In '68, "Cleopatra" returned to the top 10 of the Billboard singles chart, and in 54 weeks, "Ophelia" reached the top 50 of the Billboard singles chart. 2011 is indeed a year full of newcomers and strange things, is the music market really going to rise again after the 21st century enters the second decade?

However, in this wave of vigorous discussion, "firmly believed" is the most eye-catching focus.

Top iTunes Same-Day Download Chart for Five Consecutive Days, Top Spotify Same-Day Play Chart for Six Consecutive Days, Top YouTube Single-Day Play Chart for Seven Consecutive Days Movie Clip Trailer Viewers have seen it as a music video, but it doesn't count towards streaming credits!

Needless to say, "Convinced" is the absolute focus, and with the multiple blessings of "The Tonight Show", "Love Crazy" and "Don Quixote", "Convinced" has achieved results that "Cleopatra" and "Ophelia" have never achieved before, and dominated the single sales market in the second week of October.

In the third week of October's Billboard singles chart, "Firmly Believed" dropped to No. 4 on the chart!

Once again, there are no music videos, no radio on-demand, and even streaming data is only iTunes and Spotify, and with only digital audio sources and physical album sales, "Convinced" once again replicated the miracle of "Cleopatra", and broke the latter's previous record of the highest number of sixth, achieving the best result on the list of folk singles since the new century!

Such a good performance is simply jaw-dropping.

Ranley Hall, the "amateur" singer's every move is breaking the history of American music, and the strategy of playing cards out of common sense has derived results that are not measured by common sense, and truly brings out the essence of independent music to the fullest:

The only two singles in the top 30 that have never been filmed in a music video, the only three singles in the top 50 that have not been sent to the station, and the only three singles in the top 100 that have not been promoted in any way are all from the same album by the same artist.

Since the birth of Billboard, radio on-demand data has always occupied the absolute dominance of the ranking system, and after entering the new century, the streaming data of the Internet era has begun to rise, but radio on-demand is still the most important part of singer promotion.

Each week, the on-demand radio list is dominated by top companies, and there is a list of 30 songs, more than 80 percent of which are pre-arranged, and the remaining 20 percent are the personal preferences of the radio hosts, but at least half of them depend on the radio hosts' personal relationships with the big record labels and top artists.

In the contemporary commodity society and market economy, everything is about interests.

It is precisely because of this that it is difficult for independent music to get ahead. Even Justin Bieber became popular through YouTube, but this is only a once-in-a-lifetime special case after all.

Now, three singles from the album "Don Quixote" break this rule. Leaving aside the follow-up of "Convinced", it is certain that "Cleopatra" has already made history.

On the Billboard singles chart in the third week of October 2011, Adele's "Like You", Maroon-5's "Move-Like-Jagger" and Foster-The-People's "Pumped-Up-Kicks" each took the top three, while Ranley-Hall's "Convinced" held the fourth place.

It is worth mentioning that "Trendy Shoes" is an independent electronic rock single, and the Foster family is also an independent band, this single was released in early 2010, and the band has gone through various tours, various music festivals, and performances, slowly and slowly accumulated, and finally became famous, in "The Vampire Diaries", "Warehouse Thirteen" and some commercials, which were released nearly thirteen months later, finally made it to the Billboard singles chart, and six months after entering the chart, climbed to the third place on the chart.

It's an inspirational story compared to Lan Li, where an indie band managed to break through through perseverance, and "Convinced" is a different story.

The craze for "The Tonight Show" and "Love Crazy" drove the "Believe Forever" rocket, but in turn, the popularity of "Believe Forever" stimulated the box office performance of "Love Crazy".

The song "Firmly Believe" always expresses a kind of hesitation and confusion, the seeds of self-doubt and mutual doubt begin to sprout and grow, the helplessness, the helplessness, the sadness, the bitterness, like a black hole, slowly swallowing up all the light of hope. But the tenacity and strength hidden behind the melody beat the heart one by one, tempered into steel, and after the despair of crying blood, burst out with vast courage and rose again.

