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Originally posted by RickyH.
No promo. Everytime I see someone say that, it pisses me off. Like how do you explain Dark Horse, or hits of its kind? It had zero promo, people just grew to like it and it became successful.
Also, previous singles "overshadowing" the song. That makes NO sense. People are more than capable of liking more than one song by the same artist, at the same time.
Everyone just uses the most ridiculous excuses to back up their fave when they can't accept the fact that a song/single/era has flopped.
Also, the "not having a music video hurt its success." NO, it didn't. What do you say about every hit song before the 80s? And some songs in the 80s/even 90s had major success/hit #1 without a video. So that's a completely invalid excuse.
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Not having a video does hurt chart success now that streaming are in the chart. That much is verifiable.
However, I will say Dark Horse hit #1 before it had a video. LOL! DWUW was Top 20 without a video. Maybe music videos are very much an outdated concept if the song can't sell enough to cover the cost of the video.