I thought Taylor would debut in the top 5. Strange.
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Drawing 3.5 million domestic streams for the week. Notably, the track, while available on Apple Music, Tidal and other subscription-only streaming services, was withheld from Spotify during the tracking week; however, it was made available on Spotify as of Dec. 16. Plus, the lack of an official video for "Live" kept it from bowing even higher on the Hot 100 (as YouTube clicks are often a major driver for songs' streaming totals).
Talent lost Bruno & The Weeknd didn't get a new peak! Let's pray for next week!
BTW remember when everyone was shaddy with Closer calling irrelevant & not big at all (I 100% disagree) this happens with Black Beatles the song was big like 1 week it doesn't feel big at all I honestly only recognize the 1st 20 seconds of the song Thanks of the mannequin challenge & I already forgot the name of the artist I know it's a collab but I don't know them! I hope this song dies soon!
It's also possible that people liked Pillowtalk more
I know that's a crazy concept, but just something to consider
His team just did everything right.
Hyped it up for weeks, released its video & streaming same day & week. Radio deal. And him being the first to go solo all factored.
But I don't have time to argue with a Katy stan. Their 'queen of hot 100' couldn't even debut in the top ten with Rise and now wanna drag Taylor for doing it.
those are actually good numbers for taylor and zayn considering the songs not even that good and its a movie soundtrack so i didnt really have any expectations for it. also digital sales are dying, so im not even sure what good numbers are anymore. so a number 6 debut is extremely impressive actually.
Going from a 114k soundtrack debut (which was released between 625k WANEGBT and 545k SIO) to a 188k soundtrack debut in this sales climate. Biggest female first week sales and highest female Hot 100 debut this year.