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Originally posted by Toastyrokr
Well, I was definitely on the MD movement but that was only when we had to deal with CKB and MD being dual released...before that I was pro cheers. It's good to see CKB selling though.
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Supporting or liking Man Down is great. I love the song personally, just not as a single. My problem is (and Im not sure if you were one of the many doing this) the people going on and on how CKB needs to be dropped because MD is the real smash.
Honestly, that **** was annoying as hell and part of the reason I wasn't very active in here for a while. From day one, it was always clear which single was doing better. Requesting MD and rebuying it is great, but to want the better selling single to be shelved because you like the other better? That is some delusional **** and is exactly where my problem was with a lot of Navy members here.
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Originally posted by herohoney
Complicated could be a smash in Europe, that beat 
And LTWYL part2 with a new video with Eminem would be amazing 
I totally got your point but sometimes we can not really predict something correctly.... |
I don't necessarily agree about Complicated, but I don't know the European market too well, so I don't disagree either.
However, I will say that while a LTWYL2 video might've been cool to see, it would've been the dumbest thing in the world to put
any money or promo into that song. Never in a million years would it have done well after how amazing part 1 did just a few months prior. I was dumbfounded that some people actually thought it should be a single.
Nothing is really a guarantee, but the music industry and market isn't totally unknown, either. It's pretty easy to guesstimate what songs have potential and what don't. Can we accurately pick out the peak or total sales of a song before it's released? No, of course not. But I don't think it's hard at all to have some general consensus of what has mass public appeal and what doesn't. Maybe that's just me though? I just look at what is currently selling in the market, what has in the past, and what I could see being played on radio, commercials, clubs, parties, etc.
For instance, there are plenty songs of Rihanna's that I love and think are among her best that I could never imagine as singles even though they are some of my favorites (GGGB, QE, CCL, TLS). There's also songs that I don't particularly love, but think could've done well at the time (SMC, Photographs).
It's so good!
