charts discussion Billboard: "Lift Me Up" 27k sales in 3 days; 15 million on-demand streams

[Paola Bracho]

4 minutes ago, Machete said:

The label buying sales could not be more obvious 

Spent like 3 days #1 on iTunes (and those days were NOT even its debut day) and is already down to #3 but we supposed to believe its sold 27K so far legitimately? 

Label buying sales, yt views, paying the radio and now I feel like those 8 mill debut streams are fake as well!!!

[Isaiah]

I have no knock against the song but this is giving black-market tease, cause how did this allegedly outsell anti-hero’s entire first-week in a single-day without even topping iTunes 

[GoodGuyGoneGhetto]

12 minutes ago, Machete said:

The label buying sales could not be more obvious 

Spent like 3 days #1 on iTunes (and those days were NOT even its debut day) and is already down to #3 but we supposed to believe its sold 27K so far legitimately? 

So now her label is purchasing the song?

 

 

 

[GoodGuyGoneGhetto]

5 minutes ago, Paola Bracho said:

Label buying sales, yt views, paying the radio and now I feel like those 8 mill debut streams are fake as well!!!

Like…

 

 

The absolute MELTDOWNS and for what?

[wildthaughts]

The BTS member blocking her on iTunes doesn’t mean that she didn’t sell good on the release day, what’s not clicking?

[GoodGuyGoneGhetto]

1 minute ago, wildthaughts said:

The BTS member blocking her on iTunes doesn’t mean that she didn’t sell good on the release day, what’s not clicking?

Exactly! 

[Deemy]

I believe it. I bought 20 copies today alone ???. 

[LoveInStereo]

You guys claiming it’s a conspiracy that the label/Disney is mass-buying the song when Samsung bought 1 million copies of her last album. Who are we kidding? This is exactly the kind of thing I expect from her

[Paola Bracho]

It's getting more and more entertaining in here!

 

 

[Drayb]

28 minutes ago, Limitless said:

If she takes #1, ATRL’s servers will COLLAPSE

I'm here for this 

[WEEKND]

Ugh all this nonsense 

 

 

all she gotta do is release a bop like this 

 

 

and smash 

[By the Water]

I just saw 16k of that was in its first day. It's totally plausible that the BTS song sold 20k+ first day.

 

The streams though  8m first day and 6.6m for the next two days. AH outstreamed it by over 2m on spotify alone yesterday so it should still be #1

[WEEKND]

Ugh all this nonsense 

 

 

all she gotta do is release a bop like this 

 

 

and smash 

[Brando]

I mean Rihanna was always a SUPREME digital seller. I know the market has moved on, but perhaps she retained a few thousand of those who still live in that past. 

[RihFenty20]

This thread is already entertaining af. Monday is going to be the collapse of all collapses. I can’t wait

[Flanders]

The navy is showing OWT  hope she snatched the #1

[Taylena]

Everything about this song stinks really bad, like...

 

First the gigantic first day airplay and still massive updates the whole week, then Billboard switching from Nielsen to Mediabase which greatly helps payola'd songs on radio and now these very sketchy sales coming from nowhere. 

 

[Navyboy20]

35 minutes ago, Starchild said:

stans need to take off the goggles sometimes damn,

This should also be applied to stans that refuse to accept a lot of people genuinely like the song and rushing to label any type of success as Payola. Looks equally as desperate if not even more desperate since their argument is based on pure speculation and not the actual numebers. 

[fentypark]

the fumes 

[Dreajae]

It's going to be a messy Monday either way.

 

Either all this foolishness paid off for #1 or this song still comes in at #2 or #3 after the extensive playlisting, multiple visuals, lyric videos in Wakandan, Massive radio update, new rules that favor radioplay slightly more. Anything else missing?

 

If it doesnt make it this week, it will not suddenly rebound once the movie drops. The way it's sinking on sales and streaming is making that clear.

[UnusualBoy]

Rhenna putting good use to those Fenty coins

[Yossarian]

lemme go purchase to get her a number 1!

[Soda Pop Queen]

13 minutes ago, RihFenty20 said:

This thread is already entertaining af. Monday is going to be the collapse of all collapses. I can’t wait

 

they madT already. If she secures her 15th #1 next week off a soundtrack single, TUH.... it's gonna be a looong next 12 months for some here. 

[pride4jc1222]

As long as sales continue to count towards the Hot 100, these shenanigans will continue to happen. Last week, it was the irrational behavior of Swifties and Arianators. This week, it's the LMU debacle. It's very easy to manipulate sales. It only takes quite a few thousand sales to alter chart positions.

[rihannafan]

The conspiracy theories in here...