charts discussion Spotify: Beyoncé's "BREAK MY SOUL" #42 (+1) 1.66M WW, #35 (-6) 447k US [Day 63]

[swissman]

it's just hilarious that for years certain people on ATRL have sworn that Beyoncé is not a streaming force, is "over", is a "flop". They've clung to side projects like EIL and TG over and over to point to whatever narrative they wanted to claim about her career, even saying Homecoming, one of the most successful and famous live albums of the entire century was a flop...

 

...only for them to come in here now and see that she got the highest first day streams of a female artist this year and call this an "underperformance".

[Blue G]

9 hours ago, BnPac said:

I told you in order to close that conversation, if it can help you think Bey is a flop, go right ahead. 

 

OT : great numbers for The Queen. 

 

Yep, we're getting a new solo era.

I already said I will and you keep going. 

 

OT: not even top 5 anymore

[Blue G]

1 minute ago, swissman said:

it's just hilarious that for years certain people on ATRL have sworn that Beyoncé is not a streaming force, is "over", is a "flop". They've clung to side projects like EIL and TG over and over to point to whatever narrative they wanted to claim about her career, even saying Homecoming, one of the most successful and famous live albums of the entire century was a flop...

 

...only for them to come in here now and see that she got the highest first day streams of a female artist this year and call this an "underperformance".

Name the female artists that dropped project this year. 

[Blue G]

12 minutes ago, bringdanoize said:

Yes, and monsters admit it but the other fanbase can’t admit it trying to push the narrative that BMS is a smash.

 

OT: better that I thought but still an underperformance

Exactly. 

[Machete]

This thread is a mess and has misinformation on both sides.

 

I saw someone boldly lie that Spotify is less harsh on filtering now, going from max 10 to max 20, when that is the complete OPPOSITE. It’s max 10 now when it used to be max 20…

 

Both women are smashing, getting awards and acclaimed. There is no need to compare from a negative aspect! 

[*-ChriZ-*]

2 minutes ago, Blue G said:

I already said I will and you keep going. 

 

OT: not even top 5 anymore

But what is ur goal then? What do you want to achieve? Im genuinely curious? 

[BILLIONAIRE✘BOY]

Just now, Machete said:

This thread is a mess and has misinformation on both sides.

 

I saw someone boldly lie that Spotify is less harsh on filtering now, going from max 10 to max 20, when that is the complete OPPOSITE. It’s max 10 now when it used to be max 20…

 

Both women are smashing, getting awards and acclaimed. There is no need to compare from a negative aspect! 

This lol 

[Chika]

Not this being an 'underperformance'  What exactly were you expecting from a late 90s RNB act who just released a retro, house club banger on a Tuesday with her only promotion being an instagram bio change the day before  The OBHs are truly delusional 

 

OT: Incredible stability, which is a very good sign

[Pheromosa]

2 minutes ago, Machete said:

Both women are smashing,

Just Bey. 

[BnPac]

5 minutes ago, Blue G said:

I already said I will and you keep going. 

 

OT: not even top 5 anymore

I wasn't going anywhere, I just say I was happy for you.

Clearly it didn't give you closure because you're still here quoting me. 

 

[abeille]

Day 2:

Break My Soul:

#3 US (1,590,862) 

#7 WW (4,347,114) 

#3 UK (479,355) 

 

Stupid Love

#8 US (1,163,635)

#16 WW (3,604,833)

#14 UK (260,263)

 

IT'S OVER. BMH won!

[bijonse]

break my soul rising omg 

[swissman]

1 minute ago, Blue G said:

Name the female artists that dropped project this year. 

Female artists that dropped new music on Spotify this year:

• Lizzo
• Taylor Swift
• Christina Aguilera
• Mary J. Blige
• Avril Lavigne
• Charli XCX
• Rosalia
• Anitta
• Kehlani
• and more...as I don't have a master list of all releases...

...maybe it's not the year of the biggest releases ever but it's not like no one of any substance released new music.

 

The fact still remains that Beyoncé still got the biggest debut first day numbers on Spotify for a female artist so far this year. The above list still contains several hyped, popular and successful artists, stars in their own right, and several peers of Beyoncé's generation.

[abeille]

New peaks in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark and more the stability!

[BnPac]

26 minutes ago, bringdanoize said:

Yes, and monsters admit it but the other fanbase can’t admit it trying to push the narrative that BMS is a smash.

 

OT: better that I thought but still an underperformance

Nobody pushed a narrative that BMS is a smash. Where have you seen this? We are content with the song's performance. 

And even if we thought it was a smash, what the hell do you care? 

[swissman]

7 minutes ago, BnPac said:

Nobody pushed a narrative that BMS is a smash. Where have you seen this? We are content with the song's performance. 

And even if we thought it was a smash, what the hell do you care? 

right like it's literally been 3 days since it was released (if we could Monday as one day), we've gotten 2 days of Spotify numbers, no one is really calling it a smash here let alone going out to other threads to say so... 

 

...the fact that people are imagining this scenario just to take offence and feel justified in trying to belittle these numbers says a lot about the insecurity and/or outright hate of Beyoncé.

 

and any comparisons to any other hit is squarely due to the fact that people are coming HERE to compare songs not mentioned in the title to the one that is.

 

Edited June 23, 2022 by swissman

[swissman]

I hope ATRL will one day learn that the success or failure of other artists has no bearing on the success or failure or overall estimation of your fave. Focus on what they achieve, what they do, what they offer the world insofar as their music and message. Do not focus on other artists you perceive are rivals or threats to your fave's stature who (most of the time) don't even have the same brand or fulfil the same reasons why fans enjoy their music.

