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Is “Play Date” by Melanie the biggest alt pop girl song of the 2020s?


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"Play Date" is a song by American singer-songwriter Melanie Martinez from the deluxe edition of her debut album, Cry Baby (2015). In April 2020, the song gained popularity due to its use in an edit of actor Timothée Chalametwhich led to its widespread use on the video-sharing app TikTok, receiving over 1.9 billion views for the month.[1] On May 1, 2020, the song was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for selling over 500,000 units in the United States. It was then certified Platinum on December 9, 2020

 

 

With the amount of streams it has now, which would equate it to being 2xP or more, do you think any other alt pop girl has a bigger song than Play Date? 

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Is it not about 8 years too early to be having this conversation 

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Who and who?

 

:rip:

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:biblio:

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47 minutes ago, Sweet Sexy Savage said:

the song gained popularity due to its use in an edit of actor Timothée Chalamet

Science is advancing so quickly now. How did they edit him and what changes did they make?

OT - I'm not sure how they count streams on TikTok, so I've no idea what this means

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yup was very surprised to see its Spotify streams

tiktok did wonders for this song and it wasn't a fad on tiktok like most payola'd songs

 

this song really paved the way for songs to blowup on tiktok and chart afterwards

 

the whole album is amazing though

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5 minutes ago, Letemtalk said:

Science is advancing so quickly now. How did the edit him and what changes did they make?

OT - I'm not sure how they count streams on TikTok, so I've no idea what this means

I’m not on tik tok, but this sound was used frequently on the app because of timothy stans 

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6 minutes ago, Mrnoniee said:

yup was very surprised to see its Spotify streams

tiktok did wonders for this song and it wasn't a fad on tiktok like most payola'd songs

 

this song really paved the way for songs to blowup on tiktok and chart afterwards

 

the whole album is amazing though

All of this!! I don’t think the girls here realize that Play Date was the first song to blow up and to be carried by the platform, which is why all these other girls started re releasing their old singles and making sped up versions that cater to tik tok 

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not sure, but cry baby's success is underrated.

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yes i fear :-*

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Biggest no? As other songs have blown up bigger. But it was one of the early songs that started the Tiktok trends. Cry baby was a good debut concept album, I wish K-12 got more attention. Those songs would be massive on Tiktok right now

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13 hours ago, Sweet Sexy Savage said:

I’m not on tik tok, but this sound was used frequently on the app because of timothy stans 

I saw many other popular edits of various actors and not just him

there was a super popular one with Angelina Jolie too, or perhaps it was only in this side of the world.

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Undoubtedly one of, along with the rest of that album. Cry Baby made waves. Melanie is a main alt girl.

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