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Originally posted by MrPeanut
Eh, I can't really think of any reason why it wasn't a bigger success. Its performance was always inexplicable to me.
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The same thing happened with Part Of Me (a song that was released during a similar time frame/period) for the most part though POM sold a bit more. Little radio longevity, no promotion of the work and Britney being practically invisible during the release of the song killed it's chances of becoming bigger. I also think there may have been a cap on how much listeners were willing to listen to something as hardcore dance as Hold It Against Me was (although as I said this could have been rectified and augmented by core visibility of the artist). It's telling to me that I Wanna Go and Till The World Ends did much better as successive singles and performed better globally speaking as well. The era didn't really start until late March.
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Originally posted by LDYGG
People are STILL trying to say it brought dubstep into the mainstream? That was not a dubstep breakdown, it was a wannabe dubstep breakdown. The person who brought dubstep to the mainstream was the now Grammy Award-winning producer, SKRILLEX.
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None of his albums hit the top 10 on Billboard or any big market countries chart, none of his songs have impacted radio, none of his singles have reached the top 60 on the Hot 100 or any European market, how is that bringing Dubstep to the mainstream? Whether you want to admit it or not Hold It Against Me was a global worldwide hit and popularized the dubstep trend for multiple music markets and afterwards you had numerous popular music artists experimenting with the genre including the likes of Rihanna, Madonna, Flo Rida, Chris Brown and others.