1 hour ago, M.R. said:

This song is one of the biggest examples of payola. The amount of money they threw at radio and TikTok over something as insipid as this is insane.

Not everything is about payola

 

its doing well in Digital Sales as well

 

Lizzo just appeals to a wide demo

 

 

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Gay Pride is coming. ITS ABOUT DAMN TIME!

1 hour ago, M.R. said:

This song is one of the biggest examples of payola. The amount of money they threw at radio and TikTok over something as insipid as this is insane.

even if it is...so what?

 

1 hour ago, M.R. said:

This song is one of the biggest examples of payola. The amount of money they threw at radio and TikTok over something as insipid as this is insane.

Y'all call everything and anything payola 

iTunes: #4 United States (+1)

Spotify: #7 (+10)

Apple Music: #54 (+36)

Radio: Lizzo - "About Damn Time" 20.51 (+1.52) 

 

this is looking like a proper smash

17 minutes ago, MALAMENTE said:

Y'all call everything and anything payola 

I stan Lizzo and even for me this is obvious  the song was deep dead until randomly it started smashing and it's not even that big on tiktok  but good for her, if this didn't pick up at all it'd have been over for her commercial career probably

You can’t payola a song to the top of Spotify. Isn’t its playlisting piss poor too?
 

Glad the song is responding well to promo! Something is clicking with the GP, as it should. 

Edited May 2, 20224 yr by Clarksonator

I'm so happy that she's on the verge of getting another smash. So many people wrote her off as a 2 hit wonder and look at her now.

28 minutes ago, Clarksonator said:

You can’t payola a song to the top of Spotify. Isn’t its playlisting piss poor too?
 

Glad the song is responding well to promo! Something is clicking with GP, as it should. 

I think with Rumors it all came down to the song choice. With this smashing I hope they realize we don't want any Rumor-esque edgy type songs, the GP said we want feel good bops.  

 

As someone said, her voice + these type of songs make her appeal to a wide range of people. As long as she brings the good material, I think she will be successful.  

1 hour ago, Jared said:

I think with Rumors it all came down to the song choice. With this smashing I hope they realize we don't want any Rumor-esque edgy type songs, the GP said we want feel good bops.  

 

As someone said, her voice + these type of songs make her appeal to a wide range of people. As long as she brings the good material, I think she will be successful.  

And that someone was ME. 
 

Lizzo’s brand is feel god bops, funky, and the occasional power-ballad. Lizzo is a bit edgy which makes her pop songs good, but rumors was way too edgy (and Cardi was a contributor to that). 

 

Also, this ain’t payola. Lizzo has like no play-listing on Spotify. That’s the opposite of Payola and it’s just doing okay on Tiktok. I think this isn’t even that amazing of a growth to be considered payola anyways. Y’all acting like it’s doing 1m in the US alone out of the blue. 

Edited May 2, 20224 yr by Flare

This song is everywhere on TikTok, not surprised it’s smashing

3 hours ago, halcyonday said:

I stan Lizzo and even for me this is obvious  the song was deep dead until randomly it started smashing and it's not even that big on tiktok  but good for her, if this didn't pick up at all it'd have been over for her commercial career probably

You can't force people to stream a song. Maybe they payed for Tik Tok ads which gave the song exposure and people began to know lizo had a new song out , they streamed, they liked it and they streamed again. That ain't payola.

Many people don't even follow release days... It's only Stans.

3 hours ago, Flare said:

 

Also, this ain’t payola. Lizzo has like no play-listing on Spotify. That’s the opposite of Payola and it’s just doing okay on Tiktok. I think this isn’t even that amazing of a growth to be considered payola anyways. Y’all acting like it’s doing 1m in the US alone out of the blue. 

It gained 600k streams in 2 days bc of a handful of tiktoks. That doesn’t mean it’s payola but you can’t say ‘that it looks completely normal, how could anyone ever think that is strange?!’

