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Originally posted by Kworb
Hit singles are still the foundation of music success stories and they always will be. And radio does not care how credible an artist is or what their Metacritic score is. The GP does not care. They just want to love good songs. And regardless of what Pepcé achieves outside of the "hit single game", the longer she fails at it the harder it will be to succeed at it. Those are the unwritten rules of the game and that's really the only point I was making. If she was coming off an era with hit singles there is no doubt in my mind that XO would be doing a LOT better.
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That's such old fashioned thinking. CLEARLY, it isn't. Lana Del Rey became a global phenomenon without a hit single. Times are changing. and Beyoncé is like the last person who needs more to add to her success story
But she's still doing just that, without a hit single.
I mean what's the goal of a hit single?
A) for it to sell a lot?
B) for it to sell the album?
C) for it to keep an artist relevant so his/her other material(and concert tickets, merch, products etc) will sell?
D) All of the above? Either way the ultimate goal is revenue. Beyonce, apparantly, doesn't need any hit single to generate revenue off her music. A hit single would be icing on the cake, and you're kinda right, she could use one - but she already has enough of them to last for the rest of her career. Pretty much every media outlet has said that Beyonce won 2013, and she really did...without a hit single.
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