In 1997, there were two most sensational news in the entire North American entertainment industry, one was the $600 million box office of the "Titanic"; the other was the "storm" for 40 consecutive championships.

After the "Titanic" swept the box office of 600 million US dollars in North America, it swept across the world. It not only became the first work in film history to have an overseas box office of over 1 billion US dollars, but also reached a height of 1.5 billion US dollars in one fell swoop, becoming the first work in film history to have a box office of over 2 billion US dollars, completely changing the development process of the entire film industry.

If the global box office of $1.2 billion after "Independence Day" was shocking after its debut last year, then this year's "Titanic" has truly brought the film into the era of blockbusters. History is based on the "Independence Day" in 1996 as the standard, divided into before and after the era of blockbusters. This is completely like the emergence of "male and female thieves" in 1967.

After twenty years of reincarnation, the film industry has once again opened up a new world.

Although "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World" did not hit a new high in North America, thanks to overseas box office contacts, it finally ranked second on the year-end list. The global box office of $618 million has also become the decisive data for Universal Pictures to place the third episode proposal on its desk.

It cannot be copied. The unique "Los Angeles City Secret" is destined to be unable to shoot the sequel, but this work has swept the box office of $610 million worldwide, which is enough to make Warner Bros. laugh to the point of being hurt. What's more, this work is still very popular in the next major awards ceremony, and Warner Bros. will never easily miss the opportunity to maximize profits.

Sony Columbia Pictures has become the biggest winner in the world's box office. Their "Man in Black", "Air Force One", "Full-like", "My Best Friend's Wedding", and "Fifth Element" all ranked in the top ten, occupying the fourth, sixth, seventh, ninth and tenth positions respectively.

The situation of Mark Canton's hard work for three years finally ushered in a great harvest. Five works occupy half of the top ten, even more glorious than the "Titanic" that needs to be shared by Paramount and Twentieth Century Fox. This result shocked countless people. Mark, who seemed to be inadequate in a beautiful turnaround battle.

In addition, "007's Empire of Tomorrow" relies on global brand effect to occupy fifth place; the eighth place belongs to Jin Carrey's "King of Talks".

"Titanic", "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World", "Los Angeles City Secret", "Man in Black", "007's Empire of Tomorrow", "Air Force One", "Full Beautiful", "King of Talk", "My Best Friend's Wedding", "Fifth Element", this is the top ten in the 1997 year-end list.

Hugo once again occupied two seats on the list. "Los Angeles Secret" global box office reached 610 million, quietly becoming Hugo's personal global box office second only to "Independence Day"; "Exercise" also won 314 million US dollars worldwide, only one million US dollars behind the sixth-ranked "Air Force One". He achieved such results with an investment of 50 million US dollars, and even though Hugo did not appear directly, Mark would wake up laughing when he fell asleep.

However, compared to the film field, Hugo's global influence is still inferior to Glory until death. In the past year, Glory until death has carried the momentum of a "storm" world tour and album of the same name, which has allowed rock to recover strongly around the world. The powerful appeal almost reminds people of Michael Jackson or the Beatles at their peak.

No one can underestimate glory until death!

Since its release in the fourth week of October last year, "Storm" has been making great strides, constantly breaking many records in North America with an absolutely strong attitude, and finally frozen its consecutive championship weeks to forty weeks. In a full ten months, no one could shake the absolute dominance of this album. In 1997 alone, "Storm" dominated the North American Billboard Championship for nearly two-thirds of the year-end album's sales rankings. Therefore, before the year-end album sales rankings came out, people had predicted that this year's year-end champion was still this album.

This is true. "Storm of Storm" swept 10.17 million copies in 1997. This is not only the only album that sold more than 8 million copies this year, but also the results have been the "8.3 million" that won the year-end sales championship last year. With the attitude of the first album to achieve 10 million copies in a single year since the 1990s, it won the North American year-end sales champion for the second consecutive year.