 

Spotify US

4/26: #115 (272,000)

4/1: #7 (644,000) - would be #4 without future album bomb

 

I mean come on….. you can’t deny that It is out of the blue. However, they aren’t buying streams so whatever promo they did on TikTok (which we have no proof if they even did) worked and that’s great! Ain’t nothing wrong with promoting your work. It’s quite literally her labels job 

 

Edited May 2, 20224 yr by Khamis

it's catchy as hell. I can't stop listening to it since this friday.

 

80s funky is still alive and well it seems. I thought it died like 4 years ago.

I’m impressed. It’s really catching on like wildfire. On TikTok, the sound was at 32k this morning when I woke up (9 am) and it’s at 47k right now.  
 

Basically 15k new video with the sound in 10 hours.

The harmonies in the 2nd part of the chorus  Just when ATRL was so happy she was over she gets this smash  And the fact that Max Martin is all over the album

The song just needed exposure, don't be so dramatic y'all  

Billboard Hot 100: #60 (-10)
Global 200: #133 (-74)

May 2nd: 

• US Spotify:
  #7 (-)  781,749 streams   (+137,877)
• Global:
  #33 (+14)  1,735,191 streams   (+358,741)
• UK:
  #9 (+5)  181,292 streams   (+26,266)
• Canada:
  #5 (+1)  126,136 streams  (+16,977)

Edited May 3, 20224 yr by Nefertiti0

The sudden turnaround for this song.

everyone realised it was excellent 

16 hours ago, Popboi. said:

The song just needed exposure, don't be so dramatic y'all  

Exactly, and its this new thing that ANNOYS tf out of me that songs are expected to both reach the masses and PEAK in their first week of release?

 

WTF is that **** about? 

 

Anyway, this!

 

 

 

 OH SHE'S COMING!

 

far from a local hit 

6 hours ago, 99sandthe2000s said:

 

far from a local hit 

It just sounds like a summer hit for the GP. Idk why y’all don’t see it. If Bruno Mars can use this lane then, Lizzo deserves a shot 

May 3rd: 

• US Spotify:
  #5 (+2) 891,662  streams (+109,913)
• Global:
  #21 (+12)  2,057,793 streams (+322,602)
• UK:
  #6 (+3) 228,074  streams (+46,782)
• Canada:
  #5 (-)  228,074 streams (+20,864)
   

  • Australia
  #6 (+2) — 126,121 streams

  • Austria
  #81 (+31) — 7,658 streams

  • Belgium
  #83 (+33) — 11,483 streams

  • Czech Republic
  #105 (+64) — 7,313 streams

  • Denmark
  #47 (+4) — 21,353 streams

  • Estonia
  #27 (+23) — 1,635 streams

  • Finland
  #73 (+22) — 9,980 streams

  • Hungary
  #51 (+37) — 6,565 streams

  • Ireland
  #4 (+6) — 31,630 streams

  • Israel
  #107 (+13) — 4,887 streams

  • Iceland
  #27 (+15) — 1,830 streams

  • South Korea
  #88 (+26) — 2,833 streams

  • Lithuania
  #41 (+18) — 2,096 streams

  • Latvia
  #24 (+5) — 2,096 streams

  • Netherlands
  #74 (+15) — 40,079 streams

  • Norway
  #50 (+4) — 26,479 streams

  • New Zealand
  #5 (+2) — 23,062 streams

  • Portugal
  #157 (new) — 7,068 streams

  • Romania
  #194 (new) — 2,947 streams

  • Sweden
  #56 (+42) — 33,602 streams

  • Singapore
  #178 (new) — 5,702 streams

  • Slovakia
  #90 (+67) — 2,839 streams

  • Switzerland
  #95 (+46) — 8,369 streams

  • United Arab Emirates
  #112 (+63) — 1,616 streams

  • South Africa
  #57 (+74) — 5,480 streams

Edited May 4, 20224 yr by Nefertiti0