Rita's already had some sort of breakthrough on Black Widow. Maybe not as lead artist but still a top 10 to her name.

Where I think Charli XCX actually helped Iggy (took me a while to accept to Iggy's part on 'Fancy'), it could have been anyone singing on 'Black Widow'.

 

 

Exactly! That goes to show what an anonymous and faceless artist she is.

Exactly! That goes to show what an anonymous and faceless artist she is.

I don't understand why she isn't bigger in the US.

 

She's got the right people behind her (Roc Nation). There isn't anything wrong with her music. She's no more annoying than any other pop starlet :lol:

 

 

I'd like to think the US didn't take too well to a third rate 'Last Friday Night' when she tried with 'How We Do' (plus there was 'Domino' before then too, the second rate equivalent), 'R.I.P.' is cheap pop/dubstep which isn't a popular sound over there either. That's what I chalk up the first attempt's failure to anyway.

 

Plus it's a harder and more competitive market, while we may lap up our Rita Oras and Pixie Lotts she just doesn't have what it takes to compete with the big guns there.

Robyn "Show Me Love" got to #7 in 1997.

 

And also Do you know what it takes which also reached the top 10.... I'm sure there are many solo swedish females who made it into the top 20 in the noughties as featured artists....

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I don't think the problem with Rita Ora not succeeding in the US is down to her music, we've seen hundreds of worse artists scoring number 1's in the US... Rita wasn't well promoted, she hasn't performed as a lead artist in any major US show, and i'm sure 'I will never let you down' would've been number 1 if it was performed by Rihanna... they need to work on her US promotion, Roc nation did a lousy job so far, same as what they did with Kylie...

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Rita bashing. How passé.

 

She's easily talented enough to make it big there and I do believe it'll happen for her.

Eh, why? So far she has two failed attempts and a third attempt that isn't doing much so far. 'Black Widow' is all she has going for her.

R.I.P. was never really an attempt, but your point still stands. IWNLYD is doing better than I thought it would even though it had potential to do much better.

 

Really pleased to see Don't in the top 40! I was starting to think it would miss out but with airplay continuing to build Ed should manage to climb even further.

 

At 50 weeks Dark Horse is by far Katy's longest running hit. It was previously Hot N Cold and Firework, both with 39!

SALES, RADIO & STREAMING

 

1) Taylor Swift - Shake It Off

- Digital Songs - 355,000 (-35%)

- Radio Songs - 88 million all-format audience impressions (+24%)

- Streaming Songs - 8.8 million US streams (-52%)

 

2) Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass

- Digital Songs - 266,000 (-6%)

- Radio Songs - 82 million (+28%)

- Streaming Songs - 12.2 million US streams (+6%)

- On-Demand Songs - 3.6 million US streams (+10%)

I think Meghan could take #1 this week.

 

Both songs will be close on digital sales, combined airplay and streaming are close (points wise, using latest airplay figures and last week's streaming).