Another great post I saw over at Pulse. The members on there are a lot more reasonable than you guys here, tbh.
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You absolutely cannot look at this the same way anyway. "Million Reasons" has been performed on television and was a promo single before the album was even released. Of course that's going to translate into higher sales/streaming than the rest initially. It's literally the exact same thing as Adele's "All I Ask" (or really even "When We Were Young," since it got promo before the album's release).
There's also "Out of the Woods" by Taylor Swift. Another instance of a song performing dramatically well on iTunes when the album was released. Didn't even outpeak itself when it became an actual single.
We should really learn by now that initial reactions do not reflect how well a song is going to do. There are also instances of a song not performing that well initially, but became a hit once it was a single.
I also cannot fathom that fans are upset that "Million Reasons" is performing better than "A-YO" right now, but "A-YO" is the single when "A-YO" is literally right behind "Million Reasons" at #13. It's not like they chose "Come to Mama" or "Just Another Day."
