Chapter 381： Extra competition

After the "Saturday Night Live" broadcast, the recent performance of the powerful star Evan Bell has been praised by the critics.

Most of the media believe that Evan Bell's self-deprecating and complaining has entertained the public with the controversy and focus that the media have placed on him in the past period of time, showing his calmness and demeanor. Among them, Evan Bell still maintains a clear head in the environment where the media has recently concentrated on him, and also mocked this phenomenon in "Saturday Night Live", which is obviously beyond the expectations of the media .

In fact, in a later interview with William Wood, Evan Bell also said that at present he has only released two albums, and he is only a recruit in the entertainment industry with four movies released. The sales and box office can only be said to be the audience's favorite, not As a reference data - after all, the number of works is still too small, the only commendable thing is his victory at the 44th Grammy Awards. Therefore, Evan-Bell does not think that he is really as strong as the media has portrayed, and his results are so outstanding.

"My artist career has only just passed the first stage." These are the original words of Evan Bell, which also shows the calmness of the teenager who is about to turn 20. So the self-mockery on "Saturday Night Live" isn't surprising.

Most importantly, Evan Bell was completely relieved that he was happy to joke about the slander incident in July and the tit-for-tat past of melancholy mood, which also allowed the media to re-acquaint the teenager.

Relatively speaking, the "Premier" represented by Elliott Carter and the "News of the World" where Sean Hall is located believe that Evan Bell is self-hype, using the "Saturday Night Live" stage to clarify again himself, so as to achieve the purpose of promoting his image of a civilian hero.

Aside from these negative comments, the media generally gave Evan Bell, who was not doing his job properly, and the first guest host's role, all gave a good score of 70 points. The audience is even more convinced. The general audience thinks that Evan-Bell's humorous, calm, and funny acting skills are in no way inferior to the other actors of "Saturday Night Live...". They think that the quality of Evan-Bell's program is very good. sè, and it is a long-lost classic.

At the same time, the live performances by the media and audiences, Jason-Mayez and Evan-Bell, were absolutely superb and won unanimous praise.

Loudness of the media and the audience has also been clearly reflected in the ratings.

Viewership statistics in the United States are divided into two parts, one for household ratings and one for adults between the ages of 18 and 49. Therefore, generally speaking, American TV dramas and variety shows will have two parts: the number of viewers and the ratings. Viewership is a statistic of the total number of viewers in the United States. The viewing rate is the viewing ratio of adults aged 18 to 49. Because this group of people is the main part of advertisers' attention, that is, potential audiences, they are paid special attention.

Generally speaking, the ratings refer to the latter, the ratings of adults aged 18 to 49.

Evan Bell hosted "Saturday Night Live" with a 10.7/4.5 rating. Specifically, it means that 10.7% of households across the United States watched the episode, compared with 4.5% of adults between the ages of 18 and 49. Converted to numbers, it turns out that 12 million households with televisions watched and watched it, and 6 million adults aged 18 to 49 watched the episode.

This result may not be comparable to the ratings of "Oprah's Talk Show" and the Grammy Awards, but considering that "Saturday Night Live" is broadcast late at night, the ratings naturally cannot be compared. In the program, "Saturday Night Live" hosted by Evan Bell undoubtedly won the ratings championship, and at the same time, the ratings of this episode also created the highest ratings of "Saturday Night Live" in eight years. The show has the highest ratings since the episode on March 12, 1994, when the Winter Olympics skating star Nancy Kerrigan was the host and Aretha Franklin was the guest of honor!

The whole United States is feeling the approaching of the Evan-Bell trend. "Saturday Night Live" also allowed everyone to see the humorous side of Evan-Bell, and the topic has risen strongly again.

At the same time, due to the "Saturday Night Live" ridicule, the albums of Jason-Mayez and Shuyu Mood also received widespread attention.

The Jason-Mayaz and Melancholy albums were released at the same time on October 12, which is actually three days after Evan-Bell was released in the same week. However, in the face of the strength of the "two" album, the two albums were released on Saturday, which naturally means that there is no direct competition.

But inevitably, from the second week onwards, the competition began.

Leaving aside Jason-Mayez, Universal Music released the Melancholy album at this time without any idea of ​​competition. Warner Music's plans for the "Two" album have also been in flux, and Universal Music has also considered whether to delay the release of the Melancholy album after it was finalized that "Two" will be released on October 9. However, Melancholia's comeback album has been delayed for three months, and if you add that it disappeared after June last year, Melancholia has been hiding for too long. Universal Music held the idea of ​​relaunching newcomers and felt that there was no need to change the release date. Of course, it is unknown whether Universal Music has the idea of ​​competing with Evan Bell.

