Two weeks before Rihanna stars in the animated film Home (Mar. 27), the singer earns a No. 8 bow on the Billboard + Twitter Top Tracks chart with the soundtrack's first single "Towards the Sun." Hours after its Feb. 24 debut online, "Sun" burst to No. 1 on the real time Billboard + Twitter Trending 140 chart. The track sold 24,000 downloads in the week ending Mar. 1, according to Nielsen Music, and also debuts at No. 29 on Pop Digital Songs.
The song does not appeal to Rihanna's core audience. Her casual fans are mainly here for bops. I'm not surprised it didn't do that well in the first week given that the only people who know it exists are the people who are not into this type of songs.
