Officially #1 on pop for 5 straight weeks.

1 ARIANA GRANDE Side To Side f/Nicki... 17601 Spins
2 MAROON 5 Don't Wanna Know f/K... 1682 Spins

I doubt it can get a 6th week but there's still ~800 spins between her and Maroon 5 and today's updates were small, I think, due to the past week, so a week of small updates adjusting from the erratic past week could see it happen just barely.

i just saw this on twitter\

MEDIABASE (2017/01/09)

4. Side To Side f/ Nicki Minaj (=)
156.433 AI (+5.322)

N/A. Everyday f/ Future
1.549 AI (+0.361)

please tell me this is a joke no way

According to my calculations if it stays stable on youtube it will hit 1 billion views in about 70 days (her first to do that)

What do you mean? Side To Side is unsurprisingly getting huge updates from the end of the year-end countdowns.

Everyday is too indie for radio

are you being sarcastic askdfjladksf 5 million is way too high

Top performing song by a female lead for three months straight and it has officially spent 13 weeks in the top 10!

Come through Side To Side and snatch 3 more weeks in the Top 10.

Hell, do 4 and snatch the title from Problem & BB.

Told y'all this is bigger than Problem.

It isn't lol. It isn't bigger than Bang Bang either. It's still part of the trinity though.

Sir, STS will surpass Problem both in YT and Spotify.

Not at all. The previous update was like 3.9m or something. Current songs during the second week of December until the first week of January tend to get mediocre updates due to the Christmas Freeze and Year-end countdowns. When things get normal again in the second week of January, always expect a huge surge of spins and ai for current songs.

That's not the only factors of success. Problem far exceeds STS in sales and airplay.

Because streaming is bigger now than ever. Problem outpeaked Side To Side pretty much everywhere. It ruled global sales for weeks and it had a 188 million radio audience.

Idk, STS still feels bigger to me and feels like it has more longevity. Maybe bc of its enormous youtube views that I see everyday.

Problem was bigger than S2S is, but I think S2S will be looked back on more positively since Iggy kind of destroyed her own career within the US and Ariana was seen as still too new & novice. S2S has Ariana being grown and fierce and objectively slaying.

Plus, Nicki>>>Iggy.

I always thought it peaked in the 190m range. Mess. You're right. I searched e airplay archives and it did peak at 188m.

Ps this bitch been hating for 2 years now. Thats kinda sad huh

Yeah for some reason I always thought it had over 190 million too.

And mess. Talk about obsessed.

OT: In two days this will be top 10 for most viewed videos published in 2016!

Problem has yet to be topped success wise but STS did outdo it in some aspects