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

[RobynYoBank]

Massive cultural impact people just forgot to listen

[Walk_Away21]

Radical SMASHTIMISM

[Blue Monday]

Houdini's power 

 

CC was completely abandoned by Beyoncé upon release, but the tea is that she's still being discussed with the newer pop girls and managed to put up her best streaming figures (one of the biggest debuts of the year) this many years into her career so keep it cute 

 

 

[piotrert]

38 minutes ago, Bethenny Frankel said:

wait thats actually pretty shocking considering CC was smashing for months

1/4 of a month maybe

[Ivan_brit]

Yassss Dua!!!!  Radical Optimism will end up with very decent streams when the era is over, she is coming for more albums just wait

 

 

Dua always end up winning

[Cleanromantic]

People love the idea of Beyoncé more than they actually love her music. 

[LosingHimWasBlue]

Every album would surpassed Cowboy Carter. 
Even C, XoXo, and Katy's latest album. 

[James_Joint]

And?  CC had impact and I would rather have an album with 0 streams that caused conversation, than an album with billions of streams that didn't.  
 

literally everywhere I go to this day, I hear people saying things like "I listen to black country music artists now because of Cowboy Carter".  

[naval23]

One charted on the Billboard 200 for 25+ weeks and the other one did 15 weeks so

[naval23]

59 minutes ago, LosingHimWasBlue said:

Every album would surpassed Cowboy Carter. 
Even C, XoXo, and Katy's latest album. 

bless your heart

[Zaram]

I always cackle about how the Beyhive claims everytime that Beyonce released AOTY, but then even they don't stream it.

[TayDuaStan]

1 hour ago, James_Joint said:

And?  CC had impact and I would rather have an album with 0 streams

How can an album have impact without anyone listening to it? Make it make sense… 

Edited November 23 by TayDuaStan

[Sabrina Carpenter]

Beyonce can never release something as good as Houdini bffr

[Draper.]

So Dua went from having 2 of the top 3 three most streamed female albums ever to do physical-era artists' numbers. 

 

 

Wow, congrats. Such a terrible day for the hive.

 

[Johnny Jacobs]

One was heavily promoted and is a followup to a monster smash album but still flopped. 

 

One was not promoted at all and managed to reach number 1 and a number 1 single. 

 

What were you flexing about really? 

[UnRayuki]

GP rejected both, but rejected CC harder

[Badgalbriel]

5 hours ago, SweetTalker said:

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 

It's not like Texas isn't also 33% of CC total streams, right? The other 26 (!!!!!) songs barely have 900m streams combined. That's 34m average per track

[Badgalbriel]

40 minutes ago, Johnny Jacobs said:

One was heavily promoted and is a followup to a monster smash album but still flopped. 

 

One was not promoted at all and managed to reach number 1 and a number 1 single. 

 

What were you flexing about really? 

It's crazy how that #1 single is also STRUGGLING to cross 600m streams, damn. 

[Kern]

Dua Lipa Grammy 2025 Nominations - 0

Beyonce Grammy 2025 Nominations - 11 

[Badgalbriel]

3 hours ago, James_Joint said:

And?  CC had impact and I would rather have an album with 0 streams that caused conversation, than an album with billions of streams that didn't.  
 

literally everywhere I go to this day, I hear people saying things like "I listen to black country music artists now because of Cowboy Carter".  

Funny that they do that but don't listen to CC itself, uh? Almost seems like this is just your small circle of friends that don't represent reality. 

[CherryBay]

3rd album

4 singles

At least 3 music videos

endless performances 

tour

 

vs

 

Texas

album drop

and nothing

[Taemira]

literally nobody cares about beyonce's new music after 2 weeks of its release.

[UnRayuki]

Lidos are not the only fanbase with a wheel of excuses I see...

[Orsay]

Doesn't change Radical Optimism from being like the biggest MPG decline OF ALL TIME

 

but yes Cowboy Carter came and went

[Kern]

At least Bey stans didn't have to dissapear from the site and pretend they were "banned" during the album release