Chapter 496： Championship record

It's no secret that album and single sales surge after the Grammys, especially for singers who won awards at the ceremony, whose work always gets extra attention.

The same is true after the 45th Grammy Awards. Norah-Jones' album "Flying Away (ythPS saw a sharp increase in sales, reaching 600,000 sales, an increase of 300%, which also created the highest increase in album sales after the Grammy Awards. new record.

However, as the biggest winner of this Grammy Awards ceremony, and the biggest winner of the American music scene in 2002, Evan Bell's singles and albums are still strong, carrying the momentum of winning seven awards, creating a new a series of records.

The single "Sky Light (dst, after its release, dominated the entire winter of 2002 with eleven consecutive championships, and continued to usher in the spring of 2003 with the number one title. After that, "Tianguang" won the championship again for seven consecutive weeks, extending its strength until the Grammy Awards. It has won the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Singles Chart for 18 weeks.

Eighteen weeks, more than four months. "Sky Light" became the 2002 annual song with an undisputed advantage. At the same time, this achievement surpassed the 16-week championship record set by Maria Kelly in 1995 with "Sweet ì Day (stdy , which became the longest-running number one single in Billboard singles history.

At the same time, at the end of 2002, the album "Two", which won the championship for eleven consecutive weeks, failed to continue to be strong in 2003. After ushering in the two-week chart list as a champion, it was "eight miles" by the electric nose. 's soundtrack fell off the charts and fell to the runner-up position. But even so, "Two" still won the championship for 13 consecutive weeks, which can be among the top 30 in Billboard's century-old history. Of course, fifty-four weeks away from the "West Side Story (stsdstry soundtrack, and Michael Jackson's "thrllr" album's second-longest number-one record at thirty-seven weeks, and many more. big gap.

However, after the Grammy Awards ceremony, "Two" once again won 720,000 sales, a 150% increase, although not as great as Nora Jones' increase, but mainly because " "Two" has been strong in sales before, and Nora-Jones should be a post-Grammy explosion. So, in the first week after the Grammys, the Billboard album chart tops and runners-up were Evan Bell and Norah Jones, two singers who had a good night and welcomed again. their heyday.

After "Second" won the championship for another week, it was surpassed by Nora Jones, who was full of stamina, and fell to the runner-up position. After all, "two" has already created 7.5 million sales in 2002. After entering 2003, the room for increase is indeed much smaller.

The opportunity carefully planned by Warner Records..., of course, will not be missed. The day after the Grammys, Evan Bell's "Two" the album's fifth single "Top (tht, should be the first if the special release "Never Alone Library" is added. Six singles out'

Officially released simultaneously in physical stores and tus.

The attention that "Top" received at this year's Grammys even surpassed the momentum of "Better than Hallelujah" last year, not only because Evan Bell's music style is becoming more and more mature, but also because "Top" is the most vivid song The lyrics of the image depict the phenomena that can be seen everywhere in life. More importantly, it has been half a year since September 11 when "Better than Hallelujah" came out, but the hustle and bustle of the war had just begun when "Top" came out. Therefore, the "top-level" with profound meaning has naturally gained indiscriminate attention from the media.

The cover of "Top" this time is the most daring of all Evan Bell's singles. On the dark back cover, a bright blood-like skirt in the lower left corner spread out splendidly. The enchanting red color covered a piece of pale skin, and the face could not be seen clearly, only the outline of a shoulder line. The strong contrast of red, white and black colors creates a fatal visual impact, while the "top (tht in the upper right corner is a hollow font, and the bottom color in the font becomes a clean blue color, clear It is transparent, and one or two traces of clouds and mist can be seen, making people wonder if this is heaven, and the red color below is where **** is. Under the title of the single, the name "Evan Bell" is outlined in bright purple, almost invisible, but in fact, with such a flamboyant cover, everyone knows that it is Evan Bell's single . On the back cover, there is only a wisp of smoke, a hazy white smoke that makes people confused. However, someone quickly responded. This, maybe the smoke from drug use? But everyone is just guessing. It is impossible to know the answer from Evan Bell.

