Popular Post Post Malone Posted May 27 Popular Post Posted May 27 (edited) Welcome to the 2nd thread of the 3-part series 'Radical Optimism: The Tankage', where we shall be covering the promotion rollouts of each single of the era as they evaporate, vaporize and TBA off the Spotify charts one by one! The final thread of the series should be coming any day now, with Training Season being the only remaining song on the chart, at #187(-37) as of today. Check out the former thread in the series, 'Illusion' evaporates ! Let's get right into it! Dua Lipa began teasing 'Houdini's release by doing what she does best: serving a beauty shot on Instagram. The post seemingly gained a lot of attention for her standards, as the likes count (2.6M) is about 4 times the amount of likes of her posts nowadays (700-800K) The singer, known for her Spotify shenanigans, started practicing her antics rather earlier than usual, changing the Spotify covers of her entire discography a month before the release. This way, innocent people looking for songs such as One Kiss (feat. Dua Lipa) by Calvin Harris or Prisoner (feat. Dua Lipa) by Miley Cyrus would stumble upon these new cover arts and be alert of her upcoming release. The song then came out in November to what has become synonymous with a Dua Lipa release: an immediate #1 placement on Spotify's biggest playlist, TTH, with the cover. The track was also sent to radio on release day with a radio deal The song showed signs of underperformance right on: it failed to outstream then two months old Greedy on release day, flopped out of the Spotify Global top 10 in a week, failed to go #1 at her very own home market the UK, failed to go top 10 in the US and spent only 1 (one) (UNO) week in the top 20. But under Warner's very generous funding, Dua Lipa continued following the footsteps of 2019's Don't Start Now and promoted the track well into 2024, spamming various new versions to streaming platforms weekly while continuing the reign at the top of TTH. And then And THEN... ... Including a brand new visual for it And THEN......... Dua Lipa had also performed the track numerous times during the period, most notoriously to millions of people watching the Grammys. Warner finally dropped the track from TTH after over 5 months, on April 12 (only to make space for 'Illusion' topping the playlist starting that day). Spoiler The song is still enjoying a playlist reach of mostly over 100M since then, currently sitting at a whopping 92,276,575 while still missing the top 200 of the Spotify chart. In comparison with the playlist reach of some singles by her peers from last year, that are actually charting right now: #62 SZA - Snooze (81M reach) #78 Sabrina Carpenter - Feather (111M reach) #88 Billie Eilish - What Was I Made For (89M reach) #122 Sabrina Carpenter - Nonsense (57M reach) #137 Doja Cat - Paint The Town Red (116M reach) #139 The Weeknd - Popular (47M reach) #153 Olivia Rodrigo - Vamprie (66M reach) Houdini is more recent than all of these songs, yet fails to make the chart with a similar playlist reach or more. It is also noteworthy that Houdini's parent album was released only 3 weeks ago, and that the song sits at the front of the tracklist as track #2. So, ATRL, why? Edited May 27 by Post Malone 3 4 73 2 6
Popular Post NOW Posted May 27 Popular Post Posted May 27 It vaporized? As in turned into a gas? 84 2
ATRL Moderator Popular Post khalyan Posted May 27 ATRL Moderator Popular Post Posted May 27 How many "Houdini is a flop" threads do we need? It's serving "Is Katy Perry the new Paula Abdul?" at this point? 3 55
gm4567 Posted May 27 Posted May 27 1 minute ago, NOW said: It vaporized? As in turned into a gas? If you Vaporize a potato does it turn into gas?
