The Best Actor in the Vase of Meiyu

Chapter 1092 Awakening the Market
Six consecutive championships, seven consecutive championships...eight consecutive championships!

"Crazy for Love", unstoppable!

Beyoncé, who went solo from the group Destiny's Child, announced her powerful debut with a sweeping attitude and soared to the top.

So, who can stop Beyoncé?

Judging from the current momentum, "Crazy for Love" is still going strong, aiming for the tenth consecutive championship and ready to make history.

As of the summer of 2003, only eleven singles in Billboard history have accomplished the feat of 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" held the record for sixteen consecutive weeks at the top of the charts. For nearly a decade, no one has been able to get close to this amazing record.

Perhaps, the only person who can stop Beyoncé is Beyoncé herself?
In the third week of August, Beyoncé took advantage of her victory and released the second single from the album, "Baby-Boy", while "Crazy in Love" still firmly held the championship throne. Driven by its extremely high popularity, the single soared fiercely, once again attracting the attention of industry insiders.

The music market is indeed bustling.

However, if you look closely at the Billboard singles chart, you will notice that a single has quietly climbed to the top of the chart.

"Wake Me Up", August 31st Band.

Since its release, "Wake Me Up" has spread across radio stations like a rocket, with its on-demand rate soaring and its popularity soaring.

In just five weeks, the single has entered the top ten of the Billboard singles chart, squeezing out Fifty Cent. Together with "Viva La Vie" and "Roar Hey" still in the top ten, this means that on August 31 the band has occupied three seats in the top ten of the Billboard singles chart.

Crazy!

It's all really crazy.

For a moment, people didn't know whether they should be amazed that "Ho Ho" has been on the charts for more than 40 weeks and is still incredibly staying in the top ten, or whether they should be amazed that on August 31st the band could become the biggest highlight of this year's music market without any publicity or distribution.

When people were talking about Fifty Cent, when people were talking about Beyoncé, August 31st was winning the hearts of countless fans.

The most incredible part is that Fifty Cent's hip-hop and Beyoncé's R&B are undoubtedly the most popular genres in the market. Their rise is admirable but not surprising; however, August 31st's rock is slowly declining and leaving the mainstream. What's more, the band's practice of incorporating classical instruments into its performances is a breakthrough, a risk and a feat.

It is against this background that the rise of August 31st is even more incredible.

However, this is still not the end.

In the second week of September, "Wake Me Up" rocketed from seventh place to third place, pushing "Viva La Vie" to fifth place.

The media was in an uproar. After all, it is extremely difficult to change the ranking within the top ten, and the steps are relatively small whether rising or falling. But "Wake Me Up" climbed four places at once. What does this mean?
So, is this a sign of a continued burst of “Wake Me Up,” or a final wave of energy release followed by a crash?

then.

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

Champion, "Wake Me Up", August 31st Band.

Runner-up: "Crazy in Love", Beyoncé. Third place: "Baby Boy", Beyoncé.

There was an exclamation and an all-out attack.

“Wake Me Up” ended “Crazy for Love”’s eight-game winning streak, leaping two places to the top!
"Crazy for Love" was ambitiously aiming for a historic tenth consecutive championship, but suddenly encountered a foreshadowing, 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 the band August 31st, which came out of nowhere, accomplished such a feat with a challenging and breakthrough song like "Wake Me Up," and the entire music market went into a frenzy.

"Wake Me Up" became the band's second number one single on August 31st.

If someone thinks that this is the end of the story, then he obviously lacks a bit of imagination and lacks understanding of the influence that August 31st and the single "Wake Me Up" have accumulated over the past two years.

Mangold, that's it.

When Johnny Cash said that "Wake Me Up" had epoch-making power, Mangold thought that Johnny was just praising Anson out of love for him. At that time, the single was still climbing the charts and had not even reached the top. It was only after Johnny's regretful death that "Wake Me Up" fatefully and dramatically topped the Billboard charts.

Mangold couldn't help but sigh that Johnny's keen intuition about music was still as sharp as ever, but that should be all. The music of Beyoncé and Fifty Cent represented the current popular trends, and dance music should also be added.

Later, Mangold found out that he was wrong.

Two consecutive championships, three consecutive championships, wait, there is even... four consecutive championships!

For a whole month, "Wake Me Up" remained firmly at the top of the list.

In sharp contrast, "Baby Boy" has been stuck at number two for three weeks in a row, reappearing the predicament experienced by "Hoar Hey" in the first half of the year; at the same time, "Crazy for Love" fell out of the top ten at the speed of light. In just four weeks, the single has slipped to number nineteen.

An uproar!
People did not expect "Wake Me Up" to hold up so well, nor did they expect "Crazy for Love" to run out of energy and fall even faster than "Long Live Life".

Similarly, people did not expect that the first of the band's three singles to fall behind on August 31st was "Viva La Vie". After winning the championship for four weeks and staying in the top ten for eleven weeks, this single unfortunately fell out of the top ten, and its subsequent energy was obviously reduced.

The song "Hoar Hey" has been on the second place and has never reached the top, but it continues to write records quietly. It is about to stay on the Billboard singles chart for a whole year, and the number of weeks it has stayed in the top ten is incredible, and is about to exceed 30 weeks.

For more than seven months and thirty weeks, no matter how the Billboard singles chart changes, "Hoar 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 come to the crossroads of history——

Currently, "Hooray" has stayed in the top ten of Billboard for 29 weeks, and will reach 30 weeks next week, ranking third on the historical list.

LeAnn Rimes' "How-Do-I-Live" holds the record for the longest consecutive weeks in the top ten of the Billboard singles chart, with 32 consecutive weeks; Santana's "Smooth", released at the turn of the millennium, ranked second with 30 weeks.

In other words, "Hohei" is not far from the historical record and stands on the shoulders of giants.

If this is a journey, then there is no doubt that "Ho Hei" has written a brilliant stroke and left its own footprint in the history books.

(End of this chapter)