seanbworth

The Spotify numbers are gonna be absolute tea later…

For NYE? I feel like DTN could do 3-4M+ tbh

Venting: God there’s nothing I hate more than a success stan. Always complaining about numbers, complaining about promo not being enough, complaining about the song not having the formula to be a hit; always criticizing the artist for every little thing just cause of some chart placement and always never knowing when to stfu about it. people like that ruin the fun for everyone else. The amount of ppl on Twitter who were gagging over Houdini just to say it “aged” after first week and start switching on Dua is crazy. I don’t even blame the loves here for not even wanting to engage in this thread anymore, and it doesn’t even surprise me that the Twitter loves that genuinely enjoy Houdini like I do aren’t even active anymore because their tl (just like mine) are filled with people complaining about numbers.

The only thing that’ll make or break Houdini in America are the callouts. It going viral or not won’t help if the radio support is giving Guts era.

She still lost less than songs around the same numbers, I was just giving an example.

Houdini — Spotify Update: - WW: #32(-3) 2,209,936 streams USA: #114(-15) 355,754 streams UK: #35(-9) 153,839 streams AUS: #19(-3) 114,998 streams Overall, not a bad Sunday update despite Holiday songs steamrolling their way in, we only lost a little over 400k streams compared to others (i.e. greedy lost over 600k). The only obvious thing I see here is that the America (at least for now) has rejected Houdini completely. Dance The Night, WWIMF, and even Daylight by that David Kushner guy is above it on Spotify US

Why do everyone always say this when Physical wasn’t even serviced as an American single? It’s not even the same situation.

Just came back here to say if you’re looking for a good laugh just go for a quick recap on the Dance The Night thread. Idk what’s funnier, the swan song 2.0 allegations or the “this is a top 30 hit at best”

The US streams are in the gutter

History is repeating itself with these Dua threads I remember when DSN came out and the antis back then were saying it had “no chance” of being a hit in NA since America ditched disco. DSN suffered the same abysmal weekend updates in Nov and they all joked about her having a sophomore slump just for it to blow up in 2020 and become one of her career highlights, it’s embarrassing that we even entertain these haters.

The points are low due to Hot 100 restrictions Billboard themselves implemented. The chart points being low doesn’t make it easier to hit #1 or top 10 because that doesn’t make any sense. The methodology as a whole shrinks everyone’s points.

Xmas climate has started extremely early this year and is killing everyone’s streams so there’s really no point in worrying too much about Houdini’s numbers right now. Look at DSN & Levitating remix around this time in their respective years, completely abysmal updates. January is the month where we can truly judge whether this is a hit or a flop for Dua, it already seems like its gonna be a massive European single next year.

Nobody is talking about Dance The Night, it had a pretty impressive Spotify update, increasing on US Spotify. It’s extremely stable now on the weekend updates too which we struggled with for MONTHS , haha! Coming to the conclusion that the American GP still recognizes Dance The Night as Dua’s huge comeback. Houdini will probably get that attention in 2024, I’m sure!

Thanks for foreshadowing exactly what y’all are going to use as an excuse if this song ends up taking off in January. There’s always an excuse when she smashes.

With this logic I can use Drake as an interesting artist whose song that went No. 1 with SZA on first week is currently sitting at No. 70 on the charts. Two big massive names on a song, both of which have really strong support bases. Is the problem with Drake still lack of interest despite ‘smashing out the gate’ ? Surely that’s the only explanation for why people who tend to smash out the gate always fall off after a month tops.