The Greatest Showman - Chapter 149

[148 Leap Forward]

“Outside the number: ‘Ophelia’ is officially on the shelves of iTunes and spotiy!”

Although there was a lack of publicity, thanks to the popularity of YouTube recently, some netizens soon discovered this exciting news and posted it as soon as possible. 6 The Yahoo community posted a message, the post also mentioned the information of “Cleopatra (arranged version)”, and said “Renly-Hall, the damn guy is finally willing to officially record, and now he can finally listen to it. The full studio version, Jesus Christ, I have been listening to the original version of this song for a full five months!”

After the post was published, it quickly attracted a large number of netizens’ hot discussion and pursuit, speculation about deliberate hype Once again sporadically surfaced, “Brando Fever” posted on the thirty-seventh floor of the post:

“Regardless of Renly-Hall’s family background, the objective fact is that he did not use any resources to Propaganda, the video of ‘Ophelia’ was just lively on YouTube, and there was no follow-up report at all; it has been half a year since the upload of ‘Cleopatra’, completely zero-resource propaganda, only Just relying on word of mouth.???

Regardless of whether there is strong support behind Renly-Hall, the objective fact is that, except for the two professional music reviews recommended by ‘Mixer’ and ‘Billboard’, it is completely It’s just relying on the cacophony and attention of netizens to get to this point. There is no lace news, no gossip hype, no radio commercials, and no TV publicity.

No matter how things have developed to this stage, the objective fact is, ‘Cleo The two singles Patra’ and ‘Ophelia’ are really good music. That’s what counts, isn’t it?” The

“Brando Fever” post quickly sparked heated discussions among netizens, with some Some people support it, some people oppose it, some people watch it, but overall, supporters still have the upper hand. Combined with the “conclusions” of previous netizens, it has gradually become the mainstream. After all, Renly is just a newcomer, and there is not much value for discussion.

However, this small controversy has fueled the popularity of the post again, and more and more netizens learned that “Ophelia” was officially launched.

Just six hours after the single was uploaded, “Ophelia” successfully entered the top 200 of itunes instant download chart!

On the surface, it seems that it is only the top two hundred, and there is nothing to brag about, but considering that there is no announcement, no notice, no reminder, and no publicity, it is purely relying on the netizens who play “Sherlock Holmes”. , It is really too rare to have achieved such a result. What’s more, this is just the beginning.

As the news spread, the download data of “Ophelia” rose rapidly at a rate visible to the naked eye, and at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, it had successfully ranked among the top 100. It was only nine days after the single was uploaded. It’s only an hour, and this achievement is still riding a small rocket, rising slowly, making people strongly doubt, “When did folk songs start to attract so much attention?”

At nine o’clock in the evening, “Ophelia” It has reached the fourteenth place on the itunes instant download list, and the upward momentum has finally slowed down. This kind of curve can be called unbelievable. It really shows the powerful driving force of the Internet age. It is really shocking that such an excellent result has been achieved without spending any publicity resources.

At the same time, “Cleopatra (arranged version)” has also received countless attention. Compared with the hot effect of “Ophelia”, this single is more of a word-of-mouth effect. After all, the single is announced The brand’s singles chart has also been in the low-ranking circle for two months, so the download data of the singles lacks a little explosive force, but still shows a good stamina.

By nine o’clock in the evening, “Cleopatra (the arrangement version of the tunes for instant download was only number 64, but by midnight, the single had risen to 31 correspondingly,” “Ophelia” still stayed at the fourteenth place, and there was no change in three hours.

Of course, the most notable is the “Cleopatra” uploaded in March this year, which is the original version. The day after the Emmys ended, the single topped iTunes’ instant download chart. 3rd place! The top two are “love-the-ay-ye” by Eminem and Rihanna (r), and Katy Perry (katy- Perry’s “teenage-dream”.

It was undoubtedly a huge breakthrough, an unimaginable breakthrough, although “Cleopatra” only stayed in the third place for twenty-four hours, It slipped off the next day, but it was cheering. Now, a week later, downloads of “Cleopatra” are being shunted by the arrangement version with two new line singles in the spotlight A lot, but it is still on an upward trend, and it also occupies the 49th place on the itunes instant download list.

The outstanding results are indescribable in words. Although this is only within 24 hours Results, the subsequent development curve is still unpredictable, but the hot topic that broke out within 24 hours, even if it is not too inferior to famous popular singers, no one can deny that these two singles are really a hit The limelight 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 companies such as songcasts, but the performance is very average. In the 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 download volume has always hovered in double digits. This shows the dilemma of indie music.

Now, the two singles “Ophelia” and “Cleopatra” have achieved such outstanding results by chance, and can definitely be called the indie music industry. A shot in the arm!

The story doesn’t end here.

iTunes and spotiy streaming data are just one of many metrics that measure the success and popularity of musical compositions. Billboard in the US and pop charts in the UK are A vane of comprehensive consideration of music business performance.

The bulletin board for the second week of September will be announced on Monday, September 6th, US time. Since the single “Ophelia” was released on the same day, the score statistics will naturally have to wait until the next week, but it is already on the list. Stayed for two months “Cleopatra” has become 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 and jumped directly to 48th, not only a rising position in this week’s ranking The biggest single and managed to break into the top 50!

This is not the instant download chart of itunes, nor the daily streaming chart of spotiy or YouTube, this is the bulletin board of the commercial composite index. Among them, any single that can make the top 50 is a result to celebrate, not to mention that it is an unpopular ballad.

In the ten years of the 21st century, the ballad that has been shortlisted in the top 50 on the Billboard Countless. Even Jason Mayez, who is currently the best performer, is no exception. So far, he has only three singles in the top 100 on the Billboard, and among them, “I’m Yours”, which has created countless records, has made people excited. Le Dao’s 76-week stay record is only the time it “stayed on the Billboard chart”, and the highest single ranking is only sixth, and then it can’t go any further.

This is one of the most commercially successful folk songs in the past decade.

Now, “Cleopatra” has managed to make the Billboard Top 50 again! And it broke all the shackles. No music videos, no physical albums, no supporting promotions, no radio charts, and even no record companies and travel companies. This miracle is simply amazing!

Although it was only a mere forty-eighth, it still caused an uproar.

From no one to be highly sought after, from unknown origin to discussion focus, “Cleopatra” has walked out of an almost unrepeatable development curve. . Suddenly, the craze for folk songs seems to have recovered a little bit again, but it is impossible to know how long it will last and what heights it will reach.

Renly Hall, a freshman actor who had just made his Emmys big, followed by a Billboard blockbuster as a ballad singer, saw a sudden surge of focus around him. Reporters start looking for information about Renly, only to surprise everyone with

nothing.

The reporters and netizens are almost the same. Their only advantage is that they have learned basic information about Renly from the Actors Guild, such as height, weight, age, etc., and they have confirmed a question: Renly is from London. Finally, the background information of the newcomer Renly began to show some outlines, but other than that, there was nothing.

In the Internet era, everyone’s information is exposed in broad daylight, and it is almost impossible to hide it, even ordinary people. The power of “people/meat/search” on the Internet is terrifying, let alone living in the spotlight. public figures below. Now that a mysterious figure like Renly has suddenly appeared, the information and experience cannot be found at all, which is simply too incredible.

The reporters felt that they were humiliated and the netizens couldn’t find it. As professional information collectors and insiders, they didn’t find anything. It was a shame. Then the fire of gossip began to burn. In silence, Renly became the target of many people.

Then, Thursday, September 9th, arrived. 8

[End of this Chapter]