As for Jason-Mayez, his style and market are different from Evan-Bell, and his positioning is also different. Therefore, Jason-Mayez didn't think too much about it at all, and felt that he didn't need to avoid Evan Bell's limelight, but jokingly said that "the same period is released to promote together, and you can still touch the light of Evan Bell."

The album "Waiting for My Rocket" by Jason-Mayez is quite personal, and has received strong support from independent music magazines such as "Rotation", "URB..., etc."

"Rotation" magazine thought "Jason's voice is crystal-perfect" and commented that he gave the album a favorable review as "a rare genius pop-folk singer-songwriter in America".

Entrusted with the promotion of Eleven's music blog, and Jason-Mayez's wandering music career in the past few years, his reputation on the Internet has quietly spread. Netizens all believe that Jason-Mayez can be compared with John Mayer, who is the hottest this year. John Mayer debuted in 1999, and the album released this year received numerous compliments. "Rolling Stone" listed him, Avril Lavigne, Vanessa and others as one of the most noteworthy rookie singers in 2002. Now, to this watch list, there is one more person, Jason-Majedz.

"Jason's live performance is simply a unique and wonderful performance that only exists in the sky" This is the incomparable admiration for Jason-Mayez on the Internet. It also gave the release of Jason-Mayez's first official album a much larger-than-expected attention.

The melancholy mood of starting anew, Universal Music is obviously ambitious, calm down and earnestly create. The second album "Rebirth" is still in the rock style. Although it continues the tone of the idol rock band, it has made a qualitative leap in the shaping of members' strength and image. The title song "Rebirth" did not repeat the mistakes of last year's copycat version of "Broad Seas and Sky", and invited professional lyricists and composers to compose a high-quality song.

The song opens with a strong rhythm and catchy melody, apparently aiming to create a song with a high enough popularity.

Compared with last year's debut, Universal Music still has a lot of thoughts on melancholy mood this year, but the order is much clearer. Although the former agent, Craig Cook, is now in prison because of his scheming defeat, his re-planning of the melancholy mood is undoubtedly a success. The manager who took over after that, after discussing with the upper management of Universal Music, continued this plan.

The magazines and media that reported on the melancholy mood were selected, and the comments were relatively pertinent and praised. At the same time, the publicity schedule was not satisfied with winning by quantity, but more on being able to get in touch with the song and have a solid foundation for the song. In addition, Universal Music is approaching, hoping to provide members of the Melancholic mood band members with the opportunity to make a cameo TV series. All in all, although Melancholy is still an idol band this time, the quality is significantly higher.

Jason-Mayez's "Waiting for My Rocket" sold less than 60,000 in its first week of release, and 130,000 in its second Tuesday, pushing the album into the top 10 on the Billboard album chart. , Kankan hangs in the tenth place. After that, the sales of Jason-Majez's albums, like his fresh and natural music style, have been tepid, but because of the quality of the albums and the joint promotion of Evan Bell, they have also achieved good sales, with an average of Weekly sales of about 150,000 are enough to put him in the top 20 of the Billboard album chart.

If according to the original historical trajectoryJason-Majedz's debut album did not achieve too much success, his fame did not spread until 2005. But this time, because of the existence of Evan Bell and because of the existence of Studio Eleven, the album sales of "Waiting for My Rocket" exceeded one million in the second week of December. The past life was so much better.

The "rebirth" of the melancholy mood has also attracted a lot of attention. Although there were many negative news before, it has been a long time, and the promotion strategy of Universal Music is appropriate, so the sales of this album have shown a good trend. In the second week, "Rebirth" achieved sales of 160,000 and ranked 20th on the Billboard album chart. This result is higher than the one-week sales of last year's debut album, which shows the progress of Melancholy mood this time. .

Of course, under the situation that the "Two" album swept thousands of troops, "Rebirth" has nothing to compare with. The cumulative sales volume of 500,000 in a month is not as good as the sales of "Two" in a week, but it still exceeds the first album of Melancholy Mood. score.

At this time, no media will advocate the competition between Melancholy and Evan Bell, because there is no comparable xìng, but the release of Jason-Majes and Melancholy albums can be regarded as a topic, and it can barely be regarded as an extra competition. The only thing to watch about this extra competition is that after a year and four months, the melancholy mood finally appeared in front of the media in a low-key manner again. ! .