interesting

did you peep the Sao Paulo show?

(that initial question looks sarcastic, I was genuinely asking hah)

There was also this but yeah, he's dropping all these singles and they're peaking in the 80s and dropping out of the Hot 100 after a week. Not a good sign of what's to come.

I'm intrigued to hear the new single. Dawn FM isn't my favorite Weeknd album but it has some of my favorite songs from him. I think anything above 200k would be a huge W for him.

New single is so flat
It previewed during Monday Night Football last night

Oh? Hope I enjoy it regardless. I loved Take My Breath, Sacrifice and a handful of other songs off Dawn FM.

billboard.com/charts/billboard-200

hot 200 charts are out btw and Mr Morale isn't on the list, but Her Loss is :o

12 year old GKMC being 46th whilst Mr Morale not being on the list says it all tbh

Ariana's career feels annoying to me, she has all the potential to become a legit superstar of her generation & be seen as that girl but it doesn't seem like she cares. She's just fading away into an artist that'll be mostly forgotten in 10-20 years

Ariana has seen more success than most female artists. Multiple #1 albums, multiple #1/top 10 hits. She has nothing more to prove. And it's not that she doesn't care, it's that the music simply isn't hitting with the GP as much as it once did, which is something every artist who blew up in the 2010s is facing right now. It is what it is.

US only

Niggas will hype up the 303rd new Drake drop of the year but think Dancing in the Flames sounds flat

If you can find me hyping up all the Drake drops this year I'll give your post a like

He’s doing 300K minimum

this what they said about dawn fm, which did half that

The way The Weeknd milked After Hours for 5 straight years is an achievement of its own

Yeah, he definitely doesn't have s*** else to prove numbers-wise. Has more than enough hits to perform on tour for the rest of his career.

After Hours has only been out for 4 years and that's what every artist is supposed to do.

I wouldn't say he was milking it, the songs from it just took a long time to go down in popularity. That's part of the reason why Dawn performed the way it did.

Insisting The Weeknd will do 300k minimum and if/when it doesn't happen and some people call the album a flop/underperformance, come in this same thread insulting those people for being numbers-obsessed. Never fails.

He's been a pop boy since 2015.