891 A miracle

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The word-of-mouth is unbeatable, which is reflected in the sales volume, which is shocking.

From Jacky Cheung to Faye Wong, they have created a lot of good results, but they have never been able to really enter the history of American music like the British Beatles. Since entering 2010, Lee Joon-yi first left his footprints in the history of American music step by step in the single part, and now, Lee Joon-yi is creating a history with the album "Apologize", which is also a miracle.

As mentioned before, because of the impact of digital sound sources, the number of people willing to buy physical albums has been greatly reduced, and the era of selling more than 10 million copies at every turn is gone, and after entering 2000, the highest-selling album in the United States is Amy Namm's album released in 2002, which sold an astonishing 7.61 million copies that year, becoming the highest-selling album at the end of the year since the 21st century. Of course, American albums are long-term sellers, and if you want to count the cumulative sales over the past decade, then the best-selling album so far in 2000 belongs to the album "1" released by the Beatles in 2000, which has sold more than 11 million copies so far.

In recent years, the highest-selling album in the United States was 2007, with 3.7 million copies by Josh Groban, and last year's number one album was Taylor Swift's "Fearless", which sold 3.22 million copies. This situation is far from the era of the last century, when album sales were based on tens of millions.

Upon its release, the album "Apologize" achieved an astonishing 1.2 million copies in the midst of overwhelming praise, breaking through the glasses of a crowd: this sales not only surpassed the record of 740,000 copies set by Amy Namm three weeks ago, becoming the highest-selling first-week album since 2010, but also the highest-selling first-week album in the past decade.

This achievement undoubtedly won the championship of this week's Forced Llbo Ard's album chart, the airborne champion, which is the twentieth airborne champion single since the establishment of the Forced Llbo Ard half a century, and history began to be written here. Similar to the first Asian's forced wave album chart toppers, Li Zhunyi is not only creating Asian history as a Chinese, but also breaking a series of records set by the Americans themselves.

In the United States, 500,000 copies sold are called gold records, 1 million copies are platinum records, and 10 million copies are legendary diamond records. Two million is double platinum, the above words can be called n platinum or super platinum, to be able to sell platinum records, is the wish of every singer, and it is also the goal that countless new singers strive for.

1.2 million, the first week sales exceeded platinum, such a result, even in the overwhelming good reputation of "apologize", it is amazing. However, this surprise is a joyful surprise, and all the media and professional music critics are shouting that the win-win situation of word-of-mouth sales, "apologize" is entering history.

Halfway through 2010, the current sales champion is Amy Namm's new album "Recovery", which was released in early July, with 3.42 million copies sold. Lee Joon-yi's first English-language album came out, first breaking Amy Namu's first-week sales record, so how long-lasting the sales of "Apologize" is, and whether it can break Amy Namu's current record, has become the focus of all media attention.

Although the first-week sales of 1.2 million are too amazing, if you study it carefully, you will find that Lee Joon-yi's achievement can be said to be a natural success, and it is not an accident, at least it does not have to be an accident when Lee Joon-yi created a series of miracles in the movie.

Flipping through the history of Lee Joon-yi's development in the United States, the overnight fame of "Twilight" also brought news about Lee Joon-yi's musical talent, and the four movies in 2009 made Lee Joon-yi both fame and fortune, not only becoming the first place among the new generation of actors, but also successfully ranked among the first-line among many senior actors. Entering 2010, the four singles went to the public step by step, showing everyone Lee Joon-yi's talent in music, followed by the popularity of "Lunar Eclipse" and "Inception", especially "Inception" won a big victory all over the world, but the starring Lee Joon-yi overshadowed all the previous actors and became the most watched actor in July. Acting, popularity, prestige, Lee Joon-yi lacks nothing, which laid a solid foundation for his first English album.

Sony's planning for the album "Apologize" began from day one, and the release of the single, the shooting of the MV, and the arrangement of the promotional itinerary all reflected Sony's hard work. When the expectations of all listeners and fans for Lee Joon-yi's first English-language album reached the highest point, the album was launched with the power of "Inception".

If you want to be objective, the excellence of the movie cannot be translated into actual sales, but can only bring attention to Lee Joon-yi's debut album. This previous series of cumulative momentum just gives attention and expectation to this album.

What really turned the attention of the album "Apologize" into sales was the quality of the album itself, or the public's initial recognition of Lee Joon-yi's musical talent. The most important thing is the excellence of the album itself. With a consistent good reputation, adjectives such as "perfect, best, peerless", and "apologize" has received almost every possible acclaim, and some media even predict that the album is destined to shine at next year's Grammys. Trendy, fashionable, novel, catchy, durable, moving...... To be successful, the quality of the work itself is always the first factor, and the hype and the perfect timing are just additional conditions.

Lee Joon-yi has achieved jaw-dropping results with an impeccable album, which should actually be said to be logical. But the skyrocketing sales figure still became an exclamation point that was enough to make everyone stunned!

