Genuinely surprised by how this is doing in a good way - it's a bop and deserves it!

Deserved smashing and I stanned it the day it dropped 

 

 

 

 

2 hours ago, Miichael said:

 

Again, a shocking turnaround. 
 

Lowkey play this nonstop after my coworkers kept bringing it up last week

8 hours ago, Flare said:

The turn around in this thread. I remember when I was 1 of like 5 people who thought this song would smash. 

 

Lizzo deserves though. This is how (and when!) you drop a “song of the summer” contender. Everything was aligned and once the GP was exposed to the track, they latched on (you can see that in the strong iTunes sales btw which SUPER rare nowadays even for smash streaming  songs). The radio updates aren’t even that strong which shows there’s no payola. 

 

An organic, feel good, summer bop for all ages 

Was with you all the way til the bolded lol. 

 

There's definite payola...it was just spent on TikTok rather than radio or streaming farms.. 

 

We've seen more than enough case studies of how the platform works and how it can "boom" a song if the right checks are cut to the top influencers. It doesn't always work, which is why I'll also agree that there is an organic element of sorts. 

 

It's not my fave Lizzo track, but it's cute and on a technical level it's boardroom baked to be a catchy ear-worm.

 

All it needed was exposure to a big audience and a little distance from "her",  as it really feels/felt like people were kinda over "her" around the time it dropped. "Catching on" ($$$) via an external source solved the problem and made her cool again sans her trying. 

 

Also, for me, the tell-tale sign of the payola was the fact she has announced a tour shortly after. The single tanking with an album and more importantly a major tour (which a lot of entities have a lot hanging on) just wasn't an option. This desperately needed to become a hit (because the opposite was looking catastrophic), so I can't digest the idea that it just "randomly" happened. 

 

ALL THAT SAID...

 

I'm here for it!

All these think pieces and conspiracy theories. Its a phenomenal song that caught on. Nothing more nothing less. 

Spotify | May 13th: 

• US:
  #25 (-20) 1,276,164 streams  (+12,444)
• Global:
  #21 (-13) 4,088,930 streams (+220,735)
• UK:
  #7 (-5) 437,532 streams (+24,611)
• Canada:
  #16 (-13)  streams 235,607 (+3,974)
  
  “About Damn Time” by Lizzo is the biggest gainer on Top Songs Mexico, up 26 spots at #76 with 224,332 streams (+57,328).

Edited May 15, 20224 yr by Nefertiti0

This is fighting for its life among these album bombs but still she will Rise.mp3

4M and not even Top 20

that would make her like top 2 without the album bombs

POP:
19 17 LIZZO About Damn Time 6621 5233 1388 18.352

+231 Spins
+95 Bullet
+0.808 Audience

HOT AC:
19 20 LIZZO About Damn Time 1625 1336 289 5.166

+33 Spins
-36 Bullet
+0.214 Audience

RHYTHMIC:
24 24 LIZZO About Damn Time 1688 1397 291 2.920

+39 Spins
+15 Bullet
+0.181 Audience

URBAN:
45 37 LIZZO About Damn Time 840 765 75 1.327

+35 Spins
+36 Bullet
+0.074 Audience

R&B:
23 20 LIZZO About Damn Time 648 571 77 2.409

+18 Spins
+2 Bullet
-0.032 Audience

 

 

 

WHAT A MULTI FORMAT SMASH

Harry Styles and Post Malone album bombs next

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#5 already

19 hours ago, QueenofCopyPaste said:

Harry Styles and Post Malone album bombs next

 

 

Surely harry won’t be as bad as these rap albums. 
 

also everything is aligning for Lizzo to have a no1 single + album combo. 

54 minutes ago, OnMyCoolJ said:

Surely harry won’t be as bad as these rap albums. 

Harry's 1st single was the most streamed song by male artist on Spotify, in the 1st day it had over 16M streams (almost 6M in the US) and it still had over 8M yesterday.

Spotify | May 14th: 

• US:
  #19 (+6) 1,197,138 streams  (-79,026)
• Global:
  #12 (+9) 3,897,593 streams  (-191,337)
• UK:
  #2 (+5) 441,683 streams  (+4,151)
• Canada:
  #7 (+9) 224,395 streams  (-11,212)

The second I heard the song I knew it was gonna be a hit, it's extremely summery and perfectly captures post-pandemic bliss. I was shocked when it flopped at first but time proved me right.

POP:
17 17 LIZZO About Damn Time 6921 5452 1469 19.550

+300 Spins
+81 Bullet
+1.198 Audience

HOT AC:
19 20 LIZZO About Damn Time 1669 1379 290 5.427

+44 Spins
+1 Bullet
+0.261 Audience

RHYTHMIC:
25 24 LIZZO About Damn Time 1760 1413 347 3.054

+72 Spins
+56 Bullet
+0.134 Audience

URBAN:
43 37 LIZZO About Damn Time 853 777 76 1.365

+13 Spins
+1 Bullet
+0.038 Audience

R&B:
23 19 LIZZO About Damn Time 674 583 91 2.559

+26 Spins
+14 Bullet
+0.150 Audience

 

 

She's REALLY REALLY coming

 

 

1 hour ago, Nefertiti0 said:

Harry's 1st single was the most streamed song by male artist on Spotify, in the 1st day it had over 16M streams (almost 6M in the US) and it still had over 8M yesterday.

That doesn’t mean he will be as annoying as these rapper albums. 

COMMMMEEEEEE ONNNN LIZZZOOOO LEEETS GOO

On 5/13/2022 at 7:33 AM, Post Malone said:

I didn't like it back in the 1st week but now that I saw it's doing NUMBERS it's suddenly SOTY 

This is going #1 in a month from now

On 5/14/2022 at 9:02 AM, dangerousbutera said:

This is fighting for its life among these album bombs but still she will Rise.mp3

Harry Styles up next I think it’ll still anchor down and smash throughout Summer tho. The song is fine. 

3 hours ago, OnMyCoolJ said:

Surely harry won’t be as bad as these rap albums. 
 

also everything is aligning for Lizzo to have a no1 single + album combo. 

Did you not see what Fine Line did to the Top 10/20 on Spotify when it dropped with this album being expected to be even bigger

Overall Radio: #29 (+3) Audience: 33.15 (+1.84)

TikTok: 1,277.9m (+327.3k)

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