charts discussion Spotify Global 8th day: "Please Please Please" pulls nearly 13 million streams

[Julián]

Oh Sabrina you WINNER  this is so great to see.

[MonsterNavy]

seems like she can relate to desperation after all with the amount of shameless autoplay and payola she does

 

 

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[chaneloberlin]

This is crazy... her momentum is absolutely crazy.

Nonsense to Feather is an amazing 1-2 pop combo. But this is an astronomical breakout.

 

It's her time!

[Riverbank]

31 minutes ago, MonsterNavy said:

this is the most obvious case of payola and autoplay since BTS  

 

25 minutes ago, MonsterNavy said:

 

 

BTS songs were viral on tiktok and smashing on apple music too lol

 

sabrina has been the queen of autoplay and payola since nonsense, then feather, espresso and now this song but she's being shameless now  

 

edit: btw i've been a fan since disney days. I loved all her disney albums so I dont have a random hate boner for her. i'm just stating facts lol

 

21 minutes ago, MonsterNavy said:

real pop supremes sweeties...

 

she's a megan trainor type of viral sensation at most

 

21 minutes ago, MonsterNavy said:

where did I say they reached #1? I said they were smashing on apple music too lol

 

and #2 isnt that far from #1 be so fr

 

4 minutes ago, MonsterNavy said:

seems like she can relate to desperation after all with the amount of shameless autoplay and payola she does

 

 

 

OT: Congrats

[fridayteenage]

non-taylor female songs, US Spotify peaks at least 3.500 million:
drivers license 6.146
rockin around the christmas 6.013
easy on me 5.435
good 4 u 4.975
please please please 4.702
all i want for christmas 4.506
thank 4.191

rings 3.962
vampire 3.913
lunch 3.642
flowers 3.589
espresso 3.552

[Gaia]

7 minutes ago, Prodigal Self said:

She's having her breakthrough moment and y'all swiffers being INSUFFERABLE, as per usual. LMAO.

They're in every thread giving Taylor credit for her success like let it go. Are the other eras tour openers potentially debuting at #1 on the hot 100? They're so annoying  Sabrina is successful because of herself

[EarthJang]

8 minutes ago, MonsterNavy said:

seems like she can relate to desperation after all with the amount of shameless autoplay and payola she does

 

 

Cry harder

[LVP]

42 minutes ago, BabyBenzz said:

opening for Taylor really launched her career huh?! i'm so happy because she deserved it for so long

her catchy songs did

[Orsay]

OMG  insane!

[Dear Reader]

11 minutes ago, Prodigal Self said:

She's having her breakthrough moment and y'all swiffers being INSUFFERABLE, as per usual. LMAO.

you using my avi as if I'm not here cheering Sabrina for her win without mentioning Taylor 

[Green]

A month ago the boys were dominating the Spotify top 3 (Kendrick, Post/Morgan and Tommy Richman)

 

Now it's the girls dominating the top 3 with Sabrina x2 and Billie (Espresso, PPP and Birds of a feather)

[QuanticXplosion]

What a queen, she deserves it. 

[rhaenyra]

43 minutes ago, MonsterNavy said:

this is the most obvious case of payola and autoplay since BTS  

Ohh you mad girl 

 

Anyway, Sabrina deserves this. People don't realize but she's been doing music for so long and have been working so hard for her music career. If anyone deserves such organic success, it's Sabrina

[cat1867]

12 minutes ago, LVP said:

her catchy songs did

It's both. 

 

Sabrina took advantage of opening for Taylor to create the hype that launched expresso. 

 

By changing Nonsense's outro every show, she was able to include herself in the Era fan livestreams and solidify an image for herself. She used the opening spot to basically go viral every show. The other openers didn't really do anything similar to launch themselves.

 

And then Sabrina just needed catchy pop perfection to launch herself into the next level which she did with aplomb. 

 

It's close to the platonic ideal to launch a star to a next level .  Levering charismatic opening performances for a bigger artist to get hype and then delivering on it in a way that Taylor's previous opening acts  (excluding bieber) never properly did.

 

Sabrina has earned this success with her hustling.

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[cuteboyzay]

Not y'all blaming autoplay and her opening for the Eras tour as the excuse for the songs success! 
 

Her opening for Taylor helped to an extent but it doesn't account for even 10% of why she's becoming so successful. She just has GOOD MUSIC. 
 

And autoplay can only do SO MUCH, it depends on if people actually LIKE the song at the end of the day lmaooo!

 

I do appreciate Taylor for seeing the value in Sabrina also, and allowing her to open for her. But please be sooo fr right now. Sabrina just has a good ear for making catchy songs and she's worked very hard for yearssss now for this kind of success lol. Please acknowledge that.

[Gaia]

2 minutes ago, cat1867 said:

It's both. 

 

Sabrina took advantage of opening for Taylor to create the hype that launched expresso. 

 

By changing Nonsense's outro every show, she was able to include herself in the Era fan livestreams and solidify an image for herself. She used the opening spot to basically go viral every show. The other openers didn't really do anything similar to launch themselves.

 

And then Sabrina just needed catchy pop perfection to launch herself into the next level which she did with aplomb. 

 

It's close to the platonic ideal to launch a star to a next level .  Levering charismatic opening performances for a bigger to get hype and then delivering on it. 

 

Sabrina has earned this success with her hustling.

That's the point. She leveraged an opportunity and was able to go viral multiple times despite only being an opening act. SHE is the reason she is successful. Not Taylor or the eras tour. Because if it was the tour that made her popular then every opener would be smashing now but they're not. 
 

Eras Tour was good exposure but it is NOT the reason she's smashing. She's smashing because she's a good performer with catchy songs and good lyrics. Swifties need to stop making it seem like just being at the eras tour is what made her big. 

[xfreshkidxx]

that selena stan having a random meltdown 

 

Sabrina deserves. 

[Rev8]

54 minutes ago, MonsterNavy said:

this is the most obvious case of payola and autoplay since BTS  

Honestly, it really does feel this way

and am not hating on her

 

but it is odd ...sure she had this big hit song = hype for the next release

but so many situations like this, don't turn out as hits - when the songs are still good (thinking about Tate and Miley recently)

 

maybe she did her promo right?
Since I feel like the others waited some more time b4 they released theirs?
No idea.

 

Artists use different kinds of stuff tho, and Swift is the mother of strategies so maybe she gave her some tips and/or some connections

 

 

edit: Ofc no one is saying that she is only having success because of suspected payola or whatever

but the numbers Are big for a relatively small artist like her

Edited June 11 by Rev8

[cat1867]

1 minute ago, cuteboyzay said:

 

I do appreciate Taylor for seeing the value in Sabrina also, and allowing her to open for her. But please be sooo fr right now. Sabrina just has a good ear for making catchy songs and she's worked very hard for yearssss now for this kind of success lol. Please acknowledge that.

For me ,  Sabrina opening created the ideal environment for her songs to takeoff in a way that even her best most catchy songs struggled to do so in the past. 

 

But Sabrina opening for Taylor was also a product of Sabrina's years of quality songs and hustling.   And then  her showing millions her great live performance skills and charisma was so key.

[fridayteenage]

3 minutes ago, cat1867 said:

It's close to the platonic ideal to launch a star to a next level .  Levering charismatic opening performances for a bigger artist to get hype and then delivering on it in a way that Taylor's previous opening acts  (excluding bieber) never properly did.

 

Sabrina has earned this success with her hustling.

i'd say shawn and ed too. both got their first top 10 after opening. 

 

here for ppp hitting 5 million US later this week.

[Feanor]

I see the usuals are pressed at the Swifties again when they've been nothing but supportive of Sabrina for the past years. I'd advice some Xanax to calm those nerves down, cause it's never that serious. 

 

OT: The hard work she put in with all the TV performances in the past 12 months + The Eras Tour + Coachella + serving these bops really opened the way for a perfect storm.

[enchanted0]

this summer is all hers. amazing

[MonsterNavy]

3 minutes ago, Rev8 said:

Honestly, it really does feel this way

and am not hating on her

 

but it is odd ...sure she had this big hit song = hype for the next release

but so many situations like this, don't turn out as hits - when the songs are still good (thinking about Tate and Miley recently)

 

maybe she did her promo right?
Since I feel like the others waited some more time b4 they released theirs?
No idea.

 

Artists use different kinds of stuff tho, and Swift is the mother of strategies so maybe she gave her some tips and/or some connections

 

 

edit: Ofc no one is saying that she is only having success because of suspected payola or whatever

but the numbers Are big for a relatively small artist like her

its autoplay and payola and its the best kind of promo for anyone today

 

HYBE (BTS' label) does it to their artists like BTS & ILLIT 

 

remember when a random unknown song debuted with 10m streams just a few weeks ago and dipped? lol if a random nobody can do it sabrina can too

[Welovetrouble]

33 minutes ago, MonsterNavy said:

seems like she can relate to desperation after all with the amount of shameless autoplay and payola she does

 

 

You seriously need to touch grass and breath in some fresh air

[cat1867]

2 minutes ago, Gaia said:

That's the point. She leveraged an opportunity and was able to go viral multiple times despite only being an opening act. SHE is the reason she is successful. Not Taylor or the eras tour. Because if it was the tour that made her popular then every opener would be smashing now but they're not. 
 

Eras Tour was good exposure but it is NOT the reason she's smashing. She's smashing because she's a good performer with catchy songs and good lyrics. Swifties need to stop making it seem like just being at the eras tour is what made her big. 

Success has a thousand parents and they are all important.

 

Unfortunately, being a good performer with catchy songs is not sufficient to become an A-list star.  Artists need something extra to break through and the Eras tour was that for Sabrina. It took years for Sabrina because she was missing that opportunity before.

 

Without eras, it would have been so much harder if not impossible for Sabrina to get an opportunity to show millions how great both her songs and live performances were. The pre-existing livestream culture of Eras really helped her. Her own skills and talent were what allowed to create a fandom and hype unlike the other opening acts.

 

But that's not taking anything away from Sabrina. Taylor broke through largely because she opened for every country act for two years. And she too credits that for breakthrough.