2 hours ago, Joaco95 said:

I screamed!!!

9 hours ago, ScorpiosGroove said:

featuring rihanna as the mechanical bull since she's not gonna contribute much vocally

Rihanna is the Suga Mama

or not!

10 hours ago, ScorpiosGroove said:

Bro i'm in literal tears

Imagine if she used this B'Day remix album as a massive streaming play?

Stay with me...

Bey is notoriously curated when it comes to her collaborations these days: easy streaming wins would come from collabs with Rihanna, Ari, Taylor, Adele, Bruno, Drake (pre-NLU), Cardi, and similar. Instead, we get Tems, Grace Jones, Shaboozey (pre-breakout), rising Country girls, and a sprinkle of the commercial with Miley and Post.

IMO, it's deliberate and is a branding statement. Very much a "I could play the popularity game by collabing with y'all and net the benefits, but I'm an artiste, and that takes precedence. Art n tings."

At the same time, it's not lost on me, as Chart Hive, how much she/her team still play the game to keep her numbers where they need to be. We need not get into the specifics, but they do (vinyls, playlisting, social seeding etc).

With that, it would be epic if she covertly used the B'Day re-issue to give us some of these dream collabs while simultaneously driving up her streaming momentum ahead of Act III.

Factually, big streaming collabs help her profile, live on the collab artist's page too (thus huge exposure), and feed her monthly listeners going into what could be Act III anywhere from late Q4 into early Q1. Much like Rennie acted as a primer for CC and helped the latter's performance out of the gate from a momentum perspective.

Our girl likes to give "artiste", so using what will be packaged as a "fan-service" reissue to covertly help her streams feels like a smart play optically. She could go all out on the collabs (literally a whole collab disc) with as many heavy hitters as necessary, reap the rewards, and drop a totally solo, or characteristically "against the grain" high-art collabs for Act III and no one would flinch nor even really notice what she pulled off.

And because it's a slam dunk idea...it won't happen lol

her Spotify boosts have been... interesting

Mathew's stronghold over DC is so jarring.

Sidebar: I actually like Matty and respect everything he did for the group and Bey solo. He's one of the all-time great managers, and I will never ever get how some of the Hive think they get to the Bey we have today without him. The industry is not a meritocracy where she is guaranteed to have thrived off being talented alone. Matty is one of the nuclei for what we have and enjoy today. But I digress....

In owning the DC brand, it's clear he's holding onto it for dear life and is embarking on a bunch of below-par ventures to maximize the little power he has left.

The other girls appear to grin and bear it, likely in the name of their loyalty to Bey and historical respect for what he did for them as a group. But you can equally see there's minimal social interaction. Similarly, Bey does not interact at all.

It's annoying because DC really feels like a huge card to play in her arsenal. She could easily generate "Beyonce-like-buzz" for anything she does with them, be that a reunion tour, a special, music etc. But the fact it's tied to Mathew atm makes it feels like a no-go for them all.

I also get the sense she doesn't want to go down the commercial showdown route with him. Because it's crystal clear that she/they would have to buy him out, and it's safe to say it wouldn't be cheap. That's if he wants to sell at all. Not to mention his clear desire to remain attached to the brand in one capacity or the other. Which, when it's your own dad, makes it so damn awkward.

Would love to be surprised and see a "something" with DC in the future, but I just don't see it happening as it is now, with Matty in the mix. Which is hella sad as someone who wants it real bad and sees it as a much stronger card to play than anything else with Jay.

21 hours ago, SashaDevachelli said:

Suena La Alarma ft Christina

Do we know what's causing this boost for her discography on Spotify?

Just now, nooniebao said:

Do we know what's causing this boost for her discography on Spotify?

the check cleared Morning Dew maybe

we wanted streaming numbers up so I'm not questioning why numbers are going up. Maybe Yvette finally found the parkwood checkbook

her numbers always tend to go up when there's a new era coming

autoplay has been favoring some of the B'Day and DIL tracks, weirdly including WWW and WTH

8 minutes ago, Jon Snow said:

autoplay has been favoring some of the B'Day and DIL tracks, weirdly including WWW and WTH

nothing weird about promoting God Fearing Woman and ha slayage

24 minutes ago, Jon Snow said:

her numbers always tend to go up when there's a new era coming

autoplay has been favoring some of the B'Day and DIL tracks, weirdly including WWW and WTH

No one will be tuning into the reissue after listening to THAT. That song gives "Have you heard of this hot new thing called the internet?" except it was 2006

From Tiffany Evans:

can you imagine a collab B'Day reissue to boost her streaming stats...

one second im a #ThankYouBeyonce then suddenly the #ThankYouShakira is me..

Autoplay ON!

it's a CRIME that Renaissance is pulling Lemonade type of numbers. Reny should have never went below 1M

1 hour ago, Starshine said:

can you imagine a collab B'Day reissue to boost her streaming stats...

one second im a #ThankYouBeyonce then suddenly the #ThankYouShakira is me..

hope the reissue is only for the standard edition

just had the terrible thought that it's not impossible for her to announce this anniversary thing and then go "mmmmm nvm" before deleting the files and going on another vacation

she's def gonna resurrect Halo as a rock ballad on the next tour and I'm ready for it.

1 hour ago, cloudbusting said:

just had the terrible thought that it's not impossible for her to announce this anniversary thing and then go "mmmmm nvm" before deleting the files and going on another vacation

I can't remember her ever formally announcing a project and releasing a single to a project that never came to fruition (with a full press release at that)... but there's always a first time, I guess.

Today's streaming numbers are still under what she deserves, but I am so glad she's finally getting some boosts though.