charts discussion HIT ME HARD AND SOFT debuts with 72.7M on Global Spotify | Spotify streams thread

[liquiddiamonds]

2 minutes ago, Badgalbriel said:

That's truly the way to go nowadays. Taylor really did that. 

You know exactly what you're doing and it's lame

 

 

Beyonce living rent-free in your head 

[Mark Rih]

So deserved

[TouchinFree]

Oh wow and she didn't have 101 songs of fillers too. See when you do art and not fart. 

[wish]

Both Lunch and Chihiro debuting with over 10M... she really SMASHED 

[Don]

Wow that's good 

[Badgalbriel]

8 minutes ago, liquiddiamonds said:

You know exactly what you're doing and it's lame

 

 

Beyonce living rent-free in your head 

They're completely different strategies girl. One is a surprise album, all the others are not.

 

The strategy is to announce your album months in advance, release the cover, variants, title but not say a single thing about the sound of the album, which is not what ST did.

 

Their release strategy is a direct response to huge artists like Adele, Harry, having record-breaking lead singles while having a weak album debut on streaming. Once people listen to a lead single, it satisfies their need to further listen to the artist. So they pay the album no attention after that. 

 

This has nothing to do with ST. 

Edited May 18 by Badgalbriel

[Slate]

Oh wow, congrats to miss Billie

 

[Green]

Great numbers for Billie 

 

Lunch could have been a #1 debut for her in the US but the top 3 is so strong right now with Million dollar baby, Kendrick and Post/Morgan

 

But at least Lunch could debut in the top 5 and maybe Chichiro and Birds of a Father could snatch a top 10 debut (please let's make Birds of a Father a top 10 hit)

 

Also all the songs debuting in the top 20 (US Spotify) and the lowest being with 1.7 million streams 

She's doing better than with the HTE era

[Badgalbriel]

Just now, Green said:

Great numbers for Billie 

 

Lunch could have been a #1 debut for her in the US but the top 3 is so strong right now with Million dollar baby, Kendrick and Post/Morgan

 

But at least Lunch could debut in the top 5 and maybe Chichiro and Birds of a Father could snatch a top 10 debut (please let's make Birds of a Father a top 10 hit)

 

Also all the songs debuting in the top 20 (US Spotify) and the lowest being with 1.7 million streams 

She's doing better than with the HTE era

She is doing better than WWAFAWDWG!!!! 

[liquiddiamonds]

5 minutes ago, Badgalbriel said:

The strategy is to announce your album months in advance, release the cover, variants, title but not say a single thing about the sound of the album, which is not what ST did.

That's mostly because of vinyls and accumulating pre-orders. The original point of the argument was the death of the original album rollout with pre-release singles and heavy promo game from MPGs, which is exactly what self-titled was a catalyst for. The market just moved to streaming as the main venue of consuming and vinyl as the main pure sales format. It's the same strategy of not revealing anything about the music and surprise your fans with a full-length project at once. But I hear your point 
 

 

Edited May 18 by liquiddiamonds

[Badgalbriel]

3 minutes ago, liquiddiamonds said:

That's mostly because of vinyls and accumulating pre-orders. The original point of the argument was the death of the original album rollout with pre-release singles and heavy promo game from MPGs, which is exactly what self-titled was a catalyst for. The market just moved to streaming as the main venue of consuming and vinyl as the main pure sales format. It's the same strategy of not revealing anything about the music and surprise your fans with a full-length project at once. 

Yes, but no. This is a direct response to 30 and Harry's House. Folklore, yes, is inspired by ST. But now, these are much different strategies and are a clear response to events that happened this decade (30 flopping on streaming while EOM breaking records). It's all about today's attention spam. 

Edited May 18 by Badgalbriel

[ontherocks]

Amazing numbers

 

[Alex]

24 minutes ago, wish said:

Never doubt Billie Eilish's power ever again.  72M with only 10 tracks is HUGE

yup she's officially back on Olivia's neck, the GP chose their true queen 

 

 

[Ger]

Excellent numbers, absolutely deserved   

Edited May 18 by Ger

[Superberih]

Amazing and deserved 

[enchanted0]

23 minutes ago, TouchinFree said:

Oh wow and she didn't have 101 songs of fillers too. See when you do art and not fart. 

I mean a certain artist does 70M with only 3 tracks so..

 

OT : amazing numbers  

[wish]

4 minutes ago, Alex said:

yup she's officially back on Olivia's neck, the GP chose their true queen 

 

 

I have a feeling she's gonna EAT with the pure sales too. Billie the icon you have become!

[99sandthe2000s]

 

[Feanor]

Good numbers.  

 

I can see this strategy of announcing albums in advance and hyping them up in the weeks leading up without actually dropping a single become more common, cause clearly it's working. Taylor knew what she was doing with 'Midnights'.

[WildHeart]

29 minutes ago, TouchinFree said:

Oh wow and she didn't have 101 songs of fillers too. See when you do art and not fart. 

Beyonce is 26 years into her career. Her doing similar numbers with or without more tracks is still impressive, stop turning that into a veteran drag 

 

Very impressive numbers for Billie, especially after HTE 

[Obsession]

Aw, she's really back. I was thinking's maybe 40m! Love this for her, her music is such a world unto itself.

[DevilsRollTheDice]

Amazing debut. Wish the release date was a little later in the summer, though. Stinks that all her debuts might get buried. 

[TouchinFree]

1 minute ago, WildHeart said:

Beyonce is 26 years into her career. Her doing similar numbers with or without more tracks is still impressive, stop turning that into a veteran drag 

 

Very impressive numbers for Billie, especially after HTE 

Gor I was praising Billie. The ***** is only on her third album pulling these numbers. With minimum songs unlike the current trend endless album tracks  

[aesthetic bih]

Wait, what blocked LUNCH at #1 Spotify Global??? She did 10M... The competition is insane rn

[aesthetic bih]

Anyway, this is impressive, it's basically twice that of HTE right? INSANE!