In the 35 days since the music video for Bad Things was released, it has received just 41.3M YouTube views. This includes the audio video, the lyric video AND the music video. By comparison, Fifth Harmony's That's My Girl received 46.7M views in its first 35 days. Why did the biggest flop of 5H's career still do better on YouTube than Camila's supposed breakout smash hit?
You wouldn't know it considering Bad Things charted higher than #20 in precisely one country. Even the massive flop That's My Girl accomplished that in three countries.
Wow
Let's compare their global sales
And on-demand streams
Bad Things' Spotify streams are absolutely awful considering the colossal amount of Spotify payola it's received, including being right at the top of Today's Top Hits for weeks
Bad Things' Spotify streams are absolutely awful considering the colossal amount of Spotify payola it's received, including being right at the top of Today's Top Hits for weeks
76m streams is bad? it's growing WW, it just hit a new peak on WW Spotify today, it will definitely go further
76m streams is bad? it's growing WW, it just hit a new peak on WW Spotify today, it will definitely go further
76M is terrible considering the amount of Spotify payola it received Bad Things is #12 on the Spotify payola chart yet only #24 on the weekly Spotify chart. And the payola chart doesn't even take into account the fact that Bad Things is right near the top of most of those playlists, so it should be even higher than #12
Because people only like the song because of the melody, nobody's actually checking for Machine Gun Kelly or Carmella enough to search for them on youtube