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The music market in 1998 showed a prosperous scene. The year-end album sold more than four million and there were ten copies. This number was only five last year, which has doubled this year; however, the top three albums last year Album sales have exceeded six million, but this year there is only one album with six million sales.

From this perspective, in fact, the development context of the music market and the film market is surprisingly consistent: the collective momentum is constantly rising, while the dominance of Yiqi Juechen's works is declining, but the overall market potential has been tapped to a new high.

On the year-end sales charts in 1998, country singer Gas Brooks ushered in the peak of his career. After his last new album was ranked last year, he released a double live album again in October this year, "Double Live (super all-around point guard., this non-studio album recorded the entire process of Gas’s live performance, and received enthusiastic pursuits from country music fans. In less than three months, it sold like crazy. The sales volume of 12 million has shocked the entire market!

Last year, "Blurry Rain" sold 10.17 million albums in a single year. It became the first album in the 1990s that could sell more than 10 million in a year. The album’s momentum has reached its peak; however, Gas’s “Dual Live” has reached a new high, easily breaking the results created by the “hurt and rain”, making people deeply feel that country music is unshakable in the North American market. Absolute dominance!

In the past few years, rock, pop, rhythm and blues, and hip-hop have taken turns in the North American market, causing a **** storm in the North American market. However, amidst this excitement, the country has always occupied an unshakable place, from Lean-Lime to Suny. Ya Dunn, then to Gas Brook, from beginning to end are a part of the market that cannot be ignored.

This year, Gass relied on a "double scene", not only to prove the dominance of country music, the huge mass base and long historical heritage make this type of work prosperous; at the same time, it also cost 12 million US dollars. The single-year sales volume of the music market has pushed the prosperity of the music market to a new peak. In the past three years, the performance of winning the North American year-end sales championship has been higher than that of a year. The rising situation has made North America lead the global boom Slowly spread.

The dominance of the "Double Live" album is expressed in that it broke the record created by last year’s "storm and rain" and became the highest-selling work at the end of the 1990s; at the same time, it was also expressed in that it was the only one this year. An album that sold more than six million.

It can be seen that the absolute dominance of the "double scene" can be called the highest in the 1990s.

The work ranked in the sales charts of year-end albums is beyond everyone's expectations. It is actually a glorious "storm"! This almost broke everyone’s glasses. This album, released in October 1996, has stayed in the top 20 of the Billboard Albums Chart for more than 115 weeks. There is no enduring momentum at all. Any signs of weakening, on the contrary, after entering 1998, sales have actually shown a slow rebound. This year, the cumulative number of weeks to return to the top ten ranks has reached 21 weeks-the number of weeks in the top three is also Reached ten weeks, the results were outstanding.

In the end, "Blurry Rain" won 5.95 million and nearly 6 million in sales throughout the year. Not only did "Blurry Rain" occupy the second place in the 1998 year-end sales rankings. At the same time, the cumulative sales of this album exceeded 20 million, reaching 24.4 million copies!

24.4 million copies, what does this mean? This means that "Blurry Rain" has become the tenth album in the history of North American local music with a cumulative sales of over 20 million. Before 1998, there were eight albums that reached such a high level. The ninth album that achieved such a result was "Bath." Morning light"; it also means that Glory to Death has officially qualified to challenge the Eagles’ collection and Michael Jackson’s "Thriller" sales record.

In fact, as early as the end of last year, the pace of making history with the "hurricanes and rains" was unstoppable. People had long anticipated the arrival of the "20 million". It was only a matter of time. After entering 1998, "Bath in the Morning Light" took the lead and exceeded 20 million sales before the end of April, while "Blurry Rain" was a little bit late and reached such a high level in mid-May.

The final sales volume of "Bath of Morning Light" at the end of 1998 was 21.8 million, and the cumulative sales of "Bath and Rain" temporarily stood at 24.4 million.

This makes Glory To Death the only singer in the long history of music to have two sales of 20 million in North America. Judging from the current momentum, Gass is very likely to become the second. Moreover, "Bath in the Morning Light" currently ranks seventh in history, while "Blurry Rain" has surpassed Pink Floyd's album "The Wall" and has come to the third place in history.

Now, there are only the last two fortresses standing in front of the "hurt and rain". The collection of the Eagles released in 1976 and Michael Jackson's "Thriller". By the end of 1998, the cumulative sales of the former had reached. Twenty-six million copies, and the latter’s cumulative sales exceeded 25 million copies, following in the footsteps.

