How many journalists have imagined that when they were hyping up the battle of the century against Maria Carey against Oasis, they would really set off a "glory at the end of the century"; how many experts have imagined that after the strong rise of rock against pop, they would really experience the miracle of rock re-rise in person; how many listeners have imagined that when they were queuing day and night at the door of the record store just to support their idols, they would really become part of the historical moment.

How many people can imagine that the "storm" really caused a storm, not only the music market, but also the entire river of history.

"Storm of Wind" swept across 8.3 million sales in eight weeks, and just seven weeks later, North America's sales officially exceeded the threshold of 10 million. To be precise, it was 99 days! Although the total sales of "Storm of Wind" are still a long gap from the records, this does not affect the fact that this album has become the first album in the long history of music, with sales exceeding 10 million within a hundred days.

Because the sales volume of "storm" was too crazy, the American Recording Industry Association had to hold a special meeting and officially gave birth to the term "diamond sales". In the United States, gold records are 500,000, platinum records are 1 million, and a few platinum is million. Now, a new term has been added: diamond records, which is also a special album that rewards sales of more than 10 million, becoming the supreme honor.

"Storm and Rain" became the first diamond record in North American music history! It opened a new era.

Of course, there are currently as many as 103 diamond records in the long history of North American music. Among them, the Beatles have five diamond records in North America, which are full of heroes; and the highest-selling singers are the Eagles and Michael Jackson. The selected collections released by the Eagles in 1976 sold as much as 29 million copies across the United States, and Michael's "Thunch" also covers 29 million, and no one has surpassed them to this day.

There is still a long way to go to catch up with these records until the death of Honor. However, all three albums have become diamond records so far, which has also set a historical record. The sales of "Storm of Wind" exceeded the 10 million threshold in just 99 days, which made all media exclaim: Will "Storm of Wind" become the third album in North American history to sell more than 25 million?

After the war of the century and the ultimate showdown ended, and after the Grammys won a glorious victory to death, the music market was just about to begin.

In the fifth week of March, "Storm" defeated the new album "Untouchable" of Southern rapper Scarface, and won the 21st consecutive championship in the Billboard album rankings, surpassing Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii" and Whitney Houston's "Body Guard" movie soundtrack, tied for ninth on the historical list.

In the first week of April, "Storm" defeated the "Slam Dunk" movie soundtrack again, completing the 22nd week of reunion, surpassing the album "Hammer, please don't hurt them (plea color.hammer, don't.hurt.'em)" released by mc.hammer in 1990, and ranked eighth alone.

Subsequently, "Storm" unstoppable surpassing the "Saturday Night Fanatic" movie soundtrack, "Purple Rain" movie soundtrack, and won the championship again. Zhou Shu accumulated a 25-week journey, without showing any decline at all, and continued to move forward through the wind and waves. Finally, in the fourth week of May, it attracted the exclamation from the whole United States:

After defeating the hot girl group's first album "Spice" won the Billboard Album Rankings this week, "Storm" officially stood on the shoulders of the giants, bringing his consecutive championship weeks to thirty weeks!

This time, no one will miss it, because history has been released in front of you with great success. Even if you stop here, glory has written history until death. "Storm and Storm" has become the most successful album second only to "Trembling" in the past thirty years. There is no need to discuss this. Whether it is the thirty-week consecutive championship or the accumulated sales of up to 13 million, it is enough to be recorded in history. The strong rise of rock has unstoppable overwhelming the entire North American continent.

But people are looking forward to the fact that glory can further rewrite history, create glory, and truly put this carnival into **. The enthusiastic support of the people also made "Storm Storm" not disappointing. Everyone knows what follows: "Storm Storm" successfully defeated Hanson's album "Still at a loss (ddle.of.nowhere)" in the second week of July, leaving its name on the throne of the Billboard album rankings for the 37th consecutive time, tying the "Trilling" number of weeks of winning, ranking second in history.

Now, only the soundtrack of the "West Side Story" movie remains in front of the "Storm".

