Marooned@Midnight
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Post by Marooned@Midnight on Aug 11, 2012 17:35:19 GMT -5
I am sooooo ready for Let Me Down. Please let it be time!
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Post by AP on Aug 11, 2012 17:36:42 GMT -5
How has it been doing on iTunes this week? It's currently 33. In the past week, the highest it's been is 29, and the lowest is 33.
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Post by Peaches. [Ch, r. is] on Aug 11, 2012 17:37:08 GMT -5
I hope it isn't over yet. I hope it is. I was #TeamDarkSide from the moment the demo leaked, but it's taken way too long to do anything. For the sake of album sales and single #4, I'm hoping RCA will release the next single soon. #Unlikely
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Post by james on Aug 11, 2012 17:47:31 GMT -5
I wonder if we'll get a video for the fourth and likely final single this era.
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Post by Love Plastic Love on Aug 11, 2012 18:09:36 GMT -5
I hope it isn't over yet. I hope it is. I was #TeamDarkSide from the moment the demo leaked, but it's taken way too long to do anything. For the sake of album sales and single #4, I'm hoping RCA will release the next single soon. #Unlikely They won't though. We will sit with Dark Side for the rest of the year and then they will heave something out in January with no promo :/ So, might as well get as much mileage out of Dark Side as possible.
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on Aug 11, 2012 19:41:37 GMT -5
I thought this would be top 20 on here by now. I wonder what the hold up is. :(
It's definitely one of the best pop songs on the radio atm. I don't understand why some stations are resisting this.
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Post by nick64 on Aug 11, 2012 21:49:37 GMT -5
I just love this thread
One day- so-so update- "Give it time. It will be a hit eventually." Next day- good update- "Yes! Smashing! Top 10 here we come!" Day after- bad update- "This is dead. Single #4 please!"
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2012 21:55:50 GMT -5
^The pattern is getting kind of stale though. Perhaps we need to be more extreme.
I recommend: Good Update: spamming gifs of wig snatching, and claiming this will be the next #1 on Hot 100 and CHR/Pop for 10 weeks So-So Update: spamming gifs of wig snatching, and claiming this will slowly make its way to #1 until the holidays, where it will be this years big Christmas seller Bad Update: spamming gifs of kelly getting her wig snatched and claiming she will be dropped from the label faster than Adam Lambert
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The song has been getting leapfrogged by a lot of upcoming hits though, so that does mean that stations really are ignoring this for other hits. And it's hard to tell if they will ever come around to this or not, and it's just up in the air and not something that can really predicted one way or the other though.
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Post by strikeleo on Aug 11, 2012 22:28:12 GMT -5
Honestly, at this point and time, it isn't worth the trouble of going through another month so this can get to top 15. Sales are dropping and the single really isn't doing it's main job: promoting the album. Let's cut our losses and move on to a better single. To be clear, I'm not saying this is done, I'm just saying that even if it isn't, do you guys think it's worth waiting a month so this can reach the top 15 and be considered less of a flop?
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Post by bigb0882 on Aug 11, 2012 22:39:12 GMT -5
Honestly, at this point and time, it isn't worth the trouble of going through another month so this can get to top 15. Sales are dropping and the single really isn't doing it's main job: promoting the album. Let's cut our losses and move on to a better single. To be clear, I'm not saying this is done, I'm just saying that even if it isn't, do you guys think it's worth waiting a month so this can reach the top 15 and be considered less of a flop? I bet Ellie Goulding wishes you were part of her label team.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2012 22:43:06 GMT -5
Honestly, at this point and time, it isn't worth the trouble of going through another month so this can get to top 15. Sales are dropping and the single really isn't doing it's main job: promoting the album. Let's cut our losses and move on to a better single. To be clear, I'm not saying this is done, I'm just saying that even if it isn't, do you guys think it's worth waiting a month so this can reach the top 15 and be considered less of a flop? I bet Ellie Goulding wishes you were part of her label team. While I get what you are saying and agree with it to a degree, non-standard chart runs like that are the exception, not the rule.
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Post by strikeleo on Aug 11, 2012 22:56:35 GMT -5
Honestly, at this point and time, it isn't worth the trouble of going through another month so this can get to top 15. Sales are dropping and the single really isn't doing it's main job: promoting the album. Let's cut our losses and move on to a better single. To be clear, I'm not saying this is done, I'm just saying that even if it isn't, do you guys think it's worth waiting a month so this can reach the top 15 and be considered less of a flop? I bet Ellie Goulding wishes you were part of her label team. Ellie Goulding is a completely different case, though. 'Lights' was her best shot at breaking into the U.S. market, and she didn't have any other material that'd have a better shot. Plus, she was not known in the U.S., so, yes, radio took its time playing a song from an unknown artist. Kelly is a well established artist and radio simply isn't feeling this song too much. The comparison made is just really bad.
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Post by ClevelandRox on Aug 11, 2012 23:09:37 GMT -5
^^ In his argument, Kelly is an established artist that doesn't need "rush releases".
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Post by james on Aug 12, 2012 0:06:06 GMT -5
^^ In his argument, Kelly is an established artist that doesn't need "rush releases". When has Kelly ever had rush releases though, and even if they dropped darkside now, that imo wouldn't count as a rush realase. The single has been out forever and has already flopped in some of Kelly's strongest international markets. The fact is the album is selling less than 7K a week and the single hasn't even hit the top 40 billboard - something relativity unheard of when it comes to Kelly Clarkson releases (when given the single full treatment).
