Quote:
Originally posted by brianc33616
But true smashes don't die out in sales like Work. Hello, LY, Hotline Bling, Sorry, and The Hills also streamed strongly, but showed much longer sales longevity than Work. Top 40 is far from my favorite format, but even there Work barely made the Top 10. A song barely in the Top 20 in sales after only 12 weeks (less than 3 months) after its release, and failing by a significant margin to top HRS and already out of the Top 5 isn't a "smash." That's why I compare Work to Rude, the end of SYA's run, or CFMF, which hit #1 but weren't huge hits. Rude will finish the year in the T 10, but with no airplay and poor sales Work's 9-week run at #1 clearly doesn't reflect a smash hit.
|
Which makes WOrk's dominance all the more significant. She did all that WITHOUT Pop pushing the song heavily which all those hits you mentioned had to help sustain their sales. Not to mention the song and the album came out the same day it literally didnt even have any leg room to grow like Most lead singles.
On ATRL they said URBAN Music is dead yet she proved otherwise. She went to #1 without a music video. She went #1 without a performance. She went #1 based only on people liking the song enough to buy it and stream it significantly. Nine weeks.