"Thinking Of You" Streaming Week
April 29th - May 5th
On Monday, April 29th, Try to Trend #WatchThinkingOfYou on Twitter
Stream the Song and View the Video All Week
GOAL: 14 MILLION STREAMS
KatyCats, please read what we have to say:
Let's cut to the chase - we want "Thinking Of You" to go top 10 in the US. Yes I am serious, and no, I am not crazy. We'd like to accomplish this admittedly very lofty goal through the use of Billboard's latest rules, which add YouTube into streaming and increase the overall weight of streaming points on the Hot 100. We plan to do this to honor Katy's only non top-10 single in the US. Getting this song top 10 would ensure that Katy would have 12 consecutive top-10 singles in the US and keeping it intact since "Wide Awake." Organizing a streaming week for "The One That Got Away" is more of a far-fetched idea than this, so let's not even ask why TOTGA wasn't a choice
As you may recall, "Harlem Shake" has been the #1 song in the US for 5 weeks based almost entirely on streaming, with the added benefit of sales. Thanks to formulas developed by Dust2 and MusicTalker earlier this year it has been calculated that "Thinking Of You" would need a bare minimum of
11 million US-based streams to chart in the top ten. However,
that is not our goal - to ensure the best possible chance of her entry in the top 10, we are aiming for a minimum of
14 million US-based streams during the week of April 29th through May 5th.
Now before you go on about how "impossible" this is: have some faith in your fellow fans. Have some faith in yourself! We have numerous times demonstrated our power as a fanbase - in polls, voted award shows, and the like. All we need here is a mere fraction of what some songs have been able to do, and just half of what one song was able to do this week well after it had died down.
Once again, I ask you not only to help reach this goal, but to unite as a fanbase and have faith in yourselves and each other that we can achieve this goal. US KatyCats, we need you to view and listen your ears off at YouTube and on services like Spotify and Rhapsody. If you are not based in the US, please help us by spreading the word! Ask any US friends you have to participate, spread the news to message boards - anything you can is greatly appreciated.
FOR PEOPLE NOT LIVING IN THE US
NOTE: TunnelBear has a 500MB a month limit, save your streams until the first of the month.
To those who wish to make fun of this attempt: go away, I already know the odds. I find that optimism is the best policy in all situations.
I'll be honest -- I don't know how well this will work, and I don't know whether we can do this. But, I have faith that if the KatyCats unite, nothing, even this, is really impossible.
Below you will find some helpful links and tools: