This is a serious question. Prior to Flowers Miley didn't have a true big hit/era since Bangerz, which was way back in 2013.

Then Flowers comes out and it suddenly becomes this big hit out of nowhere. And now that the album is out and isn't doing very good numbers, i genuinely wonder it there wasn't some payola that helped push Flowers become a hit in the first place. Maybe i'm wrong but that's what it feels like in retrospect.

 

What do you guys think? Was there payola? Or was it somehow organic despite the lack of interest in the overall album?

No, the song went viral and became a hit. It’s that simple. 
 

Many albums have had huge hit leads and underwhelming first week sales in comparison. It’s not the first time it’s happened and it won’t be the last.

Most hits released today from artists of big labels using multiple way of payola, but this doesn’t mean the songs are not hits, and this is the reason why artists always want to sign with big labels

Should I start blocking every user who makes this thread (yet again) ? It's getting insane

Those extremely high Spotify peaks were reached with the help of autoplay (payola) but it did smash everywhere so no. It was just a viral hit due to how quick those made-up rumours spread across TikTok and social media in general which generated a lot of interest in the song. 

This thread has been made at least 10 times in the last couple months. Give it up already 

still no. it wasn’t ~oUt of no wHeRe~ either because it had a modest debut but then was visibly very viral on tiktok and twitter when it started to surge. 

No.

I mean It got the playlits and Savage autoplay buy you don't make 17m Daily only for that.

 

It's not the first time someone has a big hit and than moderate success with the album.

 

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21 minutes ago, Da Vinci said:

Should I start blocking every user who makes this thread (yet again) ? It's getting insane

 Yea it’s getting old

8 minutes ago, Yawn said:

still no. it wasn’t ~oUt of no wHeRe~ either because it had a modest debut but then was visibly very viral on tiktok and twitter when it started to surge. 

This. Plus random people that aren't involved in stan world talked to me about the song. The song was also posted in many meme instagram pages, it truly went viral, the lyrics are relatable and the beat is good, in addition the drama with her ex and the word play with Bruno's song helped pushed it further

No and anybody who believes this is dumb 

Miley got a hit that sticks like grits 

 

 

Still #1 on Spotify WW 2 months into its release

 

 

Surely payola would've ran out by now or gp would've been exhausted with the song if they didn't like it

 

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yes

 

but it was a hit regardless thanks to bruno mars. and the ex ig

Then Columbia will file bankruptcy this year cuz they’ve been payola’d the song for 2 months in all streaming services…

No... I saw a lot of people talking about Flowers during release week

5 minutes ago, fridayteenage said:

yes

 

but it was a hit regardless thanks to bruno mars. and the ex ig

the nerve of you to say this 

 

OT: The song was an instant viral sensation and became a global smash.

Yes

So her label did payola on Spotify, AM, Youtube, radio AND digital sales? Yea, no  

 

 

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20 minutes ago, brazil said:

This. Plus random people that aren't involved in stan world talked to me about the song. The song was also posted in many meme instagram pages, it truly went viral, the lyrics are relatable and the beat is good, in addition the drama with her ex and the word play with Bruno's song helped pushed it further

This. The song was an absolute smash. It was everywhere on social media. Autoplay might have helped but it was not the reason why the song smashed 

No, the song was everywhere, and I would say the best metric to notice that is that everyone used the song on insta stories. It just went viral on TikTok and there were a lot of fake rumours around the song that made it masive. 

I really wonder if people really believe such things.

It was a success for sure but the numbers were a little too much… maybe bc of that autoplay thing

The song was everywhere. Even my mum knew it and loved it and I don’t think she could name a single song from Plastic Hearts. 

for the 100th time it was a viral tik tok hit 

 

you grandmas can’t get get that through your heads for some reason 

ATRL not knowing single artists exist lol