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

[Vermouth]

9 minutes ago, Kern said:

Dua Lipa Grammy 2025 Nominations - 0

Beyonce Grammy 2025 Nominations - 11 

And what does that actually say do you think?

 

Go on, we all know really.

 

[Kern]

Just now, Vermouth said:

And what does that actually say do you think?

 

Go on, we all know really.

 

Beyonce got more nominations than Dua 

[TayDuaStan]

8 minutes ago, Kern said:

Beyonce got more nominations than Dua 

Thank you, Jay-Z

[ReneighIsHere]

Wow, a basic pop album by a new popstar with 3 autoplayed singles surpassed a genre-bending country album with 1 official single by 0.1M streams. This is such a win for Dua 

 

Edited Saturday at 09:50 AM by ReneighIsHere

[Gaia]

I'm more surprised CC is struggling to even pass 2B streams

[tost1]

You can't spell success without dua!!!

[Draper.]

59 minutes ago, Badgalbriel said:

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

End of an Era - 36m

Watcha Doing - 26m

French Exit - 17m

Falling Forever - 22m

Anything for Love - 13m

Maria - 16m

Happy for You - 21m

 

What are you even trying to flex about? 

[Beyoncelovesme]

8 hours ago, TayDuaStan said:

Radical Optimism: 1.549 Billion streams

Cowboy Carter: 1.548 Billion streams

But I thought RO was an abysmal flop & CC was AOTY. What happened? 

Invested much? 
 

album of the year isn't mutually exclusive to commercial popularity, in fact they have moved the goal post for Beyoncé many times before. 
 

case in point

Beck winning over Beyonce (2013)

 

outside of that, look at how Beyonce managed to get those streams without lifting a finger — no promo, no videos, etc. 

im not sure how Dua has gone about promoting her album, but I'd argue she's likely done more than Beyoncé plus Beyoncé is an industry veteran, I'd argue she's doing just fine and that in itself might be a bit of an understatement tbqh

 

anywho, Beyoncé is a Queen, Dua is a Queen!

 

Beyoncé is Queen Supreme in my humble opinion, the receipts are there. 

[Badgalbriel]

7 minutes ago, Draper. said:

End of an Era - 36m

Watcha Doing - 26m

French Exit - 17m

Falling Forever - 22m

Anything for Love - 13m

Maria - 16m

Happy for You - 21m

 

What are you even trying to flex about? 

That CC is not in much better situation than RO like the other user tried to imply 

[tost1]

4 hours ago, James_Joint said:

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

You just made that up

[Draper.]

2 minutes ago, Badgalbriel said:

That CC is not in much better situation than RO like the other user tried to imply 

Cowboy Carter album tracks: 879m (22 tracks: 40m average per track)

Radical Optimism album tracks: 151m (7 tracks: 21m average per track)

 

It's not really close either. 

[Badgalbriel]

Just now, Draper. said:

Cowboy Carter album tracks: 879m (22 tracks: 40m average per track)

Radical Optimism album tracks: 151m (7 tracks: 21m average per track)

 

It's not really close either. 

40 million is nothing to brag about.

[Draper.]

Just now, Badgalbriel said:

40 million is nothing to brag about.

I'm not the one that opened a thread trying to brag about anything, just stated it's not close.

[Johnny Jacobs]

1 hour ago, Badgalbriel said:

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

No chile. This is crazy 

 

 

[Solaria]

Y'all need to learn to not compare where we don't compete. The only artists us Loves can drag are Camila and Miley. Learn something phags!!!

[Solaria]

We reject TayDuaStan from the Loves base btw he needs to carry his ass back to the Swiftie base where he belongs

[Badgalbriel]

48 minutes ago, Johnny Jacobs said:

No chile. This is crazy 

 

 

Dedicated fans? 

[Kern]

not TayDuaStan getting kicked out of the fanbase 

[G.U.Y.]

It's always so funny to see the hive melting down at the slightest shade.

 

The House of Diddion lady is a legacy act, though. 

[Delirious]

It's payola. Love Dua but do you see her playlist reach? Even now...

[Mariano]

The way stans would compare anything with anything without putting an ounce of thought  

Edited Saturday at 11:25 AM by Mariano

[Princess Aurora]

Maybe the wait until January was right all along....

[LosingHimWasBlue]

4 hours ago, TayDuaStan said:

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

They are living in their own bubble 

[Johnny Jacobs]

24 minutes ago, Badgalbriel said:

Dedicated fans? 

Dedication isn't always positive sis. 

[Feanor]

This is Beyoncé's 8th solo album, her 13th (!) in her overall career when you consider that she actually started out in 1997, 20 years before Dua's first album.

 

A streaming era artist on her 3rd album outstreaming a veteran from another era of music & who's been here for multiple decades is not the "gotcha" moment some people here think it is.