From the comments of seven media to the professional comments of twenty-nine, "Don Quixote", an album that no one cares about and no one knows about, after "The Tonight Show", even if it is not a household name, it is almost the same. .
Such an ugly duckling-like miracle, in Hollywood, which entertains to death, is not much, but not much. The problem is that the ugly duckling suddenly appeared on the stage, under the attention of all the people, but not every ugly duckling can be transformed into a swan, and more of them died because of too much attention.
Fortunately, this time "Don Quixote" successfully completed the transformation! Twenty-nine professional reviews have an average score of 92 points, making it undoubtedly one of the top 10 highest rated albums of the millennium!
For reference, Nora Jones released the album "Flying Away" in 2002. At the time, this independent album was also unknown, and if it wasn't for the Grammy's dig, it might have been submerged in the torrent of the market. At that time, only sixteen media outlets made comments, all of which were highly praised, and the final average score was 88.
Now, "Don Quixote" is considered to be on the same level or even better than "Go Away", and is also considered to be one of the best albums of the 21st century!
Not only that, but the name "Renly-Hall" is hot again!
In the entertainment industry, there are countless cross-border artists, not to mention the dual roles of singers and actors. There are also many comprehensive artists involved in directors, producers, screenwriters, models, photography, painting, design and other industries.
Although it is said that it is extremely difficult to reach the peak in a field, people are valuable and professional; but people always like to see artists who still perform wonderfully after crossing the border, just like Oscar always favors "acting and leading". Directors, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson, Kevin Costner, and so on.
This time it was Renly's turn.
He is not only a good actor, but also a good singer and also a good songwriter. It's not the kind of crossover with the nature of playing tickets, nor the freewheeling of Disney idols, but the excellence of real materials. The overwhelming praise of "Don Quixote" is not inferior to, or even crazier than, "Love Crazy" and "Buried Alive".
Incredible, absolutely incredible!
Such a grand occasion made all the media a sensation! The bustling attention is like homing bees, swarming from every corner of the world.
It is worth mentioning that two months ago, a new rapper named Kendrick-Lamar released his first solo studio album "Se.80".
This album, like "Don Quixote", has hardly been noticed by the media, but it has been enthusiastically sought after in the hip-hop industry, and several heavyweights have appointed Kendrick as the new king of rap on the West Coast; The average score of this album is temporarily settled at 90 points, and it is also considered to be the best hip-hop album after the millennium.
Both are unknown singers. "Still little known, "Don Quixote" turned out to be. The fate of the development is completely different, but it has not affected the cheers and shouts of the independent music media at all: Is the music market, which has been silent for many years, really going to reappear
Not a resurgence in sales, not a boom in the market, but the return of music. This is the best gift for music critics. As for the rise and fall of the market and the ups and downs of the industry, they are involved in the torrent of the times. Even if they want to help, they have more than enough energy. Therefore, they will not be greedy.
From this perspective, these music critics are actually the same kind of people as George Slender. Harsh, tricky, strict, sharp, spicy, hard to serve, and in the final analysis, it comes from the love of the heart - and the belly waiting to be fed.
Who would have thought that "Crazy in Love" led to the attention of the ending song "Believe in Belief", the curiosity of "The Tonight Show" involved "Don Quixote", and finally this album by Renly appeared in In front of the public, this way of appearing is really ingenious. However, with an excellent rating of ninety-two, without any positive feedback from negative and neutral reviews, "Don Quixote" has quietly become an album of 2011 that cannot be ignored.
On August 29th, "Don Quixote" was officially put on the shelves. Six weeks have passed in a blink of an eye. This album has never really attracted the attention of the market. The sales are tepid, and it can even be described as bleak. It sold 2,000 copies in the first week, and 4,000 copies in the second week. After that, the average weekly sales remained stable at around 3,000 copies. So far, the sales have barely exceeded 20,000 copies.