Thirty-seven weeks, the dynasty of thirty-seven weeks, with more than nine months of glory, and the strength of "Storm and Rain" firmly controlled the entire music market. What's even more terrifying is that the sales volume of "Storm and Rain" in the 37th week still delivered 180,000 yuan in a single week, which is so outstanding that it has made all languages ​​lose their color.

What is more realistic and ironic is that "staying here" was completely released as early as early April, and Oasis once again disappeared and returned to London in disgrace to rest. Even though Oasis brought hope to the revival of British rock, at this point in time, even the British media themselves could not shift the focus from glory to death.

At this time, although "Butterfly" still stayed on the list, it had fallen out of the top 50 and had no competitiveness or comparableity at all. If it was just an ordinary album, then it would not be surprising that "storm" has witnessed many albums coming and going in the past thirty-seven weeks, but the point is that these three albums were released in the same week, and they were the vigorous iron triangle of the Battle of the Century.

How sensational the Battle of the Century was, how ironic the current list is.

With the powerful momentum of winning the championship for 37 weeks, North America's accumulated sales volume has exceeded the threshold of 14 million, and it seems that 20 million sales volume is already determined. This has caused the collapse of the North American music industry. Almost everyone is eager to discuss whether the "storm" can win the championship again next week, whether it can break the "trembling" record, and whether it can break the shackles of the 40-week championship and impact the height of the "Western District Story"?

The historical records of the album rankings are shaking, while the historical records of the single rankings have changed.

No one will forget that in the past two years, the battle between "wonderwall" and "Sweet Day" was the first one, the "wonderwall" won 15 consecutive weeks, followed by the "sweet Day" won 16 consecutive weeks. In almost half a year, the records of the Billboard singles rankings were constantly refreshing, which is also a testimony to Mariah Carey ascended the top queen!

However, less than a year after "Sweet Day" set a historical record, history was changed again. After the single "Sailing" cut off the five consecutive championships of "Young Volcanoes" and ended the journey of 1996 with eight consecutive championships. After entering 1997, the sweeping momentum of "Sailing" almost did not decline at all. It has occupied the championship of the radio single-day on-demand rankings for 66 consecutive days, creating a new history. The high radio on-demand rate has made "Sailing" stand out on the singles chart.

"Sailing" first defeated the hot girl group's "wannabe" in the third week of February, and tied the record of the "Sweet Day" for 16 weeks of consecutive championships; then in the first week of March, it defeated the hot girl group's second consecutive hit, strongly accumulating the number of consecutive championships to 17 weeks, and once again wrote a new history.

The seventeen-week winning streak of "Sailing" not only re-engraved the historical record of Billboard singles with the name of glory to death, but also gave glory to death three ten-week winning streak singles, "Beautiful Day", "Missing Wall" and "Sailing", which is also the only glory in the long river of music history. This is the ironclad evidence of the rock dynasty.

Immediately afterwards, "Voyage" defeated "I Want to Be" for the third consecutive week, and accumulated its consecutive week to 18 weeks. Just as everyone was curious about whether "Voyage" could reach the incredible height of 20 consecutive weeks, the third single of the album "Long.long.way.to.go" has quietly entered the top ten, and joined forces with "Young Volcano" and "Voyage" to occupy three seats in the top ten.

"The Long Road" is the third single of the album Glory to Death, and was released very low-key. Eidien Records officially released this single after the Grammy Awards ceremony. There was no music video or deliberately promoted it. It just released this single. The name of the song is meaningful, allowing real young volcanoes to carefully savor the purpose of it.

Since the "Long Road" did not carry out powerful publicity and did not perform on the night of the Grammy Awards, the first week of release was very low-key, just ranked among the top 100, just for the 91st place.

In the following two weeks, the sales of "Long Road" did not explode quickly, but steadily rose in the radio on-demand rankings. By the time people noticed this single, it had unknowingly entered the top ten and occupied the sixth place, which was really beyond the expectations of many people.

In the third week of March, the "Long Road" jumped directly to the championship throne, squeezed "Voyage" to the runner-up position, ending the incredible record of "Voyage" in 18 weeks, and continuing the momentum of glory to occupying the Billboard singles rankings since the third week of September last year!
Chapter completed!