"Storm", "Life After Death", "Hot" became the top three in the North American year-end album sales rankings in 1997, and these are also the only three albums with sales of over 6 million.

Even the top three in the year end and only have more than 6 million albums, the gap between them was huge, which made the "storm" with annual sales exceeding the threshold of 10 million, and no one can stop the rise of rock.

After these three albums, Gas Brooks, Wutang School (wu.tang.clan), 2pac, Lean Lem, Celine Dion, Hansen Band, and Bragging Daddy respectively ranked in the top ten on the year-end chart.

Among them, Gas and Li'an are both rural types, Wudang, 2pac, and bragging dad is the representative of hip-hop, Celine is popular, and Hansen is considered popular rock. It can be seen that the booming rhythm and blues momentum in the past two years has gradually slowed down, while hip-hop teamed up with rock to rise strongly.

However, in fact, there are not as many authentic rock seats as imagined in the top ten, mainly because of the "storm". Although other rock bands are in a fierce way, they are unable to create more threats and make it to the top ten in the year-end list. However, among the top 30, rock has occupied twelve seats, leading the rock market this year with an absolutely strong attitude.

The same situation was fully reflected in the year-end singles rankings, and rock singles accounted for half of the market!

Elton John's "Candle in the Wind/Goodbye, British Rose (candle.in.wind’97)", glorious to death "sail", and bragging dad's "I Will Miss You (i’ll.be.spite ng. seduction)" achieved sales of more than three million respectively, which brought the music market in 1997 to a full explosion. This is also the first time in history that three singles sold more than three million copies in a year!

After that, the "unstoppable" who bragged about the title of the single that ended its glory to death and dominated the championship for 27 weeks in a row, ranked in the palace, with a remarkable momentum.

Lean Lem's "How.do.i.live", "Long.long.way.to.go" that gloriously dies, "Waiting for the world to change (wai on.the.world.to.change)", "Quit.playing.games" of the backstreet boys, "Show.me.love" of the Robyn's "Show.me.love" and "Discotheque" of the U2 band occupy the remaining seats.

Among them, Glory occupied three seats in one fell swoop, becoming the biggest winner. In addition, the Robin and U2 bands were shortlisted, and rock occupied five seats in the top ten. This is also the most direct reflection of the strong rise of rock this year, allowing people to personally feel the arrival of the golden age of rock.

However, to everyone's surprise, "Voyage" did not win the year-end single sales rankings again, which made Honor regretfully miss the feat of "winning the year-end championships for both albums and singles for two consecutive years". Although "Voyage" achieved sales of 3.87 million yuan throughout the year, although not as good as the four million yuan level last year, it is still enough to make this single in history.

The single that defeated "Sailing" and broke the suspense came from the famous Elton John. His single "Candle in the Wind/Goodbye, British Rose" successfully won the championship in the 1997 North American year-end singles rankings!

When talking about "Candle in the Wind/Goodbye, British Rose", we have to mention the single "Waiting for the World to Change".

In the second week of August, the fourth single "Waiting for the World Change" in the "Storm of Glory" of Glory to Death was officially released. Without any publicity, I climbed to the championship position in the third week of September, becoming the fourth single in the album, and also the ninth single in the glory to the death, with excellent results.

Unfortunately, "waiting for this world to change" only stayed on the championship throne for a week and then fell to the runner-up position. Since then, the runner-up has been ranked for nine weeks. It can be seen that this single is still very popular without any publicity, but unfortunately, it has always lacked a little explosive power and has not been able to stay in the championship position for more time.

The one who completely suppressed "Waiting for Change in the World" was the single "Candle in the Wind/Goodbye, British Rose"!

A year ago, "Young Volcanoes" first won 1.07 million per week, shocking the entire North American market; then "Sailing" continued to work hard, and the sales of 1.93 million per week set a new benchmark, making everyone think that this is an impossible data. However, just one year later, Elton John achieved this feat!

The single "Candle in the Wind/Goodbye, British Rose" was written by Elton John in memory of Princess Diana's unexpected death and rewrites his old work "Candle in the Wind" in 1973. It was written to mourn Marilyn Monroe for many years. This time, because of Princess Diana's sudden death, Elton re-adapted the lyrics and released them again.

