I'm looking at their Twitter right now and they're not even posting a link to stream it? Didn't think it would get many streams, but this could genuinely not even go Top 200 on Spotify lol

HVRY holding the lyrics on a piece of paper with his parts highlighted is so stupid though :rofl:

 

 

I assumed that was what everyone did for these records?

 

I suppose it suggests they used the real recording footage instead of faking it for the video though.

Well unless this does huge numbers on CD singles, looks like it is going to bomb hard

Do they even have a CD single? Haven't seen anything about one

Edited July 7, 20187 yr by Tedward

There is definitely no physical release

Everything about HRVY makes me irrationally angry.

 

I watched one of his videos a while ago (because I saw one of his songs in the top 100 and I thought judging by the artist name that it was going to a dance DJ or something, the song wasn't what I expected :lol:).

 

His video was set in an American high school.

 

And now I see him doing a charity single for the NHS, so he must be British. Yet he's pretending to be American in his music videos? This decade's Natasha Bedingfield I guess.

Down to #18 on iTunes now, virtually nothing on streams, and not even YouTube views are saving it. This is doing hilariously bad...

 

Also, speaking of the video: the entire comment section is just made up of either Marina or HRVY fans :lol: not even any support for the NHS there!

Edited July 8, 20187 yr by Tedward

They should probably pretend this didn't happen and record a new one with artists that might make people buy it :(

I think the lesson here is charity singles simply don't sell well in this day and age except for ones that have current big names and are for tragedies i.e. Grenfell. Not to mention the complete lack of streams they get.

The Grenfell track did quite well on streaming IIRC?

Yes that one did but most of them like the NHS one get barely any!

This was just incredibly halfarsed really, I'm not sure what they were going for. Did they not even attempt to get any more current names on it?

 

It's clearly not impossible for charity singles to still shift big numbers, as the Grenfell single showed, but that's now the exception rather than the rule. It's a dying concept.

except for ones that have current big names and are for tragedies i.e. Grenfell

Well the difference was with Grenfell, it was actually put on some Spotify playlists like Hot Hits. NHS Voices has had no Spotify promo whatsoever, isn't even on one playlist. Think this is a case of them being a bit out of touch tbh

If Louis Tomlinson is backing the NHS, why isn't he a part of the charity single? :rofl:

 

https://twitter.com/NHSVoices/status/1016020941879631874

It's a shame it's flopping because for a charity single it doesn't sound half bad

They're genuinely asking George Ezra to tell everyone to buy and stream their song, just because he did the same for Three Lions :lol: pretty damn desperate

 

https://twitter.com/NHSVoices/status/1016361528898048001

Edited July 10, 20187 yr by Tedward

Not getting the glee from some people that this is flopping? Yes it’s a shite cover version with z listers, yes they are desperate and yes media should be supporting it more.

 

It has no big backing, no campaign to get people behind it (Race for Christmas #1, tragedy etc.,) but its a more than worthy cause that deserves to sell on the fact it’s helping the NHS alone.

 

Rather than gloat at the fact it’s flopping stream the song instead and contribute to its hopefully profits.

I agree! I find it kind of weird and cold that people are taking glee in a song for charity flopping - it's for a good cause and any more money to that cause should be celebrated.

I liked that Band Aid single for Ebola victims from a few years back, but there was a fair bit of criticism about it IIRC

They should've got George Ezra to sing on it, then he'd be obligated to support it :P