I hate to say it but this is shaping up to be a flop
What -- did you expect Ariana to top Adele? Adele's slaying the charts. This is an amazing song but Adele's on top and she will be for a while. Her hype will die down and 25 will sit somewhere between the 100-130s like 25 is but for now she's on top + the era just started.
Can we just not start a " flop" talk. The song is not even out for a day. It will do fine, maybe not the ultimate smash people hoped it to be, but it will def. do fine if they play their cards right and plan the promo consistent.
You fear it's destined to ''flop'' only cause it's #2 in most countries, but if there wasn't Adele it'd be #1 mostly everywhere and you'd be saying ''it's smashingggg, wtff''
It's doing great so far and promo is coming up, today!! Ellen & the iHeart concert which is streamed live