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Post by graham on Mar 25, 2018 9:04:23 GMT -5
This is soooo good!
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Post by Love Plastic Love on Mar 25, 2018 10:19:12 GMT -5
"Africa" has become a meme, which prompted the rise in its streaming. + I can vouch is has a following in the college party scene Yeah I have seen several people mention Africa as an example that should prove something about streaming patterns like it is an old song and even it can go top 200! but it definitely had or is having a viral moment for some reason. Several of the frats in my area were playing it on loop all day and there were articles like this coming out lol nypost.com/2018/02/01/totos-africa-is-somehow-a-millennial-frat-anthem-and-the-band-is-boggledI mean, like, overall I agree that it is shocking that Meghan isn't even top 200 on streams, but I am not sure Africa is a good example showing how shocking it is since it seems like it is sticking around the 200 mark during a viral/meme moment directed by the biggest streaming audience out there (millennials and younger) lol. But yeah, overall, do not see this going much further. Video streams are pretty low, sales are just alright, no streaming to mention...I mean, I wouldn't mind if this is an example of radio taking a song farther than we expect when the metrics aren't there for it to do so, but I am not holding my breath for it. The song has grown on me though.
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Post by Au$tin on Mar 25, 2018 10:32:29 GMT -5
Yesterday was its first full day of being on TTH and it's still not in the top 200 on US or global. It has seen a small spike at least, though, as evidenced by it re-entering/climbing in a few countries since the add.
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Post by Choco on Mar 25, 2018 11:50:27 GMT -5
That is just pathetic. It has also grown on me a lot, I enjoy it and all, but even P!nk and Kelly Clarkson, who are more or less targeting the same demo, did much better with their leads.
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Post by Au$tin on Mar 25, 2018 15:17:21 GMT -5
A song from the Wendy's mixtape is #176 on US Spotify. Not only does that mean it was played more yesterday than this, it outpeaked this in general since this only has had one single day at #200.
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Post by survivorqt on Mar 25, 2018 16:47:52 GMT -5
I guess placement does matter
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Post by Choco on Mar 25, 2018 17:47:31 GMT -5
I don't have the time to check it (and as a Venezuelan I'd need to use creative ways to access Spotify at all), but I'm fairly sure all other songs on the playlist are at least top 200.
It's a fairly short song, so they could get a rapper to do a couple verses on it...
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Post by Suono on Mar 25, 2018 19:49:12 GMT -5
Her team needs to do something STAT or this will die. How can this not be obvious to them? If Bazzi's "Beautiful" has made it to Today's Top Hits than this should fucking be there too
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Post by survivorqt on Mar 25, 2018 20:45:49 GMT -5
Her team needs to do something STAT or this will die. How can this not be obvious to them? If Bazzi's "Beautiful" has made it to Today's Top Hits than this should f**king be there too it is there, all the way near the bottom
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Post by Snowbeast on Mar 25, 2018 20:55:53 GMT -5
Her team needs to do something STAT or this will die. How can this not be obvious to them? If Bazzi's "Beautiful" has made it to Today's Top Hits than this should f**king be there too Epic is ok with letting songs die. It’s no secret that they aren’t the most cash-flow abundant label, and if a song doesn’t connect in the way they’re looking for, they regroup a try again in a bit. Is it more expensive to launch a new song than save/force one to be a hit? Who knows, but that’s been their logic many times.
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Post by Au$tin on Mar 25, 2018 23:00:55 GMT -5
They have done things, though. This has a music video, is doing great on radio, is on Today's Top Hits, and has had televised performances. There's not much left after that point. All they can really do at this point is get more performances, but I would rather they not waste potentially valuable performance slots on something that's just not clicking as well as they would like. They could try a few more pushes for more airplay and higher playlist spots on Spotify, but I don't really think that's going to help much.
So basically the rest of this song's run is going to be up to the song.
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Post by Snowbeast on Mar 26, 2018 0:03:12 GMT -5
I just heard this for the first time. It is the equivalent of vanilla ice cream. It could have been on the first record, or the last one. Don’t be Colbie Calliat and make the same record 3 times, and only take some risks when it’s too late and nobody cares/label support is expired
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Post by Dylan :) on Mar 26, 2018 2:22:56 GMT -5
#28 on iTunes :)
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Post by Az Paynter on Mar 26, 2018 7:22:43 GMT -5
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Post by Ty on Mar 26, 2018 8:22:55 GMT -5
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Post by Caviar on Mar 26, 2018 9:28:35 GMT -5
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Post by Ty on Mar 26, 2018 15:20:12 GMT -5
It's taken down from TTH after only 2 days...
