Taylor Swift - "I Can Do It with a Broken Heart"

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Re-enters the top 50 on Spotify USA following the release of the music video at #50 with 619,697 streams.

POP:
14 13 TAYLOR SWIFT I Can Do It With A Broken Heart 6636 5941 695 14.082

+87 Spins
-2 Bullet
+0.193 Audience

HOT AC:
8 7 TAYLOR SWIFT I Can Do It With A Broken Heart 3448 3198 250 10.301

+39 Spins
-6 Bullet
+0.083 Audience

AC:
34 32 TAYLOR SWIFT I Can Do It With A Broken Heart 30 26 4 0.048

+1 Spin
= Bullet
= Audience

[ObhiDonna]

Homegirl is tired and jetlagged to buggery, I don’t think Rep TV is happening and this music video feels like the end of the current tour domination with the Europe leg ended.

This video for me had the opposite effect, has actually made me dislike the song.

[avamaxstan]

Like many of us predicted, this single turned out to be somewhat of a misfire. Hoping they pivot quickly to Down Bad and allow it to fulfill its destiny as a sad girl autumn anthem.

[Choco]

I truly believe any of the other 29 songs would have performed the same on radio (and probably same or worse on streaming).

The live video and incoming possible break after the Tour also scream "last single from the album!!" imo.

[shakemaki]

While this is technically the catchiest, poppiest song on the album pretty easily, it’s also… annoying. So I can both see why it would have been chosen and also why it wouldn’t do much. But agreed nothing was going to do anything beyond whatever Taylor’s name gets a song right now.

[kcdawg13]

Aug 21, 2024 17:30:17 GMT -5 Mayman said:

Just realized that while "Fortnight" broke her #1 streak on Pop, her #1 streak on Hot AC is still going. If this hits #1 there, it'll be her fifth in a row. She's also on a streak of 15 top 10 singles, going back to "Delicate" hitting #1 in 2018. Here's her Billboard Adult Pop Airplay peaks:

Radio Singles:
#1. Anti-Hero
#4. Lavender Haze
#1. Karma

Lavender Haze stays getting shafted despite being the best song from that album

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POP:
13 12 TAYLOR SWIFT I Can Do It With A Broken Heart 6764 6030 734 14.279

+128 Spins
+39 Bullet
+0.197 Audience

HOT AC:
8 7 TAYLOR SWIFT I Can Do It With A Broken Heart 3478 3259 219 10.276

+30 Spins
-31 Bullet
-0.025 Audience

AC:
34 31 TAYLOR SWIFT I Can Do It With A Broken Heart 30 27 3 0.049

= Spins
-1 Bullet
+0.001 Audience

[balletgirlmom]

Fun video.  I guess everyone will never agree on everything but for me, a nice video.  

[Choco]

Aug 23, 2024 0:47:46 GMT -5 kcdawg13 said:

Aug 21, 2024 17:30:17 GMT -5 Mayman said:

Just realized that while "Fortnight" broke her #1 streak on Pop, her #1 streak on Hot AC is still going. If this hits #1 there, it'll be her fifth in a row. She's also on a streak of 15 top 10 singles, going back to "Delicate" hitting #1 in 2018. Here's her Billboard Adult Pop Airplay peaks:

Radio Singles:
#1. Anti-Hero
#4. Lavender Haze
#1. Karma

Lavender Haze stays getting shafted despite being the best song from that album

Never stood a chance since Anti-Hero was still getting a lot of play throughout LH's entire run.

[fearlessarrow]

All the songs in the 11-15 range had a pretty bad update including this one.

POP:
13 13 TAYLOR SWIFT I Can Do It With A Broken Heart 6721 6143 578 14.045

-43 Spins
-156 Bullet
-0.234 Audience

HOT AC:
7 7 TAYLOR SWIFT I Can Do It With A Broken Heart 3517 3287 230 10.335

+39 Spins
+11 Bullet
+0.059 Audience

AC:
35 31 TAYLOR SWIFT I Can Do It With A Broken Heart 29 27 2 0.048

-1 Spin
-1 Bullet
-0.001 Audience

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POP:
13 13 TAYLOR SWIFT I Can Do It With A Broken Heart 6724 6222 502 13.925

+3 Spins
-76 Bullet
-0.120 Audience

HOT AC:
7 7 TAYLOR SWIFT I Can Do It With A Broken Heart 3558 3323 235 10.372

+41 Spins
+5 Bullet
+0.037 Audience

AC:
34 31 TAYLOR SWIFT I Can Do It With A Broken Heart 29 27 2 0.046

= Spins
= Bullet
-0.002 Audience

[fearlessarrow]

Officially top 30 on AC.

