"Extra: 'Ophelia' is officially available on iTunes and Spotify!"

Although there is a lack of publicity, thanks to the popularity of YouTube recently, some netizens soon found out about this exciting news, and immediately logged on to the Yahoo community to release the news, and the post also mentioned the information of "Cleopatra (arranged version)", and said "Lan Li Hall, this damn guy is finally willing to officially record, and now I can finally listen to the full studio version, Jesus Christ, I have been listening to the original version of this song for five months!"

After the post was released, it quickly attracted a large number of heated discussions and follow-up from netizens, and speculation about deliberate hype surfaced again piecemeal, and "Brando Mania" posted a post on the thirty-seventh floor of the post:

"Regardless of Lan Li-Hall's family background, the objective fact is that he did not use any resources for publicity, and the video of 'Ophelia' was just a buzz on YouTube, and there was no follow-up report at all; Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Regardless of whether there is strong support behind Lanli-Hall, the objective fact is that in addition to the two professional music reviews of 'Mixer' and 'Billboard', it has completely relied on the coaxing and attention of netizens to get to this point, no lace news, no scandal hype, no radio advertising, and no TV publicity.

Regardless of how things got to this point, the objective truth is that the singles 'Cleopatra' and 'Ophelia' are really good music. That's all that matters, isn't it?"

The post of "Brando Mania" quickly sparked heated discussions among netizens, some supported, some opposed, and some watched the excitement, but on the whole, supporters still had the upper hand, and combined with the "conclusions" of netizens before, it gradually became the mainstream. The controversy was not big or small, and it fell silent lukewarmly-after all, the current Lan Li was just a newcomer, and there was not much value in discussing.

However, this small controversy has stirred up the popularity of the post again, and more and more netizens have learned that "Ophelia" has been officially released.

Just six hours after the single was uploaded, "Ophelia" made it to the top 200 of the iTunes instant download charts!

On the surface, it seems that it is only the top two hundred, and there is nothing to boast about, but considering that there is no announcement, no notice, no reminder, and no publicity, it is really rare to rely on the netizens who play "Sherlock Holmes" to pursue such results. What's more, this is just the beginning.

As the news spread, the download data of "Ophelia" rose at a speed visible to the naked eye, and by 3 p.m. it had already managed to reach the top 100 - only nine hours after the single was uploaded, and this result was still rising on a small rocket, making people strongly wonder, "When did the ballad start to attract so much attention?"

At 9 p.m., Ophelia had reached 14 places above the iTunes instant download charts, and the upward momentum had finally slowed down. Such a development curve can be called incredible, and it truly shows the powerful momentum of the Internet era, and it is really appalling that such outstanding results have been achieved without spending any publicity resources.

At the same time, "Cleopatra (arranged version)" has also received a lot of attention, compared with the hot effect of "Ophelia", this single is more of a word-of-mouth effect, after all, the single has been in the low circle of Billboard's singles chart for two months, so the download data of the single lacks a bit of explosiveness, but it still shows good stamina.

By 9 p.m., "Cleopatra (Arranged Version)" was only 64th in iTunes instant downloads, but by midnight the single had risen to 31st - and Ophelia remained at 14th, unchanged for three hours.

Of course, the most notable is the "Cleopatra" uploaded in March this year, that is, the original version, which peaked at No. 3 on the iTunes instant download chart the day after the Emmy Awards! Teenage-Dream".

It was undoubtedly a huge breakthrough, unimaginable, and although "Cleopatra" only stayed in third place for 24 hours before slipping off the next day, it was still a cause for joy. Now, a week later, with the two newly released singles attracting attention, the number of downloads of "Cleopatra" has been diverted by the arranged version, but it is still on the rise, and it actually occupies the 49th place on the iTunes instant download chart.

The results are so outstanding that words are hard to describe. Although this is only a result in 24 hours, and the development curve after that is still unpredictable, the topic that exploded in 24 hours, even if it is not too inferior to the popular singers who have become famous, no one can deny that these two singles have really made a splash, which can be called a miracle in the independent music industry.

In the past few years, many independent singers have released their own singles through new distribution companies such as song casts, but the results are very average, in this era of information explosion, without enough publicity support, it is extremely difficult to get ahead, most of the singles can't even squeeze into the top 200 of the iTunes instant download chart, and the number of downloads has always hovered in double digits. The dilemma of indie music is evident from this.

Now, the two singles "Ophelia" and "Cleopatra" have achieved such outstanding results due to fate, which can definitely be called a shot in the arm in the arm of the independent music industry!

This is not the end of the story.

iTunes and Spotify streaming data are just one of the many data that measure the success and popularity of music works, and the Billboard in the United States and the pop charts in the United Kingdom are the vane of the comprehensive evaluation of music business performance.

The second week of September was released on Billboard on September 6, Monday, US time, and since "Ophelia's" single was released on the same day, the results were naturally counted until the next week, but "Cleopatra", which had been on the charts for two months, became the most watched single of the week.

"Cleopatra" was still ranked 89th last week, still hovering at the end of the crane, but this week's ranking took a small rocket, jumping directly to 48th, not only becoming the single with the largest ranking rise this week, but also successfully ranked in the top 50!

This is not the iTunes instant download chart, nor is it the daily play chart of Spotify or YouTube, this is the billboard of the commercial composite index, the competition is beyond imagination, and among the more than hundreds of singles in the hot competition, any single can make it to the top 50, it is a result worth celebrating, not to mention that this is an unpopular ballad.

In the decade of the 21st century, there are only a handful of ballads that have made it to the top 50 on the Billboards. Even Jason Mayez, who has been the best performer right now, has only three singles in the Billboard Top 100 so far, and the record of "I'm Yours", which has set countless records, and the much-talked about 76-week stay record is only "stuck on the Billboard chart", and the top single is only number six, and then it can't go any further.

This is one of the most commercially successful ballads of the past decade.

Now, "Cleopatra" has once again managed to make it to the top 50 on the Billboards! And it's breaking all the shackles – no music videos, no physical albums, no side promotions, no radio charts, not even record labels and distribution companies, a miracle that is simply amazing!

Although it was only forty-eight, it still caused an uproar.

From being ignored to being highly sought after, from being unknown to being the focus of discussion, "Cleopatra" has walked out of an almost impossible to replicate development curve, and has fought its way out under the all-round outbreak of time, people and places. Suddenly, the folk craze seems to have revived a little bit again, but it is impossible to know how long it will last and how high it will be.

Lanley Hall, the newcomer to the Emmy, who has just made a splash at the Emmys, and then made a splash as a folk singer on the Billboard, the focus around him suddenly skyrockets. The reporters began to look for information about Lan Li, but it surprised everyone.

Nothing.

The reporters and netizens found that they were almost the same, and their only advantage was that they learned the basic information of Lan Li from the Actors' Guild, height, weight, age, etc., and they confirmed a question: Lan Li is from London. Eventually, Lan Li's newcomer's background began to show some outlines, but other than that, there was nothing.

In the age of the Internet, everyone's information is exposed in broad daylight, almost impossible to hide, even ordinary people, and the power of the "people/flesh/search" of the Internet is terrifying, let alone the public figures living under the spotlight. Now such a mysterious figure as Lan Li suddenly appeared, and the information and experience could not be found at all, which was simply incredible.

Journalists feel humiliated - it's humiliating for netizens to find it, as professional information gatherers and insider sources, they can't find anything. And so, the fire of gossip among journalists began to burn. Quietly, Lan Li became the target of many people.

Then, on Thursday, September 9th, arrived.