He used to be a huge force with 3 Top 10 hits in a row, Stay With Me - I'm Noy The Only One - Lay Me Down

2 of them have surpassed 1,2 B in Spotify

 

Then he still managed to score hits post his debut era, with Too Good At Goodbyes, Promises, Dancing with A Stranger, and How Do You Sleep? 

 

Then they released Love Goes and suddenly they quickly fade

What is the reason?

No Normani No Hits. 

His personality and too camp/feminine for the GP also lyrics are dreadful 

the lack of appropriate pronoun use in here including OP 

 

anyways, the last single was absolutely terrible and basic, simple as that. 

They don't have the cool factor that most artists have 

Edited June 3, 20224 yr by Somi

Nobody cares for him and pop music can only be a hit for certain people 

He tried to clown Michael Jackson’s artistry and it backfired. 

Their voice is annoying my god I can’t stand that falsetto anymore 

Are y’all misgendering them on purpose or did Sam start using such pronouns again? 

 

anyway, maybe Sam’s music fell out of touch with the gp 

Edited June 3, 20224 yr by Zeferino

He’s not doing that bad his last era did just fine.

 

 Sure his new single bomb hard but that’s because it’s terrible. He knows the GP wants BOPS & he’s clearly playing games.

 

 I’m totally sure he will have another hit. How can you say he faded when he had  a HIT SINGLE with every single ERA!!!

 

 Make it make sense

Edited June 3, 20224 yr by Power love

Music is not that good, disposable and generic with no replay value

No talent + bad music + diva behavior. And those few “hits” were extremely faceless. Probably heavily pushed by payola.

 

They got lucky Normani gave them a hit in 2019 

Fade from where?

 

sam has sold 8M albums in the USA alone with all three albums certified platinum or more , 33M WW and like @Power love just said, an hit will come, y’all make these thread every year they always come with the smashes. ?

3 minutes ago, magazine said:

They got lucky Normani gave them a hit in 2019 

No that would be The another way around with your flop fave and his Bam Bam global smashing ex 

Edited June 3, 20224 yr by Yog

Sam kinda lost their spark after the debut, and the mainstream landscape has changed a lot from when they debuted. Not sure if it's quality decline, because I haven't their albums except the first one, which I really enjoy. Although their last single is so bland and boring that ugh. I feel GP moved on from him, they were really interested on Sam in 2014-2015, but I guess their following wasn't too strong.

Edited June 3, 20224 yr by Ger-55

Them lost them spark 

4 minutes ago, Ger-55 said:

Sam kinda lost their spark after the debut, and the mainstream landscape has changed a lot from when they debuted. Not sure if it's quality decline, because I haven't their albums except the first one, which I really enjoy. Although their last single is so bland and boring that ugh. I feel GP moved on from him, they were really interested on Sam in 2014-2015, but I guess their following wasn't too strong.

Lost their spark after their debut huh? So we’re gonna pretend they were weren’t receiving hits & smashes for the past 7 years, post “In The Lonely Hour”, come on now? Stop being ridiculous, not to mention their consistent album consumption ?

They're in their 4th album curse so it is expected for Sam to be currently flopping

hasn't released a good song since Diamonds

Just now, Mr. Blue_Shirt said:

They're in their 4th album curse so it is expected for Sam to be currently flopping

based on one stand-alone single that wasn’t play-listed at all, Sam has an commercial heavy single coming later this summer and I’m sure capitol will put effort into, this ain’t over

 

Sam is also jumping on Cat Burns Go remix that’s already massive hype on TikTok.

25 minutes ago, AintNoOtherMe said:

Them lost them spark 

so funny 

It's ******* pride month and y'all acting like bigots in here.  ZTP imho.

 

They're on Capitol lol, that's your answer. Look at how badly they have mishandled Katy and Halsey in recent years. "Diamonds" was an immaculate bop though.

No one cares anymore. 

53 minutes ago, magazine said:

They got lucky Normani gave them a hit in 2019 

that she herself couldn't get? 

 

OT:

they started to appeal more queer and the gp is turned off by that, from Too Good at Goodbyes up until How Do I Sleep at least the songs were good so these songs still become hit but would've been bigger if they were still more masc like debut era (like imagine if Ed Sheeran or The Weeknd releasing songs like How Do I Sleep it would be instant smash)

 

post Love Goes singles are awful so that didn't help

I admit I haven't listened to their music since Dancing with a Stranger