[popperfection]

There's only 5 more days left until Rita Ora's second single "R.I.P" drops in the states!

Roc Nation says that they have a bunch of promo lined up for it.

How do you think it will perform?

[Mister Martian]

This just isn't a great song. I don't think the US will use it.

[Callum]

worse than how we do

[Kiss N Tell]

Maybe you should put 'Rita Ora' in the title somewhere

[thaMONSTERkid]

that's the dumbest idea ever...release a NEW song nobody has heard...RIP will flop just like how we do :/ ch.

[StarryEyed]

I like Rita and I like the Drake demo of this song, I like Chase and Status but for some reason I've always felt this song didn't quite work. idk it's just like there's too much going on with the production and the Nneka sample. They should have stuck with the original production and kept Drake's rap verse and not had Tinie Tempah's verse at the beginning (it just doesn't add much)

[King B]

The song isn't interesting enough.
I doubt it'll do well.

[SLAYANNA NAVY]

It wont do well AT ALL! Her team aren't marketing her well in the US at all....

[Kiss N Tell]

R.I.P. will be a bigger hit that How We Do at the very least

[PopFan]

I like this song but I doubt it'll do as good as it did in the UK.

[Gossip_Boy]

It'll flop.

[ThatGinger]

I absolutely love this song, they played it on the radio once over here. But afterwords they had a bunch of people call in if they liked it or not. 5/6 people used the word "flop"

[EarStyle]

After hearing the snippets I would go with another single. "Radioactive"

[Pop'sBiggestFan]

She'll flop.

[StarryEyed]

Originally posted by Pop'sBiggestFan

She'll flop.

has she had any hype/interest over there or are they just randomly releasing stuff just to see what happens?

[Tsuko]

R.I.P went to #1 and is one of the biggest female pop songs of the year in my country.

I think R.I.P will do well on rhythmic and urban, but probably won't do anything on pop, and won't do well in the Hot 100, but maybe just a bit better than How We Do (which was so generic it was embarrassing).

[Tsuko]

For radio add dates, they should do something like:

Rhythmic: August 28th
Urban: October 2nd
Pop: November 6th (but only send it to pop radio if it's not flopping obviously, otherwize there's no point)

I think R.I.P is an amazing song. The chorus is very epic, and it's different to everything else out. There's no point in Rita releasing dance-pop, she'll get ignored if she does that, since that's what everybody else does.

[EarStyle]

Originally posted by Tsuko

For radio add dates, they should do something like:

Rhythmic: August 28th
Urban: October 2nd
Pop: November 6th (but only send it to pop radio if it's not flopping obviously, otherwize there's no point)

I think R.I.P is an amazing song. The chorus is very epic, and it's different to everything else out. There's no point in Rita releasing dance-pop, she'll get ignored if she does that, since that's what everybody else does.

I don't want "R.I.P." to last that long lmao. August to November? It's not that amazing.

[Miss Cleo Jenkins]

Trash...

[Tsuko]

Originally posted by EarStyle

I don't want "R.I.P." to last that long lmao. August to November? It's not that amazing.

You have to space it out that much though. Pop radio won't play a song like R.I.P unless it's already doing well on other formats, and already like top 50 on iTunes at the very least. Look how long it took them to pick up on Lights, Somebody That I Used to Know, etc.

It's normal to spread out urban/pop crossover hits like that, for example, with Super Bass they did:

Rhythmic: 5th April
Pop: 17th May
Urban: 20th June

No Rita Ora song is going to take off very quickly, as she's a new artist. Only established artists can shoot up the airplay charts really fast on multiple formats at the same time.

Not just R.I.P, whatever song Rita uses will have to last 3-4 months. The charts are very slow these days.

Of course, if R.I.P flops on rhythmic then obviously they will cancel it by September/October time and use something different instead.