Apparently they're talking about the video on GMA. Not sure if that means anything...

possibly

I'm here for it, I really hope the Grammy's don't dust Rih next year, I think Unapologetic was a step in the right direction with them giving her the credit she deserves.

The video has 2,5m views. Is that good?

That scene when the bridge starts

#3 on iTunes US!

its 3.7m for me but its impossible to tell how well its doing, as youtube lags really hard in the views, but yeah 122k likes in 1 day is pretty encouraging, its easily going hit 100m views and will probaly end up with her other leads/smash hits in the 350m + mark which is all that matters

i'm low key pressed that katy is performing at the grammys as well as Ed, 45s has so many obstacles to over come for the #1

If they are planning a monday release after the grammys its gonna be obviously just a digital release. Otherwise every store will have the album until friday-saturday and the leak is a given 2-3 days before monday. We have seen in the past photos of the physical copies spreading right n left on the internet the week before the release. So a physical release is not happening on monday. I guess we just have to wait until the grammys night cause I dont think that its gonna be a "boom" release. She will obviously announce it.

45S is a slow burning type of song, Imo the song is performing VERY similar to Stay and if that's anything to go by we have nothing to worry about.

Hopefully Katy's song doesn't pull a Stay

With slow songs its all about the vocal performance,and your very exposed, so hopefully it will just be like unconditionAAAAnnallly and do much on the charts.

Honestly, Katy's 5 minutes with Prism are kinda up, before the Superbowl her era was pretty much dead in the water and the previous 2 singles kinda underperformed. I mean she could surprise us but 45S will take a month or slightly longer to go number 1 just like her previous Number One songs.

Maybe after she performs 45S the commercials are on and BOOM: "pre-order Rihanna's new album on iTunes right now."

Katy will perform BTGOG and that song isn't even a single, so i wouldn't worry about that.

As much as i like 45s I want a second uptempo catchy safer single before the album is released just to win back the few people she may have lost with the folk song

If something like "The Hanging Tree" by Jennifer Lawrence is smashing, why are people doubting Rihanna 45S? I'm really racking my brain with this.

well, The Hanging Tree was played during one of the most epic movie scenes ever

It's #3 now

True but still it is very minimal yet slaying. It's been a lot of nice, movie soundtracks that haven't taken off like that one. Even LOTR song was better. People are tired of that bubblegum, auto-tuned, ipad produced music. If Rihanna had come out with that general pop song, it would have been front loaded and people still swearing she's a pop tart not true artist. I have had people who never listen to her be surprised that she delivered like this and I'm thinking "but Rihanna could always sing so. . ."