Chapter 1020: The Charm of the Original Sound
Movie episodes or theme songs can always unexpectedly create results on the Billboard rankings, which is also the most interesting scene in the North American music market before the 21st century.
The original soundtrack of the "West Side Story" movie released in 1962 stayed on the Billboard album rankings for fifty-four weeks, and this record was not broken until 2014; the "South Pacific" in 1958, the "Purple Rain" in 1984, the "Saturday.night.fever" in 1977, the "Body Guard" in 1992, and the Billboard album rankings for the original soundtracks of the Billboard album rankings for the soundtracks of the Billboard albums for more than twenty weeks, which is a record that all albums must look up to after entering the 21st century.
These are all a beautiful landscape in the history of Billboard.
Not to mention the distance, in the first week of August, Lisa Lopp sang the theme song "Waiting" for the movie "Reality Craftsmanship" to create glory. This single broke the battle between "Don't.look.back.in.anger" and "I Swear". It not only became the first independent track in the history of the Billboard singles rankings, but also won the championship for three consecutive weeks. Even after falling from the championship throne, he stayed on the third place throne for a long time, witnessing the fierce competition between "beautiful day" and "I will keep warm with you".
Why can the song "Waiting" be so popular? The movie "Reality Pain" not only has a mediocre reputation, but also has a box office of only 20 million US dollars. Compared with the movie itself, this theme song has won more widespread responses and recognition.
Putting aside the quality of the movie itself, excellent interludes or theme songs can be heard in many movies. After matching the plot of the movie, the songs will often bloom with greater charm. Thanks to the development of American radio stations, hosts often like to recommend such songs, both movies and songs, allowing listeners to have more room for imagination and increase their understanding of the songs. Therefore, the original soundtrack of the movie is often easily won the love of many viewers.
Many works that have suffered tragically, their original soundtracks can often rank among the top ten Billboards, and even many better results have become an important part of the movie surrounding the movie. Therefore, film companies will join hands with record companies to promote the original soundtracks strongly.
This also creates a situation where the original soundtrack of the movie is very popular.
This is the case with "shape.of.my.heart". Many people even described it as "the killer is not too cold" and interpreted it after completely condensing the plot of "This killer is not too cold", becoming one of the most important supplementary elements of the movie. Just like that pot of plastic pot, it became the symbol of the movie.
Under such circumstances, "Shape of Heart" burst out with strong combat power and won the Billboard Singles Chart in the first week of December.
This momentum continued again in the following week. "Shape of Heart" did not have the strong explosive power of a "beautiful day" in terms of sales. This week's sales were only 200,000, a slight decrease from last week. It won sales data of more than 200,000 for the second consecutive week, which is quite a gap compared to "beautiful day".
However, the on-demand rate of "Shape of Heart" has also risen to 6%. The on-demand volume is easy to laugh at and out. Under such a dual effect, "Shape of Heart" easily won the championship again, extending the winning streak of singles that have won glory to death to the death to the 16th week!
In comparison, the results of "bending knees" seem to be less impactful. Although sales have further increased to 170,000, the on-demand rate has shown a downward trend, and there is a slight decline behind the three-percent on-demand rate. Therefore, although "bending knees" occupy the runner-up position for the second consecutive week, the gap with "Shape of Heart" has been widened.
Interestingly, there was no change in the third place and the Palace Army. It was still the "hot coming" and "another night" of the previous week. What changed was that Bonjovi's "always" climbed to fifth place, while "a wonderful day" and "I will be kind to you" were extended to sixth place and seventh place.
From the fourteen consecutive championships of "A Beautiful Day" to the two consecutive championships of "Shape of Heart", the album "Bath in the Morning Light" has created countless miracles. It has won glory until death and stepped on the 16-week runner-up of the boy and man group, officially declared that rock and roll dominate North America!
All media are discussing when the singles of the album "Bath in the Morning Light" will continue and what kind of achievements will "Shape of Heart" create. But unexpectedly, the third week of December should have changed the dynasty, officially announcing the sixteen consecutive weeks of glory to death and boys and men, for four months, to a period of 16 consecutive weeks.
