In 1997, there were two most sensational news in the entire North American entertainment industry, one was the $600 million box office of "Titanic"; The first is the 40th consecutive championship of "Stormy Rain".

After "Titanic" swept the box office of 600 million US dollars in North America, it swept thousands of troops around the world, not only becoming the first work in film history to exceed one billion US dollars at the overseas box office, but also reaching a height of 1.5 billion US dollars in one fell swoop, and strongly becoming the first work in film history to exceed 2 billion US dollars at the box office, completely changing the development process of the entire film industry.

If the "Independence Day" was released last year, the global box office of 1.2 billion US dollars has been jaw-dropping, then this year's "Titanic" has really made the movie fully enter the blockbuster era, and history is so based on the "Independence Day" in 1996 as the standard, divided into before the blockbuster era and after the blockbuster era, which is completely equivalent to the "male and female thieves" in 1967.

Twenty years of reincarnation, the film industry has once again opened up a whole new world.

Although "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World" failed to reach a new high at the North American box office, thanks to the contact of overseas box office, it finally ranked second on the year-end list, and the global box office of $618 million also became the decisive data for Universal Pictures to put the third episode proposal on the desk.

The irreproducible and one-of-a-kind "L.A. Confidential" was destined to fail to make a sequel, but the production swept $610 million at the box office worldwide, which was enough to make Warner Bros. laugh to the point of internal injury. What's more, this work is still in the spotlight in the next major award ceremonies, and Warner Bros. will definitely not easily let go of the opportunity to maximize profits.

Sony Columbia Pictures emerged as the biggest box office winner worldwide, with their "Men in Black," "Air Force One," "Perfect," "My Best Friend's Wedding," and "The Fifth Element" all rounding out the top 10, occupying fourth, sixth, seventh, ninth, and tenth positions, respectively.

The situation that Mark Canton painstakingly managed for three years finally ushered in a bumper harvest, with five works occupying half of the top ten, even more beautiful than the "Titanic", which needed to be divided by Paramount and Twentieth Century Fox. This result shocked countless people, and Mark, who seemed to be not scheming enough, really fought a beautiful turnaround battle.

In addition, "007: Tomorrow's Empire" relied on the global brand effect and occupied the fifth place; The eighth place spot belongs to Jim Carrey's "King of Big Talk".

"Titanic", "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World", "L.A. Confidential", "Men in Black", "007: Tomorrow's Empire", "Air Force One", "Perfect", "Big Talk", "My Best Friend's Wedding", "The Fifth Element", these are the top 10 on the 1997 year-end list.

Hugo once again occupied two seats on the list, and the global box office of "L.A. Confidential" reached 610 million, quietly becoming Hugo's personal work second only to "Independence Day" at the global box office; "Perfect" also won $314 million worldwide, only one million dollars behind the sixth-ranked "Air Force One", and achieved such a result with an investment of $50 million - and in the absence of Hugo, Mark would wake up laughing when he fell asleep.

However, compared to the film field, Hugo's global influence is still inferior to glory to death. Over the past year, Glory to Death has carried the momentum of the "Stormy" world tour and the self-titled album, giving rock a global resurgence that is almost reminiscent of Michael Jackson or the Beatles at his peak.

No one can underestimate glory unto death!

"Tempest" since the release of the fourth week of October last year, all the way forward, with an absolutely strong attitude to continue to break many records in North America, and finally set their consecutive weeks above forty weeks, a full ten months, no one can shake the absolute dominance of this album, only in 1997, "Tempest" held the North American Billboard champion for nearly two-thirds of the time, so the year-end album sales chart has not come out, People have already predicted that this year's year-end champion will still be this album.

In fact, "Swift Rain" swept 10.17 million copies sold in 1997, which was not only the only album to exceed 8 million sales this year, but also completely broke the "8.3 million" album that won the year-end sales championship last year, and won the North American year-end sales champion for the second consecutive year with the first album to achieve 10 million sales in a single year since the 90s.