As George Slender and Renly Hall expected, this is an album that "can't sell"! If things go on like this, it is a sure thing to lose money. The question is, how much will you lose
However, in this bleak cloud, George, Neil, Stanley and others never gave up hope, and still tirelessly and persistently supported "Don Quixote". Strictly speaking, for this group of avid music lovers, the release of the album is already a victory, what more do they need
What's more, it's not all bad news. After the "Pioneer Village Night" was uploaded on YouTube, the speed of dissemination began to spread at a slow but firm rhythm, especially the music fans who attended the scene that day, spared no effort to promote it. It is thanks to this that the weekly sales of "Don Quixote" have always been maintained at around 3,000 copies, neither increasing nor declining. The performance is stable, just like the frozen Lake Baikal—
The thick ice surface has no fluctuations, no ripples, no waves, or even movement; but beneath the ice surface, a turbulent undercurrent is waiting for the ice-breaking day, and the slowly increasing supporters are still extremely weak. The group is firm enough, loyal enough, and fanatical enough.
Since it successfully entered the Billboard album chart in the first week of September, "Don Quixote" has been hovering around the 150th place, without breaking through, but it has never been on the list, as if it is still on the list. The "Ophelia" of the general, low self-esteem.
Now, the moment that fans have been waiting for has finally arrived: in just one week after "The Tonight Show" aired, "Don Quixote" sold 16,000 copies a week, like riding a rocket , "Whoosh" immediately jumped up to the top fifty ranks of the Billboard album chart, temporarily ranking thirty-eighth.
The sales volume of one week is almost comparable to the sales volume of the previous six weeks!
This is also a major feature of the Internet age: trust in the media. The majority of audiences are becoming more and more dependent on the media, and the effect of following the trend without thinking and following others’ opinions is becoming more and more obvious. As long as there is enough media publicity, enough public exposure, and enough topic effects, it can basically ensure a certain degree of success. Sales, such as the opening weekend box office of a movie, such as the weekly sales of an album.
The problem with this method is that enough publicity means, which requires enough cost support, may not be able to reap enough profits. Small companies are best avoided, such as Eleven Studios.
"The Tonight Show" is obviously such a propaganda method. It is not within the plan of Eleven Studio, but it has produced the same effect. It sold 16,000 copies in a week and ranked 38th on the bulletin board. "Don Quixote" has truly entered the public eye.
It's just that among the 16,000 sales, how many are sailors who join in the fun, how many are onlookers who eat melons, and how many are followers who follow the upsurge. After all these "watering" are drained , in the end how many really like this album? How many of George Slender and Clyde Coughlin really appreciate this album? How many bought it after understanding the album? And how many are dreamers willing to join Pioneer Village Nights
This, unknown, can only be given to time.
Perhaps, "Don Quixote" will become another "Flying Away", and then this opportunity will be truly known to the public, and a high rating of 92 points can become the key to breaking the barriers of the popular market; perhaps, " "Don Quixote" will become another "Area 80". After a brief blockbuster, it will disappear again. The craze and bubbles subside, no one pays any more attention, and the albums just pile up in the corners and slowly start to accumulate dust.
The dream has sprouted, but if you want to grow into a tree in the sky, it needs more than just a "Tonight Show".
Still, "Don Quixote" had its biggest win since its release, not only rising up the album charts, but the singles charts as well.
"Cleopatra", the popular ballad single, has once again broken into the top ten on the singles chart this week, thanks to a boost in album sales, and will settle at No. 10. You know, this is the sixty-eighth week of the single's release, any language is pale in the face of such a result, in addition to shock, shock!
"Ophelia" has also benefited from it. If the statistics are correct, this is the first time the single has entered the top 50 since its release, and it is already the fifty-fourth week of the single's release. Such phenomenal performance has quietly written its own history.
Archimedes once said, "Give me a fulcrum and a lever long enough, and I can move the earth."
"The First Minister of the Ming Dynasty"
These remarks were considered by countless people to be outrageous, but later science also proved that Archimedes' hypothesis is feasible, but due to the limitations of current technology, there is no way to put it into practice. But now, "Don Quixote" is proving this theory:
"The Tonight Show" is the fulcrum, and the "Don Quixote" album itself is the lever, and Renly Hall is moving the earth. The most absurd, the wildest, the most dreamy conjecture is now becoming a reality.
However, compared to "Cleopatra", compared to "Ophelia", "Believe it" is the biggest winner in this wave of actions to shake the earth!