Killing it on radio, why isn't this at least top 50?
It's confusing, she's been promoting the song on late night shows and it seems nothing is helping at all. Same thing happened to Nobody Love. Most of these On The Verge songs are performing horribly on iTunes, ala Kaya Stewart's In Love With A Boy.
This is normal though? Any artist that has a big following is going to have high initial sales then go into free-fall. Then climb back later if they get good airplay, get a music video, etc. One of the most extreme examples I can remember is Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5/Christina, which free-fell from #1 to out of the top 60 on iTunes and then ended up back at #1 a month or so later. You never know. I tell people over and over again that they have to wait a few months to know how big a song will really be.
But also, if Demi's song does actually end up a hit, I think people will just still call if a flop anyway, like with Bitch Better Have My Money and FourFiveSeconds recently.
woops...i meant to quote Alex who was talking about SYA
lately songs have been freefalling the moment they leave the top 10
same thing happened with WTWM...and then it hovered around the mid 20s for a few weeks...until a couple days ago when it literally fell 10 spots and is now hovering in the lower 30s
woops...i meant to quote Alex who was talking about SYA
lately songs have been freefalling the moment they leave the top 10
same thing happened with WTWM...and then it hovered around the mid 20s for a few weeks...until a couple days ago when it literally fell 10 spots and is now hovering in the lower 30s
these songs ain't having slow descents anymore
Not on iTunes, but the descents on the Hot 100 are still fairly slow because of streaming.
I just realized if we had the weekly sales predictor back when the formula was airplay + sales, we could've predicted nearly the entire Hot 100 right some weeks.
We knew the formula, and the sales are near exact some weeks, as the airplay also is.
woops...i meant to quote Alex who was talking about SYA
lately songs have been freefalling the moment they leave the top 10
same thing happened with WTWM...and then it hovered around the mid 20s for a few weeks...until a couple days ago when it literally fell 10 spots and is now hovering in the lower 30s
these songs ain't having slow descents anymore
Uptown Funk is falling slowly, but it's of course in its own world. I think UF can stay in the Top 20 until the VMAs because all of its metrics are stable, and there's lots of dead space between 16 & 25.
The VMAs should give UF a small boost with all the nominations it got. UF deserves several wins. I'm referring to the Hot 100 though, not HDS, though UF's has had a phenomenal run on the latter given its age.
Major Lazer - Powerful #1 Lithuania
#11 Australia
#15 New Zealand
#31 Denmark
#49 Luxembourg
#56 United Arab Emirates
#65 Poland
#74 Belize
#84 United Kingdom
#89 Germany
#109 Netherlands
#127 France
#130 Switzerland
#173 Latvia
#188 South Africa
Video was just released. They are also #3 on Kworb's Global Artists Ranking. This will be a WW hit, I still don't know about the US.