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Post by wjr15 on Mar 26, 2018 16:09:27 GMT -5
Smh Spotify...
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Post by SHOOTER on Mar 26, 2018 16:57:46 GMT -5
Either it's stream rate was incredibly low or its skip rate must've been incredibly high.
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Post by Au$tin on Mar 26, 2018 17:10:46 GMT -5
It's taken down from TTH after only 2 days... OMFG
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Post by Mayman on Mar 26, 2018 19:16:52 GMT -5
If this doesn’t keep performing well as it has been, will they just call this a buzz single or keep it for album and rush release single #2, like they did with No and Me Too?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2018 20:42:29 GMT -5
Either it's stream rate was incredibly low or its skip rate must've been incredibly high. After only two days though?! Epic needs to do some aggressive focus group testing on Meghan - not her songs, but on her - to determine what the root cause is. If it's just the songs then that is not quite as hard to reroute. But if it's purely Meghan, that speaks to a branding/image problem that is much harder to resolve, but that needs to be uncovered so they can try to do something to salvage things. She does seem more analogous to a P!nk or Kelly than to a Camila or even Maren, so it might just be a matter of pulling away from the effort at pop and trying to establish her as a new HAC queen. There unfortunately isn't much left to do for this except a) cross fingers and hope the callout is good, so radio at least has a justification for keeping it around and/or b) release a really well done, urban-leaning remix with one of her hip-hop labelmates (French, Travis Scott, maybe Yo Gotti again). No cut-and-paste verses over the same beat, it will be too obvious and won't actually do anything to make the song feel different.
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Post by Choco on Mar 26, 2018 21:35:25 GMT -5
It's taken down from TTH after only 2 days... Whoa. That's harsh, even if it was flopping. Should have stayed for at least a week.
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Post by Suono on Mar 26, 2018 22:08:53 GMT -5
Either it's stream rate was incredibly low or its skip rate must've been incredibly high. After only two days though?! Epic needs to do some aggressive focus group testing on Meghan - not her songs, but on her - to determine what the root cause is. If it's just the songs then that is not quite as hard to reroute. But if it's purely Meghan, that speaks to a branding/image problem that is much harder to resolve, but that needs to be uncovered so they can try to do something to salvage things. She does seem more analogous to a P!nk or Kelly than to a Camila or even Maren, so it might just be a matter of pulling away from the effort at pop and trying to establish her as a new HAC queen. There unfortunately isn't much left to do for this except a) cross fingers and hope the callout is good, so radio at least has a justification for keeping it around and/or b) release a really well done, urban-leaning remix with one of her hip-hop labelmates (French, Travis Scott, maybe Yo Gotti again). No cut-and-paste verses over the same beat, it will be too obvious and won't actually do anything to make the song feel different. Can someone please send this directly to the head of Epic? This is a beautiful business plan. Hired!
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Post by Az Paynter on Mar 27, 2018 5:24:22 GMT -5
Time for excuse roulette...?
POP: 20 15 MEGHAN TRAINOR No Excuses 5368 4523 845 22.653
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Post by Dylan :) on Mar 27, 2018 5:38:53 GMT -5
Katy went blonde and flopped. Meghan went back to blonde and flopped. Coincidence? I think not
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Post by rickroller on Mar 27, 2018 6:26:05 GMT -5
All the blondes are stupid.
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Post by Dylan :) on Mar 27, 2018 6:33:36 GMT -5
All the blondes are stupid. That’s a bit harsh, I was just joking lol
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Post by YourFaveIsAFlop on Mar 27, 2018 7:40:46 GMT -5
If this doesn’t keep performing well as it has been, will they just call this a buzz single or keep it for album and rush release single #2, like they did with No and Me Too? Didnt they originally say the album would be out in April? That seems unlikely at this point
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Post by deepston on Mar 27, 2018 7:41:45 GMT -5
Katy went blonde and flopped. Meghan went back to blonde and flopped. Coincidence? I think not Taylor Swift is blonde and flopped. We need the brunettes back.
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