Radical Optimism surpasses Cowboy Carter in Spotify total streams. What happened?

[SoundsandSongs]

The 3rd album of an artist debuting in the streaming era following her peak FN outstreaming an artist almost 30yrs into her career is not an achievement. 

 

Beyonces 3rd album was IASF which is significantly more successful than RO. Dua is outstreaming because shes coming off her peak era and has a huge advantage as a much newer artist. But she will never catch up to Beyonce's physical or digital sales.

[SoundsandSongs]

26 minutes ago, FrederickGa said:

because Beyonce's numbers are always mehhh considering how twas projected by MEDIA as some sort of second coming of Christ or soemthng

Meh numbers yet Beyonce has higher total spotify streams, higher youtube views, higher sales and higher units moved than your fave?

 

Let's not even get into touring power or net worth where Beyonce demolishes.

Edited November 23 by SoundsandSongs

[FrederickGa]

5 minutes ago, SoundsandSongs said:

Meh numbers yet Beyonce has higher total spotify streams, higher youtube views, higher sales and higher units moved than your fave?

 

Let's not even get into touring power or net worth where Beyonce demolishes.

Total tracks/Daily Streams

 

Beyonce - 441/11.3M

Lady Gaga - 345/22.5M

Lady Gaga without DWAS&Disease - 343/11.4M

 

[SoundsandSongs]

Just now, FrederickGa said:

Total tracks/Daily Streams

 

Beyonce - 441/11.3M

Lady Gaga - 345/22.5M

Lady Gaga without DWAS&Disease - 343/11.4M

 

It's a long debunked myth total tracks/daily streams is a failed formula when you could remove 300 of Beyonce's "songs" and her total would barely budge. That 441 includes karaoke tracks, instrumentals and remixes, some of which pull 0 streams daily.

 

My point still stands, in every metric Beyonce has a more successful career. Most evidently in units moved and net worth.

[HANZ94]

Cowboy Carter is Beyoncé's worst album and one of the worst released this year by a major pop girl so not surprising 

Houdini alone is catchier than anything in CC 

 

[Into The Void]

Houdini ha powa

[taylorrrr]

48 minutes ago, By the Water said:

The Hive will write you an essay about how incredible Beyoncé's music is but will refuse to actually listen to it

It's SO GOOD that the Audience turned it OFF. Maybe the Professor from Yale that teaches the Beyonce Class can get her class to stream it as part of the passing requirement.  

[enchanted0]

1 hour ago, TayDuaStan said:

CC debuted with, let me check, 76 million streams and has 30 tracks, RO debuted with 20 million streams and has only 11 tracks… 

Let's see Dua's next album outstreams 4 

[brazil]

Provided atrls reaction to both of these releases, this is indeed surprising. Dula stays winning

[Broken]

Both flops.

[willmcclure9]

Dua is a GP darling. It is expected. 

 

People talk about Beyonces music, but no one actually listens to it, especially not the GP.

[Broken]

1 hour ago, By the Water said:

The Hive will write you an essay about how incredible Beyoncé's music is but will refuse to actually listen to it

Lmaooo.

[Loca]

So it's no longer a bigger flop than Cowboy Carter, just a flop. Good for her. 

[El Chico]

It's a Friday night can you at least use your time on something that has a positive impact on yourself instead of trying to make fun of a woman that's 20+ years in her industry, has criticality acclaim work, multiple awards, millions of sales, rich, and beautiful. 
 

And you are trying to laugh……at HER?! ******* bum

[Loca]

So it's no longer a bigger flop than Cowboy Carter, just a flop. Good for her. 

[Broken]

1 hour ago, By the Water said:

The Hive will write you an essay about how incredible Beyoncé's music is but will refuse to actually listen to it

Lmaooo.

[Taylena]

Beyoncé didn't do as successfully as her stans have claimed, but that's not great for Dua Lipa either, considering her last album is at over 13B streams, with some singles of hers having more streams than the entire Radical Optimism album. 

[Jack!]

I mean, Houdini, Training Season and Illusion are really the driving forces behind this, considering none of the album tracks have hit 100M on their own yet.  But regardless, Radical Optimism deserves its flowers in whatever way it can get them, since it's a much better album than ATRL gives it credit for.

[grAntVRIL]

these walls did that

[period sis]

What happened? She had more promoted singles, live performances, videos, and much more. She has two albums with 10b+ streams and she JUST surpassed an album from someone in the cassette tape era who spent more promotion on Whiskey and a shampoo line. The standards must not be that high for miss peep!

[SweetTalker]

1 hour ago, TeemoR said:

To be honest, Dua Lipa barely surpassing Beyonce who usually flops in streaming is not a big achievement  

And the fact that 3 songs alone amount to 1.2 billion out of those 1.5b  I love Dua but lol at this achievement 

[dumbsparce]

Mediocrity won

Smoke & mirrors lost

 

[Punky Rooster]

Because Dua is a MPG and Beyoncé is a legacy act good for a 90s throwback  

[Pheromosa]

Beyonce wants to be indie so badly, well she got it now

[Bethenny Frankel]

wait thats actually pretty shocking considering CC was smashing for months