 

As it relates to this thread, in what seems to largely be a discussion about Gaga and Beyoncé despite this being a Beyoncé thread...

 

They are too very different artists. The similarities start and end with they make empowering pop music. Their brands are different. They do different things. They make music in different ways. I'm not sure I'd say that they each do things the other couldn't do (per se), but each does things in a way that the other does not. Either could have had a 10-week smash in the last 2 years and neither would have been any less important, beloved, respected, or unique in pop music.

 

Give it up.

[Mirrorcle]

40 minutes ago, bringdanoize said:

Yes, and monsters admit it but the other fanbase can’t admit it trying to push the narrative that BMS is a smash.

 

OT: better that I thought but still an underperformance

Some monsters also thought SL was gonna become a global smash and got brave only for it to tank after the debut week.

[BnPac]

13 minutes ago, swissman said:

right like it's literally been 3 days since it was released (if we could Monday as one day), we've gotten 2 days of Spotify numbers, no one is really calling it a smash here let alone going out to other threads to say so... 

!!! 

 

We had the first Spotify's numbers 15 hours ago and before a single Hive member even entered the thread, he was met with such posts 

 

17 hours ago, Chaos Angel said:

Stupid Love sized

 

17 hours ago, Pop said:

6 whole years of hype only to debut with Stupid Love numbers

 

17 hours ago, McNulty said:

Spotify probably delayed releasing the charts because they were laughing at these flop numbers

 

17 hours ago, AlexStexaul said:

not her debuting at #2 on US spotify ,  same as Stupid Love 

also similar WW numbers 

 

17 hours ago, CovalentBondage said:

Its the people predicting 10m for me 

 

17 hours ago, Mitchell said:

This really is her Chromatica isn’t it 

 

17 hours ago, Dephira said:

Congrats on the highest numbers it is ever going to make

 

17 hours ago, Ricky Wilson said:

OMG not Stupid Love numbers  

 

All that P4K payola for this?  

 

17 hours ago, Ricky Wilson said:

OMG  

 

17 hours ago, NausAllien said:

Around the same as "Stupid Love" 

 

Beyoncé clearly wanted her own Chromatica era, which will perform as well as Gaga's did 

 

 

17 hours ago, CovalentBondage said:

SL sized smasha

 

17 hours ago, Ricky Wilson said:

Fake hype / bought hype lbr  

I only stopped on the 1st page although they're basically the only reason this thread went 37 pages. 

 

No one said the song was a smash, we didn't even get the occasion to celebrate, they were all here. 

We also didn't compare it to that song they now call a TANK, they were the first to bring that up. 

 

To get angry because people reply to a comparison THEY started to prove them wrong is a special brand of mental illness. 

 

To get angry because some fans celebrate the numbers their fave did (which they didn't even let us do) is a level of insecurity that borders on insanity. 

 

OT : Great hold Queen. 

Edited June 23, 2022 by BnPac

[Erotic]

But we need the Hive to ignore the Liddos and stream the song 

[Breathe On Moi]

30 minutes ago, Pheromosa said:

Just Bey. 

 not you crushing his dreams like that chile.

 

Oh? I hear it’s rising? I hear it’s stable? I hear some cracking and shambles? 

[swissman]

5 minutes ago, BnPac said:

!!! 

 

We had the first Spotify's numbers 15 hours ago and before a single Hive member even entered the thread, he was met with such posts 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I only stopped on the 1st page although they're basically the only reason this thread went 37 pages. 

 

No one said the song was a smash, we didn't even get the occasion to celebrate, they were all here. 

We also didn't compare it to that song they now call a TANK, they were the first to bring that up. 

 

To get angry because people reply to a comparison THEY started to prove them wrong is a special brand of mental illness. 

 

To get angry because some fans celebrate the numbers their fave did (which they didn't even let us do) is a level of insecurity that borders on insanity. 

 

OT : Great hold Queen. 

I think the most annoying part is trying to ruin OUR moment, OUR fun, OUR fave's numbers just to make themselves feel better? I'm not sure what the motive is...

 

though I imagine that's an ATRL-wide thing, I just don't spend much time at all in other artist's stat threads like...why?

 

Edited June 23, 2022 by swissman

[Squall]

29 minutes ago, swissman said:

Female artists that dropped new music on Spotify this year:

• Lizzo
• Taylor Swift
• Christina Aguilera
• Mary J. Blige
• Avril Lavigne
• Charli XCX
• Rosalia
• Anitta
• Kehlani
• and more...as I don't have a master list of all releases...

With a 2014 album track, quite weird to name Taylor like she dropped actual new music 

 

OT: She's doing good so far honestly

[PrudenceHCharmed]

5 hours ago, MrLovett said:

Did it?

 

Spotify Global (First Day)

• Beyoncé - Break My Soul 5,145,450
• Kendrick Lamar - The Heart Part 5 5,012,575
• The Weeknd - Take My Breath 4,861,544
• Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits 4,719,958
• Post Malone and The Weeknd - One Right Now 4,252,161
• Silk Sonic - Leave the Door Open 3,818,882
• Doja Cat - Kiss Me More (feat. SZA) 3,538,440
• Post Malone - Cooped Up (feat.Roddy Ricch) 3,080,803
• Lizzo - Rumors (feat. Cardi B) 2,916,657
• Megan Thee Stallion - Sweetest Pie (feat. Dua Lipa) 2,431,789

 

Looks like a pretty big smash to me. Particularly for a song released midweek with 4 hours missing from the tracking day.

 

B with strings of flop side projects whose last hit was 2009 outdid Ed, Weekend and Kendrick.

[PrudenceHCharmed]

39 pages  what will happen on July 29th?