charts discussion Billie surpasses Taylor with most days at #1 on Global Spotify. Thoughts?

[Twizzy]

This is the best example of quality over quantity if I've ever seen one.

 

One random song from a 10 track album (Lunch was being pushed as the lead so it is indeed random ), surpassing the announced lead single of a 35? track album  and that lead did 25m first day. What a frontloaded mess

[simplywohoo]

6 minutes ago, Badgalbriel said:

Fortnight was never the longest #1 on Spotify. 

oh i didn't see the 4th longest part  apologies then, nevertheless even if it was the thread is obvious flamebait

[Starchild]

10 minutes ago, The Pop Hub said:

I'm not a fan of Billie 

 

4 minutes ago, The Pop Hub said:

Yes congrats Billie I love her! 

4 minutes ago, Twizzy said:

This is the best example of quality over quantity if I've ever seen one.

 

One random song from a 10 track album (Lunch was being pushed as the lead so it is indeed random ), surpassing the announced lead single of a 35? track album  and that lead did 25m first day. What a frontloaded mess

I just love when people in here act like Billie is some indie artist with no huge push when she's obviously pushed this project hard

Edited July 21 by Starchild

[Strawberry Bubble]

more popular? than taylor?

 

are you serious?

[Dear Reader]

My thoughts? I'm not a loser that hates to see any woman win, so I'm happy for Billie 

[dirrtydiana]

18 minutes ago, PurrKaty said:

Daily Discography Streams on 07/20/2024:

 

Taylor Swift - 77,252,482 streams
Billie Eilish - 38,077,288 streams

Billie only has THREE albums out (and TWO Oscars hihi) versus swifts 20 albums 

 

what's not clicking???

 

Edited July 21 by dirrtydiana

[Clauss]

6 minutes ago, Twizzy said:

This is the best example of quality over quantity if I've ever seen one.

 

One random song from a 10 track album (Lunch was being pushed as the lead so it is indeed random ), surpassing the announced lead single of a 35? track album  and that lead did 25m first day. What a frontloaded mess

And? It's just one song, TTPD smashes in stream the other album
Billie can have a hit, that does not deny that Taylor will have one of the biggest album of the decade

[PurrKaty]

2 minutes ago, Twizzy said:

that lead did 25m first day. What a frontloaded mess

Fortnight - 517,818,506 total streams as of 07/20/2024

 

Projected to cross 600M streams in a month. Projected to cross 1B streams in early 2025.

 

I wish more "frontloaded" messes had this success

[newaespa]

With the massive autoplay that song have on Spotify (& and that weird promotion on Tiktok), i am surprised it took her so long to surpass Fortnight  

[Digitalism]

22 minutes ago, PurrKaty said:

Daily Discography Streams on 07/20/2024:

 

Taylor Swift - 77,252,482 streams
Billie Eilish - 38,077,288 streams

And she still can't get a hit during her peak?

Horrible singles tbh

[PurrKaty]

5 minutes ago, dirrtydiana said:

Billie only has THREE albums out (and TWO Oscars hihi) versus swifts 20 albums 

 

what's not clicking???

 

Maybe this will help.

 

Daily Discography Streams on 07/20/2024:

Taylor Swift - 77,252,482 streams
Billie Eilish - 38,077,288 streams

 

77,252,482 / 38,077,288 = 2.03

Taylor is averaging more than double the daily streams  

[Jenni]

Quality won 

[crymelanie]

1 minute ago, PurrKaty said:

Maybe this will help.

 

Daily Discography Streams on 07/20/2024:

Taylor Swift - 77,252,482 streams
Billie Eilish - 38,077,288 streams

 

77,252,482 / 38,077,288 = 2.03

Taylor is averaging more than double the daily streams  

Is this what they call girl math?

A FLOP IS A FLOP AT THE END OF THE DAY AND TTPD IS A SNOOZEFEST HAD TO GET THIS OUT OF MY CHEST BYE 💋

[Klein]

I'm happy to see that the new girls can have bigger hits than the girls with a nearly 2 decades-long career, and that the girls with a nearly 2 decades-long career can have bigger albums and tours. Everyone is winning. The natural order of pop music. 

