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Six-time champion, seven-time champion… eight-time champion!

“Crazy in Love,” unstoppable!

Beyoncé, who went solo from Destiny's Child, announced her strong debut with an overwhelming force, soaring to the peak.

So, who can stop Beyoncé?

Judging from the current momentum, “Crazy in Love” is still strong, aiming for a ten-week reign and preparing to write history.

The music market was indeed noisy.

However, a careful look at the Billboard singles chart reveals that a single has been quietly climbing to the upper reaches of the chart—

“Wake Me Up,” by Thirty Seconds to Mars.

Since its release, “Wake Me Up” has spread rapidly across radio stations like a rocket, with airplay rates soaring and popularity skyrocketing.

In just five weeks, the single had already broken into the Billboard Top Ten, squeezing out 50 Cent's position. Coupled with “Viva la Vida” and “Hey Ho” still being in the Top Ten, this also meant that Thirty Seconds to Mars occupied three seats in the Billboard singles chart's Top Ten peak lineup.

Crazy!

Everything was really too crazy.

For a time, people didn't know whether to marvel at the fact that “Hey Ho” had been on the chart for more than forty weeks and still remained inexplicably high in the Top Ten, or whether to marvel at the fact that Thirty Seconds to Mars had become the biggest highlight of this year's music market without any promotion or distribution.

While people were discussing 50 Cent, while people were discussing Beyoncé, Thirty Seconds to Mars won the hearts of countless fans.

The most incredible part is that 50 Cent's hip-hop and Beyoncé's R\u0026B are undoubtedly the most popular types of styles in the current market. Their rise is admirable but not unexpected; however, Thirty Seconds to Mars' rock is slowly declining and leaving the mainstream, not to mention that the band's approach of incorporating classical instruments into their performances is a breakthrough, an adventure, and a feat.

It is against this backdrop that the rise of Thirty Seconds to Mars is even more incredible.

However, this is still not the end.

In the second week of September, “Wake Me Up” jumped from seventh place directly to third place, pushing “Viva la Vida” to fifth place.

The media was in an uproar, after all, ranking changes within the Top Ten are particularly difficult. Whether it is rising or falling, the pace is relatively small, but “Wake Me Up” climbed four places at once, what does this mean?

So, is this a sign of the continued explosion of “Wake Me Up,” or is it the last wave of energy release before a subsequent plunge?

Then.

In the third week of September, without warning, the Billboard singles chart was completely shuffled.

Champion, “Wake Me Up,” Thirty Seconds to Mars.

Runner-up, “Crazy in Love,” Beyoncé.

Third place, “Baby Boy,” Beyoncé.

A cry of surprise, a complete shock.

“Wake Me Up” ends “Crazy in Love’s” eight-week reign, leaping two places to strongly take the top spot!

“Crazy in Love” was ambitiously aiming for a historic ten-week reign, but suddenly encountered an ambush, ending 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 Thirty Seconds to Mars, who popped out of nowhere, accomplished such a feat with “Wake Me Up,” a song full of challenges and breakthroughs, and the entire music market fell into a frenzy.

“Wake Me Up” became Thirty Seconds to Mars' second number one single.

If anyone thinks that this is the end of the story, then he obviously lacks a little imagination and lacks understanding of the influence that Thirty Seconds to Mars and the single “Wake Me Up” have accumulated over the past two years—

Mangold, was like this.

When Johnny Cash said that “Wake Me Up” had epoch-making power, Mangold thought that Johnny was just biased because he loved Anson too much and praised him. At that time, this single was still in the process of continuously climbing the charts, and it had not even reached the top. It was not until after Johnny's regrettable death that “Wake Me Up” dramatically topped the Billboard chart as if by fate.

Mangold couldn't help but sigh that Johnny's keen intuition for music was still sharp, but this should be all, Beyoncé and 50 Cent's music represent the current popular trends, and another one should be added, dance music.

Subsequently, Mangold found that he was wrong—

Two-week champion, three-week champion, wait, there's actually… four-week champion!

For a whole month, “Wake Me Up” firmly held the top spot.

In stark contrast, “Baby Boy” was stuck in second place for three consecutive weeks, and the predicament that “Hey Ho” experienced in the first half of the year reappeared; at the same time, “Crazy in Love” fell out of the Top Ten at the speed of light. In just four weeks, this single had already fallen to the nineteenth position.

A complete uproar!

People did not expect “Wake Me Up” to be so strong, and even more did not expect “Crazy in Love” to run out of energy, and the rate of decline even exceeded “Viva la Vida”.

Similarly, people did not expect that the first single to drop out of the Thirty Seconds to Mars' three singles was actually “Viva la Vida”. After winning the championship for four weeks and staying in the Top Ten for eleven weeks, this single regrettably fell out of the Top Ten, and its subsequent energy was significantly reduced.

And the song “Hey Ho” has been stuck in second place and has never reached the top, but it continues to write records silently. It will stay on the Billboard singles chart for a whole year, and the number of weeks it has stayed in the Top Ten is even more inexplicably close to breaking thirty weeks.

For more than seven months and thirty weeks, no matter how the Billboard singles chart changes, “Hey Ho” has always firmly occupied a place in the Top Ten.

Previously, “Crazy in Love” regrettably failed to continue to climb to the historical peak; but now, “Hey Ho” has come to a historical crossroads—

Currently, “Hey Ho” has stayed in the Billboard Top Ten for twenty-nine weeks, and next week will be thirty weeks, ranking third on the historical list.

In the historical ranking of consecutive weeks staying in the Billboard singles chart's Top Ten, LeAnn Rimes' “How Do I Live” firmly holds the historical record with thirty-two consecutive weeks; while Santana's single “Smooth,” released at the turn of the millennium, ranks second with thirty weeks.

In other words, “Hey Ho” is not far from the historical record and is standing on the shoulders of giants.

If this is a journey, then without a doubt, “Hey Ho” has written a strong and colorful stroke, leaving its footprints in history.