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Originally posted by Jennifer
Since Gaga is releasing her video on the same day, I'm pretty sure she's gonna get a #1 debut/jump to #1.
It's not THAT hard for a huge superstar to sell 600k and get like 7-8 million streams. The song just has to be "good" (not even great) and she'll be fine.
If anything, this new Youtube/streaming rule is gonna play in favour of the pop girls.
Robin will likely move back to #1 the following week though. I think this will end up with 14 weeks at #1.
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I've always wondered why all the chart regulars have argued the pop girls will have trouble with streaming. 2011 Nielsen revealed them to pretty much own the streaming chart when they were all out at the same time, even Beyonce. And their fanbases solidify the whole Youtube aspect of streaming.
The argument has been because the guys have dominated lately, but that's senseless since none of the girls have been out out.
And for the ones that have been out, we haven't been able to truly measure. Rihanna, Taylor didn't have their songs up and P!nk's songs have pretty much sucked and failed in everything but radio saturation with the exception of "JGMAR".