Dark Horse - Katy Perry feat. Juicy J
Capitol - 2013 - 7.222.000 points

Shake It Off - Taylor Swift
Big Machine - 2014 - 7.054.000 points

SIO is still getting 200k+ per week. Dark Horse will be behind SIO in a week or so.

ATRL said that Dark Horse was the bigger hit, but sales seem to disagree. Why?

these are sales + airplay hunty not just sales

1) Those are points, not sales.

2) This really isn't fair to compare. A lot of points from Australia are missing because it wasn't allowed to chart there.

3) I would hope that a highly-promoted lead single would perform better than a third single. The better comparison would be Roar, which sits at nearly 9.4 million points.

Death at Mediatraffic receipts

This is about how atrl said that dark horse was bigger when it's not! stay on topic!

Those are points, not sales.

Dark Horse has sold over 5.3 million in the US. Shake It Off has sold 3.7 million. Globally, Shake It Off should've performed better considering it is Taylor's lead compared to Katy's 3rd single that is extremely urban-influenced.

Dark Horse has considerably higher global sales and streams. MediaTraffic's chart does not reflect that because they only run a top 40 chart and they do not count points from when a song is outside of the top 40. Because "Dark Horse" was a promo single initially, a lot of its early chart points were not included on Mediatraffic.

This should be basic stan knowledge by 2015, imo.

It's sold 5.8m in the US.

Bigger song.

I think so but those are points not sales.

Dark Horse is overrated.

Dark Horse is like 2.5 million ahead in sales in the US alone, and I'm sure you don't want me to bring up her WW receipts, and a few hundred million ahead in streams.


Shake It Off is still a nonevent in comparison to Dark Horse. Stay fuming sis

Shake it Off still hasn't passed Dark Horse in WW sales or even come close to it.

I Doubt it but I would be elated cause Dark Horse is one of the worse written songs of the decade