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Post by think pink. on Jan 20, 2023 7:51:11 GMT -5
I’m baffled at this song’s success. It’s just an alright tune.
”Midnight Sky” deserved so much more. It’s weird what clicks with the public sometimes and what doesn’t.
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Post by Dylan :) on Jan 20, 2023 8:26:33 GMT -5
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Post by skizzo on Jan 20, 2023 9:15:13 GMT -5
I actually do know of a few people who started to really like Miley with Plastic Hearts
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Post by theyaintready on Jan 20, 2023 9:22:11 GMT -5
Miley has actually yet to miss in terms of quality releases since Bangerz. The goodwill she's built looks to finally be paying off with this one.
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Post by sheerio on Jan 20, 2023 9:51:16 GMT -5
While I am so happy for this deserving success of Miley, I admit that I never would've expected her to be the one to break these records. Am stoked. But yeah, here for it.
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Post by theflying on Jan 20, 2023 9:58:00 GMT -5
Even though the song to me is too mid for me to really want to have on repeat, I really think it’s a GREAT example of why releasing a fantastic album IS ALWAYS A GOOD DECISION.
Plastic Hearts didn’t receive the commercial success it should’ve, but generating goodwill is a REAL thing and it REALLY did that. If people didn’t like Plastic Hearts as much as they did, this would not have had quite this level of strong start.
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Post by Dylan :) on Jan 20, 2023 10:04:45 GMT -5
Debuts at #1 in Ireland, Sweden and Lithuania, as well as #2 in Germany, Norway and The Netherlands
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2023 10:08:11 GMT -5
I’m not sure why I haven’t listened to Plastic Hearts in full. Did another artist have a big album at that time? Because I’m honestly surprised I haven’t listened it. I’m baffled. Lol. Anyway, listening now. :)
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Post by Suono on Jan 20, 2023 14:01:48 GMT -5
I have literal chills reading this thread each day. It's always fun watching any pop queen's song become a major smash hit, but something about this time is extra special.
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Post by Dylan :) on Jan 20, 2023 14:23:10 GMT -5
Midnight Sky re-entered the Irish charts this week at #37
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Post by Envoirment on Jan 20, 2023 14:31:54 GMT -5
Reaches new peak streams of 17,481,759 on global spotify. Insane! Beats Adele's record by quite a big margin. It'll likely have an even bigger week next week with the way it's holding up as it started off the week with lower streams. Miley has done 3 days in a row of over 17 million streams (4 over 15 million) which I don't think a song has ever done?
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Post by It's me, bitch. on Jan 20, 2023 15:17:11 GMT -5
Does the production remind anybody else of Kylie Minogue’s can’t get you out of my head?
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Post by kcdawg13 on Jan 20, 2023 15:29:46 GMT -5
Miley is by far the most interesting of any of her Disney peers; Demi, Selena, The Jonas Brothers all had hits late into their careers but none of them touch Miley when it comes to being a musician. Her career is just way more interesting and eclectic, also none of those artists have released anything on the level of Plastic Hearts.
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Post by Dylan :) on Jan 20, 2023 15:38:36 GMT -5
My contribution to the mashups of this
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Post by Koochie on Jan 20, 2023 16:40:43 GMT -5
The song has more than a few things going for it. I’m surprised people are surprised by the success, actually.
Intentional or not, it follows the Taylor Swift playbook. Lots of maybe they are, maybe they’re not references. The chorus being a quasi-clapback to Bruno Mars’ “When I Was Your Man” (Liam played a Bruno Mars song the night of their wedding), releasing this on his birthday, and the new rumors about her filming it in the house Liam used to cheat on her (she said they broke up because she wanted more freedom, not him, and that they’re still friends so this is just totally made up). Is she going to confirm or deny any of it? Nah. It’s clever, but I think it was very much calculated.
All of that is going to generate interest and it doesn’t hurt that it’s an upbeat empowerment anthem. It never quite clicked with me, but I’m not surprised it blew up at all.
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Post by Envoirment on Jan 20, 2023 18:01:06 GMT -5
The music video views are quite amazing. Almost at 70 million views and doing 8-9 million views a day still.
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Post by kcdawg13 on Jan 20, 2023 18:01:22 GMT -5
The success of this song has me wondering how the album is gonna do commercially, it might do big numbers if she keeps up the momentum. Hopefully we'll get another track or two before the album comes out.
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Post by chartfreak on Jan 20, 2023 19:03:10 GMT -5
Hope Miley can give us a huge album bomb.
