star king gene

Oprah really thought that the album of Lin Zhimo and Shakira would be a big hit, and that this album would make Lin Zhimo and Shakira who sang the songs popular, but she didn't expect the sales of this album It's so good.

August 2002 was a very ordinary month, but for Lin Zhimo, this month was destined to become the most memorable month in his life, because his first English album officially landed in the United States.

The main promotion of this album is of course the song "Flags Flying" from the World Cup, but Sony Music has also put a lot of thought into the other songs in this album.

Under the three-dimensional bombardment of print media, TV media and Internet media, this album called "mx" also won huge attention.Although the United States has always been known as a football desert, but for some reason, some movies and songs about football are very popular, and this album is like that.

It was officially released on August 15st, and everyone was surprised when the first week of sales of this album came out on August [-]th, it wasn't too little, but too much - mx sold as many as [-] copies in the first week!

You must know that August [-]st is not Sunday, the traditional release date, but Thursday, so it seems that the sales of this album in the second week can be seen.

In the United States, the sales of an album in a week are calculated from Monday to Sunday, so the sales of the first week of the album are calculated from the Thursday when it is released to the four days ending on Sunday. , and the sales volume in these four days, mx reached a satisfactory 15 copies.

The sales volume in the first week was able to enter the top 200 of the bll wave r[-] album list, so we can look forward to the sales volume in the second week.Because Lin Zhimo and Shakira are not very influential in the US market after all, relying on the excellent song quality of this album.The sales of this album should be on an upward curve within a certain period of time.

And this album did not live up to everyone's expectations in the end. The sales volume in the second week exceeded 30 in one fell swoop, reaching an astonishing 36 copies! [

This number immediately pushed the mx album to No.200 on the bll wave r8 album list, and squeezed it into the top ten!

And a series of music reviews about this album also sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

"I think this year is destined to be a special year for the music world. I wrote in an article a few months ago. Rap ​​songs have almost declined. It's not that the sales are not good, but that singers are not popular. But right now, Ai Minam slapped me hard with "The Eminem Show," an album that has sold 400 million copies and counting; just the other day. I'm still saying that the inclusiveness of rap songs may be really great, but it is limited to a white man like Eminem who can achieve something. However, today I heard mx and a Chinese rap. From this album, I see an unprecedented bright future for rap songs! A Chinese from the mysterious East. He completely conquered me with his rap. Now, please let us remember this name - jemln! This name is destined Will go down in American music history!"

The above remarks appeared in the entertainment forum of the Yahoo website, and the writer was not a small soldier, but Mr. McGrant, a senior music critic on the website for many years.Some of the music reviews he published on Yahoo are often quoted by some newspapers, because he is always veiled but frank and sincere. This kind of very personal comment has won him a lot of fans.And his article also made many people who follow the Internet know the name Lin Zhimo for the first time.

No one knows how much influence the music review article on Yahoo Music has. After all, although the Internet world has shown an unparalleled influence, after the Internet bubble in 2000, many people have asserted that the Internet is also That's all.

But compared to the illusory influence of Yahoo Music on the Internet world, a music review on the album of mx published by the world-renowned music magazine "Rolling Stone" has attracted the attention of many people.

"Rolling Stone" magazine has a huge influence in the global music market, not only because of their great fame, but also because of their professionalism, persistence, and sincerity for many years since its inception.

Rolling Stone's most popular music critic is Mark Burgess.Mark Burgess is 48 years old this year. He has been a music critic for Rolling Stone magazine for more than 15 years, and he has been able to persist in this job for so many years because of his heartfelt love for music.

It is also for this reason.He has great expectations for the works of some musicians. He expects to see excellent works and music works that can bring joy and inspiration to everyone, but precisely because of this, For these musical compositions delivered to his desktop.His vision is much stricter than other music critics.

For Mark Burgess, the perfect score for a musical work is ten, but in the past ten years or so, there are surprisingly few works that have allowed him to score nine or more, but every music album that has scored nine has been proved to be A classic handed down from generation to generation.

These experiences have gradually made Mark Burgess' comments a kind of music vane, and some musicians even say that it is harder to get Mark's praise than to win a Grammy Award.

And now, when everyone opened the new Rolling Stone magazine on August 89th, they were all surprised to find that Mark Burgess had scored [-] points for a music magazine called mx.

This has made many people extremely interested in this album.

"There is no doubt that this music album is the highest-quality album in recent years. If you remove the songs in this album that were not composed by jemln, I will give this music album a score of 91!"

The opening sentence of Mark Burgess surprised everyone, 91 points! [

The last time he gave 91 points was a matter of the last century. It is unexpected that someone will be able to get this honor again today.

At the same time, everyone who saw this magazine also had a strong interest in this singer named jemln, and continued to look down.

"It's a compilation album, a collaboration between two people - but that seems unnecessary to me, because the few songs on Jem alone can support the album. "

"Although I like all these songs, if I say my favorite is the song 'teengelfe', it is not because of the beautiful melody of this song-the melody of several songs in this album is very beautiful , but because the concern for children expressed in this song moved me from the bottom of my heart. Especially when the child's voice at the beginning of the song appeared, there was only one word in my mind, that is the sound of nature. These are like a group of singing His angelic voice transported me to heaven, I never knew a song with a chorus of children could achieve this effect."

"Speaking of which, I think everyone must be very curious about jemln, but this comment is only about music. I won't comment too much on the author. Let everyone find out for themselves."

When everyone saw Mark Burgess's words, they felt like they were being tricked. They praised Lin Zhimo's song to the sky, but in the end they said that they didn't know how the lyricist was doing. It's no different from advertising for Lin Zhimo.However, despite the unhappiness in my heart, everyone who saw this magazine still had the idea of ​​going to listen to this album.

In fact, Lin Zhimo took some tricks when releasing the album. For example, he used relatively heavy makeup on the cover of the album, and it was a dark side, which did not fully show his appearance. In this way, if you just listen to the album, no one will find out whether Lin Zhimo's voice is Chinese or American.

This is not Lin Zhimo's unfounded worry, but a preparation to prevent subconscious behavior.Just like if a Vietnamese singer suddenly releases an album in China, without knowing the quality of the song, if you know that he is a Vietnamese singer, you will have a more or less strange vision in your heart, not necessarily It's discrimination, it's double standards.

This is what Lin Zhimo is also worried about, so he deliberately hides his face, and even lowers his voice a little, so that his voice sounds more vigorous and resonant.

So amidst Lin Zhimo's apprehension, Shakira's excitement and Sony Music's expectation, the third week's sales of this album actually broke through again - 56!

And this time, it became the champion of the bll wave r200 album list overnight!

Billboard's number one album!

Billboard was founded in 1894. After more than 100 years of development, it has become the world's most authoritative list for measuring the popularity of songs.The billboard is mainly based on sales volume and radio on-demand, which are converted into points, and then listed into various charts. Among the various charts, the most famous ones are the album chart (top200 album chart) and single chart. (Hot100 Singles Chart), and various charts also include other charts of different music categories.

This chart with a history of more than 100 years is not a small list. Some singers can’t even make it to the top ten in their entire lives, but Lin Zhimo’s first album released in the United States actually reached the top. It can be said that it is a miracle that the album is at the top of the list, and it has become the top of the list in three weeks.

However, the surprise is not over yet. Lin Zhimo's "notfr" and Shakira's "onlygrl" actually occupy the third and fourth positions respectively in the singles rankings, and two of the top five are at the same time. The songs are all from one album, which stunned anyone who followed the changes in the Billboard charts. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote and monthly pass. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users, please go to m to read.)