That faint glimmer of light has become the decisive factor for "Faith and Doubt" to create great results, which has achieved a height that "Cleopatra" has not been able to reach, and at the same time, it has also made people more curious about "Love Crazy", what kind of movie is this, and what kind of story is it telling?

In the long history of Hollywood, it is not uncommon for movies to stimulate the sales of soundtracks, when the album of the same name created by Prince for the movie "Pueple-Rain" not only made him a superstar in one fell swoop, but also the album has entered the palace of classics, which is still difficult to surpass after 30 years.

Not to mention the soundtracks of films such as "The Lion King", "Chicago", "Three Prison Escapes", "Suicide Squad", "Guardians of the Galaxy", etc., all managed to top the Billboard album charts, and more than a week. There are even soundtracks that are even more popular than the movie itself.

But the other way around, an interest in a movie because of the soundtrack? There are very few cases like that.

In the final analysis, music is produced along with the plot, and excellent movie soundtracks are based on the storyline to add color to the movie. After all, the soundtrack is only part of the composition of the movie, not the real core.

Ranley Hall is a special case, he is an actor, a pure actor, and "Convinced" is a tailor-made track after a burst of inspiration during the performance, and the lyrics and melodies are closely related to the film. Listening to the melody of "Firmly Believe" alone makes people can't help but construct the outline of the story in their minds, generating countless derivative associations.

As the critics said, "Don Quixote" is not only an album, but also a book, a movie, a life, the two sides of the disc unhurriedly tell the story of the ups and downs, every melody, every lyric, every interpretation, it is a meaningful existence, not created for the sake of creation, the story behind it is the soul fragment of the whole album. This is also the fundamental reason why "Don Quixote" is so valuable.

Now, "Convinced" proves it. Naturally, people are more interested in "love is crazy".

In the third week of October, Focus Pictures once again made an astonishing move, "Love Crazy" expanded for the third consecutive week, although it only increased from 2,337 theaters to 2,564 theaters, and the expansion was 227 theaters, which can only be regarded as a small increase, but for an independent film, especially for a special case like "Love Crazy", it can be called unbelievable and appalling, which can also show the strong confidence of Focus Pictures.

Why? Where does the confidence come from? "The Tonight Show"? Of course not, but the theater rating, after two weeks of screenings and accumulating enough viewers, "Love Crazy" received an "A-" rating!

This score can be said to be a passing score for commercial films, and it can be said to be an excellent result for art films, which also means that people can expect "Love Crazy" to create "Juno" and "Little Sunshine Beauty" box office results. For reference, "Juno" grossed $143 million in North America, while "Little Miss Sunshine" grossed $59 million in North America.

This is the confidence of Focus Pictures.

After the broadcast of "The Tonight Show", in addition to "Firmly Believe", Jay Leno spent a lot of time spying on the tidbits, which caused countless heated discussions on the Internet!

Although tidbits are always curious, interesting tidbits do not represent the quality of the finished film, and the ability of wonderful tidbits to pull the box office is also minimal. However, this time the tidbits of "Love is Crazy" are not just tidbits, but also direct proof of the wonderful performances of the two actors.

After learning the content of the notebook and watching the clips of the movie with emotion, the intoxicating sparks of the two actors, Lan Li and Felicityti, became more and more vivid and beautiful.

Insiders look at the doorway, and laymen look at the liveliness. "Excellent acting", the audience's understanding of this sentence is always half-understood, they only know that such a performance is really good, but they can't say why, let alone distinguish the level and level of the performance. But this time, they clearly saw the internal strength of the performance, especially Lan Li

The light and intoxication of those deep eyes vividly showed the grace and emotion of falling in love, and finally reflected in the invisible two lines of words on the notebook. At that moment, the audience is sincerely willing to believe: this is the true face of love, from heartbeat to budding to indulgence, and finally falling,

The tension, layer, connotation and strength of the performance are incomparably clear in front of the audience. Now, they finally know why film critics have been full of praise for Blue Gifts, why Sundance is willing to give special awards to Blue Gifts, and why Blue Gifts has been able to rise rapidly in just two years!

As a result, the reputation of "Love is Crazy" exploded, and at the same time, the reputation of Lan Li also exploded. Could it be that this is a harbinger of a second Oscar nomination?