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Post by Koochie on Jan 20, 2023 19:45:46 GMT -5
The song has more than a few things going for it. I’m surprised people are surprised by the success, actually. Intentional or not, it follows the Taylor Swift playbook. Lots of maybe they are, maybe they’re not references. The chorus being a quasi-clapback to Bruno Mars’ “When I Was Your Man” (Liam played a Bruno Mars song the night of their wedding), releasing this on his birthday, and the new rumors about her filming it in the house Liam used to cheat on her (she said they broke up because she wanted more freedom, not him, and that they’re still friends so this is just totally made up). Is she going to confirm or deny any of it? Nah. It’s clever, but I think it was very much calculated. All of that is going to generate interest and it doesn’t hurt that it’s an upbeat empowerment anthem. It never quite clicked with me, but I’m not surprised it blew up at all. Also that she’s wearing the suit that Liam wore in that red carpet interview where he tells her to behave, and that her golden dress is a reference to some obscure Dior commercial that Jennifer Lawrence did. She’s released like 15 songs about Liam, so I doubt they calculated this (other than the birthday)… I really just think people were desperate for more breakup drama after Shakira’s song and just latched onto this. If Miley’s team did calculate this, someone could have started a rumor that Liam broke up with her at Midnight on an airplane using Barbies and then maybe Midnight Sky and Plastic Hearts could have been hits too. Forgot about the suit one. There’s too much plausible deniability though and Miley is not known for her subtlety. Her older sister (not Noah) recently did an interview with some magazine I don’t remember, but she basically said the rumors were funny more than anything and that Miley is very aware of the different narratives. The is the same woman who tweeted a picture of her spreading her legs and @ing Liam “love you,” so if this is that deep she’d have probably said something. She still might honestly, but I just don’t see it after her Howard Stern interview saying they were cool.
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Post by balletgirlmom on Jan 21, 2023 5:23:44 GMT -5
Beautiful song and glad to see it getting streamed and play at radio.
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Post by kimberly on Jan 21, 2023 6:20:06 GMT -5
gains in daily streams once again, crossing Thursday's total by nearly 1 million streams.
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Post by otaviohmg on Jan 21, 2023 6:49:56 GMT -5
My contribution to the mashups of this omg i didn't know you have a mashup youtube channel. sounds amazing!
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Post by Az Paynter on Jan 21, 2023 8:16:56 GMT -5
As 8th Day Effects go (or in this case, 9th Day Effect) this is pretty good.
POP: 26 15 MILEY CYRUS Flowers 6230 2238 3992 21.411
-586 Spins -2267 Bullet -2.584 Audience
HOT AC: 24 17 MILEY CYRUS Flowers 1935 742 1193 6.428
-255 Spins -859 Bullet -1.768 Audience
AC: 26 17 MILEY CYRUS Flowers 121 50 71 1.162
-24 Spins -67 Bullet -0.443 Audience
RHYTHMIC: 385 50 MILEY CYRUS Flowers 214 3 211 0.220
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Post by wjr15 on Jan 21, 2023 11:05:28 GMT -5
It’s crazy to see this reach such high peaks in its first week on Spotify and the streams are still growing.
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Post by rnb on Jan 21, 2023 11:18:33 GMT -5
not bad 8th day effect. also this is prob the last day it gains cuz of tmrw’s update being saturday, but the gains and streams are very impressive
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Post by Envoirment on Jan 21, 2023 11:19:21 GMT -5
Over 18 million!!!!! Its second week streams are going to eclipse the record it set in its first week. It's looks like it'll do 110-120 million streams globally in its second week (up from 96 million in its first).
I'm so excited to see what kind of numbers the album pulls.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Jan 21, 2023 11:31:59 GMT -5
Yeah, I am pretty sure that Miley and Liam are on good terms and, echoing Koochie, she chose to walk away on her own terms, which had nothing to do with anything Liam had done to her. It's interesting to me that she is still kinda mining the breakup to ANY degree but I feel that this is more of just a self-love jam, at the end of the day. Love the song and video, though. Glad it's smashing. Plus, Miley deserves the world.
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Post by HamedM1 💔 on Jan 21, 2023 12:09:56 GMT -5
Massive opening and iconic list, as long as it doesn't crash and burn like what happened to Hold It Against Me, which still is an absolute tragedy btw.
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Post by mcsteamy on Jan 21, 2023 12:52:44 GMT -5
gains in daily streams once again, crossing Thursday's total by nearly 1 million streams. Holy fuck.
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Post by Choco on Jan 21, 2023 14:14:01 GMT -5
I understand the narrative helped it but the song being quite good and the goodwill she's worked for with PH definitely aided her numbers too. She's getting way more respect than she ever got before.
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