Which MPGs had projects/songs etc that seemed doomed and floppery from the start and yet they were able to turn the tides around and end up smashing?

 

 

Shallow (only in the US)

Every Dua Lipa hit(again only in the US)

Reputation went from 3 bombs to delicate

Anti

Happier than ever?

Obviously, Flowers. Most people expected it to underperform or flop, but it ended up being a monster smash hit (which is arguably the biggest female hit of this century so far). It has topped year-end charts/or came second in pretty much every country (more than any other hit song). It is still charting in the Spotify 50 more than a year after its release.       

Edited January 19, 20242 yr by playwithme

Te Felicito by Shakira was MIA on the charts until the MV came out and the press started to gossip about her break up with Piqué.

 

Dangerous Woman by Ariana seemed like an underperformance era after the results with DW and Into You but then Side To Side kind of saved the era to became meh.

Beyoncé is the queen of this. 
 

B’Day was considered an underperformance after Deja Vu didn’t end up as big as her past singles. Then Ring the Alarm failed to go top 10. Irreplaceable ended up being a massive hit.

 

Then comes 4, Beyoncé was even being clowned on Atrl for having no hits. The album ended up being huge, and it outlasted albums from that era. 

Rated R maybe? Many flops until Rude Boy 

Pink Friday 2. The era started messy & y'all swore she was going to freefall after the first week 

Rihanna - Rated R

Rihanna - FourFiveSeconds

Rihanna - ANTI

 

the whole ASIB era

Houdini

Lover going from underperformance to one of the biggest albums of the last 10 years is wild.

 

Both Rihanna and Ariana did this with Rated R and Dangerous Woman respectively.  

Special era.. idk if Rumors was ever intended as a single for the album anyway but it did underperform, then About Damn Time saved it

 

Scarlet was saved by PTTR after Attention really bombed, Agora Hills is also great and deserved to smash

 

Arguably Smile era was a turn around with the resurgence of Harleys In Hawaiis helping it perform better than Witness in the long run

 

Chromatica era was boosted by Rain On Me with the Ari feature, though Stupid Love wasnt a major bomb

 

Takin' It Back era pre-album singles made almost no noise and 'Made You Look' happened on release day

Made You Look by Meghan 

P!nk’s I’m Not Dead era is like the textbook example of this. The lead single Stupid Girls underperformed and Who Knew bombed at first. Then U + Ur Hand blew up, saved the era, and made Who Knew a smash as well

The New Classic had a few rough starts and then Fancy blew up

Lover by Taylor 

 

Me and YNTCD both getting blocked at #2 by the same song 

 

The Man....well. 

 

Lover song only peaking at ten and radio I don't think touched it, but it won in the end. 1B+ streams now and does 1.7M daily and is the second best performing song from the album. 

 

And then of course Cruel Summer smashing 4 years later. 

literally everyone including Gaga stans were sure ASIB was going to bomb hard but she defied expectations as usual 

ANTIdiary and 460 gate

 

M.I.A's Paper Airplanes was the 4th release from Kala

55 minutes ago, playwithme said:

Obviously, Flowers. Most people expected it to underperform or flop, but it ended up being a monster smash hit (which is arguably the biggest female hit of this century so far). It has topped year-end charts/or came second in pretty much every country (more than any other hit song). It is still charting in the Spotify 50 more than a year after its release.       

op said MPGs

 

OP: ANTi

i'm not dead, rated r and b'day lowkey

You won't believe this, but this was the lead from Nelly's Loose