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Originally posted by Inverted
Boomerang was her first single, but had little promotion other than a TV performance. It never went to #1 on iTunes; it was #1 on UK's midweeks because of pre-orders from months back. It debuted at #6 on the charts thanks to the pre-orders and then free fell off the charts. Anyway the point is that smaller artists like them two or Jay Sean can easily get 10-20 million views on Youtube with some buzz. TWYLM had enough interest thanks PGR doing well at the time and the Internet buzz thanks to the ****ty video.
I don't remember any buzz for Slow Dance other than small blogs like Rap-Up (which isn't really popular) and I never even heard it on the radio. It wasn't well-received by people nor was Energy (although Energy deserved more interest IMO and I think it should have been re-released after Knock You Down, but that's another topic altogether).
JoJo and Cassie are not bigger than Keri. The last time they had hits were in 2006. I would put Keri at the same level as Jay Sean, but even I would rank her higher.
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It's getting a bit tired to go over this yet again.
FACT -
Boomerang = first single
The Way You Love Me = No Single
FACT -
Boomerang - Performance
The Way You Love Me - No performance
FACT -
Boomerang = First single buzz, pre-order, iTunes release.
The Way You Love Me - Sexiness buzz?
Boomerang = Video played on TV.
The Way You Love Me = Video played on.. Youtube?
Jay Sean is a single artist, Keri is more, well rounded. She's not selling multi platinums but she doesn't have maga hits. She get most of her singles to hit Top 40 and her albums going Gold. But obviously both effect each other. Bigger hits>Bigger sales. While Jay Sean = Big hits - Low sales.
So it's pretty dumb to put those two together.
As for JoJo and Cassie - Both R&B singers, used to be big. As of right now they are at about Keri's status. Didn't say they were bigger.
Wanna check more?Try Brandy, Kelly Rowland. I can go on for ages. All are mid-field R&B singers who got some hit and misses singles and some what of album success in thier last eras.
Slow Dance got to Top 30 on Urban radios. It's not alot, it's not mainstream but it is enough to have about 4-5m AI. You try to make every point smaller than it is to fit to your opinion.
FACT - Slow Dance had more going than TWYLM. The same "unimportant blogs" who covered it, covered TWYLM.
FACT - It had radio plays which little or not is MORE than TWYLM had.
FACT - It was played on BET (At least that I know of, could be more channels), again, might not be alot but TWYLM wasn't there.
TWYLM "sexiness" was only known to people who knew Keri and knew she had music out. Meaning - If you knew about TWYLM - You knew about Slow Dance.
So I don't get how you so sure it's so logical that TWYLM should have had many many views but Slow Dance only hittin' the numbers it did is okay.