This not only makes "Storm" a second album that can win the year-end sales champion for two consecutive years after 13 years after "Trembling"; What's even more terrifying is that the sales of 10 million copies in a single year of "Storm" were created when the previous year had already exploded with 8 million sales, which made everyone even more stunned. Even after 40 weeks of winning streaks, "Storm" continues to be the top contender for the top spot on the Billboard album chart every week, and this outstanding performance truly writes a new history.

After the chicken blood mode is turned on, it is out of control.

Although this is only the third album of glory to death, and the number of works is still too small compared to those Hall of Famers who have made countless history, it won the year-end sales championship for two consecutive years, and sold 18.47 million in 14 months, making it one of the highest-selling charts in North American music history, and occupying a super high position of 12th, and it is only a matter of time before it breaks into the top 10.

In the long history of North American music, the best-selling album was the Eagles, which released in 1976 and sold 29 million copies by 2006; And Michael Jackson's "Thriller" also reached this feat in 2009, tying for the all-time first with 29 million copies.

A total of eight albums with sales of more than 20 million appeared in North America, the Eagles, Michael Jackson, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Billy Joel, AC/DC, Garth Brooks, and Shania Towne. That's the highest level of the North American music market, and with eight albums from eight different artists, not even the Beatles, Frank Sinatra and others at their peak have been able to achieve such heights.

But now, not only is the "storm" about to reach such a historical height, but also quietly, "bathing in the morning light" has also been infinitely close to this historical benchmark.

"Bathing in the Morning Light" benefited from the hot launch of the Glory to Death World Tour, and in 1997 it also ushered in a sales recovery again, and finally achieved 2.1 million sales, although it did not squeeze into the top 20 in the year-end list, but it still made the cumulative sales of this album reach 19.3 million, and it is only a layer of window paper from the height of 20 million.

It is worth mentioning that "Bathing in the Morning Light" is currently on the total album sales list in North America, ranking eleventh, just one position ahead of "Storm".

The top singers with two spots in the top 20 of the total sales list include the Eagles, Garth Brooks, Led Zeppelin, and now another name: Glory to Death! It can be seen that Glory to Death has made history, if "Bathing in the Morning Light" and "Storm" can both exceed 20 million sales, then Glory to Death will reach the height of no one before and after, and the approaching excitement makes the North American market unable to calm down at all.

It's hard to believe that no one was able to accomplish a feat in the sixties and seventies, when the record industry was at its most prosperous, but in the nineties, when the business development came to a mature stage, the record industry ushered in a full-scale explosion, from the "bodyguard" movie soundtrack to "don't mind" and now the "storm", record sales are in an absolutely brilliant era.

In addition, although the increase in "almost famous" is not large, after a glorious year to death, the cumulative sales have now reached 13 million US dollars. Needless to say, the achievements of glory to death are excellent.

"Storm" swept more than 10 million sales in 1997, such a giant data is completely comparable to the miracle of "Titanic" and "Independence Day" in the film market, there is no doubt that after dominating the year-end sales list in North America, other singers can only compete fiercely for the runner-up position.

Eventually, Christopher Wallace, who died young. Wallace, alias The. Notorious。 B。 I。 G) The talented solo album "Life After Death (Life. After。 Death)" was born out of nowhere, winning 7.73 million sales, and strongly occupying the second place of the year.

This is actually quite a fateful thing, and the album "No Way Back" by Bragging Daddy is Christopher - alias B. I。 G's posthumous work, Daddy Boast completed the album in place of his friend, and ended the forty-week streak of "Storm"; On the year-end charts, Christopher's solo album "Life After Death" also achieved very good results, undoubtedly beating other competitors, closely following in the footsteps of glory to death, and ranking as the runner-up of the year.

The hot girl group, which has been repeatedly suppressed by glory to death on the singles chart, was born, and the debut album "Hot" achieved a score of 6.34 million, setting off a frenzy of sexy and delicate girl groups in North America, and won the third place in the North American year-end sales chart.

It is worth mentioning that from TLC groups to hot girls groups to Destiny True Girls, from recruitment choirs to boys-men groups to backstreet boys, European and American idol groups have truly developed and matured, and gradually ushered in a golden age.

Glory unto death, B. I。 G and Spice Girls respectively occupied the top three on the year-end list, which also became the best footnote in 1997: rock, rap, pop, three points in the world!