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After the incident broke out in Seon-mi, Park Jae-beom's heart gradually calmed down, put aside distractions, and seriously devoted himself to the training of the dance company. Until he thinks about his future, Park Jae-bum will stay in the AOM dance troupe for the time being to clear his mind. As for how the relationship between Park Jae-beom and Seon-mi will develop, it can only depend on the two of them.

Park Jae-beom's matter has finally come to an end, and Lee Joon-yi can only wait for Park Jae-bum to figure it out by himself. If Park Jae-bum still wants to return to the stage, he will do his best to help, and if Park Jae-bum chooses to return to ordinary daily life and no longer accept the spotlight, he will also support his friend's choice.

In the past two days, Lee Joon-yi had to take his mind back and put it on his own affairs, because his first English single "" has been officially released on January 31.

The famous Lee Joon-yi is about to release an English album, and countless No.1 are looking forward to it, and now that the album is finally on the market, the lively scene is naturally expected.

Lee Joon-yi has released four albums in South Korea, and naturally knows that the world's record market has been strongly impacted by digital music sources, and the sales of physical albums have long since lost the glory of the end of the last century and the beginning of this century. This is true even in the United States, the world's most important music market, where physical album sales have been declining for four consecutive years. On the contrary, the sales of digital audio sources are steadily rising, which also shows that today's music market must be divided into two parts: physical records and digital audio sources.

And the United States, and even the world's most famous billboard rankings, have naturally kept up with the times and improved statistical methods. Billboard is generally divided into album charts and singles charts, albums are the top 200 "Top 200 Album List", and singles are the top 100 "Hot 100 Singles List", which is a comprehensive list, and there are sub-lists of various music categories under it, which are very similar. While there are many categories on the list, the judging criteria are pretty much the same, basically based on physical sales, radio on-demand and digital audio sales — the number of downloads that are legally paid for. After these three parts are converted into points, the weekly list is selected, and its authority has been tested for many years.

In recent years, due to the shrinking of the record market, the era of singles in the early years has now changed to a different scene, most singles will not be released on physical records, but sold in the form of digital sound sources, the so-called single is a song, people are still willing to choose to pay for it directly, rather than buy a physical record for a song. Of course, there are many best-selling singles that are dedicated to physical ones, but at present, the main sales of singles are still concentrated in digital music source sales, and most of the year-end statistics are based on digital music source sales as the sales list of singles.

Albums, on the other hand, are fully produced, with a standard album of ten songs, fluctuating on this base. Although digital sources are becoming more and more popular, most albums will still be released on physical records. Of course, all ten songs on an album will be released in the form of digital sound sources, but basically, no matter how shrinking the record market is, it is still an important market, and the sales of albums are mostly based on physical sales, and it will take some time for digital music sources to subvert traditional physical records like the sales of singles.

To illustrate this very simply, last year's top-selling singles chart was Black-Eyed Peas, whose single "" sold a total of 4.76 million copies, almost all of which came from digital sales, and last year's album's year-end sales were Taylor Swift's "Fearless", with a total of 3.22 million copies, but this album sold only 600,000 digital sources.

Therefore, although Billboard's judging criteria are the same, which are the results of physical sales, plus radio on-demand volume, and digital audio source sales, basically, digital music source sales are the main source of points in the singles chart, and physical sales account for a large proportion of the album chart.

Two weeks ago, Justin Bieber's single "Baby" was released with excellent digital sales, breaking into the fifth place on the Billboard singles chart, becoming Justin Bieber's most popular single since his debut. Last year, Justin Bieber's debut album "D" also reached No. 6 on the Billboard album chart. Now, Justin Bieber, who is popular all over the United States, has also been shortlisted for this year's Grammy competition, and his future is bright.

In the era of music, where physical records and digital music sources are popular, people's habits of buying music and the way they sell music have also changed dramatically. Physical records can be purchased through hypermarkets like Walmart, independent record stores, chain record stores owned by major companies such as Universal Sony, and digital audio sales include digital download stores such as Apple's itune, online CD sellers, concert venues, mail-order orders, and Starbucks, which is expanding into the music space.

