Woah he's #1 on Apple Music USA as well! I hope he can have some crossover success here (unlikely though :P)

Keith Urban single doing better in UK than on Billboard was also unlikely but well, here we are :lol:

Why does Spotify update so early these days

I'm assuming it's something to do with the clocks changing, maybe?

Well yes but that doesn’t account for all the previous days

good to see country artists doing well on Spotify too

I think I liked one of his all songs, that Beer Never Broke My Heart song :)

That seems quite low for Ariana for day 2? Thank U Next and 7 Rings were pulling in 700k - 1m streams a day for days after their release.

 

I mean, I certainly have no inclination to listen to it again. Maybe a lot of other people felt the same?

Well yes but that doesn’t account for all the previous days

Well, Idk, but they probably had to do something with their systems early so that it measured out for when this happens?

 

I assume it's similar to the reason why we get New Releases an hour earlier for a couple of weeks, when the clocks are set to go forward.

I don't think the Ariana song is that bad, kinda average

definitely not on the same league as her big pop singles like No Tears Left To Cry

I thought it sounded a bit like all the Bieber tracks he's released lately

just double-checked and it was written and produced by the same team

so not the bestest idea if Ariana wanted to evolve her sound

I knew Luke Combs was popular but when did he become as big as Ariana?

 

This is actually the 2nd time something like this has happened this year in the USA - Morgan Wallen's '7 Summers' came out of nowhere to get streaming numbers pretty close to the debut of 'Laugh Now Cry Later' when he'd never previously been a big streaming presence. Weirdly though that song fell down pretty quickly on the Hot 100 as country radio didn't seem to want to support it over his previous single, could have been a much bigger hit if not for that.

 

Luke Combs has already had more UK crossover than most country artists (his last album made the top 40, could see his next album maybe being a top 10 or so). Hard to see how he'd have a crossover hit single though unless it's with a big collab. Stranger things have happened tho ~

This is actually the 2nd time something like this has happened this year in the USA - Morgan Wallen's '7 Summers' came out of nowhere to get streaming numbers pretty close to the debut of 'Laugh Now Cry Later' when he'd never previously been a big streaming presence. Weirdly though that song fell down pretty quickly on the Hot 100 as country radio didn't seem to want to support it over his previous single, could have been a much bigger hit if not for that.

From what I've read the situation with Morgan Wallen was that he teased '7 Summers' on social media few months earlier and it got popular on TikTok before it was officially released. So there was a lot of hype around it and that's why it had big opening numbers. And it seems that there is similar situation with Luke Combs. He previewed the song few days ago and it gained popularity on TikTok before release. At least that's the information i've found on the internet.

Luke Combs was also helped by it dropping alongside a whole deluxe version of his album, he landed quite a few other songs high up Spotify as well (including some from the original album re-entering highly). I did wonder if this might be another case of a song that had some TikTok clout before its official release - but even so it's quite remarkable just how much power that had for these songs to outperform all their previous releases by such a wide margin immediately.

Yea, not EVERYTHING is just TikTok :lol:

This is actually the 2nd time something like this has happened this year in the USA - Morgan Wallen's '7 Summers' came out of nowhere to get streaming numbers pretty close to the debut of 'Laugh Now Cry Later' when he'd never previously been a big streaming presence. Weirdly though that song fell down pretty quickly on the Hot 100 as country radio didn't seem to want to support it over his previous single, could have been a much bigger hit if not for that.

Wouldn't be surprised if it climbs back up to the Hot 100 top 20 4-6 months from now, its initial success just being an irrelevant diversion from country radio's revolving door #1 sequence. Same will probably happen with Luke. They're just about to have a song hit #1 on its 49th week on the airplay chart :lol:

Don’t Americans just LOVE country music?

^but not streamers, they don't even like pop :)

Do you think when more people use Spotify more genres will do well?

Do you think when more people use Spotify more genres will do well?

I’d say that Spotify is past its peak.

In what way?

Yeah Spotify's premium user base is still very much on the up.. But I think the lower streams generally in the top 200 compared to a while ago is because a broader range of people are streaming a broader range of music.

Woah he's #1 on Apple Music USA as well! I hope he can have some crossover success here (unlikely though :P)

Yes would be great to have this king do well!

 

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...not to say that he's entirely innocent of problematic tweets in the past but the tweet on the right there looks very obviously (and sloppily) edited?? Half of the text is a different size to the other half and does not line up correctly... :lol: (I would suspect the other one is fake as well unless there's some other source for it because it looks far too outrageous to have gone unnoticed until right now)