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I just got back from watching it. It was great and seeing the film really elevated the song for me, because she captured the essence of it sooooo well. And I would say that because of the post credits scene, at least 2/3's of the packed theatre sat through the credits and heard the entire song.

This is something that every label does. Didn't Olivia's team just ship all the lenticular vinyl early for her release instead of June 26th like advertised, because they decided they wanted to get higher first week sales, rather than staggering the shipments out over multiple weeks?

It is eligible. Some articles about the updated submission rule were worded confusingly and made it sound like the song had to be included in the last 15 seconds of the film too, but it doesn't. It just simply has to be the first song in the credits AND when it is submitted, their video submission has to include the last 15 secs of the film, so they can see the context of the song and credits beginning, but it doesn't have to be playing during those 15 secs.

Yeah I just checked on Spotify and it's 11:59pm UTC time, so there is an extra hour. https://support.spotify.com/us/artists/article/understanding-spotify-charts/

Doesn't the Spotify tracking day end at 12am UTC time? So there should be 4 hours and 45 mins left.

Lainey Gossip had a post today about the radio push they are doing for the song and Taylor is previewing it to country radio and talking to them about it. I am excited that they are really serious about pushing the song. ImgBBScreenshot 2026 06 03 at 7 33 41 PM hosted at ImgBBImage Screenshot 2026 06 03 at 7 33 41 PM hosted on ImgBB

This is silly. Of course Randy Newman will have a song, he does the entire soundtrack for every Toy Story film? But most of what he composes are instrumental pieces for the score. I can't see anything confirming he has written a stand out song for it, that they will be pushing as the lead over Taylor. They have chosen to release and promote the Taylor one ahead of the film's release for a reason. It doesn't even sound like Bad Bunny has a song, it says he has a surprise after the credits. So if that's a song, it is ineligible for an Oscar, because only the first song in the credits can be nominated. But it more sounds like it's a surprise to do with the Toy Story videos he used to film during the pandemic. And lastly, it's naive to think this isn't a mutually beneficial arrangement for Taylor and Disney. She did not sign on to do this song, go take photos with the Disney CEO, and have them do this mega rollout to promote it, only for them to then turn around to run a campaign to push a different song from the film to the Academy. This is the one that they will be campaigning for.

TotC don't seem to be able to predict RSD sales. Last year they didn't include Fortnight in their top 100 prediction at all, and then it actually re-entered at #33.

She pretty much confirmed it is being released for the 20th anniversary on the Graham Norton show, but they cut that part when it aired. This person was in the audience.

Doesn't the fact that the majority of Opalite's streams will be premium streams instead of whatever the normal free + premium ratio is for a song not help counteract DtMF having more? Plus radio, and whatever the sales are on top of that. I still feel like she could take it...

I thought under the new Billboard rules you can't drop a D2C (webstore) variant mid-week during your first tracking week? Which is why she was using iTunes to make them B2C. Have her team found a way around it?

Do we think there is a possibility that the Target vinyl will be in-store only like The Anthology was for Black Friday and that's why they are doing those midnight store openings? Just seems weird that the CDs went up for pre-order, but we still haven't heard anything about the vinyl.