This made people couldn’t help but start to boil over. Could it be that "Blurry Rain" was about to surpass the two great singers in 1999 and once again write the history of this band-perhaps, glory to death can really make a legend .

Although Glory to Death has hardly any band activities in the past year, and album promotion has long since stopped, the momentum of the "storm and rain" has not weakened. After winning the North American year-end championship for two consecutive years, This year I still stayed in the runner-up position, and hopefully, like "Independence Day", it broke the shackles of the entire North American history, hit the height of the entire history, and created a new record for the latest chapter of the steam frenzy in the North American music market.

In particular, the "Twisted Tour" initiated by Glory To Death has held more than 80 tours in the past year and a half, including three hundred rock bands large and small across the North American continent, giving the rock power an unprecedented glow. Even compared with the golden age of the 1970s, the vitality of the world is even worse. Even for contemporary young people, this is the real golden age of rock and roll.

Even though it has been more than two years since the release of "Blurry Rain", the momentum of glory to death is still growing, as if it has surpassed the guns and roses of the peak period, and Nirvana will join hands with the legendary Beatles and the Rolling Stones. , Queen, Pink Floyd, etc. have launched an impact.

There were Garth Brooks's devastation before, and then there were a series of glorious to death records. This has made the music market in 1998 lively and extraordinary, and after them, the good performance of other works is even more icing on the cake.

1998 is a memorable year. Following the rise of idol groups such as Backstreet Boys, Spice Girls, and Destiny, Super Boys turned out to challenge the dominance of Backstreet Boys. Super Boy’s first album of the same name sold out 5.13 million copies, ranking third on the year-end charts. This performance is even better than last year’s Backstreet Boys, which made North America show itself in one fell swoop. The classic pattern of "backstreet boys vs super boys" marks the official arrival of the era of idol groups.

Different from the competition between country, rock, pop and other music types, the emergence of idol groups means the extreme of commercialization of music, and it also means the complete maturity of commercialization of the music market. Compared with the music itself, the idol effect began to gain momentum. The simple and rude popular arrangements and powerful selection of dance music allowed the idol group members to take advantage of their appearance, personality, and charm, and successfully changed the market structure.

In particular, the confrontation between Backstreet Boys and Super Boys has become a decisive factor in stimulating the vitality of the entire North American music market, even surpassing the pattern of "Oasis vs. Glory to Death vs. Mariah Carey" because of the three-legged battle of the century. It is more about head-to-head strength, and the confrontation between the two idol groups has opened up a beautiful era of fan culture.

The three albums "Double Live", "Blurry Rain" and "Super Boy", with three works of various shapes, poses, and styles, jointly occupied the top three in the album sales charts at the end of 1998. This It is also one of the most important manifestations of the changes in the music market this year.

After this, the Southern Chicken (.), master p (master.p), r. Kelly, "City of Angels (. of. angels soundtrack, Brandi, Madonna, Jay. The works of singers such as z were all shortlisted in the top ten, making up the top ten works of the year-end sales list this year.

Throughout the entire list, Garth and Southern Chicken represent the country ~www.wuxiaspot.com~Master and Jay. z stands for hip-hop, r. Kelly and Brandi represent rhythm and blues, Super Boy and Madonna represent pop, dance music, glory to death, plus Alanis Morrisette, who is ranked 11th, represents rock and roll, and finally there is a movie that appears routinely. The original soundtrack-the original soundtrack of "City of Angels" can be summarized in the pop and rock department. It can be seen that the entire music market is now full of flowers and a hundred schools of thought. The major music genres are equally powerful, far-reaching, and indistinguishable.

It is worth mentioning that the "City of Angels" soundtrack contains the songs of Glory to Death and Alanis-the song "Angel" in the album "The Storm" is the theme song of the movie. After the single was released, it became very popular and stayed in the top ten list for a long time.

Among them, the villages represented by Gas and the Southern Chickens have demonstrated the ability to dominate, one champion has a third place, and the outstanding achievements of the championship can't be matched by any work; and the glory to death creates Historical achievements have established a firm foothold invisibly, and the collective explosion of rock forces has officially arrived.

Like the pattern shown in the album record market, the singles market is still a splendid and colorful scene with fireworks blooming. However, compared to the booming record of records, the performance of the singles market has fallen slightly, not only did it fail to appear like " Sailing ( is such a powerful and dominant work, and the overall average performance is also unsatisfactory.