"Double happiness?"

This time it was Lan Li's turn to be confused, how could he, as a party concerned, not know what else he had done today?

Everyone in the audience raised their hands in the air and applauded Lan Li in celebration - celebrating Lan Li's second role as an actor, but Lan Li was still confused when he stood on the stage. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Stanley immediately saw Lan Li's confusion, laughed, and said to Neil, "Look, I told you, he must not know anything, no clue at all. ”

Neil didn't care at all, rubbing his hands with excitement on his face, "Trust me, believe me, after you see this news, you will be as happy as we are!" Then he turned around and went to the back of the stage, found a rope, pulled it down, and a banner fell down with a huge handwriting that accurately conveyed the message:

Congratulations to "Cleopatra" for reaching the Top 100 on the Billboard Singles Chart!

Lan Li's eyes couldn't help but widen, and his teeth bit violently, almost dislocating his jaw. This...... This...... This is even more unbelievable than his victory over Ryan Reynolds to get the role of "buried alive", to be precise, a fantasy. Even if Lan Li is asked to guess a hundred times, he will not associate the surprise with the Billboard singles chart!

"Look, I told you!" Neil shouted loudly, his face full of irrepressible excitement, "I told you!" and rushed over and gave Lan Li a big hug, "It's happening, it's really happening! Can you believe it? The latest issue of the Billboard singles chart just announced this morning, 'Cleopatra' really made it to the charts!"

It wasn't that long ago, "Cleopatra" relied on the popularity of "Pacific War" to make it to the iTunes instant download charts, and Lan Li felt that this was unbelievable enough, and thought that it was just a flash in the pan, and he didn't care at all. But the development of things was beyond Lan Li's expectations.

Three weeks ago, in a feature in Mixer magazine, the song "Cleopatra" was highly recommended, once again pushing the popularity of the song to a different level in a surprising way.

"Mixer" is an independent professional magazine in the North American music industry, founded in 1999, with a lively style, sharp language, and humorous titles, it quickly became a best-selling magazine, and its professional attitude and music inventory became the biggest selling point, and it grew rapidly in just five years, surpassing the other two independent music magazines in the industry, "Rotation" and "Atmosphere", and once threatened the status of the industry's top magazine "Rolling Stone", forcing the latter to try a new style.

In 2005, Mixer was selected as the journal of the year in the United States.

However, in recent years, the powerful impact of the Internet has begun to challenge the dominance of traditional paper media, and many magazines have encountered bottlenecks in their operations, including the "mixer", which has failed in many attempts at reform and innovation, and in April last year, the "mixer" announced that it would officially cease publication -- only to stop the distribution of paper magazines, but the online version still continues to be published.

Although print magazines are a thing of the past, the online version of the "mixer" is still very popular, especially among the younger generation of readers. Relying on the timeliness of Facebook, Twitter and the Internet, the influence of "mixer" has not decreased but increased, and the authority is undoubted, and many people are willing to dig out their favorite independent musicians from the "mixer" recommended music list.

In the first week of May, Clyde-Coughlin, a professional music critic at The Mixer, wrote a special music review on folk songs.

The first half of the article mentions the terrible situation of folk songs in the United States, even among independent singers, folk singers are almost extinct, and now the real development of folk songs is in the United Kingdom and Ireland, where a number of excellent music and creators emerge every year.

Clyde believes that the real reason for this situation is the lack of American music, the folk is a form of music that requires deep literary background and deep thinking ability, and since Bob Dylan, there has not been an admirable folk creator in the American music scene for nearly two decades. Especially under the strong offensive of commercial interests, music also began to be industrialized like movies, gradually losing its own characteristics and falling into a quagmire from which it could not extricate itself.

It's as if Hollywood is losing its artistry and becoming a haven for commercial films, and North American music is on the road of no return, not just folk, but also pop, hip-hop, electronic, and other genres.

In the second half of the article, Clyde recommends some notable folk singers.

The song "Hey, Life Girl" should strictly be classified as alternative rock, but the song blends a variety of different styles such as folk, soul, and rock to form a unique temperament belonging to the train band, which won full applause. This single did not attract any attention at the beginning of its release, but with word-of-mouth singing, it entered the public eye step by step, and finally achieved incredible results.

