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Released late in 2009, Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" reached second place on the Billboard1 Hot 100 Pop Singles Chart, while earning a Grammy Award nomination2 for Best Female Pop Vocal3 Performance. More significant, however, was the accompanying video. The surreal five-minute clip has to date attracted 319 million views on YouTube...and it's far from the year's most-watched music video.
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Justin Bieber
That honor goes to Justin Bieber, a 16-year-old Canadian singer whose mother kick-started his career by uploading his home performances on the internet. Today, he's become a global teen-pop phenomenon with two Grammy nominations4 - including Best New Artist - and the single most-watched video on YouTube. "Baby," featuring rapper Ludacris, has to date received 411 million views, proving beyond a doubt that music marketing5 has entered a new age.
Social media
Rihanna's "Music Of The Sun" CD
The importance of so-called "social media" in connecting artists with the public was underscored in December, when Billboard Magazine introduced a new chart. The "Social 50" ranks acts based on their activity in such outlets6 as YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter. The first winner was Rihanna, who left memories of her 2009 beating at the hands of Chris Brown far behind in the new year. The young native of Barbados enjoyed four chart-topping singles in 2010, bringing her career total to nine.
Among them was "Love The Way You Lie," by Eminem. The rapper says he chose Rihanna specifically for this ballad7, which spent seven weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Eminem's album Recovery, which celebrated8 his victory over drug addiction9, topped year-end Rhythm and Blues10, Rap, and Digital Album charts.
Best seller
Susan Boyle's album "The Gift" reached number one on Billboard's Top Two Hundred albums chart.
The top-selling album act, however, came not from the worlds of pop, rap, or dance music. Forty-nine-year-old Scottish native Susan Boyle stunned11 an English crowd with her April, 2009 performance on the TV program Britain's Got Talent. From there, her voice took to cyberspace12, and by the end of 2010, her debut13 album I Dreamed A Dream had sold nine million copies while topping charts worldwide...among them, Billboard's year-end album list.
Dance Pop Domination
Ke$ha's 'TiK ToK' single
Bieber and Boyle aside, the year belonged not to an artist, but to a musical genre14. Dance pop dominated the charts in 2010, starting on January 2. That day, Ke$ha, a longtime musical striver who once broke into Prince's house to leave her demo tape, became the decade's first new number one act. Her debut single "Tik Tok" held the title for nine weeks, setting the template for the dominant15 sound of 2010.
Along with dance pop, the charts were fed a constant stream of cover hits, courtesy of the fresh-faced cast of Glee. This U.S. TV series about a high school chorus hit a milestone16 in October, when it broke The Beatles' record for most appearances by a non-solo act on the Hot 100 singles chart.
Web surge
While the Web buzzed with activity, traditional music outlets weakened. Compact disc sales continued their decade-long nosedive, while U.S. downloads turned flat, after exploding in the previous few years. Concert attendance was also low and some tours were cancelled in 2010, but the urge to physically17 connect with their musical idols18 proved irresistible19 to millions of fans.
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Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi, an old-fashioned rock band with a 25-year track record of hits, emerged the year's most successful touring act. The New Jersey20 band drew 1.5 million fans while grossing $146 million in 2010. Following it were U2 and AC/DC, proving classic rock can still pull its weight in the new age of viral music.
Among the musical stars who left us in 2010 was iconic singer-actress Lena Horne, who passed away in May at age 92. Fans also said farewell to Rhythm and Blues star Teddy Pendergrass; rapper Keith "Guru" Elam; rock singer Ronnie James Dio; soul singer Solomon Burke; and reggae star Gregory Isaacs. December 8 also marked the 30th anniversary of the shooting death of John Lennon. Fans around the world observed the solemn occasion.
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n.出口( outlet的名词复数 );经销店;插座;廉价经销店 | |
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7 ballad | |
n.歌谣,民谣,流行爱情歌曲 | |
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9 addiction | |
n.上瘾入迷,嗜好 | |
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10 blues | |
n.抑郁,沮丧;布鲁斯音乐 | |
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n.虚拟信息空间,网络空间,计算机化世界 | |
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18 idols | |
偶像( idol的名词复数 ); 受崇拜的人或物; 受到热爱和崇拜的人或物; 神像 | |
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