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June 28, 20231 yr

Some of the songs hanging around like bad smells. Flowers and As It Was must be boring people now surely?

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June 28, 20231 yr

Some of the songs hanging around like bad smells. Flowers and As It Was must be boring people now surely?

I'd say all things considered, "Flowers" is actually dropping quite fast, it's just that it started off a lot higher than most others! It's been out for just 5 months and it's already only getting about 20% as many streams as at its peak. When you consider that includes people who only just started streaming it, the vast majority of initial listeners have moved on from it.

June 28, 20231 yr

I'd say all things considered, "Flowers" is actually dropping quite fast, it's just that it started off a lot higher than most others! It's been out for just 5 months and it's already only getting about 20% as many streams as at its peak. When you consider that includes people who only just started streaming it, the vast majority of initial listeners have moved on from it.

You know what I mean though.

June 28, 20231 yr

You know what I mean though.

Perhaps but I feel it's a folly to only interpret the chart in terms of week to week positions. Where available the raw numbers tell a much more realistic story. I actually went into this surprised it was as low as it was...no pun intended.

June 28, 20231 yr

Some of the songs hanging around like bad smells. Flowers and As It Was must be boring people now surely?

'As It Was' even being in the top 10 a year after release is quite frankly ridiculous. It's arguably a great song but I'm bored as hell of it by this point and I don't understand why other people aren't. It doesn't help that radio are still hammering it.

June 28, 20231 yr

wouldn't be there if he hadn't toured the UK the last couple weeks

June 28, 20231 yr

It’s been there since Feb!

June 29, 20231 yr

in the top 3? don't think so lol

June 29, 20231 yr

Apple:

6 Hannah

9 0800 Heaven

11 Cruel Summer

18 Tom Grennan

21 Gunna

Amazon:

8 Hannah

9 Kylie

12 Cruel Summer

13 0800 Heaven

15 Dua

29 Tom Grennan

33 Leigh-Anne

Stephen Sanchez has done well on Spotify but worse in the other platforms…

was only 124+221 on Amazon, #66 on Apple

June 29, 20231 yr

in the top 3? don't think so lol

Yeah but it’s hanging around in the top 10 well before he toured. It definitely has had a further boost from the tour but the fact it’s hanging around in the top 10 isn’t solely because of him touring

June 29, 20231 yr

I'd say all things considered, "Flowers" is actually dropping quite fast, it's just that it started off a lot higher than most others! It's been out for just 5 months and it's already only getting about 20% as many streams as at its peak. When you consider that includes people who only just started streaming it, the vast majority of initial listeners have moved on from it.

You did a graph a while ago showing how Flowers’ trajectory was similar to Drivers License? Well Flowers has now way outlasted DL. Another comparison is Boy’s A Liar which was very closely challenging it for Number 1 at one point and now the gap is huge. Flowers did drop quite quickly from its peak but its staying power over the last few months has been very impressive.