In July she announced she will announce single in August or sth like that and she released it at the end of October

I mean "flop" as in disappointment.

My prediction: Focus will reach the top 5 but nobody will really like it and will not have longetivity.

How can she go from Love Me Harder to that sampled mess

Hotline Bling, Focus, Sorry, and Hello ALL got red updates btw

but them other songs are older

And Focus is the only one which was just released along with its (long hyped) music video.

Im actually worried for its callouts scores after radio deals and such are done

not so sure about the gp

Mess @ Hello continuing to sell four times more than Focus.

Why are you doing the most?

yeah sure, just like they did with One Last Time, Love You Harder. Both had great airplay enough to smash but GP just refused to buy it. OLT got +100m AI and it was top3 on radio while it was top50 on iTunes. And Break free sales aren't spectacular either

if this dark red update means it's done rising, she'll have barely reached 1/4th of adele's sales at any point...i don't know if that means it's really bad for ariana or PHENOMENALLY good for adele :I

ok i get that this doesn't mean that she's over forever or anything or that focus is going to sell 90k or something but you have to admit that this is really not looking like it'll match problem's sales. it's not just the one red update; it's a red update this soon into the song's release and a middling ability to reach a high peak. i also don't think it's automatically a flop or something, but i'm starting to doubt that this'll be any kind of smash hit.

Hello - 1.0000
Focus - 0.2676

Focus is kind of god.

It's very good yes, but wouldn't call a song "god".

Hopefully she'll come through with a ballad for single #2

"Focus" isn't doing as well as I hoped it would, but she's still yet to promote and she's one of very few artists who can perform well.

It will probably do 200k or sth like that if it suceeds to stabilise. Bieber peaked at 0.28 last week when Adele was in her first week and it did 277k?

7 years following the iTunes charts and I still don't get how the popbars work.

I thought it was a 24-hour rolling chart. Then how come "Focus" got its first red update 12 hours into its run? Did they change the rolling time to 12 hours? This kind of things wouldn't happen 2 years ago.

Thankfully the like/dislike ratio on Focus' VEVO is still decent.

Kworb said earlier today that he also doesn't know how the popbars work...