Migos, "T-Shirt"

Also, the weeknd is a strange point of comparison since his chart success largely derives from him catering to the old business model of letting the label take care of the marketing, writing songs for radio etc etc. He's not playing the Migos game.

― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, February 7, 2017 2:53 AM (forty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also you're kidding yourself if you think migos aren't 'writing songs for radio'

Well good luck with your alternative facts, deej. Every song comes out after another song. And Migos are writing the same type of songs that they always did about the same subject matter. That they do it better than on their last album and have developed their pop sensibilities quite a bit does not make Culture comparable to Starboy, sorry. Radio plays Bad & Boujee because it is already a hit but B&B was not written for radio and radio didn't make it a hit in the first place.

What's "artificial" about the streaming charts though? Those are the songs listeners actively seek out, unless you want to make an argument about playlists like Rap Caviar "skewing" the stats.
As mentioned above, today T-Shirt is at number 7 on the US spotify chart: https://spotifycharts.com/regional/us/daily/latest How does that not reflect its actual popularity?

They should have put cocoon on the album though.

agree its obv not another breakthru full spectrum cultural moment like 'b&b' but no one was rly claiming that either

"songs artificially launched into the top" there is a fine diff between zeitgeist and hypebeast and u know this... both distortive but only one is artificial

i might add by the by that it actually sounds awesome on the radio but i suppose the relevance of that depends on what radio is being discussed

wait why does streaming numbers not count into what is a hit?

isn't that the dominant form of music listening now?

if you search for "Migos" on apple music and tap on Bad and Boujee (probably why ppl are searching for Migos atm) then T-Shirt will start auto-playing after it finishes

if that happens on at least one other service, we know at least the first ten seconds of T-Shirt will be a hit because it takes a sec to hit the back button

mama told me that streaming don't work, one-hit wonder just like Truth Hurts

testing this on alexa

wo wo wo wo

ah the good uzi verse nice to enjoy it

so far the tracklist from asking alexa to "play migos" (via spotify) is
1 bad n boujee
2 hit juug

lol?

ive asked alexa to play migos prob 5 times and ive never heard this song before

3 thank u god

maybe she thinks its time to mix it up

4 free offset freestyle

sounds like a bad font

5 what u doin feat gucci

ok im gonna skip songs til i hear tshirt

ok weve got our second culture song at 6 kelly price

listening to call casting at 17

:) i like this song a lot its cool

ok its playing thank u god again whatever ive got things 2 do, seems random except the first song, shd look at their api seem what the options are

my alexa is bad & boujee

"kelly price" was the other one that sounded like a huge hit in waiting to me, as well as "t-shirt"

I heard "T-Shirt" this morning on 99 JAMZ after J. Cole and it was like stepping into a room stinking of good weed after leaving one full of school kids farting.

evocative

be real was j. cole rapping about his farts

wait why does streaming numbers not count into what is a hit?

isn't that the dominant form of music listening now?

― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, February 7, 2017 10:17 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol i remember this board taking a very different position on this back in the kreayshawn era when it would have counted for something

but oh billboard hadn't told you it was ok to think it was a hit yet

I miss the days when we could all rally together about kreayshawn

lol i remember this board taking a very different position on this back in the kreayshawn era when it would have counted for something

Kreayshawn Street Time will never die

oh fuck TEAM

goddammit sorry everyone

Here ya go... when "t-shirt" crosses the 57 million youtube view rubicon i will consider myself defeated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WJFjXtHcy4

i would watch that but billboard just told me its ok to have lunch so ima do that

"Gucci Gucci" has 56.73M views over 5.5 years
"T-Shirt" has 25.88M views over 1 month

Fake views, not a hit

I'm the "gucci gucci" uploader. Youtube keeps deleting it, this is the tenth time I've uploaded it. It's actually at 1.2 billion views.

oh god i already regret opening this pandoras box

no youtubes didn't get views as big back then

99% of gucci gucci's views were from the year it was a hit, as it is with many many songs

im glad you guys like t-shirt so much

gucci mane's lemonade has only 31 million views over 8 years i guess it wasn't a hit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Q4s_ZdvAQ

US Billboard Hot 100 53
US BillboardHot R&B/Hip-Hop 15
US Billboard Rap Songs 8

US Billboard Hot 100 57
US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop 62
US Billboard Rap Songs 18

is either of these a "hit" or nah

comparing pre- and post- streaming rule billboard charts is a fool's game

those numbers are Gucci Gucci and Lemonade lol

wait deej:

kreayshawn's youtube views prove that youtube views are a metric of a song being a "hit"

but gucci's low youtube views prove that youtube views are NOT a metric of a song being a "hit"

do i have that right?

I think he was saying kreayshawn was also a hit earlier, but it's hard to determine what stance he is very correct on, here

itt: people who haven't realized that arguing with deej is as productive as it was arguing with geir

rain drops
drop tops
ELO's Jeff Lynne with the mop top

so hard to guess a hit these days

anyway, we all agree it's not a great song?

It's a great song.

For the record, I always thought Gucci Gucci was a hit and got into many an argument with trad.rap people who argued that if I thought so I must be a hipster, making my opinion null and void.

well yeah, but it is good

Have we talked ab out Culture III at all yet?

Wearing my “t-shirt” today

quavo and takeoff announced a new rap duo and offset unfollowed them both on instagram 🙀 is it possible that they are amigos no longer??

yeah

gonna be an awkward family reunion