I wonder if it will even chart on Streaming Songs. Daylight failed to chart there and it spent only one week on On-Demand Songs at #40. I think they were affected a lot by the latest rule change. Daylight dropped out of the top 10 and never returned when streaming was added to the formula (7-13) even though it was still growing on radio, while One More Night was just outside the top 20 and plummeted to barely top 40 (21-34.)
It might barely scrape the top 25 on Streaming Songs, but nothing significant. It is 57 on Spotify, and the video has 14.6 million views since May 21 (8 weeks, roughly). That's about an average of 1.8 million views per week (globally; who knows how many of those are US views ).
What did you say in your email about Mirrors?
Even the first half of the song 'that is more "pop" is more in tune with contemporary R&B than some of these songs that have been allowed to chart like #Beautiful, Almost Home, and Next To Me
I asked why it didn't make the main R&B/Hip-Hop chart despite going top 20 on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay because they insisted that they included Diamonds on the R&B/Hip-Hop chart because Urban radio was playing the song when everyone dragged them on Twitter for that mess and if they could explain the genre classifications and in particular why Mirrors was the only out of the album's twelve tracks ineligible to make an appearance on the R&B charts. Since you mentioned Mariah and #Beautiful, Ariana's The Way was also ineligible to chart there despite support from Urban radio. Its support wasn't as major as Mirrors' but Urban radio did accept the track. Absolute nonsense.
I use some estimate formula, it's not the same the relation between Mediabase and Nielsem, like it was back then.. I'm estimating he's gonna be around 193-195M on Nielsen this week
I'm actually happy for Phillip Phillips. That's how a debut album should be from a reality TV winner. He has real potential to be a stable on AC/Hot AC radio, similar to Train. Glad Gone, Gone, Gone has picked up.