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Post by james on Aug 12, 2012 0:09:07 GMT -5
I just love this thread One day- so-so update- "Give it time. It will be a hit eventually." Next day- good update- "Yes! Smashing! Top 10 here we come!" Day after- bad update- "This is dead. Single #4 please!" Actually, we consistently had so-so updates through this entire songs chart run. Have we ever had a 1.0+AI update? Even on HAC the song is losing steam.
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Post by Peaches. [Ch, r. is] on Aug 12, 2012 0:25:18 GMT -5
I just love this thread One day- so-so update- "Give it time. It will be a hit eventually." Next day- good update- "Yes! Smashing! Top 10 here we come!" Day after- bad update- "This is dead. Single #4 please!" i'll be sure to bring up single #4 discussion the next time we get a "good" update of "+54". Are we really getting to the point where we can't even talk about the next single without people complaining? DS may not be done but, as a fan, I think I have the right to show genuine concern about the end of this era.
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Post by dbhmr on Aug 12, 2012 0:39:36 GMT -5
Well fuck.
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Post by keyboard on Aug 12, 2012 5:38:49 GMT -5
This song is just too amazing to be dead. I don't understand why it isn't smashing because it's vocally superior among any other songs in the Top 40 as of the moment, not too mention that the song is catchy too.
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Post by hitseeker. on Aug 12, 2012 5:57:33 GMT -5
22 23 KELLY CLARKSON Dark Side 3111 2930 181 18.169
+7 Spins -46 Bullet -0.106 AI
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on Aug 12, 2012 6:27:38 GMT -5
*poundsfistontable* Come on!!
Updates like this are why I'm starting to hate pop radio. It was soo close to the top 20 here and all of a sudden, it decides to lose positions.
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Post by Marooned@Midnight on Aug 12, 2012 7:47:23 GMT -5
This was never the right choice for a pop single in the summer of 2012. I really don't get the shocked reactions. It would have been shocking if this WAS a hit, not the other way around.
It is a shame because I feel that if it had followed another #1 multi-format smash this summer, which IMO could have been either LMD or IFY, this could have done so much more this fall. Now that scenario is out of the window and I don't doubt that single 4's performance will be hurt because it gets to ride the coattails of this instead of WDKY. <3 u 2 RCA.
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Post by onefrayedrepublic on Aug 12, 2012 9:27:50 GMT -5
This was never the right choice for a pop single in the summer of 2012. I really don't get the shocked reactions. It would have been shocking if this WAS a hit, not the other way around. I am disappointed it even got this far. We could have already have moved onto a good single by now...
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Post by franklin on Aug 12, 2012 10:16:41 GMT -5
not here for these updates I am disappointed it even got this far. We could have already have moved onto a good single by now... this is RCA tho. If this is truly the end of DS, don't expect a new single until mid-October.
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Post by dbhmr on Aug 12, 2012 10:27:22 GMT -5
I can't get too bent out of shape about this. Its performance makes it oh-so-easy for the hindsight posters to talk about the other smashes that could have been, but I'll always be glad they went with this because it always had the potential to do more for her than any song left on the album--it just didn't fall that way it seems for whatever reason. But it was a bit of a risk and my favorite off the album, so at least they tried.
Besides, I'm going to have to start getting used to the idea that Kelly is going to release great songs that don't get great Pop traction within the next few years. I'd prefer her to get another smash or three before that happens, but as disappointed as I am by this song's performance, I can't complain too much about it.
And I also really don't get it. It fits in with Pop radio just fine.
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Post by strikeleo on Aug 12, 2012 10:30:13 GMT -5
not here for these updates I am disappointed it even got this far. We could have already have moved onto a good single by now... this is RCA tho. If this is truly the end of DS, don't expect a new single until mid-October. You're being too positive. This will probably linger until october, when it should start falling. Expect a new single in January or so, with no promotion and no sort of push (just like AIEW). This wasn't that bad of a choice, it just didn't suit today's climate. I'm glad she released because that's what Kelly wanted, but I wish they would have waited a single longer. If single 3 had been successful, they could've released this and it'd have done much better.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2012 10:47:06 GMT -5
Watch them finally decide to release a new single, and then this song pulls an Already Gone and starts doing well once the fall hits.
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Post by picklerclarkson on Aug 12, 2012 11:14:38 GMT -5
Regardless of how this performs I'm glad it was a single since it is one of Kelly's best songs to date. If it can hang on a little longer I think it can start to gain traction in the next couple weeks with the summer coming to an end. If not I hope IFY is released in September.
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Post by G-Reg on Aug 12, 2012 13:38:04 GMT -5
This would have performed even worse as a 4th single, so maybe putting this out first as a top 20 hit will pave the way for IFY as a top 10 4th single. :)
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Post by slayZ on Aug 12, 2012 13:43:16 GMT -5
This would have performed even worse as a 4th single, so maybe putting this out first as a top 20 hit will pave the way for IFY as a top 10 4th single. :) On the contrary. Its underperformance is not only causing the album to suffer in terms of sales, it's hurting the fourth single's run because radio will now be even more hesitant to play it.
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Post by neally on Aug 12, 2012 16:21:13 GMT -5
Perhaps I am being overly naive, but I am not confident that this song is over yet.
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