Chapter 1092 Awakening the Market
Six consecutive championships, seven consecutive championships...eight consecutive championships!
“Crazy for love” is unstoppable!
Beyoncé, who started her solo career from Destiny's Child, declared her strong debut by sweeping the entire army, soaring to the top.
So, who can stop Beyoncé?
Judging from the current momentum, "Crazy for Love" is still going strong, aiming for ten consecutive championships and preparing to write history.
As of the summer of 2003, only eleven singles in Billboard history had accomplished such a feat, staying at the top of the singles chart for more than ten weeks.
Among them, Mariah Carey and Boyz-II-Men’s 1995 single “One-Sweet-Day” holds the record for being number one for sixteen consecutive weeks. , in nearly ten years, no one has been able to come close to this amazing record.
Maybe the only one who can stop Beyonce is Beyonce herself?
In the third week of August, Beyoncé took advantage of the victory and released the album’s second single, “Baby- "Boy", driven by its extremely high popularity, the single soared fiercely, once again making people in the industry pay attention.
The music market is indeed noisy.
However, if you look closely at the Billboard Singles Chart, you can notice that one single has quietly climbed to the upper reaches of the chart -
"Wake Me Up" , the band August 31st.
Since its release, "Wake Me Up" has rapidly spread across radio stations like a rocket, with its on-demand rate soaring and its popularity skyrocketing.
In just five weeks, the single has broken into the top ten of Billboard, knocking out Fifty Cents. In addition, "Long Live Life" and "Ho Hey" are still in the top ten. This is also This means that on August 31st, the band occupied three spots in the top ten of the Billboard singles chart.
crazy!
Everything is really crazy.
For a moment, people didn’t know whether to marvel that “Ho Hey” remained in the top ten despite being on the list for more than forty weeks, or whether they should marvel that the band had no publicity on August 31 Even without any distribution, it can actually become the biggest highlight of this year’s music market.
While people are discussing Fifty Cents, when people are discussing Beyoncé, the band August 31st has won the hearts of countless fans.
The most incredible part is that fifty-cent hip-hop and Beyoncé’s rhythm and blues are undoubtedly the most popular genres on the market. Their rise is amazing but not unexpected; however, in August The rock music of Thirty-One is slowly declining and out of mainstream sight, not to mention the band's integration of classical instruments into their performances is a breakthrough, an adventure, and a feat.
It is against this background that the rise of the band August 31st is even more incredible.
However, this is still not the end.
In the second week of September, "Wake Me Up" jumped directly from seventh place to third place on a small rocket, pushing "Long Live Life" to fifth place.
The media suddenly became excited. After all, it is extremely difficult to change the rankings within the top ten. Whether it is rising or falling, the pace is relatively small, but "Wake Me Up" climbed four positions, which means What?
So, is this a sign of the continued explosion of "Wake Me Up", or is it a turning point where the last wave of energy is released and is about to plummet?
Then.
In the third week of September, without warning, the Billboard singles chart was completely shuffled.
Winner, "Wake Me Up", August 31st Band.
Runner Up, “Crazy in Love,” Beyoncé. Second runner-up, "Baby Boy," Beyoncé.
There was an exclamation and a full impact.
"Wake Me Up" ended "Crazy for Love"'s eight consecutive championships, leaping two places to reach the top!
"Crazy for Love" was ambitiously aiming for the historic ten consecutive championships, but suddenly encountered a foreshadowing and ended its journey to impact history ahead of schedule. Just when everyone was singing praises for Beyoncé, the situation suddenly changed.
Crazy, absolutely crazy!
What’s even crazier is that the band August 31st, which burst out from the cracks in the stone, accomplished such a feat with a song full of challenges and breakthroughs like "Wake Me Up", and the entire music market fell into a frenzy. middle.
"Wake Me Up" became the band's second number one single on August 31st.
If anyone thinks that this is the end of the story, then he obviously lacks a little imagination, and the influence that has accumulated over the past two years on the band August 31st and the single "Wake Me Up" Power lacks understanding -
Mangold, that's it.
When Johnny Cash said that "Wake Me Up" had epoch-making power, Mangold thought that Johnny was just in love with the house and had too much praise for Anson. At that time, the single was still climbing the charts. During their journey, they did not even reach the top of the Billboard charts. It was only after Johnny's regretful death that "Wake Me Up" reached the top of the Billboard charts in a dramatic and fateful way.
Mangold couldn't help but lament that Johnny's keen intuition for music is still as good as ever, but that should be all. Beyoncé and Fifty Cent Music represent the current popular trends. In addition, there should be added Dance music.
Later, Mangold discovered that he was wrong -
Two consecutive championships, three consecutive championships, etc., there is actually...four consecutive championships!
For a whole month, "Wake Me Up" firmly stayed on the top spot.
In sharp contrast, "Baby Boy" was stuck in the second place for three consecutive weeks, and the dilemma experienced by "Ho Hey" in the first half of the year reappeared; at the same time, "Crazy for Love" moved at the speed of light Dropping out of the top ten, in just four weeks, the single has slipped to the nineteenth position.
There was an uproar!
People didn't expect "Wake Me Up" to be so strong, and they didn't expect "Crazy About Love" to run out of energy and fall even faster than "Long Live Life."
Similarly, people did not expect that among the band's three singles on August 31, the first to fall behind was "Long Live Life", which won the championship for four weeks and stayed in the top ten for a full ten years. A week later, the single unfortunately fell out of the top ten, and its follow-up energy obviously diminished.
The song "Ho Hey" has never reached the top of the charts but continues to write records quietly. It will stay on the Billboard singles chart for a full year, and it will be in the top ten. The number of weeks of stay in the name is even more incredible and is about to exceed thirty weeks.
For more than seven months and thirty weeks, no matter how the Billboard singles chart changes, "Ho Hey" has always firmly occupied a place in the top ten.
Previously, "Crazy for Love" unfortunately failed to continue to climb the historical peak; but now, "Ho Hey" has reached the crossroads of history——
Currently, "Hoo Hey" has spent twenty-nine weeks in the Billboard top ten, and it will be thirty weeks next week, ranking third on the all-time chart.
The historical ranking of the number of consecutive weeks in the top ten of the Billboard singles chart, LeAnn-Rimes' "How-Do-I-Live" It firmly holds the historical record with thirty-two consecutive weeks; while Santana's single "Smooth", released at the turn of the millennium, ranked second with thirty-two weeks.
In other words, "Ho Hey" is not far from the historical record, standing on the shoulders of giants.
If this is a journey, then there is no doubt that "Ho Hei" has written a rich and colorful stroke and left its own footprints in the annals of history.
(End of this chapter)