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Looks like it's going to flop now, continuous days of negative spins. Wonder if Jive will give them another push ? If they do I bet it will be with a featured artist holding them by the hand.

Wrong. Bleeding Love was a hit before she did any promotion. It was #1 on iTunes before any promo started. It took months to take off as she had no radio profile and no featured artist. No matter how many times you say EIL is flopping... it isn't, at least not yet. Like I said it may or may not be a hit, too early to tell. It's picking up on the radio nicely so it's looking good for them atm. If it does become a hit, I do hope you come back here and admit how wrong you were :) And BTW I'm not a fan either.

Few people are buying the song most likely because few people are hearing the song....because few stations have it in regular rotation. Once the song starts getting more spins then we can determine if it's doing well or not. EIL is still in the 40s on the pop chart. It simply isn't getting enough spins and not enough AI gains to take off. Their promoters need to push it harder. Leona's Bleeding Love was added to iTunes in December and didin't become a hit until March. Recently OneRepublic's All The Right Moves went Top 20..a song that was first sent for adds in September. Like I said you don't understand how the US market works especially when we are talking about artists with little to no radio profile. I'm not saying the song will be a hit, all I'm saying is that it's too early to come out and make statements like "it has flopped". By saying things like that you will look real dumb if the song actually becomes a hit. Does that make sense ?

You clearly don't understand how the US market works. When you are a new artist with low profile then unless you slap on a cheap rent-a-rapper on your track it takes months and a lot of hard work for a song to take off. At this point there is no way to tell if this will be a hit or not.

In this case you are what we might call an oversensitive f(st)an. Besides I don't see how I'm "trolling" I'm not posting in her appreciation thread or her album or singles thread and have no desire to. Bye now.

Album sales is still where record labels make most of their money. Singles might pay for the video but unless you sell millions of copies of every single they bring in little profit for the label. JLS have "merely" outsold her 2 to 1 in albums with far less money invested. RedOne, Stargate, Ne-Yo, Rico Love couldn't have been cheap and I assume neither were features from Flo Rida, Ne-Yo, and Pitbull. Her chart success outside of UK is mediocre at best. Bad Boys went Top 10 in maybe 3 or 4 relevant territories and the album bombed hard everywhere. More importantly JLS have established their identity where as Burke relies on featured artists to get by.