SUNDAY PUBLISHED UPDATE (8/25)

POP:
13 13 TAYLOR SWIFT I Can Do It With A Broken Heart 6726 6222 504 13.925

Chart run: 44-45-49-50-(8 wks)-50-30-18-18-15-13-13

HOT AC:
7 7 TAYLOR SWIFT I Can Do It With A Broken Heart 3560 3323 237 10.373

Chart run: 43-45-(10 wks)-46-24-15-11-9-7-7

AC:
34 29 TAYLOR SWIFT I Can Do It With A Broken Heart 29 27 2 0.046

Chart run: 38-(14 wks)-41-35-34-29

SPOILER: Click to show

{Taylor Swift's Top 40/M peaks to date}#1: "Cruel Summer" (x8)
#1: "I Knew You Were Trouble." (x6)
#1: "Bad Blood" (x6) (Taylor Swift feat. Kendrick Lamar)
#1: "Blank Space" (x5)
#1: "Style" (x3)
#1: "Anti-Hero" (x3)
#1: "Shake It Off" (x2)
#1: "Wildest Dreams" (x2)
#1: "Karma" (x2)
#1: "Love Story" (x1)
#1: "You Belong With Me" (x1)
#1: "Look What You Made Me Do" (x1)
#1: "Delicate" (x1)
#1: "Is It Over Now? (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault)" (x1)
#2: "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
#2: "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" (ZAYN & Taylor Swift)
#4: "Fortnight" (Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone)
#5: "Lavender Haze"
#6: "ME!" (Taylor Swift feat. Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco)
#7: "Teardrops On My Guitar"
#7: "Two Is Better Than One" (Boys Like Girls feat. Taylor Swift)
#9: "You Need to Calm Down"
#10: "22"
#10: "End Game" (Taylor Swift feat. Ed Sheeran & Future)
#11: "Mine"
#11: "...Ready for It?"
#12: "Fifteen"
#12: "Back to December"
#13: "Everything Has Changed" (Taylor Swift feat. Ed Sheeran)
#13: "Out of the Woods"
#13: "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart"
#14: "Lover"
#15: "Message in a Bottle (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault)"
#16: "New Romantics"
#16: "willow"
#17: "cardigan"
#19: "Our Song"
#19: "Today Was a Fairytale"
#20: "Eyes Open"
#20: "The Man"
#21: "The Story of Us"
#22: "Both of Us" (B.o.B feat. Taylor Swift)
#29: "The Joker and the Queen" (Ed Sheeran feat. Taylor Swift)
#34: "All of the Girls You Loved Before" *not an official radio single
#40: "My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys" *not an official radio single
#41: "All Too Well (Taylor's Version)" *not an official radio single
#41: "Florida!!!" (Taylor Swift feat. Florence + The Machine) *not an official radio single
#42: "Bejeweled" *not an official radio single
#42: "Down Bad" *not an official radio single
#43: "Slut! (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault)" *not an official radio single
#43: "But Daddy I Love Him" *not an official radio single
#44: "I Can See You (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault)" *not an official radio single
#45: "Gorgeous" *not an official radio single
#46: "I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor's Version)" *not an official radio single
#49: "Christmas Tree Farm"
#50: "Renegade" (Big Red Machine feat. Taylor Swift)
#50: "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (Taylor's Version)" *not an official radio single

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HOT AC:
25 30 TAYLOR SWIFT Fortnight f/Post Malone 544 767 -223 1.674

Chart run: 24-13-9-5-5-4-3-1-3-4-5-6-9-11-18-19-23-25-30

AC:
8 9 TAYLOR SWIFT Fortnight f/Post Malone 324 355 -31 1.163

Chart run: 19-14-13-13-13-14-11-11-11-11-11-11-10-9-7-8-7-8-9

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POP:
R R TAYLOR SWIFT Cruel Summer 3191 3184 7 7.221