Just like Princess Diana's death, it shocked the whole world, "Candle in the Wind/Goodbye, British Rose" also shocked the whole world. This single frantically sold 3.5 million in an incredible 3.5 million copies in one week after its release. This result not only outweighed the record set by "Sailing" last year, but also wrote an almost insurmountable historical record.

This is true. In the long 20 years to come, no one has ever broken the single-week sales of "Candle in the Wind/Goodbye, British Rose". In fact, no one can break the second highest single-week sales record in the history of "Sailing" and even the most difficult to get close. The glory of the single was eternally frozen at this moment.

"Candle in the Wind/Goodbye, British Rose" not only created a history of sales in a single week, but also sprinted towards sales of 10 million in less than two months, and finally successfully broke through the 10 million natural barrier, becoming the first and only single in a long music scene. In a single year, the sales of 11 million yuan were only allowed to raise one head high and look up. This record is like the "Trilling" album with sales of 104 million yuan worldwide, and even the courage to challenge cannot be born.

"Waiting for the Change of the World" was the second runner-up for ten consecutive weeks under the suppression of such a devastating sales overlord. In fact, the sales of this single at the end of the year were nearly two million. It was achieved in less than four months and had almost no publicity. It can be said to be very outstanding, not to mention that it was created under the oppression of "Candle in the Wind/Goodbye, British Rose".

It is precisely because of Elton John's outstanding performance that the single "Sailing" with sales of nearly four million can only be regrettably ranked second. The title can be said to be the result of being strangled within just one week after the release of "Candle in the Wind/Goodbye, British Rose".

But even so, Honor's performance to death is still very good. In addition to "sailing", the "long road" won 2.49 million sales, and the final sales of "waiting for the change of the world" was 1.94 million copies. Although it cannot be compared with Elton, with almost no publicity, the album "Storm" still achieved such excellent results in its second year of release, which is still enough to make the band the leader.

What's even more terrifying is that Glory dominated the global market for the second consecutive year until his death.

"Storm" has won the year-end album sales champion in 31 countries, including the United Kingdom. Although "Sailing" has not been able to win the year-end championship in the three major markets of the United Kingdom, the United States and Japan, it has occupied the year-end single sales champion in the other 26 countries, and has continued the strength of glory to death for two consecutive years.

"Storm" swept over 1,100 sales in the overseas market, and delivered sales of 10 million for the second consecutive year. It successfully won the year-end global album sales champion with more than 21 million sales worldwide, bringing the accumulated sales of this album to 39.66 million in one breath, and the sales of 40 million are already within reach.

Last year, the "Storm" created an incredible sales record in just eight weeks after its release. At that time, people were discussing whether the global final sales of this album can exceed 40 million, and even sprinted to the 45 million "Dark Side of the Moon" currently runner-up in global sales history.

Now, just a year later, the "Storm" delivered the answer, ranking among the top ten in the historical sales list with a figure of 39.66 million, and ranked ninth in high profile!

There is no doubt that "Storm of Wind" will become the ninth album in history with sales exceeding 40 million, and the sales of "Dark Side of the Moon" of 45 million is no longer an out of reach. Perhaps, the sales of "Sharp" of 104 million yuan of 100 million yuan is unshakable, but "Storm of Wind" has great hope to become a work that is below one person and above ten thousand people.

Even though glory has been set to death, people still have no way to imagine that this day has come. After the album "Back to Darkness" in 1980, after seventeen years, people will truly feel the recovery of the golden age of rock and roll again; even if the golden age has come to you again, people still can't believe that all this is true.

This powerful influence is the most true portrayal of glory until death. As the lead singer of the band, Hugo has made great contributions. This is also an important reason why Hugo, as an actor and a singer, has the power that can shake Hollywood and alarm Wall Street.

No one knows what height Hugo will reach next, and no one knows where history will go. But what is certain is that the glory of 1997 has left a golden mark in history.
Chapter completed!