CKB needs to freefall down itunes and Pop asap. We would have had a Top 10 hit if Man Down was the all around single like the label wanted, but instead we get a flop and a hit on Urban. Next. She should never do an acoustic ballad again. Hit it and quit it. R&B ballads are her stength.

Would Man Down have done any better on pop?

It's selling very poorly, even for an urban single.

This post from start to finish is full of wrong.

You Man Down stans do the most.

Cheers (Drink to That) should've been the summer single. There's nothing else to it.

I prefer Cheers over Fading and Fly. I find Fading similar to Umbrella in certain way and i don't wanna comparison anymore. So i rather want Cheers, it is catchy enough

Cheers >>>> Fading >>Fly

I think so. A lot of the Rhythmic leaning Pop stations picked up on Man Down and never played CKB (92.3 for example). Z100 dropped CKB a month and a half after they added it. No one was here for it. Tbh I can't stand the song anymore. It's been months since I've listened to it.

The A.I. alone would have made it a possible Top 20 hit. 30 Mil from Rhy + Urban plus even if it just did what CKB did on Pop + 20 mil = 50 points + 50k downloads = 100 points = Top 20.

Where is this CKB smash you were preaching about?

Exactly. I don't expect another single at this point. I'm waiting for Fly to come and then the new single, although I have no idea what it'll be. Rih said it isn't a new album nor a re-release so I guess it's either an EP or maybe a special #1s album with a new song or 2. It'd be dumb not to re-release Loud at this point imo.

In the top 100 of iTunes and upper half of Billboard.

Can the same be said for Man Down?

That argument is completely irrelevant. Man Down is a Top 10 hit in the format it was supposed to smash on. The same can't be said for CKB.

Is it selling, though?

No.

CKB wasn't even meant to be the US single, and it's still doing better than Man Down.

Cheers should of been the single for the summer. CKB is a great song on LOUD, but wrong timing...

They're both underperforming messes, & were both mistakes. The fan-chosen single route should never be used again. We clearly don't know what we're doing. If it had been up to me, Cheers would've been released as S&M was falling, no questions asked.

I had so much faith California King Bed could take off eventually too. Hopefully it goes platinum.

I can't at people saying Umbrella was a completely safe single choice.

What does that have to do with anything? There's nothing to be proud of with a 47 peak. It flopped. End of story.

Right? That was hilarious. It wouldn't have been too risky later but as a LEAD single after her style from her first two records? It was a risk!

Always The orginial >


You need to repent.

Nothing sounded like Umbrella back in 07

. I'll drink to that!

So does anyone think Man Down can smash on urban to #1, and maybe cross over to Pop? Or are we doomed to get two Flops

This has the highest chances to happen ( it has already happened).