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

[swissman]

We only have to look at the first page to see who was saying what.

 

Of the 25 posts on the first page:

• 13 are outright negative (more than half)
  • 9 explicitly name Stupid Love or Chromatica in an effort to belittle BREAK MY SOUL.
    • This is over 1/3 of all posts
• 5 posts were rebuttals/comments addressing the Stupid Love comparisons
  • 4 were direct quotes
  • The one that wasn't was aimed at the Monsters and took at shot at Stupid Love's promotion 
• 3 posts were positive
• 2 posts were ambiguous of its intent
• 1 post (the first after the OP) was neutral (sharing the numbers)
• 1 post was the OP

 

TOTAL

Negative : 52%

[and making comparisons to Gaga: 36%)

Positive: 12%

Rebuttal: 20%

Ambiguous: 8%

Neutral + OP: 8%

 

 

 

We could endlessly discuss who did what, when, where, how, to whom and why but as far THIS conversation goes and the reaction to THIS song's Spotify numbers in THIS thread, we know pretty clearly how the conversation went and where it was led from. Almost 50 pages later, not even 48-hours later, clearly there is an issue.

 

Edited June 24, 2022 by swissman

[zzmyth]

39 minutes ago, period sis said:

extremely stable which is a very good sign!

Well that's not true. Stable means not losing positions or streams from day to day... And going from 5.1M to 3.7M in 2 days is not stable. You mean they are still good numbers. And that is true, but it's not stable

[Kool_Aid_King]

The self proclaimed "Cocky little monsters" now playing victim? Who's surprised? Imagine hating on the QUEEN! Couldn't be me. 

 

Stable on Spotify, always her weakest market. And I can't wait for the jump once the video drops  

[swissman]

4 minutes ago, zzmyth said:

Well that's not true. Stable means not losing positions or streams from day to day... And going from 5.1M to 3.7M in 2 days is not stable. You mean they are still good numbers. And that is true, but it's not stable

But if it's "still good numbers" doesn't that imply a sense of stability?

[Star dance]

5 minutes ago, swissman said:

But if it's "still good numbers" doesn't that imply a sense of stability?

well, i tend to say no. stability is more about the the trend, regardless if it is good or bad in absolute terms.

you can say tough that a song is having great or good stability considering it had a big debut but it is not stable because it is falling. if a song is decreasing by less than yesterday and the trend seem to be getting better you can see it is stablizing which will probably true for beyonce in unkown extant bynext week.

 

however if a song will do 20 million on day 1 and 8 million on day 2 it is not a stable song even if the second day resutls are great(not compreing it to beyonce which had vastly smaller decrease but it's to show a point)

[swissman]

11 minutes ago, Star dance said:

well, i tend to say no. stability is more about the the trend, regardless if it is good or bad in absolute terms.

you can say tough that a song is having great or good stability considering it had a big debut but it is not stable because it is falling. if a song is decreasing by less than yesterday and the trend seem to be getting better you can see it is stablizing which will probably true for beyonce in unkown extant bynext week.

 

however if a song will do 20 million on day 1 and 8 million on day 2 it is not a stable song even if the second day resutls are great(not compreing it to beyonce which had vastly smaller decrease but it's to show a point)

ya I can for sure see that point of view.

 

I guess it's just two ways of looking at it:

1. stable in the sense of maintaining its numbers
2. stable in the sense of maintaining its general placement (like not leaving the Top Ten/Five, etc., or not dropping 20 positions or something)

 

the first is more literally accurate though.

 

 

Edited June 24, 2022 by swissman

[Bey'Knight]

Thank goodness for the mod message. It was impossible to analyse the numbers here in what is supposed to be an exciting time for Beyhive because we are constantly stuck in combat mode. 
 

Can mods please also ban than don quizote user from Beyoncé threads? All they do is post the laugh emoji out of context. It’s futile to block a troll when everyone else feels the need to quote them anyway. 

[swissman]

2 minutes ago, Bey'Knight said:

Thank goodness for the mod message. It was impossible to analyse the numbers here in what is supposed to be an exciting time for Beyhive because we are constantly stuck in combat mode. 
 

Can mods please also ban than don quizote user from Beyoncé threads? All they do is post the laugh emoji out of context. It’s futile to block a troll when everyone else feels the need to quote them anyway. 

this!

 

not to police posting so much if you automatically know the response/content of any post just by seeing the avatar associated to it, you know it's a trolling hater. users like that don't even try to hide it, just negativity, trolling and flamebait as a baseline on certain topics.

[Rotunda]

33 minutes ago, zzmyth said:

Well that's not true. Stable means not losing positions or streams from day to day... And going from 5.1M to 3.7M in 2 days is not stable. You mean they are still good numbers. And that is true, but it's not stable

I mean charts are relative, so she's stable in regards to her position vs. other songs on the chart. 

