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This is actually horrible, tho. #50 on digital sales was averaging 3k last year, which means that today, #50 must be doing around 2k... That’s atrocious. Songs below #100 might barely sell 1k weekly, and let’s not even talk about songs at the end of the iTunes top 1500... Like 2 copies weekly Firework is at around 7.4M pure sales. Not bad at all. Top 20 on biggest digital sellers of all time.

Adele cushioning the downfall in 2015 with the multiplie 500k+ selling weeks for "Hello", plus the 100k+ opening week of "When We Were Young”. Other artists that released in 2017 and 2019 didn’t have the same effect despite releasing more singles and having more time to do so. Anyways, this year, the average is solely thanks to the multiple 100k+ weeks from Dynamite, but as we all know, that is only due to fans mass buying from their website (2.5k fans buying 80k copies on one of those weeks, for example).

Not you saying this as if playlisting would save Taylor Me! wasn’t a hit, neither was YNTCD or any of her other singles despite playlisting. The audience just doesn’t care to stream her latest music after the first week. Ariana showing how it’s done in the longevity department while also having MULTIPLE hits inside BBHot100 top 10 (coming this week). Eminem also slaying almost 30 years into his career King

650k in pure sales.

Hopefully Taylor could do that as well, seeing the way she’s singles’ poison right now. She hasn’t had a hit since that 50 shades song from 2016. She should call Zayn again. Bieber keeps getting hit after hit. Good for him. His music is still horrible.

But wait a minute, a certain fanbase always says that album sellers cannot possibly have big selling singles. So how come we see in this list a bunch of female artists that were both huge in album AND singles sales? Adele being there TWICE with the lead singles from “21” and “25” truly THE music industry Hilary “So Yesterday” is such a MASTERPIECE!

Adele being the TRUE music industry single-handedly saving pure sales and Billboard still acknowledging it 6 years later. She will most likely do the same this year.

Cardi Tones and I The Weeknd Not WAP, an explicit song with very limited radio support and already being a streaming monster outselling in pure any Taylor song released this year I guess the 0,39c weren’t incentives enough. Lil Baby, black excellence blocking that audiobook from #1

Her power is unmatched.

Who are even those at #1 and #3? I really hope it’s not reggaetón sounding songs made by colonizers Global legend Bad Bunny remains unbothered.

Even when Cardigan was top 30 on overall Radio, the album was still needing signed copies to stay afloat Betty is also currently receiving radio airplay, the singles thing is an excuse. She’s doing terrible. Maybe she has more signed CDs for Black Friday week and it jumps from #100 to #1

Taylor EJECTED from the top 20 altogether Really underwhelming numbers for Ariana.

Don’t Start Now has 1.1 Billion streams on Spotify but just 400M in YT... LWYMMD has 1.2 Billion streams on YT but only 500M on Spotify... Blinding Lights has over 1 Billion streams on Spotify but just 300M streams on YT... And so on. The point is, that plenty of songs are big on a platform and not so much on others. Stop with the conspiracy theories.

Taylor’s biggest streaming album cannot even touch My Everything’s streams Let alone Dangerous Woman or Thank U Next.

It was pulled from iTunes, just like swifties say LWYMMD, RFI, End Game and ME were pulled from radio.