Not 30 string musicians for this song lol. Bey really just be doing ****

10 hours ago, Space&Time said:

The Jay-Z hate is what really tickles me. No one is forcing Bey fans to like Jay-Z. However considering Jay-Z is a legendary rapper, her husband, and the father of her three children, the resistance to their collaborations is hilarious as it's completely futile.

The problem is when it is not good. No one complains about CIL, DIL, Uprgade U, but yes to this one cause it is not good and it is pointless.

1 hour ago, ScorpiosGroove said:

not y'all pulling out itunes as proof of success omg why are we engaging in barbism now

Who mentioned iTunes? That tweet says Apple Music...

11 minutes ago, Lovett said:

Who mentioned iTunes? That tweet says Apple Music...

twitter hive proudly posting itunes charts as well

18 minutes ago, ScorpiosGroove said:

twitter hive proudly posting itunes charts as well

Hey, 4 sales are 4 sales.

i'm not a success stan (can't be when 4 was my favorite album of hers for a decade), so people streaming **** doesn't make it suck any less to me

Ya'll remember us and our theories during the lead-up to the MET Gala?

1 hour ago, Redporus said:

Seems every on the nose

Too on the nose for the women who deployed the "ii" motif on a tracklist to remind it was act ii?

23 minutes ago, Mitsouko said:

the way i can hear this just looking at the thumbnail

3 hours ago, ScorpiosGroove said:

not y'all pulling out itunes as proof of success omg why are we engaging in barbism now

2 hours ago, Kristie Kuwa said:

The general public also voted for Trump in the US, so theres that

1 hour ago, RedOne said:

Bey, the Trump of music. Now her being around Ivanka makes so much sense

58 minutes ago, ScorpiosGroove said:

twitter hive proudly posting itunes charts as well

My God... the pretentious wasps are out and their stingers are exposed.

Isn't each singular sale like 1000-1600 streams? I don't care if it's iTunes, Spotify, or Apple Music: I want singles to chart, and I want certifications. If these sales can help remove that 3M unit deficit between B'Day and solo albums 1 and 3 (which have both cleared the 20M unit mark)... I'll take it.

Sound-wise: the acoustic version is the best, and this success between eras for a long-unreleased discography gem gives me hope for REAL potential unreleased hits "Never Gonna Love Again," "Control," "Forever To Bleed," wedding soundtrack smash "Baby You're The Only Man," "Wake Up," "Black Culture," "Waiting," and all of those vault tracks we've never heard.

Edited August 6Aug 6 by AccioEmpireBuilder

50 minutes ago, Calypso said:

Ya'll remember us and our theories during the lead-up to the MET Gala?

The what? I pretend that never happened

13 minutes ago, AccioEmpireBuilder said:

I want singles to chart, and I want certifications. If these sales can help remove that 3M unit deficit between B'Day and solo albums 1 and 3 (which have both cleared the 20M unit mark)... I'll take it.

for that to happen we'd need the audience to buy these remixes first, which they aren't

14 minutes ago, ScorpiosGroove said:

for that to happen we'd need the audience to buy these remixes first, which they aren't

Clearly they are if the remix pack EP is charting alongside the new Ariana Grande album. We'll see how things pan out in the next few days now that the bigger accounts have pushed buying each remix track separately in the last 24 hours.

Wait.. the mix on Spotify is kinda terrible. It's that what you all been hearing?

The fact that she is still selling valentines collection in her web store …

Edited August 6Aug 6 by LVP

Imagine using iTunes as a measure of success in 2026…

11 minutes ago, AccioEmpireBuilder said:

Clearly they are if the remix pack EP is charting alongside the new Ariana Grande album. We'll see how things pan out in the next few days now that the bigger accounts have pushed buying each remix track separately in the last 24 hours.

girl… it's 2026

5 minutes ago, Draper. said:

Wait.. the mix on Spotify is kinda terrible. It's that what you all been hearing?

it sounds like ass on AM too

1 minute ago, Redporus said:

Imagine using iTunes as a measure of success in 2026…

• 1 iTunes song sale = 150 premium streams.

• 1 iTunes song sale = 250 ad supported streams.

• 1 iTunes album/EP sale = 1500 premium streams.

• 1 iTunes album/EP sale = 2500 ad supported streams.

2 hours ago, RedOne said:

Not 30 string musicians for this song lol. Bey really just be doing ****

the way the strings are down deep on the mix, like we can barely hear them, just like the i am yours concert

1 minute ago, ScorpiosGroove said:

girl… it's 2026

And....? The hive is generally too old to stream consistently.

There's a reason why Beyoncé is still top 5 for most Billboard Digital Song Sales #1s among artists (12-tied with Eminem, and only after Taylor (29), Nicki (17), Rihanna (14), and Justin / Drake (13)), and keeps collecting them for one-offs like "Black Parade."

2 hours ago, RedOne said:

Not 30 string musicians for this song lol. Bey really just be doing ****

Lol.

They are definitely going for Grammys. Reading that read like the type of clipping to accompany submissions.

Hoping "this" isn't the "stay tuned" ish Pharrell was teasing before.

Ps. Signed someone who actually likes the remix (a bit)

2 minutes ago, AccioEmpireBuilder said:

And....? The hive is generally too old to stream consistently.

There's a reason why Beyoncé is still top 5 for most Billboard Digital Song Sales #1s among artists (12-tied with Eminem, and only after Taylor (29), Nicki (17), Rihanna (14), and Justin / Drake (13)), and keeps collecting them for one-offs like "Black Parade."

Wait a second. Are u a dupe? Do i smell a stunt? Girlbye, kingdom, is that you? I feel like im tasting a Parkwood employee once again

the line between hive and barbs gets frighteningly blurry