quixote, the weekly sales of Don Quixote finally exceeded thirty thousand, and the cumulative sales of Don Quixote also successfully exceeded one hundred thousand. At present, the cumulative sales of Don Quixote are twelve thousand, which is a miracle of sales for a folk song album that is out of the way and an independent album that has no publicity. Even George and studio eleven could not foresee such a trend!

As a result, "Don Quixote" has become a beautiful scenery in the music market in 2011. miracle? This may not be called, at least less than the "21" this album's devastation; marvellous? There is no doubt that countless independent music magazines, independent musicians and independent music lovers are jubilant, celebrating another breakthrough of independent music and giving people hope again.

This week, Don Quixote made it to the top 10 of the billboard album charts for the first time since its release, which is worthy of being the biggest highlight news.

Not only that, thanks to the frequent increase in album sales, the performance of the single is naturally rising.

The first is "Ophelia". The single stayed in the list for a full 66 weeks, and the ranking still stopped at 78. Quietly, it also created its own record - staying in the list of the longest historical records in the list of single charts. "Ophelia" temporarily ranked fourth, just behind Jason mayez's "I'm yours", Then there's LeAnn Rimes's "how-do-i-live" and "Cleopatra," who's making history.

At present, Adele's "falling into the abyss" is also on the same level. This single has been on the list for nearly 60 weeks, and it still ranks in the top 30. It seems that it's no problem to surpass "Ophelia".

The second is "Cleopatra". In 80 weeks, this single not only broke the highest time record of "I am yours" in 76 weeks, but also created miracles. This week's single ranked 39th. From the data, the pace of creating records still does not stop, which can be said to be appalling.

Finally, there is "no doubt". After the third week of October, the popularity of this single remained high, and with the box office performance of "crazy love", it rose to the third place in the second week of November, setting a new record of ballad single in the new century.

If "Cleopatra" is a small stream, then "firmly believe it" is undoubtedly the explosion of a powder keg, reaching an incredible height in an instant, attracting more and more attention in a volcanic eruption posture, sprinting, sprinting again, and then ranking second in the list in the first week of October and February, Just behind Rihanna's we found love.

This is undoubtedly an explosive news! It really makes people feel the powerful influence of Don Quixote and the strong aftereffect of love crazy.

People have to start asking, "where is the limit of Cleopatra?"“ Is it possible to win the championship“ Can the album "Don Quixote" go further? More importantly, what kind of position does this independent album occupy in the singing world?

Also in the first week of December, Grammy announced the nominations for the 54th awards ceremony.

Kanye West's fourth studio album continues its previous excellent performance and is recognized by seven Grammy nominations. It is worthy of being the most powerful rap singer today; Apart from Kanye, Adele, foo flitters and Bruno Mars received six nominations, followed closely.

Although you are the favorite of Grammy, Kanye has been robbed of the limelight this year by Adele and Bruno. The two new generation singers, the former's second studio album and the latter's first studio album, have been double affirmed in terms of market and music review. They are definitely the hottest singers in 2011, and have also been further affirmed by Grammy.

Adele and Bruno are both nominated for the three comprehensive awards of album of the year, single of the year and production of the year. The gold content of Adele and Bruno is unmatched by Kanye, who has only been shortlisted for one single of the year in the comprehensive awards.

There is no doubt that this year's award ceremony, Adele and Bruno's duel will attract countless eyes, but even more incredible is that in addition to these two singers, there is the third singer who has won such an honor - Langley hall, and the latter goes further, including all the nominations of the four major comprehensive awards!

On top of the Grammy Awards ceremony, there are four comprehensive awards, including album of the year, single of the year, production of the year and rookie of the year; In addition, there are various classification departments, such as pop, rap, dance, rock, country and so on.

Among them, the rookie of the year is the top priority of Grammy every year, because every singer has only one chance to compete in his life. If he misses it, he will never miss it. Taylor Swift, Miss Gaga, Rihanna, Britney Spears and other singers all failed to win this trophy.

This year, Langley is not only qualified to compete for the rookie of the year award, but also competes with the band Perry, Nicki Minaj, skrillex, bon iver and other highly recognized singers; But also a strong shortlisted comprehensive category of all Award nominations!

In addition, Langley also received two nominations for best alternative album and best ballad album, with a total of six nominations. Langley, along with Adele, Bruno and flamethrower, became the most popular singer in the nomination stage.

Compared with Adele, Bruno, Kanye and other popular singers, the sales of Don Quixote is barely more than 100000, and Langley is an amateur singer who is not doing his job. This time, he won six nominations, swept all departments of comprehensive awards, and became the biggest winner of Grammy nomination stage with the attitude of being born out of the world!

In addition to "crazy love" and "anti-cancer me", as well as the preparations for the sequel of "speed and passion", the siege of Kennedy International Airport was created. Not only journalists, but also fans, their enthusiasm was completely ignited.

Grammy's affirmation is undoubtedly one of the most important awards for Don Quixote. At the same time, after nearly 30 years of silence, folk songs have returned to the mainstream public's attention. In 2011, it is destined to be a year in the history of North American music market: Adele, Bruno Mars, flamethrower, Taylor Swift, Amy Winehouse... And, of course, Langley hall.

Looking back at this year from the historical node, it is not difficult to find that this year's Grammy is not only the last Carnival of the music market, but also the last glory of independent rock and independent folk. Lanli, it's just the tip of the iceberg.