HOT AC:
R R TAYLOR SWIFT Cruel Summer 2323 2549 -226 8.066

AC:
3 3 TAYLOR SWIFT Cruel Summer 2166 2212 -46 10.015

Chart run: 48-126-40-26-17-12-9-8-8-8-8-8-8-7-7-4-4-2-2-2-2-3-2-2-4-4-2-2-1-1-2-1-1-1-2-1-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-3-3-3-3-3

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HOT AC:
R R TAYLOR SWIFT Anti-Hero 1062 1082 -20 3.384

AC:
R R TAYLOR SWIFT Anti-Hero 1333 1428 -95 5.637

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HOT AC:
R R TAYLOR SWIFT Karma 948 896 52 2.758

AC:
R R TAYLOR SWIFT Karma 99 111 -12 0.506

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AC:
R R TAYLOR SWIFT Is It Over Now? (Taylor's Version) 55 47 8 0.291

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POP:
13 13 TAYLOR SWIFT I Can Do It With A Broken Heart 6751 6296 455 13.917

+27 Spins
-47 Bullet
-0.008 Audience

HOT AC:
7 7 TAYLOR SWIFT I Can Do It With A Broken Heart 3597 3354 243 10.418

+39 Spins
+8 Bullet
+0.046 Audience

AC:
34 28 TAYLOR SWIFT I Can Do It With A Broken Heart 29 28 1 0.044

= Spins
-1 Bullet
-0.002 Audience

[ificanthaveyou]

This song had a horrible burn rate for me. I loved the hooks for the first month and now I’m over it.

Down Bad ASAP please before people start to move on from this era.

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POP:
13 13 TAYLOR SWIFT I Can Do It With A Broken Heart 6798 6417 381 13.924

+47 Spins
-74 Bullet
+0.007 Audience

HOT AC:
7 7 TAYLOR SWIFT I Can Do It With A Broken Heart 3644 3379 265 10.526

+47 Spins
+22 Bullet
+0.108 Audience

AC:
33 29 TAYLOR SWIFT I Can Do It With A Broken Heart 28 28 0 0.044

-1 Spin
-1 Bullet
= Audience

[Choco]

Kinda funny that the video actually didn't move the needle at all for this. Music videos are a dying thing it seems.

[mccloud]

Aug 27, 2024 17:03:59 GMT -5 Choco said:

Kinda funny that the video actually didn't move the needle at all for this. Music videos are a dying thing it seems.

Been dying since the end of last decade

[Mayman]

Let this ride to the top 5 on pop and #1 on HAC and call it a day. If Rep TV comes this year or next, she'll still have a break on radio for a bit which will be good. She's basically had 7 singles back to back with zero breaks since before "Anti-Hero."

[ificanthaveyou]

Aug 28, 2024 0:48:37 GMT -5 Mayman said:

Let this ride to the top 5 on pop and #1 on HAC and call it a day. If Rep TV comes this year or next, she'll still have a break on radio for a bit which will be good. She's basically had 7 singles back to back with zero breaks since before "Anti-Hero."

To leave Down Bad and So Long, London on the table would be a crime

[Enigma.]

All other songs on the album are already done on streaming so it would be pretty pointless to try to rebirth them just for pop airplay. She will finish the tour and start with something new.

[musiclife]

Aug 28, 2024 1:28:40 GMT -5 ificanthaveyou said:

Aug 28, 2024 0:48:37 GMT -5 Mayman said:

Let this ride to the top 5 on pop and #1 on HAC and call it a day. If Rep TV comes this year or next, she'll still have a break on radio for a bit which will be good. She's basically had 7 singles back to back with zero breaks since before "Anti-Hero."

To leave Down Bad and So Long, London on the table would be a crime

Leaving Down Bad off the table would be horrible. It should have been the second single.

[Mayman]

Aug 28, 2024 1:28:40 GMT -5 ificanthaveyou said:

Aug 28, 2024 0:48:37 GMT -5 Mayman said:

Let this ride to the top 5 on pop and #1 on HAC and call it a day. If Rep TV comes this year or next, she'll still have a break on radio for a bit which will be good. She's basically had 7 singles back to back with zero breaks since before "Anti-Hero."

To leave Down Bad and So Long, London on the table would be a crime

While I love both of those songs, it seems to me like Taylor might be done with this era if she's releasing that tour bts video for this one. If she were to release one more single, Down Bad is definitely the way to go.