This not only made "Storm" a "Storm" after "Trembling", after thirteen years, there was another album that could win the year-end sales champion for two consecutive years; what was even more terrifying is that "Storm"'s annual sales of 10 million were created when it had already exploded in sales of 8 million copies the year before, which shocked everyone even more. Even after forty weeks of consecutive championships, "Storm" has always been the most powerful contender for the championship position of the Billboard album rankings every week. Such outstanding performance has truly written a new history.

After the chicken blood mode is turned on, it is out of control.

Although this is just the third album of glory to death, compared with those Hall of Famers who have created countless history, the number of works is still too small, but it has won the year-end sales championship for two consecutive years, and the sales reached 18.47 million in 14 months, ranking among the highest sales list in the long history of North American music, and occupying the 12th place, and it is only a matter of time before it enters the top ten.

In the long history of North American music, the sales champion is a selected collection released by the Eagles in 1976, with sales of up to 29 million copies as of 2006; and Michael Jackson's "Thunch" also achieved this result in 2009, tied for the first place in history with 29 million copies.

There were eight albums with sales of more than 20 million in North America, including the Eagles, Michael Jackson, Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, Billy Joel, Ac/dc, Gas Brooks and Shania Donne. This is the highest level in the North American music market, and the eight albums came from eight different singers. Even the Beatles, Frank Sinatra and others at their peak were unable to achieve such a height.

But now, not only is the "storm" about to reach such a historical height, but also quietly, "bathing in the morning light" has become infinitely close to this historical benchmark.

"Bathing in the morning light" thanks to the hot development of the Honor to Death World Tour, it also ushered in sales again in 1997, and finally achieved sales of 2.1 million. Although it did not squeeze into the top 20 in the year-end chart, it still brought the accumulated sales of this album to 19.3 million, and it was only a layer of window paper away from the height of 20 million.

It is worth mentioning that "Bathing in the Morning Light" ranks 11th on the current North American album sales list, just ahead of "Storm".

The top singers with two seats in the top 20 list of the total sales volume include Eagles, Gas Brooks, and Zeppelin. Now another name has been added: Glory to Death! It can be seen that Glory to Death has created history. If "bathing in the morning light" and "storm" can both exceed 20 million sales, then Glory to Death will reach an unprecedented height of no one to come. The gradual approaching excitement makes the North American market unable to calm down.

It is hard to believe that no one could accomplish a feat in the 60s and 70s, when the record industry was most prosperous, but in the 90s, when the commercial development came to a mature stage, the record industry ushered in a full-scale explosion. From the original soundtrack of the "bodyguard" movie to "Don't mind" and then to the current "storm", record sales are in a beautiful era with absolutely brilliantness.

In addition, although "almost famous" has not increased significantly, after a year of glorious glory to death, the accumulated sales have reached 13 million US dollars. There is no need to say how outstanding the performance of glory to death has been.

"Storm" swept over 10 million sales in 1997. Such a giant's data is completely comparable to the miracle of "Titanic" and "Independence Day" in the film market. After undoubtedly tyrannizing the year-end sales list in North America, other singers can only compete fiercely towards the runner-up position.

In the end, Christopher Wallace, who died young, was talented solo album "Life after.death" and won 7.73 million sales, strongly occupying the runner-up of the year.

This is actually a matter of fate. The album "No Way to Go" by Bragging Daddy is Christopher's last work alias b.i.g. Bragging Daddy completed this album instead of his friend and ended the 40-week consecutive championships of "storm and storm". On the year-end chart, Christopher's solo album "Life After Death" also achieved excellent results, undoubtedly surpassing other competitors, closely following the pace of glory to death, ranking second in the year.

The hot girl group, which was repeatedly suppressed by glory to death on the singles chart, was suddenly released. The first album "Hot" achieved a record of 6.34 million, setting off a sexy and beautiful girl group frenzy in North America, and won the third place in the year-end sales chart of North America.

It is worth mentioning that from the TLC group to the hot girl group to the destined real girl, from the choir to the boy and men group to the backstreet boys, European and American idol groups have truly developed and matured, and have gradually ushered in the golden age.
Chapter completed!