The single "Hot Hot Comes" of hip-hop singer Eni Komoz relies on a strong reputation and has made a strong counterattack. Not only did sales burst out with amazing energy, but the on-demand rate is also rising. Last week, the on-demand rate was infinitely close to the "Shape of Heart" and this week it surpassed in one fell swoop. This also made "Hot Comes" the first single of Eni's championship, and it was the single list that interrupted the sixteen-week rule of Honor until death, which made the entire North American music market lively for a while.
"Shape of Heart" finally entered a slowdown with the decline in sales of "Bathing in the Morning Light" before 1994. However, this single still relies on the original soundtrack to show strong topics. After handing over the championship position this week, it still held the runner-up throne.
In fact, the only change in the top five this week was the top of "hot coming", and the second to fifth places were "heart shape", "knee bent", "another night" and "always". In addition, TLC's "recrunk" rose to sixth place, "Good Day" and "I will be warm with you" were once again posting down, ranking seventh and eighth.
In the last week of 1994, the top eight Billboard singles rankings did not change at all, and the ranking last week was fully continued, which also allowed everyone to witness the excellence of "The Hot Comes", and this single also became an insurmountable peak in Eni's music career.
After entering 1995, the list underwent a "earth-turning" change. The "Shape of Heart" relies on the spread and strength of on-demand rate to return to the championship throne; the "bending knees" also exploded at the same time, rising together, and following closely behind to win the runner-up; the "recrew" continued to rise, rising from sixth to third place, while the "hot coming" directly slid down to the palace army.
At this moment, you can clearly feel that "This killer is not too cold" was treated coldly in North America, but as the original soundtrack of the movie, "Shape of Heart" relies on the plot and the topic of the movie to attract attention, and directly won the third non-consecutive weekly championship after the single was released.
Although "This Killer is Not Too Cold" has been offline from the cinema, it has benefited from the popularity of "Shape of Heart". After the movie landed in the video tape market, it was enthusiastically sought after. With the advancement of time, it gradually established a reputation among movie fans and became one of the most successful works of Luc Besson. At the same time, people also witnessed Natalie Portman's stunning debut.
Many years later, when people look back to discuss this history, they cannot clearly identify whether it is "this killer is not too cold" that makes the "heart shape" or "the shape of the heart" that makes the "this killer is not too cold". But what is certain is that "the shape of the heart" as a single that did not receive much attention in the album "Bath in the morning light", it successfully rose to the top and continued the glory of glory to death.
After that, "Shape of Heart" won the championship for two consecutive weeks again, extending its accumulated championship weeks to five weeks. "Bending of knees" showed weakness and strength. Not only did it not form an effective impact, but it also showed signs of fatigue, and the gap became increasingly obvious.
This also officially marks the formation of the boy-man group and the Yuliang complex of Glory to Death. Although these two groups of singers are representative figures of R&B and Rock, the song types are completely different. Unlike the head-on and fierce competition between the bands of Glory to Death and Nirvana, the competition between these two types of music represents the direction of the entire music market. Therefore, the competition between the two groups of singers can be said to be the beginning of the change in the entire music market structure, which also makes the future showdown of the two groups of singers the focus of media hype. But ironically, these two groups of singers have never appeared together on the same occasion.
In the fourth week of January 1995, TLC's single "Crawler" took over the Billboard singles rankings and won the championship for four consecutive weeks, officially opening up the glory of this girl group; then Madonna's single "Take.a.W" came strongly, and without any suspense, he became the new top leader in the singles chart.
During this period, "Shape of Heart" never returned to the championship throne, but relying on its excellent quality and excellent topicality, the momentum remained unabated. After falling from the championship position, he first stayed in the runner-up position for three consecutive weeks, then hovered in the top five for five weeks, and then stayed in the top ten for another five weeks, staying in the top ten for a total of twenty weeks, allowing everyone to clearly feel the charm of the movie soundtrack.
At this point, the results of "Shape of Heart" are even better than "Waiting", and have also become the most representative original soundtrack of the movie.
However, the significance of winning the single "Shape of Heart" is that it and "A Beautiful Day" have joined forces to contribute a non-consecutive 19-week championship to "Bath in the Morning Light". This is an important part of the further development of Glory to Death, and it also created a history that Nirvana Band could not create by relying on "Young Heart" back then. If Glory to Death was born last year, then this year is Glory to Death to Create Glory.
No one will forget that these are just two singles, and the excellent singles on the "Bath in the Morning Light" album are far more than two. People can't help but wonder: How many champion singles can this album be born?
Chapter completed!