[whatyouwant_]

3 minutes ago, newaespa said:

With the massive autoplay that song have on Spotify (& and that weird promotion on Tiktok), i am surprised it took her so long to surpass Fortnight  

Well, not everyone can have stability and hit #1 after its 50 days on the chart. Billie doesn't peak in day one. 

 

[ForgottenSoul]

She has good payola? what thoughts are needed. 

[crymelanie]

7 minutes ago, newaespa said:

With the massive autoplay that song have on Spotify (& and that weird promotion on Tiktok), i am surprised it took her so long to surpass Fortnight  

WHERE IS THE AUTOPLAY YOU SPEAK OF?

[ForgottenSoul]

40 minutes ago, Gaia said:

Spotify shoves Taylor literally everywhere. It's a little baffling her fans think she's "organic" while everyone else gets autoplay  

 

I do not listen to her on Spotify and there was once where they recommended me Lover, Reputation, and REDTV all at the same time as soon as I opened the app 

 

Fortnight just isn't a hit. 

Im willing to bet Billie had way more payola push then Taylor did for their recent albums lmfao. 

[newaespa]

1 minute ago, whatyouwant_ said:

Well, not everyone can have stability and hit #1 after its 50 days on the chart. Billie doesn't peak in day one. 

 

and not everyone can hit #1 on the billboard 200 with their latest album too!

 

 

also, almost 5 years old song, Cruel Summer outstreaming every song from Billie's new album except for this one autoplayed song

[ForgottenSoul]

2 minutes ago, crymelanie said:

WHERE IS THE AUTOPLAY YOU SPEAK OF?

Its above 2 other massively Payola songs.. says it all really. 

[WildHeart]

25 minutes ago, Twizzy said:

One random song from a 10 track album (Lunch was being pushed as the lead so it is indeed random ), surpassing the announced lead single of a 35? track album 

How does album having 30 more songs to listen to helps lead single's streams? 

If anything, it would perform worse since there are more songs people can listen to. 

 

Also dragging Fortnight for being a weak perforng lead while it is performing better than Billie's own lead Lunch 

 

6 minutes ago, whatyouwant_ said:

Well, not everyone can have stability and hit #1 after its 50 days on the chart. Billie doesn't peak in day one. 

 

Longevity is a good thing indeed. Let's see where other girls are after 18 years and 11 albums 

Edited July 21 by WildHeart

[newaespa]

3 minutes ago, crymelanie said:

WHERE IS THE AUTOPLAY YOU SPEAK OF?

I was listening to 黑桃A by DJ小鱼儿, and even despite 0 relation, Spotify will still autoplay that Billie's song

 

so please ask Spotify instead of me

[Feanor]

12 minutes ago, dirrtydiana said:

Billie only has THREE albums out (and TWO Oscars hihi) versus swifts 20 albums 

 

what's not clicking???

 

Billie's music apparently:

 

'reputation' (2017) - 5,459,937

'dont smile at me' (2017) - 4,503,316

 

'Lover' (2019) - 9,111,008

'WWAFA,WDWG' (2019) - 3,448,915

 

'RED (Taylor's Version) (2021) - 3,983,939

'Happier Than Ever' (2021) - 3,086,479

 

And mind you, there are 13 (!) years between Taylor's debut album and Billie's debut album. Billie as a streaming era artist has every advantage in the world to get more streams… yet she doesn't. And if number of albums mattered, we'd see more veteran artists outstream Billie, yet it's only Taylor.

 

[ForgottenSoul]

27 minutes ago, Twizzy said:

This is the best example of quality over quantity if I've ever seen one.

 

One random song from a 10 track album (Lunch was being pushed as the lead so it is indeed random ), surpassing the announced lead single of a 35? track album  and that lead did 25m first day. What a frontloaded mess

Lmfao more songs equal more songs to listen to obviously the lead song would get less streams due to that.. think a little. 

[By the Water]

Billie fans still trying to deny the autoplay allegations? Someone tell me where "organic hit" Lunch is sitting at in every platform