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

[Solaria]

31 minutes ago, Kern said:

not TayDuaStan getting kicked out of the fanbase 

Contious wrong opinions about RO, plus suggesting that DL3 should have just been all scraps from the Future Nostalgia era, that Happy for You is the only good song off of RO. Now this. That user just keeps making it worse for himself

 

[Kern]

5 minutes ago, Solaria said:

suggesting that DL3 should have just been all scraps from the Future Nostalgia era, that Happy for You is the only good song off of RO. 

[smartalek22]

3 hours ago, Badgalbriel said:

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

How many streams has IION TV? 

[TayDuaStan]

20 minutes ago, smartalek22 said:

How many streams has IION TV? 

More than Beyoncé's 2022 lead single and previous #1, Break My Soul… 

Edited yesterday at 12:22 PM by TayDuaStan

[WildHeart]

3 hours ago, Johnny Jacobs said:

No chile. This is crazy 

 

 

Sold out theaters 

 

Meanwhile

[period sis]

7 hours ago, TayDuaStan said:

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

People : is it a good song ?

Swifties : IT CHARTED

[Johnny Jacobs]

46 minutes ago, WildHeart said:

Sold out theaters 

 

Meanwhile

Okay? How does that answer to what i wrote tho? Did I say the cult members failed to fill seats? Read honey, it's important. 

[burninredhot]

1 hour ago, Johnny Jacobs said:

Okay? How does that answer to what i wrote tho? Did I say the cult members failed to fill seats? Read honey, it's important. 

The nerve some of yall have to call others weird and cultish when you're a user on a pop forum with a monkey touching a shirtless man's pecs on your avi  let's get some self awareness sis

[Johnny Jacobs]

2 minutes ago, burninredhot said:

The nerve some of yall have to call others weird and cultish when you're a user on a pop forum with a monkey touching a shirtless man's pecs on your avi  let's get some self awareness sis

When I'll be doing worshiping rituals in a movie theater, then you can talk to me. Until then, stream you need to calm down. 

[Wicked]

1,5B for that type of album on Spotify is good tho. 

 

CC automatically had less of an audience because Roots music is local (y'all been saying this on here for 500 years and you denigrate American music that isn't Pop) whereas RO is a Pop album intended for mass appeal... Them reaching the same markers isn't a win for the latter album lol. CC actually overperformed commercially likely because of Beyonce's name.

 

And no streams don't reflect quality, that's mad ignorant. My favorite album this year has less than 2M spotify plays I think

[Dula Peep]

The clown truly came back to bite 

[JonginBey]

Trying to create a stan war over who's making more pennies from Spotify. *****, you're bored.

[Heart.me]

Because Houdini is a masterpiece better than the whole CC era. 

[Heart.me]

Because Houdini is a masterpiece better than the whole CC era. 

[KarmaCat]

15 hours ago, Blade Runner said:

Mind you RO indeed is like the biggest flop ever. Beyonce's PR machine is CRAZY. 

This is the only reasonable conclusion I've gotten on this. Bey's PR machine is crazy good that her flops are just being ignored left and right

[Erreur2 La Nature]

It will be funny if Cowboy Carter wins at the Grammy Awards considering it is her least deserving album lol. RO is a good album, no matter what ATRLers pretend, I am glad the public seems to continue enjoying it.

[Walk_Away21]

Not people blaming the genre like country music isn't huge rn

[shyboi]

i feel terrible admitting this but i never went back to CC while godini and godning season are in constant rotation

[James_Joint]

17 hours ago, TayDuaStan said:

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

 

14 hours ago, tost1 said:

You just made that up

Not the beyonce stans being so delusional that people thought I was being serious 

[Bussea]

the flop off

[James_Joint]

23 hours ago, LegaMyth said:

More people spent MONEY on CC. That's what happened.

 

Also, Dua Lipa's first 2 albums surpassed 10 billion streams. This is her 3rd album. Bey's 3rd album was IASF, which became her biggest album to date.

 

You tried. Try harder.

Sabrina Carpenter and Charli would like to have a word 

[LegaMyth]

35 minutes ago, James_Joint said:

Sabrina Carpenter and Charli would like to have a word 

None of those b*****s have an album as impactful or successful as IASF.

[Truth Teller]

16 hours ago, shyboi said:

i feel terrible admitting this but i never went back to CC while godini and godning season are in constant rotation

This pretty much sums up why RO outstreamed.

 

CC had an amazing start and I remember people loving it on first listen (sure, half were bandwagoners but I'm sure the other half actually loved it), but after the first impression washed away, they had nothing to do with it. Most of it is not the music they normally listen to and doesn't fit into their playlists and it's so long and genre-bending that it's hard to isolate individual songs. She really needed to actually push this one and actively create highlights and "force" people to go back to the album.

 

On the contrary, no one paid attention to RO as a full album (the 20M average per song is shocking for her), but all she needed to get ahead in the long run was just 2 songs that people actually know and are listening to

[Peak Now]

People talking about "streams =/÷ quality!!!" as if they weren't lashing Disease in the Spotify thread