48 minutes ago, jpsketch said:

Interesting. I was told Glow was the focus track this year (hence the spot on the EP). I assumed Stappleton would be there, but maybe not unless more performances are announced later.

I wonder if she’ll be able to do Glow on her own. I’d think so. Glow has been added to a lot of playlists on Spotify. 
 

hope they do an animated music video for it like Under the Mistletoe 

Edited November 23, 20232 yr by RealityBites

1 hour ago, BravoTangoWhiskey said:

Soooo, Spotify updated early today. It seems the EP has had a bit of an impact in first day (difference between the daily update for day before):

 

• Glow + 44,667 (+ 10,280)

• I won’t give up + 6,988 (+ 3,560)

• IBTLALLC + 47,218 (+ 1,667)

• FKOH + 25,157 (+ 3,812)

• Blessed + 9,033

• Magic + 7,581 (+ 2,796)

 

will be interesting to see if there’s more of a bump in the chemistry tracks as Xmas approaches

Nice to see the bump in Glow. One of my favorites! 

 

49 minutes ago, jpsketch said:

Damn, that song is almost identical LOL!

 

The struggle is that both songs (and Mariah's AIWFCIY) borrow heavily from Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound."

This is true. But I couldn’t believe that the song has the same type of structure of the song lol. Like didn’t even try to change it up lol

6 hours ago, BravoTangoWhiskey said:

Soooo, Spotify updated early today. It seems the EP has had a bit of an impact in first day (difference between the daily update for day before):

 

• Glow + 44,667 (+ 10,280)

• I won’t give up + 6,988 (+ 3,560)

• IBTLALLC + 47,218 (+ 1,667)

• FKOH + 25,157 (+ 3,812)

• Blessed + 9,033 (+ 3,507)

• Magic + 7,581 (+ 2,796)

 

will be interesting to see if there’s more of a bump in the chemistry tracks as Xmas approaches

Looking at daily difference the ep was probably streamed around 2-3k times. DTY also had a tiny bump after the performance. 
 

 

Spoiler

Link to view my spreadsheet if you want your own look at numbers (toggle through the tabs for appropriate data set) 
 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VieaybKINqXaDP8gZiW1bXnJ6Ku7yO4XM83yyzv_oCQ/edit

 

 

Just heard Kelly’s version of Run Run Rudolph on a Mitsubishi commercial lol

RRR coming from blood.

On 11/22/2023 at 4:44 PM, jpsketch said:

Lettuce pray they don't abandon the era in the New Year. Down to You could kill with a feature and a music video.

I swear people are taking this as real and keep posting that KC is getting a feature for this song lol

Edited November 25, 20232 yr by RealityBites

 

14 hours ago, RealityBites said:

I swear people are taking this as real and keep posting that KC is getting a feature for this song lol

I just saw that.

 

EDIT: To clarify, that is NOT happening. I also saw something on KCE about David Guetta, and I have never said anything like that. LMAO.

 

Edited November 25, 20232 yr by jpsketch

Gosh it's genuinely such a wonderful feeling spinning Kelly's holiday classics again 

 

 

Honestly, kudos to Atlantic for putting out SO much Christmas stuff since she signed with them. They were thinking ahead.

26 minutes ago, jpsketch said:

 

 

Honestly, kudos to Atlantic for putting out SO much Christmas stuff since she signed with them. They were thinking ahead.

Honestly I don’t think it would have happened without the delay of chemistry. Kelly mentioned that the record label was giving her space but also she needed to release something so this was the compromise. But I’m grateful for it cuz it’s awesome to have two different type of Xmas albums that people stream. Not many do. Mariah has two but the second is barely streamed 

 

Edit: also probably why we got Kellyoke 

Edited November 26, 20232 yr by RealityBites

The choice of covers on WCCA also seemed very intentional. They're all the most popular Christmas songs.

35 minutes ago, jpsketch said:

The choice of covers on WCCA also seemed very intentional. They're all the most popular Christmas songs.

Agreed. They are all getting more streams this year than before. I highly doubt Santa baby was Kelly’s choice lol

Some interesting notes on the streaming at the moment, the chemistry songs on the christmastry ep are noticeably higher streaming than they were before the ep was released / would be if the ep wasn’t released. Will be interesting to see how this plays out the whole season.

 

rockin’ around the Christmas tree is the second Christmas song that has exceeded its entire number of streams from last year. 
 

Kelly’s Christmas discography went over 1 billion total on Spotify this weekend

Edited November 27, 20232 yr by BravoTangoWhiskey

7 hours ago, jpsketch said:

The choice of covers on WCCA also seemed very intentional. They're all the most popular Christmas songs.

Does atlantic even make any money off the covers? Or are they just hoping it brings attention to the originals that make them more money

Does anyone know what the SPS number is for UTT? It would have to be multi platinum eligible in the US at this point right? 
 

Also I’m hoping WCCA album will be eligible for a gold certification soon. 

Looks like Atlantic might be doing something tomorrow for the fans

 

 

3 hours ago, publikcitizen said:

Does anyone know what the SPS number is for UTT? It would have to be multi platinum eligible in the US at this point right? 
 

Also I’m hoping WCCA album will be eligible for a gold certification soon. 

It surely must be! It’s double platinum in uk - but uk automatically certified rather than label paying for it. For a rough estimate, consider 3 major music providers, Spotify apple and Amazon (Amazon apparently biggest for Xmas music). 
I did have an old sales tracker spreadsheet but annoyingly I stopped just before WIR and only stopped back there for HBS’s opening numbers :/

 

but UTT has 517m on Spotify (global) but considering every streaming service and sales pre streaming era, 517m/150 (the premium streaming SPS) = 3.5m unit sales, so I wouldn’t be surprised if usa unit sales were over 3m given every other service and digital sales from that period.

 

I really want Atlantic to certify some of her other stuff. I consider certifications better representations of a song’s success. B&B should definitely be platinum eligible now with its streaming and I’d imagine SCYHM must be too! 

An interesting set of data (I used to only look at the month of December), obviously differences of thanksgiving falling early/late and weekend days (which normally are lower for her but Xmas music is higher for her)

 

Added context:

 

comparative context:

 

 

Edited November 28, 20232 yr by BravoTangoWhiskey

She should be back on the Hot 100 this week. We’ll find out when they publish the whole list tomorrow. 

insane how much mariah keeps outpacing herself. I wish kelly could close the gap, but that's not happening lol. at least it's up over the past years

13 hours ago, jpsketch said:

She should be back on the Hot 100 this week. We’ll find out when they publish the whole list tomorrow. 

#42! 

35 minutes ago, jpsketch said:

#42! 

Higher than Santa Tell me. Only reason last year it got higher than KC was the song was discounted for 69cents. RCA won’t discount it. 

i love how they are helping promote for her but if you’re a KC fan, you already have that album lol

UTT is predicted to be #15 next week 

 

Maybe just maybe it could get to the top 10 this year with Kelly hosting the rockefellar show!