[balletgirlmom]

ICDIWABH is doing just fine. As it heads toward 20 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, it still is hanging in there. Singles are really meant more for casual fans and those who still might not own her album.  Believe it or not, it is still selling and streaming and songs on the radio or streaming in public places do help.  Until the radio and streams plummet and it falls off the Hot 100, there is no rush for another single.  I agree, Down Bad will be the perfect way for them to end this era.  So, in the case of her TTTPD album, this song is just a way for the project to be in the eyes of the general public.  Taylor and her camp get the big picture, and longevity means radio and streaming in public places.  You have to admit, we sure hear Taylor in public places.  Like most on here, I too love Down Bad and hope they make a push for that in a month or two.

[KeepDeanWeird]

'Down Bad' can be the CS of 2028.

Honestly, Taylor was *done* with TTPD the moment it was released. It was her way to get closure on that part of her life. Perhaps they'll do a push for this track right around the Miami shows in mid-Oct to kick-off the final US/Eras shows.

[shakemaki]

Down Bad is such a flop, I swear. No idea where anyone thinks “chart hit!” when they hear that one.

[ObhiDonna]

Aug 28, 2024 13:26:25 GMT -5 KeepDeanWeird said:

'Down Bad' can be the CS of 2028.

Honestly, Taylor was *done* with TTPD the moment it was released. It was her way to get closure on that part of her life. Perhaps they'll do a push for this track right around the Miami shows in mid-Oct to kick-off the final US/Eras shows.

Yes that is so true, I was even surprised she included a section on The Eras Tour on the album. This song feels like its just a tasty morsel to tide us over until her next big thing. It also feels like the appropriate track to wind down the Taylor Swift enterprise as a juggernaut of the past three years. Because some of the backlash is indeed starting, at no fault of hers, just gradual progression.

ETA: Adding quote for the user I was replying to

[Choco]

She left way more obvious hits like Cruel Summer, Don't Blame, Getaway Car, Enchanted and August as album tracks (until audiences streamed them into hits), and none of the tracks on TTPD feel to me like obvious hits like those. Down Bad kinda seems to be building towards an explosive chorus and then the actual chorus comes and it's just as lethargic as the rest of the track. Truly one of the producing choices of all time lol; there's actually a pop hit hidden there but they just didn't approach the song in a way that made it shine.

I'm not saying 2024 Taylor Swift could not turn it into a hit, but the very small effort made for ICDIWABH didn't reignite it's streaming when it was already kinda high on Spotify, it's gonna be much harder to turn a song already out of the top 200 into anything meaningful. (Also noteworthy that even with smaller numbers than last year, august is on track to potentially beat this on streaming this week)

[Acid Eyes]

Down Bad can't be the Cruel Summer of the album. Guilty as Sin already has that title!

I'm not sure how many streams it's getting in the US alone (since it's been outside the top 200 for a bit), but globally, it's getting the 3rd most streams daily from the album (around 1 million daily, after Fortnight at 1.9 and Broken Heart at 1.7). In terms of total streams, it's currently 4th (a bit behind Down Bad but outgaining it by 150k daily at the moment).

Not too bad for a song that began behind 9 other TS songs its debut week, especially since it's not a single and not part of the tour setlist.

[Az Paynter]

Aug 28, 2024 15:24:18 GMT -5 shakemaki said:

Down Bad is such a flop, I swear. No idea where anyone thinks “chart hit!” when they hear that one.

'Down Bad' almost went top 40 on pop radio long before they ever pulled the trigger on this as the 2nd single. Radio easily could've forced the label's hand.

[shakemaki]

Aug 28, 2024 18:57:34 GMT -5 Az Paynter said:

Aug 28, 2024 15:24:18 GMT -5 shakemaki said:

Down Bad is such a flop, I swear. No idea where anyone thinks “chart hit!” when they hear that one.

'Down Bad' almost went top 40 on pop radio long before they ever pulled the trigger on this as the 2nd single. Radio easily could've forced the label's hand.

Radio was chomping at the bit to play anything from her when this era launched, her momentum was unprecedented. They latched onto the songs doing best on streaming initially when it was clear there weren’t obvious radio hits on the album (which were mostly the opening tracks). Down Bad is like approximately the 117th most radio ready song she’s recorded.