SO there's some good news. The Pop adds are supposed to be 100% in at 6pm EST (that's what was said on Mediabase, anyway but now we can't access that..) and up until 7pm there were 0 adds. Looks like they updated it later and she did get 3 adds. That's better news than 0!! But still not great.
WPST-FM
WQEN-FM
WWST-FM
Those were the 3 adds. WPST is Trenton, New Jersey (Ranked #146th in the nation), WQEN is Birmingham, AL (Ranked #59) and WWST is Knoxville, TN (Rank #72). This won't help our AI much as they are low ranked stations but it's certainly better than 0. I really hate that Mediabase won't let us see anymore because All Access doesn't show when the adds are 100% in. And you can't see the adds automatically on one screen until it's complete, you have to scroll through the individual stations.
Regardless. The ones saying that we should stop preparing for Dark Side to flop or that it's too early to say are not looking at the facts. It's hard to compare this song with any other song because the circumstances are always different. Yes, AG rose very, very slowly but I'm pretty sure it didn't get lots of adds right off the bat because it followed a mediocre hit in IDNHU. I don't think the big stations jumped on in the first month, I think it was mostly smaller stations and that makes a difference. With DS, she got a good number of adds the first two weeks including a few top 10 stations.. if stations are already playing the song less and more than 12 have dropped it completely, her AI will go down. The main reason she's been getting 0.500 or close to a million AI updates is because of Hot AC. Pop is only contributing such a small portion on her daily updates the past few days. That's so worrysome. Those stations that dropped it are unlikely to pick the song back up. If in a month or so, more stations add the song..her AI wont be able to get up that high because the other stations will already have dropped it. If this were doing really well (top 30) on iTunes, it might make a difference, but it isn't. Timing is everything. The stations all need to jump on board around the same time for the song to have a big impact. I would LOVE more than anything to be wrong about this and hope I will eat my words soon. But I'm really skeptical based on what I'm seeing now.
What kind of novel?
Anyway, I won't say any more on the subject and I'll hope for the best. If she actually promotes this somewhere it could make an impact. But if they do nothing soon..
