The Chinese music scene ushered in a glorious period in the first five years of the 21st century. At that time, a number of Chinese music scene singers represented by Jay Chou were inspired by volcanic eruptions, and countless classic good songs were in this period. It erupted during the Cambrian explosion.
But the uphill road is really just this few years. In the following five years, the Chinese music scene began to gradually decline, and finally reached the end of the crossbow around 2009. That was the end of my high school period. It seems that Chinese songs have been in my youth since then. Gradually faded away, probably at that time, I gradually began to listen to European and American pop music, and eventually became a false European and American pop music fan.
My principle of listening to songs is very superficial. I listen to whatever music is popular in Europe and America. As for how to quickly find the most popular music in Europe and America, it ’s the easiest and most effective way to turn to the chart mechanism. , I gradually learned about the “Billboard” list, which is the Billboard Hot 100 list in a narrow sense.
A 25-year-old Christmas song won the bulletin board
If you’ve never heard the name Billboard, here’s a brief explanation. The Billboard list was born in the United States. Let’s skip its 100-year history and go directly to the current list mechanism. The so-called Billboard Hot 100 is a chart of music singles, updated every week. It will count downloads, radio stations, and streaming media and weight them according to a certain weight and algorithm to form a point to rank. The highest point per week is the championship single.
The winner of the Billboard chart this week is a moment worth writing into history. This All I Want for Christmas Is You is a Christmas Day song released by Mariah Carey in 1994, Before this week, the song had received such a high ranking.
All I Want for Christmas Is You has become Maria Kelly’s 19th individual title, and has the largest number of titles among Solo artists (excluding band combinations). Of course we already know Maria. Kylie is the crown single maker, and it is really worth mentioning that the song’s title win date has been as long as 25 years since its release.
If you look at the ranking trend of this song, you can actually see that the peak (highest ranking) of this song has been rushing higher each year in recent years. For example, it was Peak 17 in 2016, Peak 9 in 2017, and Peak 6 in 2018. By 2019, this song will return to the list earlier than in the past, and it will rush faster. It will be two weeks before Christmas. Has broken the highest peak in history, and one week before Christmas, All I Want for Christmas Is You officially became Mariah Carey’s 19th Billboard chart single.
Of course, if you have never noticed that this song is also extenuating. Although this song was first released in 1994, it did not release a physical single that year, so it cannot be included in the chart according to the rules. It was released in 2000. After the single for the first time, but coincided with the low career of Mariah Carey, ranking only 83. In 2005, Mariah Carey returned to the business, but the restrictions on the list rules caused the old songs to return to the list, until Whitney Houston died in 2012, and the Billbaord chart changed the rules. No matter how old the song is, it will be counted in the top 50.
Afterwards, as we have seen, this festival divine tune, nicknamed “Christmas Is Your Life” by fans, has begun its annual climbing journey. The reason why a festival song can reach new highs in recent years and even win the championship is not only a factor of the song itself, but also the transformation of technology to our listening habits.
In the era of streaming media, there are new rules for listening to songs
Why this 25-year-old song is very representative and historical, in fact, it is partly because it spans three distinct periods: the physical record era, the digital download era, and the streaming media era. It laid the foundation of the times for its return to the championship.
▲ Video store. Picture from: Mustang News
Technology has catalyzed a change in the music industry by changing the way you acquire songs. Previously, you had to go to a record store to buy a physical single or album. Obviously, this is a costly act. Weather, traffic, mood, or a variety of factors can prevent you from leaving your home.
In the era of downloading, the threshold for people to get music is greatly reduced. Just a simple search and tap payment, a song will be automatically downloaded to your computer or portable device, you can enjoy the joy of music with you, but for In terms of music, you do n’t need to repeat the purchase to continue listening the next year after buying it once. This makes some of the “popularity” of the songs that return to the charts every year not counted into the score.
▲ Picture from: SlashGear
In the era of streaming media, it ’s quite different, because every time you listen to it, you can count on most of the songs, and you can listen to almost all the songs in the place where the network is unblocked. , And as streaming media takes more and more of the way to listen to songs, the “popularity” that can be counted is actually getting more and more accurate, so Christmas songs are played everywhere during special festivals like Christmas, so Just as Chinese people listen to songs like “Gong Xi Fa Cai” during the Spring Festival, the trend of listening to music under this kind of environment will be most truly reflected on streaming media.
It ’s not just individuals. Streaming media has even gradually eroded merchants ’playlists. Recently, Apple ’s ambitions in the field of music streaming are not limited to consumers. They have quietly entered the B-side market and provide in-store for offline retailers. Music, This has been reported in Ai Fan’s previous article .
