Yeah what Vega said. BL peaked at #1 in 32 different countries. CFMF and The Hills peaked at #1 in 6 and 3 respectively.

Tell me again how The Weeknd flopped you haters...

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Why are weirdos itt celebrating radio play like it's not bought and paid for by the label

Why are weirdos coming into the Weeknd section s***ting on Weeknd fans for being happy for The Weeknd

I didn’t “come into the weeknd sxn” OP checked the box that displayed this thread on music sxn

Great song but it has had no competition whatsoever tbf

Gotcha. I feel like those two were bigger in America, but the numbers might disagree. They seemed more inescapable though

Im outside the US and they were HUGE too

European radio?

Yeah The Hills and CFMF were big but I feel like BL is bigger.
Also The Hills is 11x platinum in the US,and CFMF is 8x(i think) platinum.
BL is about to be 4x platinum in a much shorter time so i think that it will surpass them both in the long run

The Weeknd was a media darling in 2015 due to his come up story. Cfmf and the hills both had the benefit of being big pop songs and benefiting from his relationship with both the pop market and hip hop market. I think his appeal to the hip hop market has lessened but he's become a bigger popstar, which means more worldwide sales and overall a bigger song. It also means that hip hop fans like most of us here don't hear as much about BL as his previous hits because the song isn't popular in the hip hop circles.

Tl/dr: BL is a bigger song but for a different audience than The Hills and CFMF

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