cherrychapstick

88. Adele 25 89. Sam Smith The Thrill of It All Oh wow

Hello, All About That Bass, and Love Me Like You Do are above it, though.

Katy and Pink (hopefully)

It deserves 2x more of that. One of her top five videos ever tbh.

The male domination The year-end music report card will at include at least three females, though.

Whew. A company buying someone's album in bulk should not be taken into account by RIAA - it doesn't reflect consumer demand at all.

Well, Happy Birthday is the one song that I can think of that everyone knows.

You forgot to include Katy's Peacock. Surprised that Nicki is only #10. If features were included, she could be in the top five

Tragic list.

But it's easier to be receptive to one Spanish song than to an album full of Spanish songs, though.

This. How can someone be so blinded by their hate for an artist that they purposefully ignore facts?

Did I categorically agree with the "smash" label that the previous poster gave CTTR? No. Stop acting like I did. That's why I said CTTR is a hit, and it doesn't matter how it underperformed. Yes, why not streams? It has more than 400 million combined streams, and growing, on YouTube and Spotify. Radio? It's not as relevant as a popular-song metric worldwide.

Did I say it was? Don't put words in my mouth. It certainly is not a smash a la Hello and Cheap Thrills; it's a hit, and its streams, the principal measure of how popular songs are these days, are the proof.

You just can't compare the two, though. It's utterly foolish. CTTR is a hit and SoKo's song is not. To think otherwise is just ridiculous.