After thinking about it long and hard I support this being the 2nd SINGLE on all formats in the US. She should send this to Pop 2 weeks later though because its still more room for Work to Go. Maybe April 12 would be a cute release date.
Needed Me will be a mediocre Pop radio hit.. maybe top 20 at best. But that gives Rihanna time to unleash Kiss It Better at the Start of June. Needed Me will burn out by Summer might as well strike while it's out.
Work is struggling to even reach top 5 on Pop and y'all want this to be sent to Pop? SMH
Kiss It Better or LOTB needs a Pop add date asap
I honestly don't think any ANTI song can be a smash hit on pop radio (and I'm a KIB stan). Needed Me will be top 10 on pop cause they won't be able to ignore it after it smashes everywhere else
All it Needs is a Pop remix. If Adele does it with When We Were Young then she can do it with Needed Me. I mean the chorus is already catchy and the chorus is actually clean which is the most important thing when it comes to Pop radio. As long as the chorus can play and the audience can sing along without any edits it SHOULD work. But I think they are going to gauge how Needed Me is received on radio first before they announce the 2nd Pop single. If any big station jumps on Needed Me like (KIIS FM or Z100) then they will go from there. If Not, KIB at the end of April please.
#75 on iTunes (+2). It was like #125 last weekend.
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I honestly don't think any ANTI song can be a smash hit on pop radio (and I'm a KIB stan). Needed Me will be top 10 on pop cause they won't be able to ignore it after it smashes everywhere else
A Work tea. Loves it.
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All it Needs is a Pop remix. If Adele does it with When We Were Young then she can do it with Needed Me. I mean the chorus is already catchy and the chorus is actually clean which is the most important thing when it comes to Pop radio. As long as the chorus can play and the audience can sing along without any edits it SHOULD work. But I think they are going to gauge how Needed Me is received on radio first before they announce the 2nd Pop single. If any big station jumps on Needed Me like (KIIS FM or Z100) then they will go from there. If Not, KIB at the end of April please.
This is exactly what I think/expect. I still think Kiss it Better will underperform tho.
All it Needs is a Pop remix. If Adele does it with When We Were Young then she can do it with Needed Me. I mean the chorus is already catchy and the chorus is actually clean which is the most important thing when it comes to Pop radio. As long as the chorus can play and the audience can sing along without any edits it SHOULD work. But I think they are going to gauge how Needed Me is received on radio first before they announce the 2nd Pop single. If any big station jumps on Needed Me like (KIIS FM or Z100) then they will go from there. If Not, KIB at the end of April please.
This is cute and all, but what about Europe sis'? she's losing the european market real quick
Her albums used to scan Gold/Platinum easily in France/Germany for example (considering it's her 3rd and 4th biggest market) but the album is nowhere near that and it's free falling.
Im not too worried about Europe tbh with you, Kiss It Better and Love On The Brain will save the album whenever they get released, Needed Me is clearly the next go-to song as a single considering its the most successful outside of Work atm.
Strike the iron while its hot rih
I really really hope the video comes out at the perfect time. This can easily be another top 5 hit if streaming increases like we expect it to; these urban songs do very well on Spotify.
Pop will not play this, though. Yeah, the chorus is pop friendly, but the verses are way too explicit for pop. If they won't even spin Work, they're not spinning this. It'll reach top 50 area like pour it up aka the rhythmic leaning pop stations will spin it (like 92.3 amp).
I'm glad she didn't sleep on its popularity like she did with Love7 Song, I'm still not over her paying it dust like that. The video looks awesome too. If KIB (Summer-Fall) and LOTB (Fall-Winter) follow, she will finally get a perfect era.
I couldn't be happier ! They made the perfect choice and the timing is amazing ! The only thing that missing now is the video on time (April) and 1 live performance anywhere and it will smash US . Not sure about WW but I stopped caring about that since I first listened to Anti