"Top" was released on the first day, followed by the Grammy's Dongfeng, and won the total sales of 360,000 physical records and tus. Although it failed to break the record of "Tianguang", it was still jaw-dropping. In the first week, the sales volume of 710,000 was finally achieved. Although it was far from the astonishing sales volume of "Tianguang" breaking through one million in the first week, this result still made "Tianguang" the champion for 18 consecutive weeks. No. 1 on the Billboard Singles Chart.

It was Evan Bell's sixth number-one single from the album Two: The press counted the special release "Never Walk Alone" as a single from the album Two. This also means that Evan Bell broke the record of "five number one singles in the same album" created by Michael Jackson in 1984 and became the first person in music history.

The first person in music history to have six number one singles on the same album, what does that mean? This means that Evan Bell has created records that the Beatles, Elvis, Michael Jackson, Maria Kelly, Whitney Houston and others have not created. This doesn't mean that Evan Bell's place in music history can be improved much, but it does mean that the album "Two" is really super high quality, and Evan Bell has put together ten absolutely outstanding singers into one album. . The same song can be the title song on other people's albums and be promoted for months, but Evan and Bell put them all into one album, creating the "two" piece A classic album.

"Sky Light" was a turning point for Evan-Bell from first-tier singers to the top, and the album "Two" earned Evan-Bell a place in the long history of music. Compared with the gradual development of Evan-Bell in the film, Evan-Bell's performance in music is indeed amazing, and with an amazing trend, he has quickly completed the ranks from newcomers to **** singers.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, new singers have emerged in an endless stream, such as last year's Alicia Keys, such as this year's Nora Jones, but only two new singers have successfully consolidated their status in a short period of time, one is Linkin Park , they are now firmly on the throne of one of the rock bands with the most splendid live performances: one is Evan Bell, he is obviously the first person in the new generation, and even in front of many seniors, he still does not fall behind. .

"Top" won the title and became the sixth number one single of the album "Two", and also became the tenth number one single of Evan Bell in his third year. Who else can stop Evan A Bell? should not.

After winning the championship in the first week, "Top" won the championship for six consecutive weeks, especially when the United States officially bypassed the United Nations and was about to launch the war against Iraq, the sales suddenly exploded, and it won 800,000 in a single week. The sales volume has become the record of the highest sales in a single week since the "Top" was put on the shelves, which strongly expresses the people's desire to resist the war.

There is no strong record that can break "Tianguang". It is not unusual for "Tianguang" to win the 18-week championship. Just as Evan Bell himself said, "I don't know when I will be able to create the second song "Tianguang". , . "However, the six-week championship results before and after "Top" are still the singles with the second most championship weeks among all Evan Bell's current singles, and the results are remarkable.

After coming down from the championship, the "top" remained unabated, staying in the top ten for 36 weeks. When the "top" disappeared from the top ten list, 2003 was coming to an end. The cumulative sales of "Top" has already passed the threshold of one million and two million, and with a strong attitude, it launched an impact on the year-end single sales chart in 2003.

In addition to the outstanding sales, "Top" has won a lot of praise among music critics However, most music critics understand this song as Evan Bell's anti-war manifesto. It is believed that Evan-Bell expressed his dislike of war in a freehand manner. In fact, this was not Evan Bell's original intention at all. He really only described the story of a prostitute on 42nd Street in Manhattan.

Of course, it's not that these music critics misunderstood Evan Bell's meaning, it's just that in this social environment, people always interpret the song in combination with the focus of current events, so although their interpretation is not necessarily correct, it also represents a certain point of view.

The most important thing is that among more than 40 media, although the score for the song "Top" is not as bad as "Tianguang" at 9.7, it still created a super high score of 9.2. , it can be seen that the music critics praised this song.

Amid the overwhelming praise, Adam Roy's music review for "Rolling Stone" maintained a little sobriety and put forward a slightly stern point of view, just like his serious attitude towards music.

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