[h.u.r.r.i.c.a.n.e]

Double Rainbow is the best song on PRISM standard's second half.

[Dark Horse]

Originally posted by h.u.r.r.i.c.a.n.e

Double Rainbow is the best song on PRISM standard's second half.

THIS

it should've been the last single

[SupahBass05]

Zedd's last album sucked and his production sounded kinda dated. At least he stans Birthday

[Aurora]

Originally posted by Lord Blackout

Yep. They did the same thing with We Can't Stop simply because they didn't like it.

They should play songs based on popular demand. TIHWD had enough demand for the airplay to keep rising yet it had one of the most pathetic radio peaks I've ever seen.

Too true. Radio really killed that song. Where did it peak on pop radio?

Originally posted by alex_katycat

What? Radio stations are business, If the listeners don't like the song, radio won't play It. Popular demand is all about sales and streaming and TIHWD lacked in the first one.

Incorrect. TIHWD, as a fifth single, sold about as much as Birthday, a fourth single, and Birthday never struggled with airplay. TIHWD was a streaming monster and Birthday was a streaming disaster. There was no demand for Birthday and there was at least 4x the amount of demand for TIHWD. There's only one logical conclusion that can be drawn from this and it's that stations didn't spin the song simply because they didn't want to, which when you're in a job, you can't just not do something because you don't want to. If you have a job to do, you do it.

Why would TIHWD be streamed 500M times if people didn't want to hear it on the radio?

[Valentine]

Originally posted by h.u.r.r.i.c.a.n.e

BOS said Friday the 13th...

[Dark Horse]

there was only a demand for TIHWD because its video is one of katy's best while birthday's video scared people away, not because TIHWD is a better song. birthday had a higher itunes peak and radio stations definitely preferred it over TIHWD

[h.u.r.r.i.c.a.n.e]

Originally posted by Dark Horse

THIS

it should've been the last single

ITT sis. DR is good but it isn't single material.

[h.u.r.r.i.c.a.n.e]

Originally posted by Dark Horse

there was only a demand for TIHWD because its video is one of katy's best while birthday's video scared people away, not because TIHWD is a better song. birthday had a higher itunes peak and radio stations definitely preferred it over TIHWD

!!! She literally scared people away

[Dark Horse]

Originally posted by h.u.r.r.i.c.a.n.e

ITT sis. DR is good but it isn't single material.

ITT is trash and hella tiring to listen to. Sia knew what she was doing with DR, definitely single material

[Swim]

Originally posted by RoarRiteNow1

If she's gonna work with a DJ it should definitely be Diplo

Wasn't Every Day is a Holiday produced by Duke Dumont? I wouldn't mind more of that. He has a very fresh sound.

Originally posted by Dylobs

I was hoping it would be November 13th so it would be given enough time to rise on radio before X-mas ended unless she hopes that it'll continue til New Years Eve or something

Yeah, she should release it no later than next week.

[h.u.r.r.i.c.a.n.e]

So are they going to announce it this week or just surprise release it on the 13 if it is indeed the 13th. I'm waiting Katheryn!

[Aurora]

People just need to accept that despite their personal taste, TIHWD was the right single choice. It was just done wrong. TIHWD had radio and Birthday had streaming (its video) sabotaging them, and sales were average-good for both so sales should never be brought up when comparing these two singles.

[Dark Horse]

Originally posted by Sam 

People just need to accept that despite their personal taste, TIHWD was the right single choice. It was just done wrong. TIHWD had radio and Birthday had streaming (its video) sabotaging them, and sales were average-good for both so sales should never be brought up when comparing these two singles.

TIHWD wasn't the right single choice, it was the wrong single choice that reached its maximum potential (#24?) with one of katy's best video efforts.

the difference between tihwd and birthday having radio and streaming respectively sabotaging them is that birthday sabotaged itself while people/radio stations were genuinely not here for TIHWD.

[Aurora]

Originally posted by Dark Horse

there was only a demand for TIHWD because its video is one of katy's best while birthday's video scared people away, not because TIHWD is a better song. birthday had a higher itunes peak and radio stations definitely preferred it over TIHWD

The video excuse became invalid when TIHWD became one of her most-streamed songs on Spotify, which is audio-only.

TIHWD is a studio video, let's not act like it was some visually stunning masterpiece or viral sensation. People stream the video for the song.

[Lord Blackout]

One Of The Boys has some killer songs. Shame it had a bad song for every great song though

[Aurora]

Originally posted by Dark Horse

TIHWD wasn't the right single choice, it was the wrong single choice that reached its maximum potential (#24?) with one of katy's best video efforts.

the difference between tihwd and birthday having radio and streaming respectively sabotaging them is that birthday sabotaged itself while people/radio stations were genuinely not here for TIHWD.

The GP don't really have a say on what radio play, that's my whole point. TIHWD was sabotaged by a few people with power to play or not play it.

Birthday:
Sales? GP said meh.
Streaming? GP said no.
Airplay? Sounds like a TD-era bop, thanks for the cake Katy! *plays*

TIHWD:
Sales? GP said meh.
Streaming: GP said HELL YEAH!
Airplay? We want Walking on Air... and we played Birthday and it flopped... No. *plays Dark Horse*



#24 definitely wasn't its maximum potential or whatever, nor was Birthday's #17. With a GP-friendly video for Birthday and radio support for TIHWD both would have been Top 10s.

[Lord Blackout]

Katy needs another 10m seller with a huge music video because Roar/Dark Horse being her most viewed videos makes her videography seem really tragic.

[spree]

Birthday remains unbothered as my fav Katy single.

But let's be real. The video killed the single, and TIHWD was a terrible follow-up. The video gets views because it's a good video, not because the song was a hit. It wasn't. For Katy's standards, it was a flop.

Birthday wasn't a bad single choice. It was a badly timed one tho. WOA or LL should've came after Dark Horse for sure. THEN Birthday as the 5th.

[Prismy]

As much as I adore one of them a lot, both Birthday and TIHWD weren't very great single choices especially when WoA and LL are on the very same album waiting to be released.

[Lord Blackout]

I wonder how Birthday would have done on Itunes had the music video not gotten released the same day as the song itself got submitted for radio play.