Dua Lipa - "Don't Start Now"

[Juan Carlos]

The track is currently at #2 in the Official Chart First Look, behind "Dance Monkey", in the UK.

From the Official Charts:

Dua Lipa is challenging reigning champ Tones & I for this week's Number 1 single.

Early sales and streaming reports from the Official Charts Company indicate Dua's new disco-tinged "Don't Start Now", which sees her reunited with the team behind breakthrough smash "New Rules", is on course for the highest new entry of the week, currently Number 2 behind Tones & I's "Dance Monkey". Viral hit "Dance Monkey" has occupied the top spot for the past 5 weeks. If Dua holds on through to the end of the week, "Don't Start Now" will become the singer's seventh Top 10 on the Official Singles Chart.

[Exclusive]

Spotify Global

Day 1: 3,430,185
Day 2: 3,227,301 (-202,884)

Total: 6,657,486

Spotify US

Day 1: 968,604

Day 2: 810,429 (-158,175)

Total: 1,779,033

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[Juan Carlos]

Dua killed that performance and she looked so confident throughout it. The choreography was good too.

[Exclusive]

That was the best performance of her career(hoping she surprises us with some more), she literally had me in awe. She’s definitely come a long way and proved to us that you just need to be confident and the rest will follow suit.

[Deleted]

Holy fuck that was rally good
The IMPROVEMENT, she looks comfortable for once at an award show performance and is owning it

Makes me wish the video was something like the performance

[rainie]

Nov 3, 2019 15:49:22 GMT -5 Choco said:

Other than Swan Song (which had to come out with that film) she didn't release anything after Grammy winning song Electricity flopped (in the US).

I think the break from that until this song was fine. Made us miss her (not like, say, Ariana), but also didn't test our patience (like Rihanna I mean come on now...)

my b, could've sworn she had another single in there (i may have been thinking of Kiss and Make Up, which wasnt actually pushed).

[born]

She absolutely smashed it. Fire.

[Lumi]

I think what was really missing from her performances was her confidence, but now it's here and making a splash. She killed that.

[despy]

i hated the song at first but after giving it a second chance....i STAN it now! the final chorus knocks
and the EMAs performance was excellent, definitely her best performance so far!!!!!

[woods]

This is very good.

[¤ Matthea ¤]

Fantastic performance. Didn't think much of the song after the first few listens, but now I love it.

[die Lotterie]

Damn at that performance. What a fucking superstar.

I hope this absolutely smashes in the States. Gimme that "New Rules" longevity please.

[Choco]

The Rihanna comment reminded me that Rih would also employ the hairstyle changes from one era to another back in the day.

Great performance. There was a spark in her eyes that was missing from much of her performances during her debut ers.

[Juan Carlos]

SUNDAY PUBLISHED 11/3 UPDATE:

CHR/Pop:
0 45 DUA LIPA Don't Start Now 953 0 953 6.450

Dua's Top 40/M peaks to date:

#1. "New Rules"
#9. "One Kiss" (Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa)
#11. "IDGAF"
#13. "Electricity" (Silk City & Dua Lipa)
#19. "Swan Song"
#21. "Scared to Be Lonely" (Martin Garrix & Dua Lipa)
#23. "Blow Your Mind (Mwah)"
#37. "Be the One"
#41. "No Lie" (Sean Paul featuring Dua Lipa)
#45. "Don't Start Now"

Officially Top 50 at Pop.

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Nov 3, 2019 18:29:43 GMT -5 Codex said:

Holy s**t that performance was AMAZING. How did she go from -1 to 100000 stage presence in a year? Girl truly is the new Rihanna.

Agree with this...but let's not compare her with Riri.

[Juan Carlos]

I don't know why, but the mention of Rihanna reminded me to the .gif below.

[singingrulebritannia]

Listen I need this to at least approach the success of "New Rules" over here or American can take the fattest L

[Az Paynter]

-- 43 DUA LIPA Don't Start Now 1116 0 1116 7.304

+163 Spins
+163 Bullet
+0.854 Audience

[Future Captain]

Her EMA and Graham Norton performance are sooo good. She has really improved as a performer and I'm happy that she seemed to have put in the work to become better.

I mean, that infamous One Kiss performance is less than one year ago

[Taylor.]

EMA performance was amazing and lots of moments are going viral on Twitter.

Kind of a disappointing start on radio tbh, was hoping for higher updates for the first week.

[Carlitoz]

Fabulous performance!

[Deleted]

That performance! it's like she finally got her Adderall prescription refilled

[pmorecabellobp]

This song is perfection, and that performance? IS EVERYTHING.

[Exclusive]

Spotify Global

Day 1: 3,430,185
Day 2: 3,227,301 (-202,884)

Day 3: 3,010,532 (-216,769)

Total: 9,668,018

Spotify US

Day 1: 968,604

Day 2: 810,429 (-158,175)

Day 3: 717,275 (-93,154)

Total: 2,496,308

[Juan Carlos]

Chosen as the Song You Need to Know by Rolling Stone.

From Rolling Stone:

Dua Lipa reunited with the team behind her formidable, catchy breakthrough hit "New Rules," but "Don't Start Now" takes her sound to a higher level. Above one of the year's strongest bass lines, Lipa vocally struts her way through a Studio 54 fantasy. With biting sass, she tells a lover who has left her scorned that she has happily moved on. The song is the peak of pop catharsis: it unfolds into one of the year's most glamorous new tunes. You wish you could see Bianca Jagger ride into the club on a white horse as this song plays in the distance.

[skizzo]

I find this really underwhelming

[Deleted]

That performance was everything. That’s how you come out with a new era!!!!! 🙌❤️

[Maximillian]

“Aren't you the guy who tried to
Hurt me with the word "goodbye"?
Though it took some time to survive you
I'm better on the other side”

After 100 listens this verse still slays me every time

[Deleted]

#4 on iTunes, light red
#11 on Spotify
#69 on Apple Music (impressive cause it's one of the very few pop songs in the top 100 since AM is so Urban dominated)

Also I am in love with this