I was checking iTunes (DWAS still at #4 and ABS still at #2) and not HMH charting  granted iTunes is dead now but still  

4. Die with a Smile

74. Disease

99. Always Remember Us This Way

166. Hold My Hand 

3 hours ago, Chromatica said:

Was Madonna's concert in Brazil streamed live? I need HQ footage of Gaga's show.

Read on Twitter that it will be broadcast by the same company as Mad's

2 minutes ago, Jack! said:

The needle has shifted on how music consumption in the month of December effects the charts. It's why most artists, not only Gaga, sit the month out. Just as an example, the second tracking week of December this year put 9 Christmas songs in the top 20 of the Hot 100. Doesn't seem a lot, but when compared to that time 10 years ago, there wasn't any in the top 20, and the first Christmas song charting in the same tracking week only comes in at #65. Also, by the second tracking week of December this year, 4 out of the top 5 songs were Christmas songs. Sadly, the streaming era has completely blown out essentially two whole months of the year for new music consumption, so she and her team know it was worth sitting out.

 

Now could they have just waited until the new year to roll out anything LG7 related to make the era feel more cohesive? Probably. But they knew we were champing at the bit for something LG7 related and probably anticipated the public reception to all her projects around the same time would have been different. It's been, a series of unfortunate events perhaps? And any other time of the year they could have worked on promo to try and solve it quickly, but in hindsight with the Christmas freeze on the horizon there wasn't a lot they could do.

I imagine a lot of her scheduling was also done with the anticipation that joker would be more in the midst of awards conversations/not being DOA (actors on actors, screenings, more late night, etc.) 

Has DWAS ever charted #1 on Streaming Songs charts before? This week it's the highest stream song excluding Christmas songs.

14 minutes ago, hausofdave said:

NYE playlist last year:
1. We Found Love
2. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
3. Dance The Night
4. Lovin On Me
5. Calm Down

 

US Spotify boost on Dec 31:
#1 (=) Lovin On Me: 1.612kk (+44k)
#29 (+34) Dance The Night: 571k (+131k)
#56 (+46) Calm Down: 444k (+83k)
#80 (RE) We Found Love: 394k
#185 (RE) Gimme! 3x: 290k

 

Jan 1:
#1 (=) Lovin On Me: 1.605kk (-7k)
#18 (+11) Dance The Night: 655k (+84k)
#35 (+21) Calm Down: 503k (+59k)
#38 (+42) We Found Love: 490k (+96k)
#69 (+116) Gimme! 3x: 405k (+115k)

DWAS is really going number one.

 

i feel like DWAS will be number one up until the superbowl unless there's a surprise release from a huge artist before that event. 

3 minutes ago, GipJo said:

Has DWAS ever charted #1 on Streaming Songs charts before? This week it's the highest stream song excluding Christmas songs.

Just checked, DWAS will be her first real #1 stream song ever (Dope doesn't count let's be honest).

20 minutes ago, Jack! said:

The needle has shifted on how music consumption in the month of December effects the charts. It's why most artists, not only Gaga, sit the month out. Just as an example, the second tracking week of December this year put 9 Christmas songs in the top 20 of the Hot 100. Doesn't seem a lot, but when compared to that time 10 years ago, there wasn't any in the top 20, and the first Christmas song charting in the same tracking week only comes in at #65. Also, by the second tracking week of December this year, 4 out of the top 5 songs were Christmas songs. Sadly, the streaming era has completely blown out essentially two whole months of the year for new music consumption, so she and her team know it was worth sitting out.

 

Now could they have just waited until the new year to roll out anything LG7 related to make the era feel more cohesive? Probably. But they knew we were champing at the bit for something LG7 related and probably anticipated the public reception to all her projects around the same time would have been different. It's been, a series of unfortunate events perhaps? And any other time of the year they could have worked on promo to try and solve it quickly, but in hindsight with the Christmas freeze on the horizon there wasn't a lot they could do.

You kinda said it perfectly and it makes a lot more sense. I guess it's the new reality of artistic roll outs since streaming has made charting way more competitive. It's almost like having traffic lights set and artists now have to be cautious of seasonal influence, let alone if there is a resurgence of a song that has gone viral on TikTok. The algorithm is all over the place, I wonder how record labels market these things with precision nowadays because I'd be stumped. Yet again it's kinda got me kinda nervous for what's next, it could either be a masterpiece of an album or an eclectic hot mess.
 

2 minutes ago, ArtDeco said:

You kinda said it perfectly and it makes a lot more sense. I guess it's the new reality of artistic roll outs since streaming has made charting way more competitive. It's almost like having traffic lights set and artists now have to be cautious of seasonal influence, let alone if there is a resurgence of a song that has gone viral on TikTok. The algorithm is all over the place, I wonder how record labels market these things with precision nowadays because I'd be stumped. Yet again it's kinda got me kinda nervous for what's next, it could either be a masterpiece of an album or an eclectic hot mess.
 

I'd say you're exactly right with the traffic light system. Pop releases are becoming very formulaic and we're probably going to see that again this year. Everyone stops at the end of October, Christmas booms in November and December and then in the new year, as we've seen for two years in a row, someone comes in and serves a bit of a new year blow-up single/era that dominates Q1 (Miley's Flowers and Ariana's Yes, And?, although the latter to a lesser extent, but it was still the biggest new pop hit of 2024 and she kept the momentum up with WCBF). I guess Gaga and her team are hoping they can pick up off the floor running with whatever plans they have for the new year to make LG7 this version of that in 2025, but maybe Beyoncé and her team are hoping to capitalise on that rhetoric with whatever they plan to announce/drop on the 14th of January. We'll just have to see what happens.  

 

 

 

 

 

1 minute ago, kwek_kwek said:

 

 

 

MOTHER.

 

We're taking it

3 hours ago, Mr.Stardust said:

They're NOT switching the lead single, just because DWAS was added to the album doesn't mean it automatically becomes the lead single.

It's the first single released from the album. It's literally leading the album now. 
 

Edited December 29, 20241 yr by Doctor Dick

6 minutes ago, kwek_kwek said:

 

 

 

Lose Control being top 10 after 70 weeks is literally musical terrorism. 

1 minute ago, MAKSIM said:

Lose Control being top 10 after 70 weeks is literally musical terrorism. 

It could break Blinding Light's record in the top 10.

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOq!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

2 minutes ago, MAKSIM said:

Lose Control being top 10 after 70 weeks is literally musical terrorism. 

I was really hoping the Christmas songs would knock it into recurrent, but alas  either way, that's a 37 point lead on ABS, let's hope that lead stays steady and/or grows this week  

Oh it's getting serious!

 

Her 6th #1 is on the way 

22 minutes ago, kwek_kwek said:

 

 

 

 

Is it true that if DWAS goes #1 this week it will have taken same amount of time as Just Dance to go #1? (22 weeks)

If Gaga gets the #1 next week, she'll have gotten a #1 during each of the last 4 US presidencies: 

• Bush: Just Dance (literally by a few days, it went #1 on 1/17/2009 and Obama's presidency started 1/20)
• Obama: Poker Face and Born This Way
• Dump: Shallow and Rain on Me
• Biden: Die with a Smile (also barely lol) 

Not only is she going #1 but she's staying there for a few weeks 

 

7 minutes ago, eclipsed said:

Is it true that if DWAS goes #1 this week it will have taken same amount of time as Just Dance to go #1? (22 weeks)

20 weeks. Shallow is also 22 weeks iirc

9 minutes ago, eclipsed said:

Is it true that if DWAS goes #1 this week it will have taken same amount of time as Just Dance to go #1? (22 weeks)

20 weeks