Last year, Elton John's "Candle in the Wind/Goodbye, English Rose" exploded with amazing energy, almost completely changing the landscape of the singles market by sweeping thousands of troops, coupled with the strength of Glory to Death and Bragging Daddy, a total of three singles sold more than 3 million copies at the end of the year, making it the best year in music history.

Among them, there are a total of five singles with a total sales of more than 2 million, and the overall momentum has reached an incredible height.

This year, however, the overall singles market has fallen sharply – just like the 1995 Film Market – with only two albums that have sold more than two million in the year, and none of them have crossed the 3 million mark. Not to mention the myth of breaking through 10 million like "Candle in the Wind / Goodbye, English Rose".

Eventually, Brandi and Monica, two talented teenage girls, collaborated on the single "This Is My Boy (The. Boy。 Is。 Mine)" sold 2.33 million for the year, successfully topping the year-end singles sales chart. This is the worst figure for winning the championship in the past five years, and it has brought the booming singles market to a halt for a while.

The runner-up at the end of the year was Faith Hill. Hill), her single "This. With sales of 2.04 million, Kiss became another single to sell more than 2 million in 1998, which was a good result.

A rhythm and blues and a country music, the two music genres complement each other, but they have not been able to burst into the momentum of the previous pop and rock confrontation, which has also become a major feature of this year's singles market.

After these two singles, Divine's "Lately" and Next's "Too." Close)", Master P's "Let them say yes (Make. ‘Em。 Say。 Uhh), Montel Jordan (Montell. Jordan's Let's. Ride）”、R。 Kelly and Celine Dion's "I'm Your Angel" Your。 Angel), Backstreet Boys' "Everybody", Britney Spears' "Baby, One." More。 Time" and "Sail", which is glorious to death, occupied the remaining positions in the top 10.

Among the top 10, the rock band won three spots, and the overall performance is impressive, and the most notable on the list is undoubtedly the rise of the two idols of Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears, plus the Super Boy who has achieved great results on the year-end album chart, and Brandi and Monica, who have performed well throughout the year, the trend of teen idols has become unstoppable.

Although the singles chart showed a collective downturn, only two singles sold more than 2 million copies, and they also set a new low in five years; But in fact, the music market as a whole is climbing, with 33 singles selling more than 1 million in the year, the most in music history – 17 last year, for the same comparison.

It can be seen that the entire market is showing a boom, so that the purchasing power of singles has skyrocketed, and the works that sold one million in previous years can be counted on two hands, and the overall size of the single market is not comparable to that of albums. But now, the picture is very different.

Industry insiders are well aware that the prosperity of the singles market means the maturity of commercial operations, and people no longer buy albums simply because they like the singer, but will walk into the record store and take out their wallets because of the beauty of the singles. This is not only because the single's publicity is overwhelming, and its influence on listeners has risen; And because there are so many singers in the market, listeners are choosing more and more right, they don't necessarily like a certain artist or a certain album, but they are willing to support a specific single.

In this way, the scene coincides with the overall trend of the film market, and the influence of "entertainment to death" has penetrated into all aspects of the entertainment-related industry, and the audience has become a vital part of it.

It is worth mentioning that the "voyage" of glory to death once again took its place for them, which is simply a myth. As listeners have traditionally paid little attention to singles, it's almost impossible for a single to stay on the sales charts for a long time.

Compared to the 892 weeks of Billboard albums' current time holder, "The Dark Side of the Moon," a single has been on the chart for almost no less time.

The longest-running single on the Billboard Singles Chart is "Sailing", which stayed on the charts for 118 weeks, writing an incredible record, and the runner-up is Leanne Lem's "How." Do。 I。 Live)" is only sixty-nine weeks on the charts; Occupying the third place is another single "Wonderwall", which has been on the charts for a total of 67 weeks, and has achieved remarkable results; Other than that, no single has ever been on the chart for more than 60 weeks.

From this aspect, it can be seen that "Sailing" has set an incredible record, almost a record that no one has been able to surpass since then - in fact, until 20 years later, no one has been able to break the "Sailing" record, and it is extremely difficult to even break the record of 90 consecutive weeks on the list, let alone challenge the record of "Sailing".

