King of Stage

First, the king won seven Grammy nominations one day, leading the nomination list. People raised doubts, "Wait, where did this band come from"; then, after digging deeper, people realized that the "seven" The album has won incredible cheers among professional music critics.

If there is no Grammy nomination, maybe "Seven" is like "Ten Free Summers", as a typical representative of high and low songs-professional music critics do not like it, but the mainstream market has not heard any wind at all, the same is true There is another album with an average score of 93 points:

　　 "Chanel-Orange", from the new soul singer Frank-Ocean (Frank-Ocean).

In fact, Frank Ocean has been in the public eye last year, including Beyoncé, Kanye-West (Kanye-West) and other top big names have recommended his mixing tape, which also made his debut The solo album "Orange Channel" has won a lot of attention. It sold 110,000 copies in the first week of its release, making it the runner-up on the Billboard Albums chart.

　　 Such an achievement, compared with King One Day, is basically a heaven and an underground. But the North American music market is so complicated and difficult. Even if the "Orange Channel" has achieved such excellent results and endorsed by top stars, the splash of the album is still limited-

　　 Remember the discussion about the difference between the billboard singles chart and the album chart? None of the tracks of the entire album of "Orange Channel" were able to enter the singles chart, which also means that Frank Ocean is still an "invisible man" in the eyes of the general public, and the album's excellence has not been able to be promoted.

　　 In the end, it was also Grammy’s wise eye and bead, in the vast ocean of music, he found Frank Ocean.

　　 "Orange Channel" won six nominations, following "Seven", so people found another album with such an excellent professional average score.

However, do not think that it is very easy for professional media to score 90 points. In 2012, there were only five albums with a MetaCritic professional media score of 90 points or more; the average score was eight. There are a total of 136 albums in the area from ten to eighty-nine points. From the side, you can see how difficult the gap is from eighty-nine points to ninety points.

By the way, Taylor Swift’s new album "Red" released in October, scored a total of 77 points in the media, tied with his previous album, and was both the highest in his career. This proved once again. Now, "a common appreciation between the refined and the popular" has never been such a common thing.

　　 his gaze, he returned to the king of the day.

The album "Seven" seemed to pop out of a crack in the rock. It swallowed seven Grammy nominations and caused an uproar among the general public, just as people were angrily preparing to protest and complain. At that time, the number of the media’s comprehensive score answered the confusion: the fastest update of the new 81 Chinese website. Computer terminal: https://www.@x81zw@@

　　 It's not that "Seven" is not good enough, but people haven't found this album for the time being.

Recording of the year, album of the year, song of the year, newcomer of the year, all four comprehensive award nominations are not included. The three nominations for best rock performance, best rock song, and best rock album are the icing on the cake, successfully pushing the King of the Day to The pinnacle of the profession.

　　 Without warning.

　　 unprepared.

Moreover, a very, very important detail is that the songs that won many nominations for the King of the Day are not the widely circulated "Chasing the Light", but the "My Devil" that has just recently ushered in the spotlight, including annual recordings and annual recordings. The four nominations for song, best rock performance and best rock song, all belong to "My Devil".

　　 Is this an accident, or is it... strength?

　　 Did Atlantic Records hear the internal news early, so it released "My Devil" as the second single in advance, and even disrupted the charting plan of "Chasing the Light", or is it all just a coincidence?

　　 But this is no longer important, because "My Devil" has won countless attention.

　　 Continue to pay attention to the Grammy nominations. Behind the King of One Day, there are six groups of singers who have won six nominations. The competition is fierce:

　　 The--Keys, Jay-Z, Mumford & Sons, Frank Ocean, Kanye West, Fun.

Among them, the Black Keys, the Blessed Sons, and the Huan Entertainment Team are all affiliated with rock and roll-but the Huan Entertainment team is divided into the popular faction in the Grammys, Jay-Z and Kanye West belong to the rap, Frank- Orson is the soul, from here we can see the popular direction of the entire music market.

Of course, popular genres headed by Adele, Taylor Swift, Katy-Perry, Rihanna and Magic Red are still the most popular genres in the mainstream market. Laimei obviously hopes to find more balance between business and art.

From the above seven groups of singers, you can see the obvious younger age. Jay-Z and Kanye West are both big players in the music industry for many years. Needless to say, except for the black key bands. Except for the ten-year-old rock band, the other four groups of singers are very young.

　　Blessed Sons and Huan Entertainment Team both released their first official album in 2009, while Frank Orson and One Day King both just debuted this year——

Leaving aside the dark years of drifting before the release of the first official album, they are indeed fresh faces that have appeared in the public eye for the first time; and, even including the long and obscure period before, their average age is also the oldest since the millennium. A young batch of nominees.

　　 This can be seen from the nomination list of the four major comprehensive awards. A genius remembers 噺バ一Chinese m.x/8/1/z/w.c/o/m/

　　So, what are the four comprehensive awards?

Grammys have a total of about 80 award categories ~www.readwn.com~ but the award ceremony is limited by time and it is impossible to announce the awards one by one. In the end, only 20% of the awards are officially awarded in the form of live broadcast. Others All awards are presented in a non-live broadcast format before the ceremony.

The awards that can eventually appear on the live broadcast stage include important awards in mainstream music departments such as rock, pop, country, etc., as well as four comprehensive awards, which are also the most important awards among all Grammy awards—— Annual recording, annual album, annual song, annual newcomer.

　　Four comprehensive awards, each of which is a supreme honor, and it is a great honor to win any of them; and in history, the only singer who "won" the four comprehensive awards is Norah-Jones (Norah-Jones).

Ten years ago, at the 45th Grammy Awards ceremony, rookie singer Nora won six Grammy trophies with her debut album "Come-Away-With-Me", including annual recordings. , Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Newcomer of the Year.

However, the song of the year is an award separately awarded to the songwriter, so the songwriter Jess-Harris, who wrote the title song "Doesn't-Know-Why", won this Trophies-For the media, they all think that Nora Jones has swept the four major awards, but strictly speaking, the song of the year is not a trophy for Nora.

　　 Despite this, Nora Jones is still the only singer in the long history of Grammy who can get close to the four comprehensive awards infinitely.