42 minutes ago, Jessie Where said:

Would it be fair to call 'Birds of a Feather' Billie's biggest hit ever?

It's certainly Billie's BEST hit ever!!

18 minutes ago, gasman449 said:

Surely not when Bad Guy exists!

I mean, 'Bad Guy' has had years to accumulate a bigger lifetime total but this will overtake that and is clearly bigger I think.

4 minutes ago, Julian_ said:

In UK chart sales there’s a fair way to go: “Bad Guy” 3 million and “Birds Of A Feather” 1.6 million. But that’s after 6 years for the former and less than 1 for the latter.

If my guess work is right, it should be near if not 4x platinum/~2.4 million by the end of 2025. Will likely overtake "Bad Guy" by end of 2026/beginning of 2027. Wouldn't be surprised if "BIRDS OF A FEATHER" creeps its way up the best selling list and is 10x platinum by the early 2030s.

'BIRDS OF A FEATHER' spent more weeks than 'bad guy' in the (UK) Top 5, Top 10, Top 20 and already has more in the Top 40. It needs 15 more to overtake in the Top 75 and 21 to do so in the Top 100 - it will surely do both.

It's definitely Billie's best single ever for me, and I am still hearing it everywhere so I'm not surprised it's riding so high still nearly a year on. It's just a shame it never made it all the way to No.1.

1 minute ago, gooddelta said:

It's definitely Billie's best single ever for me, and I am still hearing it everywhere so I'm not surprised it's riding so high still nearly a year on. It's just a shame it never made it all the way to No.1.

Maybe during the tour the label can reset, discount etc to push it there *_* Might become the best selling #2 peaking song ever? What is the biggest selling #2 hit currently? "Wonderwall" at 8x platinum?

4 minutes ago, Envoirment said:

Maybe during the tour the label can reset, discount etc to push it there *_* Might become the best selling #2 peaking song ever? What is the biggest selling #2 hit currently? "Wonderwall" at 8x platinum?

According to Wikipedia, Wonderwall is the biggest selling #2 with paid for sales.

Combined sales with streaming etc included it is, surprisingly, All of Me by John Legend.

Feels really weird that Birds Of A Feather is going to overtake Bad Guy that quickly. To me Bad Guy felt like a massive cultural moment, I wasn't even into music at the time but I remember it and Billie being everywhere, more than any other artist/song that year, meanwhile I've barely heard people in person refer to "Birds..." or Billie in general over the past year.

33 minutes ago, ChrisJK said:

According to Wikipedia, Wonderwall is the biggest selling #2 with paid for sales.

Combined sales with streaming etc included it is, surprisingly, All of Me by John Legend.

It was “All Of Me” for a while but “Wonderwall” overtook around 2021 so that Wiki is quite out of date oops.

8 minutes ago, Julian_ said:

It was “All Of Me” for a while but “Wonderwall” overtook around 2021 so that Wiki is quite out of date oops.

Thanks, @Julian_

And there was me believing everything I read on Wikipedia 😉

7 hours ago, danG said:

181 NE Charli xcx – party 4 u 69,887 PEAK

Need this to have its Cruel Summer moment.

'party 4 u' is not one of my favourites from that album but I'm happy to see anything from it gaining traction really, criminally overlooked album commercially even by pre-BRAT Charli standards!

How can Billie’s Lovely have > 3 billion streams, not even sure how that one goes and Im a fan

Is it the algorithm?

Early hits have a habit of contradicting the charts' lay of the land, steadily accumulating without necessarily being in the spotlight. If you take a big hit from its time (like a "One Kiss" or a "Lucid Dreams") and took away all of their sales from when they're in the top 40, you'd still end up with a massive hit*. So in many countries, "lovely" is just that actualised. Although I'd be remiss to not point out that in Australia & Aotearoa, it was a massive top 5 hit that spent roughly a year in the top 50, so I'm speaking outside of my own perspective where it's just obviously a popular hit song.

*My favourite example of this, "Uptown Funk" was demonstrably huge in Australia when it came out, the first song to ever spend an entire calendar year in the top 50. When it finally left the top 50 for good, it was 9 times Platinum. It's now 22 times Platinum, meaning that not only has it sold more outside of the chart than in it, but it'd still be one of the biggest hits of all time if it was starting from scratch in 2016.

If it were Ocean Eyes... I could understand, but Lovely? I just went and checked but I find Lovely so unmemorable

maybe it's cos it has Khalid, who is not the most exciting act ever

The apparent hugeness of 'Lovely' has always baffled me. I've literally only ever heard it twice from checking myself to see what it sounds like, compared to something like 'Bad Guy' which you hear everywhere in clubs, bars, shops, playing out of people's cars, radio, adverts etc.

Ed sheeran been spotted performing ordinary in a pub with Alex Warren (not my local but the lads brought it up)

Incoming remix maybe 🤷🤣

if you can beat him, join him :D the lyrics of Ordinary are certainly as cheesy as if they came from Ed

7 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

Ed sheeran been spotted performing ordinary in a pub with Alex Warren (not my local but the lads brought it up)

Ed definitely reads this forum!

5 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

Ed sheeran been spotted performing ordinary in a pub with Alex Warren (not my local but the lads brought it up)

Incoming remix maybe 🤷🤣

I tried to tell people it was a pub fav and people thought it was a joke