At the time of this article's release, "Hey, Life Girl" had already reached the top 10 of the Billboard Singles Chart, the first ballad single to do so in a decade since Elton-John, prompting an outcry and the motivation for Clyde to write the article.

In addition, singers such as Gotye, Iron & Wine, Jack-Johnson, The-Weepies, and Mumford &Sons have also come to Clyde's radar.

Among them, the name of Lanli-Hall is also impressively listed.

"It's a mysterious guy who can hardly find any information about it, and has only written one single so far, so low-key that it's not much different from a missing person. But with this single alone, the newcomer is enough to catch everyone's attention.

'Cleopatra' is a cheerful and mournful single, with heartbreaking poetry and content, reminding people of the beauty of music. The lyrics continue with Cleopatra, the most famous tragic woman in history, telling a story about women, about love, about freedom, and the light notes and bitter sorrow burst out with a lot of indescribable charm under the moving interpretation, which makes people unable to extricate themselves.

The only gift God gave me was a life and a divorce, but I read the script and the costumes were just right, so I played my role well. ’

Life is like a play, everyone is just an actor on the stage, but they can't help themselves, they can only follow God's script to perform, like a marionette, without freedom, without life, and without soul. The poetic beauty of words touches the softness of every listener's heart, sadness is hazy in the eyes, and a turbulent reflection ensues, which reminds one of Bob Dylan.

Ranley Hall, his future is worth looking forward to. ”

The short music criticism, but the praise is not stingy, you can see the meaning of Clyde's admiration.

After this article came out, it undoubtedly aroused widespread discussion again, whether it was for the hot discussion of folk songs or the attention of recommended singers, a round of crazy discussions was set off on the Internet, and Lan Li was naturally also in the focus of attention.

At the beginning, people didn't associate the singer Lan Li with the actor Lan Li, after all, there are too many newcomers in the entertainment industry every year, the "Pacific War" screening has been over for nearly a month, the craze has come down, and the influence of YouTube video is very limited. However, the truth was soon discovered - after all, this is the Internet era, and the power of netizens does not need to be repeated, and then, netizens will fry the pot.

A promising rookie actor is still a rookie singer with outstanding strength?

In just three weeks, the exposure rate of "Cleopatra" began to rise at a speed visible to the naked eye, first ranking in the top 20 on the iTunes instant download chart, ranking 16th, and even slowly continuing to rise, with new downloads rising every day, which is really gratifying, and then the video click-through rate on YouTube also soared like a rocket, from 2 million to 20 million, a full 10-fold increase!

When the "Pacific War" was broadcast, the video attracted a lot of firepower, but objectively speaking, this is just a set of mini-series broadcast on cable TV stations, the influence is limited after all, the real test moment will come after entering the video tape market, the current audience base is still relatively weak, one of the hundred can have because of the role of Eugene Sledgehammer Slaich to search for Lan Li, which is already very rare, put it on the Internet in the click rate calculated in hundreds of millions, "Cleopatra" Two million clicks is really nothing.

This time, the powerful influence of the "mixer" on the network is really visible. "Cleopatra" even became one of the most popular videos of the week, attracting countless attention, with 20 million views, and now more than 500,000 new hits per day, and the upward momentum is not only not weakening, but still strengthening. Even the number of likes has exceeded 100,000.

Surprisingly, the popularity of "Cleopatra" made netizens interested in the singer Lan Li, and they began to search for his information, and then the Google link attracted netizens to the relevant page of "Pacific War", so it attracted a wave of heated discussions for the series. The Yahoo community post is buzzing again.

This is a result that Clyde did not anticipate before writing the music review.

In the past, TV dramas brought attention to music, and now, music has increased the popularity of TV dramas. As a newcomer, the number of discussions in just three months was completely off the normal track.

And so, a miracle was born!

With no physical album and no on-demand radio broadcasts, "Cleopatra" unbelievably reached the top 100 of the Billboard singles chart, becoming the first song to officially enter the charts!