Pretty soon after its release, the song was called a "flop" by many members on ATRL. Yet, it managed to gain more than 300.000.000 streams (Spotify & YouTube) in only 7 months and still gains 700-800k from these platforms.

 

• Spotify - 151.641.387
• YouTube - 148.540.775

Total - 300.182.162

 

Would you still consider it a "flop" based on these stats and in comparison to other original songs released by some MPGs?

Edited December 4, 20223 yr by Gagacharts

Wait, Hold My Hand only has 151M on Spotify after 7 months? Can you check again? Little Monsters were dragging Hold Me Closer (over 153M streams) for its streams and it hasn’t even been out for four months.  

Edited December 4, 20223 yr by Eternium

7 minutes ago, Eternium said:

Wait, Hold My Hand only has 151M on Spotify after 7 months? Can you check again? Little Monsters were dragging Hold Me Closer (over 153M streams) for its streams and it hasn’t even been out for four months.  

Random soundtrack single versus Britney's first comeback single with Elton who had one of the biggest hits of 2021/2022 the single before. Is this the hill you want to die on? 

Not a total bomb I guess but still a flop, especially when you look at how the one republic song did much better

“Hold my Ham, everything will be ok” did that 

Minor hit, I would say. It wasn't a colossal flop (especially when it's outstreaming some #1 Billboard hits on Youtube), but it wasn't a big hit. 

Bombed

yes its a FLOP considering it was attached to the biggest movie of 2022. sorry

150M on Spotify in 7 months (and it did worse on Apple Music) is objectively bad

 

Even if we ignore that it’s the lead song of the #1 movie of the year 

14 minutes ago, Roberto said:

Minor hit, I would say. It wasn't a colossal flop (especially when it's outstreaming some #1 Billboard hits on Youtube), but it wasn't a big hit. 

This. It did fine for a soundtrack song. 

43 minutes ago, Gagacharts said:

Pretty soon after its release, the song was called a "flop" by many members on ATRL. Yet, it managed to gain more than 300.000.000 streams (Spotify & YouTube) in only 7 months and still gains 700-800k from these platforms.

 

• Spotify - 151.641.387
• YouTube - 148.540.775

Total - 300.182.162

 

Would you still consider it a "flop" based on these stats and in comparison to other original songs released by some MPGs?

Well, if the #2 Hot 100 peaking “LMU”, an OST lullaby dedicated to a deceased celebrity, is at 97M on Spotify after one month and is being labelled a “flop”, then surely this song can’t be a “flop” either after 7 months? 
 

Good for Gaga. Genuinely. 
 

Edited December 4, 20223 yr by GoodGuyGoneGhetto

38 minutes ago, Eternium said:

Wait, Hold My Hand only has 151M on Spotify after 7 months? Can you check again? Little Monsters were dragging Hold Me Closer (over 153M streams) for its streams and it hasn’t even been out for four months.  

“HMC” is far from a flop. 
 

I’m assuming every single release has to be an automatic smash-hit these days, and even then they’ll still label said song an underperformance.

 

41 minutes ago, infrared said:

Is this the hill you want to die on? 

CRINGE  

 

OT: A massive flop, unlike HMC

It’s kinda strange how well it performed on YouTube. Most English songs nowadays with 300m streams would have a 250m Spotify/50m YouTube split or something like that.

a nicki minaj-sized BOMB 

pretty bad but its a solo gaga song after 2009

its expected 

The Youtube views are good. The music video helped but the Spotify streams are kinda tragic considering the immense promotion it got. 

Ironically enough it did really well on boomer platforms (Top 10 YE on English YouTube, Deezer and pure sales) yet it did really badly on modern platforms like Spotify and Apple Music

Edited December 4, 20223 yr by JennyWayne

pretty awful, though it wouldn't be as embarrassing if Little Monsters didn't run into every thread screaming FLOP when someone slightly underperforms

2 minutes ago, Erreur2 La Nature said:

The Youtube views are good. The music video helped but the Spotify streams are kinda tragic considering the immense promotion it got. 

The views/likes ratio it has on YouTube is strange (1.2M likes/125M views)

Taylor & Rihanna's latest videos already have more likes with less than 50M views each

yes it's a flop considering I Ain't Worried has +500M streams

“Random Soundtrack Single” 

 

 

It’s a big old flop, whichever way you spin it. Gags will never have a solo hit again #bmm

Flop. It was included on the biggest playlists of both AM & Spotify and was used four times in the biggest movie of the year. 

Flop.

1 hour ago, istan4badgalriri said:

150M on Spotify in 7 months (and it did worse on Apple Music) is objectively bad

 

Even if we ignore that it’s the lead song of the #1 movie of the year 

 

2 minutes ago, Jjang said:

Flop. It was included on the biggest playlists of both AM & Spotify and was used four times in the biggest movie of the year. 

 

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a flop