Skyfall is movie theme song and had many limitations because of being written for Bond movie franchise.
First purpose of movie theme is to promote movie itself. It's not lead single of new studio album.
It's doing good based on this.
Her label never said anything about expecting anything and kept quiet until the release of the song. It was other "sources" claiming they wanted this song to be bigger than RITD, blah blah blah.
And of course you would use BTW as a benchmark for a single that isn't even for a new album. So typical.
So basically you were the one who had unrealistic predictions about Skyfall...
I saw what you were trying to do in that thread about the billboard year-end chart when you predicted that Skyfall would be #1 on the year-end chart with only 6 weeks left.
Save those unrealistic predictions for your faves instead like you did with Bieber