THE DECLINE!

3 minutes ago, liberalmusiclover said:

To think Work sold 126K in a little over a day and Taylor is selling 133K in an entire week.

Work was in 2016 

Taylor’s soundtrack single did 190k in 2016 so...

2 minutes ago, Little Dark Age said:

Old Town Road did it like two weeks ago

 

Still not a terrible result

 

1 minute ago, Thor said:

I think Shallow did 100k+.

 

OT: I despise Taylor but we not gon sit here and pretend any of our faves can sell 100k+ in 2019. 

1 minute ago, Thickorita said:

2016 and 2019 are way different. there's no way a rihanna single would do 100k+ first week in 2019.

 

they're still good numbers

LMAO at you thinking Rihanna can’t do 100K in a week in 2019 when she did more than that in a day in 2016, just a few years ago. Y’all always underestimate her and she always proves y’all wrong. She’s the biggest selling digital artist of all time, for ****’s sake. 

1 minute ago, Ethereal said:

 

I’ll be bookmarking this for Dua and Katy’s first week sales

 

 

 

For... answering that persons question?

Just now, liberalmusiclover said:

LMAO at you thinking Rihanna can’t do 100K in a week in 2019 when she did more than that in a day in 2016, just a few years ago. Y’all always underestimate her and she always proves y’all wrong. She’s the biggest selling digital artist of all time, for ****’s sake. 

I don't think you realize how much sales have catapulted in just 3 years...

1 minute ago, mcohen said:

Old Town Road is the biggest hit of the year 

 



ok? Shallow also did it not even two months ago

Just now, teamlor said:

Work was in 2016 

Taylor’s soundtrack single did 190k in 2016 so...

During the gift card redemption period. Rihanna did it in January, the slowest month of the year. 

 

Then again, Rihanna always releases quality singles as her leads. 

+100k physical

Just now, Little Dark Age said:

ok? Shallow also did it not even two months ago

Old Town Road and Shallow - Two of the biggest hits of the year

 

1 minute ago, liberalmusiclover said:

LMAO at you thinking Rihanna can’t do 100K in a week in 2019 when she did more than that in a day in 2016, just a few years ago. Y’all always underestimate her and she always proves y’all wrong. She’s the biggest selling digital artist of all time, for ****’s sake. 

Look did 200k on it's first day and now ME! is serving 133k first week so Rihanna is not safe either.

How is this possible when she outsold the entire top 100 of iTunes on Friday??  At least it'll do another 200k+ units with SPS

2 minutes ago, liberalmusiclover said:

LMAO at you thinking Rihanna can’t do 100K in a week in 2019 when she did more than that in a day in 2016, just a few years ago. Y’all always underestimate her and she always proves y’all wrong. She’s the biggest selling digital artist of all time, for ****’s sake. 

it's not about underestimating rihanna, it's about how digital sales are dead and buried

Sales are dead. We are streaming

 

Just now, GAGAISTHEBESTYA said:

Look did 200k on it's first day and now ME! is serving 133k first week so Rihanna is not safe either.

‘Look’ was a better song than this, let’s be real. It’s music video was also fantastic and it suited the theme of reputation well. “ME!” is trash. Video is good, but it doesn’t really tell a story. The GP can’t connect. 

She’s over

 

Since sales are dying, she’s actually doing great. 

She did well considering the climate.

The streaming however whew 

100k+ weeks in the past year:

Old Town Road: 124,000 April 20th
Shallow: 115,000 March 9th
In My Feelings: 115,000 July 28th / 104,000 Aug 4
NTLTC: 100,000 May 5

the last time a song did more than ME! was in January 2018....Perfect by Ed.

So she's going to have the biggest digital week in 16 months.
 

2 minutes ago, Thickorita said:

it's not about underestimating rihanna, it's about how digital sales are dead and buried

Shallow and Old Town Road (an urban song) both did 100K+ a few weeks ago. Taylor’s lead is just weak. If it was a better song, people wouldn’t mind spending $1.29 on it. She could’ve done at least 200K. 

@hellocory I thought it was gonna do more than Kworb’s predictions?

This doesn't include the physicals/vinyl redeeming downloads right?? Cause Kworb can't track them right??? A swiftie is using a tracker to count how much traffick sales are going on the website and she said about 50k. So I'm perched...

Debut’s number are boring. I want to see second week’s numbers.

1 minute ago, Blade said:

100k+ weeks in the past year:

Old Town Road: 124,000 April 20th
Shallow: 115,000 March 9th
In My Feelings: 115,000 July 28th / 104,000 Aug 4
NTLTC: 100,000 May 5

the last time a song did more than ME! was in January 2018....Perfect by Ed.

So she's going to have the biggest digital week in 16 months.
 

That’s if it doesn’t continue to drop in predictions. Hopefully it won’t, with the BBMAs being tonight.

2 minutes ago, Blade said:

100k+ weeks in the past year:

Old Town Road: 124,000 April 20th
Shallow: 115,000 March 9th
In My Feelings: 115,000 July 28th / 104,000 Aug 4
NTLTC: 100,000 May 5

the last time a song did more than ME! was in January 2018....Perfect by Ed.

So she's going to have the biggest digital week in 16 months.
 

Damn, rip sales era