[Roman Holiday]

All my female friends are getting their LIVES from this song. I've never seen them stan so hard for a Nicki joint.

[King Maxx]

Originally posted by Starmie

Do we think LAN will chart on Billboard off these streams?

Total Views : 14,337,040
unofficial youtube 7,745,360
vevo 692,462

Around 7-9M views have to come from the US.

[Victorious]

Bitch I'm ME

[Victorious]

Originally posted by King Maxx

Around 7-9M views have to come from the US.

Does Billboard count the unofficial video views?

[King Maxx]

Originally posted by Victorious

Does Billboard count the unofficial video views?

Yes, and all videos with at least 30 seconds of official audio. I think the Tre Melvin parody counts as well.

[richa70]

Originally posted by king maxx

yes, and all videos with at least 30 seconds of official audio. I think the tre melvin parody counts as well.

omg yes it has 30 sec of the song yaaaaaaaas

[Aatthew]

Originally posted by Starmie

Do we think LAN will chart on Billboard off these streams?

Total Views : 14,337,040
unofficial youtube 7,745,360
vevo 692,462

The 14 million won't count b/c Billboard could give a **** about these streets.

That unofficial YT upload has 7.7 million., the one on her Youtube account has 710k+, and the Vevo.com upload has 575k... Tre's video has 445k and then a lyric video has 200k....

I honestly want to believe that the vast majority of all of those views are US-based, but we do know that Nicki does have a reasonable following WW and they might have used the Youtube link instead of WSHH b/c of familiarity.

The blogs reporting the song, and then later the controversy, posted links as well. I mostly saw people using the WorldStar video, but I did see a couple blogs using Youtube links.

Anything is possible at this point.

[Aatthew]

Has anyone ever charted on the Billboard Hot 100 with zero sales?

I also wish they would count Trey's remix and Cassidy's remix b/c they've got a couple 100k views each spread out across Youtube that would be valuable.

[richa70]

If Nicki end up SOMEHOW on the top 40 im going to cry tbh

[Aatthew]

Originally posted by richa70

If Nicki end up SOMEHOW on the top 40 im going to cry tbh

Lol.

I'm praying for the low 90s, if anything. I just want it to impact the Hot 100. That's enough for me.

If it soars higher than the 90s, right on. It deserves so.

As I've mentioned a million times before, I'm also interested in seeing how her Social 50 position fairs.

[AuraOfPinkslam]

If she's in the Top 50 I would scream.

[richa70]

Nicki should remix DRUNK IN LOVE yaaaaaaaaaaas

[richa70]

i want a beyonce collab wtf

[Coolada]

I lowkey think it won't even chart. Don't get me wrong, I obviously hope it does.



I just have the bad feeling it won't.

[richa70]

Originally posted by Coolada

I lowkey think it won't even chart. Don't get me wrong, I obviously hope it does.



I just have the bad feeling it won't.

if it dosent i quit.

[Aatthew]

Originally posted by Coolada

I lowkey think it won't even chart. Don't get me wrong, I obviously hope it does.



I just have the bad feeling it won't.

It's alright. Deep down I have that same feeling, but I suppressing it b/c I really want it to.

[helloDer]

Originally posted by Starmie

Do we think LAN will chart on Billboard off these streams?

Total Views : 14,337,040
unofficial youtube 7,745,360
vevo 692,462

yas.. didn't Dope chart with 8M views? (granted it had some sales, but not many)

[Aatthew]

Mess.

Originally posted by helloDer

yas.. didn't Dope chart with 8M views? (granted it had some sales, but not many)

That's a great point. It was used in an ad... So that's why it got the views it did, but Nicki has almost matched those views... Hmm...

How did it go Top 10 with just 8M views though? Are you sure?

[richa70]

anana

[Aatthew]

Despite the low sales, the high debut was fueled by the heavy streams of the song of about 8.2 million, and a number one entry on the Billboard Streaming Songs chart, which is one of the components of the Hot 100.[37] About 95% of the online streams came from YouTube views of the live video of Gaga performing "Dope" at the YouTube Music Awards of 2013. [...] The next week, "Dope" tumbled down the Hot 100 to number 71.[39]

From Wikipedia, but it does just the job.

Hmm... This is interesting. You would think her 8M views would be internationally spread out... Maybe there is hope and even if it doesn't debut high... It still has a chance of making it.

I wonder if Billboard might disqualify it b/c it wasn't released for purchase.

EDIT: Oh, I see now. The 8M views were from the United States, not the total for the video. I'm a mess.