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Originally posted by Eternium
They both have gotten pretty great testing especially on RateTheMusic. "Trap Queen" has been selling/streaming really consistently and it completely outweighs its airplay. OLT has strong streaming, a big fanbase behind it and comes from an history with a strong Top 40 streak/hit album.
It's a lot harder than that to tell when a song has payola. Good Charlotte's label bought them 250 spins and they still lost 61  |
I honestly had not checked callout scores on Top 40 very closely, except for the 102 someone mentioned about SYA. I was going by what others had said about TQ's callout scores, so if you have studied them, you know them better than be going by hearsay. I'm sorry about that. I know TQ is selling and streaming well, but when it looks like a song is about to stall out and its gains double on consecutive days, that looks strange.
Also, OLT was climbing, had three or four straight days of significant losses (beyond -0.500), then all of a sudden started climbing again. This pattern is very difficult to explain. Sometimes a song might slip some (up to -0.300) for one or even two days in a row, but here larger losses that continued for a longer consecutive stretche of time suddenly reversed. OLT hasn't performed that well on the downloads chart, and is a mid-range success on streaming, so whatever caused this song to dramatically change course is really unusual.