TayDuaStan Posted May 27 Posted May 27 (edited) Houdini is one of her absolute worst songs ever. Like, on Not My Problem, Swan Song, Potion level of awfulness. That's what happened And she doubled it down with Training Season which is as bad. Illusion was great but it came too late unfortunately to save the era Edited May 27 by TayDuaStan 5 11 35
Popular Post Cloudy Posted May 27 Popular Post Posted May 27 Girl...that long ass OP. Someone needs a hobby 4 27
Europe Posted May 27 Posted May 27 The promo is there but the material is not. She needed stronger melodies for this song and training season, and pretty much everything else on the album. There is not one catchy hook or chorus on there. 1
halcyonday Posted May 27 Posted May 27 Houdini was an awful choice for a lead single. It goes nowhere. 3 1 2
Popular Post illia Posted May 27 Popular Post Posted May 27 Houdini is one of her absolute best songs ever so I'm sad she flopped 20
Johnny Jacobs Posted May 27 Posted May 27 None of the songs on the album were smashes and you could tell from the first listen. Including houdini. Vedy mid album after a monstrous era that was FN. I bet she's in the studio right now already working on the next album out next year. 2 1
greeneyedsoul Posted May 27 Posted May 27 I'm seeing her on the 9th. Hopefully I won't be the only one in the arena to sing along to Randical Tankage songs. 1 2
Popular Post PerfectCure Posted May 27 Popular Post Posted May 27 How much time did you spend writing that post? Just out of curiosity. 1 23
Katy V.! Posted May 27 Posted May 27 7 minutes ago, Cloudy said: Girl...that long ass OP. Someone needs a hobby All that work over Dua Lipa is wild 3
Popular Post bearman Posted May 27 Popular Post Posted May 27 (edited) The OP is longer than all the lyrics Dua wrote in her CVS notebook in 3 years Edited May 27 by bearman 28
Digitalism Posted May 27 Posted May 27 22 minutes ago, Post Malone said: Welcome to the 2nd thread of the 3-part series 'Radical Optimism: The Tankage', where we shall be covering the promotion rollouts of each single of the era as they evaporate, vaporize and TBA off the Spotify charts one by one! The final thread of the series should be coming any day now, with Training Season being the only remaining song on the chart, at #187(-37) as of today. Check out the former thread in the series, 'Illusion' evaporates ! Let's get right into it! Dua Lipa began teasing 'Houdini's release by doing what she does best: serving a beauty shot on Instagram. The post seemingly gained a lot of attention for her standards, as the likes count (2.6M) is about 4 times the amount of likes of her posts nowadays (700-800K) The singer, known for her Spotify shenanigans, started practicing her antics rather earlier than usual, changing the Spotify covers of her entire discography a month before the release. This way, innocent people looking for songs such as One Kiss (feat. Dua Lipa) by Calvin Harris or Prisoner (feat. Dua Lipa) by Miley Cyrus would stumble upon these new cover arts and be alert of her upcoming release. The song then came out in November to what has become synonymous with a Dua Lipa release: an immediate #1 placement on Spotify's biggest playlist, TTH, with the cover. The track was also sent to radio on release day with a radio deal The song showed signs of underperformance right on: it failed to outstream then two months old Greedy on release day, flopped out of the Spotify Global top 10 in a week, failed to go #1 at her very own home market the UK, failed to go top 10 in the US and spent only 1 (one) (UNO) week in the top 20. But under Warner's very generous funding, Dua Lipa continued following the footsteps of 2019's Don't Start Now and promoted the track well into 2024, spamming various new versions to streaming platforms weekly while continuing the reign at the top of TTH. And then And THEN... ... Including a brand new visual for it And THEN......... Dua Lipa had also performed the track numerous times during the period, most notoriously to millions of people watching the Grammys. Warner finally dropped the track from TTH after over 5 months, on April 12 (only to make space for 'Illusion' topping the playlist starting that day). Reveal hidden contents The song is still enjoying a playlist reach of mostly over 100M since then, currently sitting at a whopping 92,276,575 while still missing the top 200 of the Spotify chart. In comparison with the playlist reach of some singles by her peers from last year, that are actually charting right now: #62 SZA - Snooze (81M reach) #78 Sabrina Carpenter - Feather (111M reach) #88 Billie Eilish - What Was I Made For (89M reach) #122 Sabrina Carpenter - Nonsense (57M reach) #137 Doja Cat - Paint The Town Red (116M reach) #139 The Weeknd - Popular (47M reach) #153 Olivia Rodrigo - Vamprie (66M reach) Houdini is more recent than all of these songs, yet fails to make the chart with a similar playlist reach or more. It is also noteworthy that Houdini's parent album was released only 3 weeks ago, and that the song sits at the front of the tracklist as track #2. So, ATRL, why? Girl you wrote all that and for what? Just write I hate dua and houdini is out of the top 200 the next time. 2 1
Popular Post OrgVisual Posted May 27 Popular Post Posted May 27 There are 7 more months til January 23
Blanket Posted May 27 Posted May 27 Leave the girl alone she just learned how to dance let alone how to be a star 2
Raphy23 Posted May 27 Posted May 27 it came and it went. I have hope she still has a hit up her sleeve for summer 2024. 1
Popular Post Blue Monday Posted May 27 Popular Post Posted May 27 23 minutes ago, TayDuaStan said: Houdini is one of her absolute worst songs ever. Like, on Not My Problem, Swan Song, Potion level of awfulness. That's what happened And she doubled it down with Training Season which is as bad. Illusion was great but it came too late unfortunately to save the era 4 1 27 3
Trash Posted May 27 Posted May 27 I don't care for Dua, so I can say without any sort of bias, the song is horrible. I know music taste is subjective, but y'all make me question your taste when you call it one of the best pop songs out there. 2 1 1
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