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Originally posted by Dingdong123
Style
Wildest Dreams
Out of the Woods
America hates great music
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I don't particularly like Wildest Dreams (although I don't necessarily dislike it either), but that one was totally her fault. If she had put it on streaming services and/or promoted it, it would have gone top three, maybe even #1. It peaked at #1 on radio and #3 in sales, yet its #15 peak in streaming dragged it down tremendously.
Style was done wrong though, although she didn't help either by completely abandoning it after the video release (plus the fact that it wasn't available on streaming services). It peaked #3 on radio, #7 in sales, and #37 in streaming. A Grammy performance and putting it on streaming services would have boosted it tremendously, perhaps even making it #1. (I think I remember hearing her mother was sick during this time though, so I do understand why she would put her career on the back burner for a bit at the time.)
The fact that these little errors happened that, in my view, stifled the momentum of the era in terms of singles is what's keeping this single from doing incredible in my opinion. I mean of course, the era was one of the most successful of the decade and of all time, but it could have done even better with just a little extra push here and there and tying up loose ends.