 

Songs will generally have bigger Day 1 numbers than Day 2 or Day 3 numbers because engaged music fans will rush to listen to it on Day 1. Then on Day 2 or Day 3 those who like the song will return while those who didn't like it won't. Later on the numbers can rise or fall depending on how well the song spreads via word of mouth, radio, trends, viral videos, etc. 

 

Obviously this being a mid-week release complicates things, because her "competition" technically released either 3 days before her or 3 days after her, which does skew some of the comparisons, but we'll get a better sense of her hold in a few days once the "newness" of her release and today's releases wear off. 

[mxoonlight]

Y’all are insane. There’s truly no other framing or phrasing of it.

Glad to see the song is doing well though.

[duybeeGAshantiGA]

44 minutes ago, swissman said:

We only have to look at the first page to see who was saying what.

 

Of the 25 posts on the first page:

• 13 are outright negative (more than half)
  • 9 explicitly name Stupid Love or Chromatica in an effort to belittle BREAK MY SOUL.
    • This is over 1/3 of all posts
• 5 posts were rebuttals/comments addressing the Stupid Love comparisons
  • 4 were direct quotes
  • The one that wasn't was aimed at the Monsters and took at shot at Stupid Love's promotion 
• 3 posts were positive
• 2 posts were ambiguous of its intent
• 1 post (the first after the OP) was neutral (sharing the numbers)
• 1 post was the OP

 

TOTAL

Negative : 52%

[and making comparisons to Gaga: 36%)

Positive: 12%

Rebuttal: 20%

Ambiguous: 8%

Neutral + OP: 8%

 

 

 

We could endlessly discuss who did what, when, where, how, to whom and why but as far THIS conversation goes and the reaction to THIS song's Spotify numbers in THIS thread, we know pretty clearly how the conversation went and where it was led from. Almost 50 pages later, not even 48-hours later, clearly there is an issue.

 

The dedication

[Bey'Knight]

9 minutes ago, swissman said:

this!

 

not to police posting so much if you automatically know the response/content of any post just by seeing the avatar associated to it, you know it's a trolling hater. users like that don't even try to hide it, just negativity, trolling and flamebait as a baseline on certain topics.

The tone was set the moment they desecrated all over the first page. So full of menace. @khalyanwhats the procedure for requesting a user to be threadbanned. Can we get rid of don quizote once and for all? 

[swissman]

19 minutes ago, duybeeGAshantiGA said:

The dedication

Yes, I can count.

[ChrisTheLoner]

The mess in this thread 

 

ot: This is doing great on spotify and doing stable numbers 

[LesFleur]

 

The banners 

 

Mods gathering

[Bloodflowers.]

Screaming at @Juanny's pinned message  GET THEM SIS!!!!

[Mohit]

extremely stable which is a very good sign 

[KeirGrey]

Is there a breakdown of individual countries 

[genio]

I'm so mad she didn't release the mv today  the boost (with the additional NMF playlists) it could've gotten...

 

Anyways, this seems to be pretty stable. The world is STANNING for this summery house banger  

[hallucinate]

the banners 

[Comedor]

Took mods long enough. But at least this will be a good learning experience for future singles. We can’t have **** stans terrorizing threads. 

 

AND ANOTHER GOOD UPDATE for BMS. We need Beyonce to do some promo rounds though. MV and tour announcement would do wonders. 

Edited June 24, 2022 by Comedor

[October Symphony]

17 minutes ago, LesFleur said:

 

The banners 

 

Mods gathering

 

[LesFleur]

4 minutes ago, October Symphony said:

 

And on the same day Ms Local Giselle gets 3 new UK certifications.

 

I know the gorls are pressed

 

World Wide Woman...W W W

 

 

https://atrl.net/forums/topic/405635-beyoncés-new-uk-certifications-lot-2x-plat-bonnieclyde-gold-eil-sil/

[October Symphony]

21 minutes ago, LesFleur said:

And on the same day Ms Local Giselle gets 3 new UK certifications.

 

I know the gorls are pressed

 

World Wide Woman...W W W

 

 

https://atrl.net/forums/topic/405635-beyoncés-new-uk-certifications-lot-2x-plat-bonnieclyde-gold-eil-sil/

But, but?!! Beyoncé influenced by chromatica!!!???

 

 

 

[khalyan]

1 hour ago, Bey'Knight said:

The tone was set the moment they desecrated all over the first page. So full of menace. @khalyanwhats the procedure for requesting a user to be threadbanned. Can we get rid of don quizote once and for all? 

There is no procedure for requesting a user to be thread banned.  
 

It’s based on the number of reports in a thread and typically is only used if behavior does not change after a warning or two.  
 

The two members I thread banned I felt like was egregious enough to warrant it, but I didn’t think anyone else was.  We’ll keep an eye on this thread and address things as they come.