The problem with LMLYD is that it was attached to the Fifty Shades soundtrack for the longest time, and it already did quite a good job of selling that album, alongside Earned It. That song was probably not going to sell this album too. The same thing happened last year to Charli XCX.
An Irene Cara tea.
The way it sold the 50 Shades of Grey soundtrack gives us a glimpse into what it could have done for Ellie's album
Tove Low was one of the many writers on the track, she added a few lyrics. That song is way too obvious a smash for a C-list artist like her to record it The other writers would have never let her keep it.
Eh, Ellie is a thing in the UK but in the US she and Tove are both C-list. Before that song Ellie had one top 3 single and a top 20 single, like Tove.
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Unless it sold 2.4 million south in Brazil and Panama then
That era was iconic in Latin America but that's it.
Mi Plan by Nelly Furtado is a better example of an era in Spanish that smashed outside Spanish-speaking countries (far less successful than Xtina's, though)
The best selling albums in Brazil and Mexico sell around that range
The other writers would have never let her keep it.