So, after more than two years of release, "Sailing" has taken a place in the top 10 of the year-end chart for the third year in a row, and such a stellar performance is enough to make it one of the best singles in music history. What's even more interesting is that the single that people are most impressed by by Glory to Death is "Maze Wall" - it has always been "Maze Wall", this single is not only the first single in history to be on the chart for more than 60 weeks, but also has a far-reaching impact that is unimaginable, even after it is off the list, the on-demand rate on the radio is still high, and ten years later, there are even people who specially collect copies of the first version of the release of "Maze Wall".

Later, some people discussed why this phenomenon is a "maze wall" instead of a "voyage", after all, it is "sailing" that makes history. The young volcanoes' answers are intriguing: they witnessed the glory to death during the "Lost Wall" period, truly understood the musical dream of glory to death, and then experienced a long and magical journey with glory to death, which led to the "Young Volcano" (Young. Volcanoes)", "Voyage" was born. People's understanding of "sailing" is only to understand the pinnacle of glory to death, but the "labyrinthine wall" has witnessed the young volcano and the glory to death, which represents a journey that cannot be replaced.

Glory to Death had hardly any public music events in 1998, but "Voyage" still represented their place on the year-end charts, and their influence did not diminish in the slightest. In fact, Glory to Death still released a single in 1998, the theme song of "City of Angels" "Angel" is from the song of Glory to Death, the results of the movie were average, but this single was very popular, and even with the movie soundtrack have achieved excellent results, successfully ranked among the top ten at the end of the year, so EMI Records also launched the single "Angel".

As the fifth single in the album "Storm", people have also paid a lot of attention, looking forward to this single being able to win the championship again, tying the record of Michael Jackson's "Trembling" album's five number one pieces. But it's a pity that Glory to Death has never been put into publicity, and this song is not a rock style, it is a pop style sung by Hugo alone, so its influence is really limited.

Angel's best result was a runner-up of three weeks, followed by a stay in the top 10 for a while, but he never really managed to touch the title. In fact, it is known that if Glory to Death wants to break the record and specifically revolve around the "angels" to carry out propaganda, then it is not impossible to achieve, but Glory to Death does not. So, this can be considered a pity, but it can also be seen as a label that belongs to a rock band.

By the end of 1998, "Angel" had sold 1.14 million copies, making it one of the top 30 on the year-end list.

From the album chart to the singles chart, Glory to Death has become a music force to be reckoned with on the North American continent without a new work coming out and no tour starting. What's even more incredible is that the global sales of "Storm" have finally reached the position of more than 10,000 people under one person!

"Tempest" entered 1998 after the sales momentum is still unabated, at the end of last year the album sales have been infinitely close to 40 million, at the beginning of this year "Tempest" also naturally became the ninth album in history to break 40 million global sales, after a year of accumulation, "Tempest" continued to make persistent efforts, and finally accumulated sales reached 48 million copies, very hopeful in the next two years, become the second album after "Trembling" to exceed 50 million global sales.

The cumulative sales of 48 million are enough for "Storm" to surpass Pink Floyd's best-selling album "The Dark Side of the Moon" for 20 years, and become the runner-up on the all-time sales list! At present, there is only one king standing in front of the "storm": "trembling"!

Of course, if you want to surpass the sales of "Trembling" of 100 million and 4 million, it may be ten or even twenty years later, and the hope is very slim. But the cumulative sales of 48 million are enough to go down in history for "Storm", and it is possible to write its own history again at any time, so that Glory to Death will undoubtedly be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and become a well-deserved leader in the momentum of rock and roll recovery in the 90s.

Someone once said that the progress of time is actually the writing of history. But for many, this sentence does not make any sense, because the boring life of day after day has nothing to do with the so-called "history" at all. But now, every young volcano, every rock 'n' roll lover; Every movie lover, every movie lover, is in a great and magnificent history, witnessing the traces carved by time.

The realism that "you can change the world with your own power" makes everyone's blood boil!