One week champion, two weeks champion, three week champions...... From the end of July to November, the album "apologize" won the championship for 11 consecutive weeks, which is remarkable at any time and in any era, even in the era of music prosperity when singers are blooming.

Lee Joon-yi's debut English album won the championship of the ARD album chart for 11 weeks, which is really amazing. And that's not the point, "apologize" stayed in the top 10 for another 12 weeks, and in 2011 it was still on the top 10 list, and the durability of sales was too scary. In the end, "Apologize" stayed in the top 200 of the Forced Wave Album Chart for 71 weeks. In other words, "Apologize" stayed in the top 200 sales until March 2012, and the durability of sales even exceeded that of the previous long-lived album "Fame".

In 2010 alone, "Apologize" sold more than 8 million copies, and the final figure was 8.31 million copies. Undoubtedly, this achievement has become the highest-selling album in the United States since the beginning of the 21st century. As mentioned earlier, the highest-selling album at the end of the year in the past three years is 3.7 million copies, and the sales of Lee Joon-yi's album are more than twice this number, if nothing else, there is no problem in winning the 2010 domestic sales championship in the United States.

8.31 million copies, the highest sales in the past decade, made Lee Joon-yi, who only released his first English album, immediately join the ranks of the top singers in the American music industry. And the album's sales durability is still so amazing, by the time it withdrew from the "Top 200 Album Chart" in 2012, "Apologize" had reached 13 million copies in the United States, surpassing the Beatles and becoming the cumulative album sales champion since 2000.

Who would have thought that surpassing the Beatles would have been? It was a miracle indeed.

This is just the United States, and around the world, Lee Joon-yi's hot popularity continues.

In the UK, "Apologize" not only topped the album chart for four consecutive weeks, but also sold 1.3 million copies and was very competitive on the year-end sales chart.

In Japan, Lee Joon-yi's power showed its power, and "apologize" topped the O-Day Con album chart for five consecutive weeks, setting a new record for foreign singers in Japan and breaking Lee Joon-yi's own record for the previous "Powder Snow" album. In the end, it achieved sales of 2.2 million, which is, if nothing else, a strong contender for the top three in the year-end sales list.

South Korea and China have always had a mediocre ability to digest English albums, China because of piracy, and South Korea because of national consciousness, but this time, Lee Joon-yi's prestige still broke these barriers.

In South Korea, the album "Apologize" actually achieved 530,000 copies sold, which stunned everyone, and let everyone see the incomparable cohesion of NO.1. At present, there is only one singer in South Korea who can easily sell more than 500,000 copies. So, in 2009, Lee Joon-yi won the top of the year-end sales chart with "Song of G Strings", is it possible that in 2010, Lee Joon-yi will re-win the championship again with an English album? The premise of this situation is that Lee Joon-yi has not been active in South Korea for nearly a year and a half, so Lee Joon-yi's popularity is too terrible.

In China, the album "Love Song" once swept the sales of 750,000 copies, becoming the sales champion in China's cross-strait three places that year. This time, "Apologize" was released and achieved a result of 800,000 copies, even surpassing the record of "love songs" that year, which makes people sigh.

In addition, the album "Apologize" has also won the top spot in the album sales chart in more than 20 countries including France, Italy, Germany, Canada, and Australia, continuing the shock brought by "Inception" not long ago.

In the end, Lee Joon-yi's debut English-language album sold 15 million copies worldwide, which is not only a miracle in 2010, but also a miracle in the world since the beginning of the 21st century.

In the face of an increasingly sluggish economy, the world music market has been severely impacted by digital sound sources, and album sales have long since lost their courage. This time, Lee Joon-yi's "apologize" achievement, placed ten or twenty years ago, may be just a very good album, but today, it is an album that has created countless myths. However, the "apologize" album, which was born in order to create miracles, with this series of myths, opened a new page for Lee Joon-yi on the world stage: in addition to actor Lee Joon-yi, there is also singer Lee Joon-yi.

Compared with the grandeur of the whole album "Apologize", this album is not inferior in the singles chart. In the face of the step-by-step pressure of digital music sources, "apologize" swept away the decadence of the album market and reopened a new situation in the physical album market.

Lee Joon-yi relied on the album "Apologize" to prove that people will still buy physical albums, as long as the album is good enough and collectible, they are willing to open their wallets and buy the album. Combined with the miracles that Lee Joon-yi has repeatedly created in Asia in the past two years, this has also made the American music industry and even the world music industry realize that it is still necessary to rely on quality to speak, as long as it is a good album, the audience will not be stingy.

While the whole album created miracles, "Apologize" as a single also began its chart-making journey on the singles chart. This time, "apologize" took over the baton of "and", continuing the situation that Lee Joon-yi's singles continued to appear on the singles chart since January.

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