Oprah did think that the album of Lin Zhimo and Shakira would be a big hit, and she also thought that this album would make Lin Zhimo and Shakira who sang songs famous, but she didn't expect that the album would be so sales.

August 2002 was a very ordinary month, but for Lin Zhimo, this month was destined to be the most memorable month of his life, because his first English album officially landed in the United States.

The main promotion of this album is naturally the "flag flying" song at the World Cup, but Sony Music has also spent all his time on the other songs in this album.

Under the three-dimensional bombardment of paper media, television media and online media, this album called "Fanx" has also won great attention. Although the United States has always been known as the football desert, for some reason, some movies and songs about football are very popular, and this album is like this.

The sales officially started on August 1st. When the first week of the album was sold on August 5th, everyone was shocked. It was not too few, but too many - Mix sold as many as 150,000 copies in the first week!

You should know that August 1st is not the traditional release date of Sunday, but Thursday, so it seems that the second week of this album will be available for viewing.

The sales of an album in the United States are calculated from Monday and then counted until Sunday, so the sales of this album in the first week start from Thursday and all the four days after Sunday. In these four days, Mix reached a satisfactory 150,000 copies.

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This album ultimately did not disappoint everyone's expectations. The sales in the second week exceeded 300,000, reaching an astonishing 360,000 copies!

This number immediately pushed the album Mix to the eighth place in the 200 album chart, and squeezed into the top ten!

A series of music reviews about this album immediately emerged like mushrooms after a rain.

"This year I think it will be a special year for the music industry. I wrote in the article a few months ago that the rap songs have almost declined. It is not that the sales are not good, but that the singers are a bit unsuccessful. But immediately, Eminem slapped me hard in the face with "Eminem Show". So far, this album has achieved sales of four million copies, and sales are still rising; just a few days ago, I was still saying that the inclusiveness of rap songs may be the case.

It's really big, but only because of the white man like Eminem who can achieve something. However, today I heard the fanx and the rap music of a Chinese. From this album, I saw the unprecedented bright future of rap songs! A Chinese from the mysterious East completely conquered me with his rap. Now, please let us remember this name - jemlin! This name is destined to be remembered in the history of American music!”

The above remarks appeared in the entertainment forum of Yahoo website. The writer is not an unknown person, but Mr. Mike Grant, a senior music critic of the website for many years. Some of his music reviews published at Yahoo are often quoted by newspapers because he is always unspoken but frank and sincere. This highly personal comment has won him a large number of fans. His article has also made many people who are following the Internet know the name Lin Zhimo for the first time.

No one knows how much influence the Yahoo Music review article has. After all, although the Internet world has shown unparalleled influence, after 2000 years of Internet bubble, many people have asserted that the Internet is just like this.

However, compared to the illusory influence of Yahoo Music on the Internet world, a music review about the album Mix published by the world-renowned music magazine "Rolling Stone" has attracted a lot of attention.

Rolling Stone magazine has a huge influence in the music market around the world, not only because of their great reputation, but also because of their professionalism and persistence and sincerity that they have adhered to over the years since their founding.

The most popular music critic for Rolling Stone is Mark Burgess. Mark Burgess is 48 years old this year. He has been a music critic for Rolling Stone for more than fifteen years. He has been able to stick to this job for so many years because of his heartfelt love for music.

It is precisely for this reason that he has great expectations for the works of some musicians. He hopes to see very excellent works and musical works that can bring joy and insight to everyone. But for this reason, his vision is much stricter than other music critics.

In Mark Burgess, the full score of a musical work is 10, but in the past decade, there are surprisingly few works that have made him score more than nine points, but every musical album that scores more than nine points has been proven to be a classic that has passed down from generation to generation.

These experiences gradually made Mark Burgess' comments a kind of musical vane, and it was even harder to win Mark's praise than to win the Grammy Awards by some musicians.

Now, when everyone opened the Rolling Stone Magazine, which was newly launched on August 10th, they were surprised to find that Mark Burgess actually scored a high score of 8.9 for a music magazine called Mix.

This has made many people extremely interested in this album.

"There is no doubt that this music album is the highest quality album in recent years. If the songs in this album are removed from the songs that are not created by Jemlin, I will give it 9.1 points!"

Mark Burgess's words at the beginning immediately surprised everyone, 9.1 points!

The last time he gave 9.1 points was something that happened in the last century. I didn’t expect that someone would be able to receive such honors again today.

At the same time, all those who saw this magazine also became very interested in this singer named Jemlin and continued to read.

"This album is a collection, done by two people in collaboration - but it seems unnecessary to me, because the album can be supported by those few songs by Jem alone."

"Although I like these songs very much, if I like the song "teenagelife", it is not because of how beautiful the melody of this song is - the melody of the song in this album is beautiful and beautiful, but because the care for children expressed in this song made me sincerely moved me. Especially when the childish voice at the beginning of the song appears, there is only one word in my mind, that is the sound of nature. These voices like a group of singing angels immediately brought me into heaven. I never knew that if a child chorus would be able to achieve this effect in a song."

"At this point, I think you must be very curious about Jemlin, but this comment is just a comment about music. I won't comment too much about the author, so let everyone understand it yourself."

Everyone felt like they were fooled when they saw Mark Burgess's words. They praised Lin Zhimo's song first, but finally they said that they didn't understand the lyrics' author, which was no different from advertising for Lin Zhimo. However, although they were unhappy, anyone who saw this magazine still had the idea of ​​going to listen to this album.

In fact, Lin Zhimo still took some tricks in the release of the album, for example, he used heavy makeup on the cover of the album, and it was a dark side, and did not fully show his appearance. In this way, if you just listen to the album, no one would find out whether Lin Zhimo's voice was a Chinese or an American.

This is not Lin Zhimo's worrying about nothing, but a preparation to prevent subconscious behavior. Just like if a Vietnamese singer suddenly releases an album in China, without knowing the quality of the song, if you know that he is a Vietnamese singer, you will have a more or less strange vision in your heart, which is not necessarily discrimination, but double standards.

This is what Lin Zhimo was also worried about, so he deliberately hid his face, and even lowered his voice to make his voice sound more profound and resonant.

So, amid Lin Zhimo's nervousness, Shakira's excitement and Sony Music's expectations, the sales of this album in the third week actually exceeded 560,000 again!

This time, he became the champion of the 200 album chart overnight!

The championship album of the US Billboard!

Billboard was founded in 1894. After more than a hundred years of development, it has become the most authoritative list in the world to measure the popularity of songs. Billboard mainly uses sales volume and radio on demand, converts it into points, and then lists it into various rankings. The most famous of the lists are the album rankings (top200 album charts) and the single rankings (hot100 singles). In addition, various rankings also include rankings in other different music categories.

This ranking list with a history of more than 100 years is not a small one. Some singers can't even make it to the top ten in their entire lives. Lin Zhimo actually topped the championship album with his first album in the United States, and he became the top in three weeks. This can be said to be a miracle.
Chapter completed!