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She doesn’t even need a remix. release the Lover deluxe in August to coincide with the LA shows, and she’d have the #1 album and song that week.

RSD isn’t always an exclusive. Many artists in recent years do RSD “first” releases, which means they are released there first, and then months later they release them wide spread. I could see her do something like that.

It’s a bit of a different situation that the Lover in Paris vinyl. Those live versions are not part of the Lover album on any format. For LPSS, it’s actually part of the digital Folklore studio album. All the studio versions are there with the live versions tacked on at the end. Will be very interesting to see how BB decides to count it. What she should have done; I have a vinyl version of Fun’s “Some Nights” that includes a CD. She could have included the CD of the studio version of Folklore with the vinyl. Then as a whole it matches the streaming version and can all be counted as 1.

This might be a stupid question, but what are the chances she releases the LPSS on CD that week as well? Obviously the LPSS vinyl is a RSD exclusive VINYL, but does that stop her from selling a CD version from her website? Anyone who wants the vinyl would still need to go to a record store to get it. Just a thought…

I was hearing this exact same thing!

I’m sure this is a stupid question, but… the two albums will chart separately but all streams will go to the 50 track album, since that will be the highest seller?

It just got 43 adds on Pop today, so it’s clearly going to be single #3. They might as well just start pushing. im thrilled. I think it’s such a unique song for radio right now.

Counter point. Cuff it makes sense as a fall single (3rd single), summer renaissance does not. Single 2 is being released less than 2 months after BMS, single 3 is coming in Oct/Nov and Cuff It makes sense

We WON! perfect late summer pop song.

It is strange the radio version at 2:30 is so short, but that’s kind of what most people are used to as in the show it’s a shorter version that plays… so maybe that’s why the radio version is still connecting with the audience?

Dan confirmed they will be incorporating Act 2 into the current tour. He’s very excited to play the songs live.

Would be hilarious is “Laugh Now, Cry Later” ended up as a bonus track on this one after not being included in CLB. The instant album certs ??

Since we are on the topic of cover versions, Will Young does a really nice piano ballad version of this song on his greatest hits album.

I agree, a top 40 even would be nice. But I stand by my eventual Top 10, and here is why; Unlike an Oscar performance, where 20 million people hear/see a song at once, movie viewership is spread out. With an average ticket price of $10 for a movie ticket, a movie has to make $200 million for 20 million people to have seen it. Top Gun is expected to make that in its first 7 days. So while something like an Oscar performance has an immediate and substantial impact on a song, a situation like this has an immediate, slow burn, sustained impact. Radio is already on board with an audience of 20 million and growing. That will continue to grow. No sales are starting to pick up, as are YouTube streams. The best news… by Thursday if the movie is past $200 million and 20 million have seen it, there is still so much more to come! The movie reviews are 97% and this has an A+ Cinema score. People are living and connecting with the movie. It will end with an eventual $400-500 million total, or 40-50 million having seen it. so I keep saying, and so it begins, because this will be a gradual climb to greatness. And for those asking when they will release the movie version - when it’s strategic to do so. Now is not that time. Maybe Monday depending on how the song is doing at point, but maybe second week is better strategically. I am sure they are going to wait and see.

Top 3 combined on iTunes now. And so it begins…. Plus, audiences are just starting to see it. The majority of the films weekend audience haven’t even shown up yet. Expect this song to soar. Top 10 next week looking more and more likely.