Therefore, Sony said that it would release a single for Lee Joon-yi, not referring to physical records, but through digital music sources to open up various sales channels. Without Sony's help, Lee Joon-yi is still confident that he can sign with itune, but Sean Hamilton has been staring at Lee Joon-yi for a long, long time, and Justin Bieber's debut single "" sold like this from the beginning. But if there is only itune, then the sales source must be too small, which has no impact on sales. As a distribution company with a market share in the United States second only to Universal, Sony Records can naturally provide a lot of help for the operation of Lee Joon-yi's singles and albums.

As soon as it was released, the sales of digital music sources skyrocketed, selling 100,000 copies in the first week, and successfully landing at No. 14 on Billboard's "Hot 100 Singles Chart".

And the relevant music critics of the mainstream media have commented on this song.

"Rolling Stone", the leader of American music magazines, gave Lee Joon-yi's debut single a three-and-a-half-star evaluation out of five stars, "Cheerful rhythms, stylish lyrics, people can't help but chant '.i.f' (thank goodness it's Friday); ”

The "Sound of Music" gave an evaluation of "excellent beyond expectations", recognizing Lee Joon-yi's musical talent. The authoritative American independent music criticism magazine "URB" is much bolder, calling "Yi was born, his talent in music far exceeds the amazing acting skills", this comment undoubtedly touched Li Zhun Yi to the top, you must know that Li Zhun Yi is only twenty-three years old, his acting skills have been praised by the academy, and even won two actors, "Urb" said that Li Zhun Yi's musical talent is actually more amazing than his acting skills, which is undoubtedly the biggest praise.

At the same time, the United Kingdom on the other side of the Atlantic has also expressed interest in Lee Joon-yi's debut single, and the British high-end music review magazine "Q" has a simple review, "incredible genius". In the evaluation of "", "Q" mainly made a comparison, several songs written by Li Zhunyi for Justin Bieber are still catchy, youthful and lively, but this time he made an album for himself, obviously showing his excellent ability in music positioning and market grasp.

There are compliments, and there are naturally criticisms, of course, some people show disdain, and the evaluation of "" is just a thriving club song, more borrowed from the east wind of "hangover", but the quality in essence is not as high as imagined. In fact, this is also normal, in the era of free speech, everyone has their own preferences, and it is impossible to make everyone like it.

Overall, Lee Joon-yi's debut single has achieved a lot in digital music sales, and it is also more praiseworthy than negative in the mouth of music critics. This is a great start for Lee Joon-yi's music path.

Originally, the media still had doubts about Lee Joon-yi's transformation from an actor to a singer. Although Lee Joon-yi's "turn" has been brewing for more than a year, starting from the "twilight", during which there is also the prestige of the fourth album in Korean, and there is also the proof of Justin Bieber's successful debut, but when Lee Joon-yi's first single was released, there were still many people who had a good attitude towards watching the show. Fortunately, Lee Joon-yi used facts to shatter all of Le's doubts and proved his ability with his results.

As mentioned before, unlike Japan and South Korea, which sell albums in the first month, American albums are long-term sales, such as the hot topic in the past two years, her album "Fame" released in October 2008 not only occupied the fourth place in the year-end sales ranking in 2009, but also entered 2010, and still stayed on the "TOP200 album chart" on Billboard, and the results are very gratifying. A single was not visible at the beginning of its release, but after a long period of publicity and more than ten weeks after its release, it also rushed to the top 10 of the billboard singles chart, which is actually a long time in the United States. What's more, some albums don't top the Billboard album chart throughout the year, but because sales have been stable throughout the year, it's not uncommon to see the album's name in the top 10 of the billboard year-end album chart by the end of the year.

It can be seen that in the United States, albums are sold on a long front, and it is not uncommon for albums and singles to sell for several years.

Therefore, the results of the first week do not represent the final results of this single, it can only be said that it has made a smooth start, and after Lee Joon-yi's promotion on the radio and talk shows, the sales of the single have maintained a rising momentum, and Lee Joon-yi's pioneering journey in the American music market has been slowly kicked off.