Yuuri 21,636 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 It is by prediction thay Ed Sheeran's song Shape of You will be dethroned at the end of the year. Shape of You, released 2017, is currently the world's best selling digital song, selling 45.8 M copies WW. At 2nd place we have a song no one knows about by famed Chinese singer and actor Xiao Zhan. His song 光点 (Spotlight), released April 2020, has sold a record amount of 38.5 M copies WW. The Untamed actor has also beat out Despacito (36.2M) and Something Just Like This (21.5 M) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrederickSpears 2,114 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 How tf is a song no one knows about to dethrone Shape Of You? I hate Ed, but lemme go buy the better song. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatieJudasGaga4 67,907 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 I've never heard this song before. How did it sell that much so quickly? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuuri 21,636 Posted July 28, 2020 Author Share Posted July 28, 2020 1 minute ago, frederiickx said: How tf is a song no one knows about to dethrone Shape Of You? I hate Ed, but lemme go buy the better song. Just now, KatieJudasGaga4 said: I've never heard this song before. How did it sell that much so quickly? He's a well known actor and singer in China, he in fact has a Guiness World Record selling a reported 25.48 million downloads in 24 hours. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/616233-fastest-selling-digital-track-china Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOJA CAT 1,833 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 3 minutes ago, frederiickx said: How tf is a song no one knows about to dethrone Shape Of You? I hate Ed, but lemme go buy the better song. "better song" "a song no one knows". How do you know the quality of a song you've never heard to determine which is better? thank u, next Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose P 23,341 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 11 minutes ago, frederiickx said: How tf is a song no one knows about to dethrone Shape Of You? I hate Ed, but lemme go buy the better song. Well if the song has sold this much it doesn’t qualify as a “song no one knows about” Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doot 2 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 21 minutes ago, Yuuri said: no one knows about If that is the case, how is it going to dethrone Shape Of You? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuuri 21,636 Posted July 28, 2020 Author Share Posted July 28, 2020 5 minutes ago, Doot said: If that is the case, how is it going to dethrone Shape Of You? I'm sure people outside of China and his fans don't know the song or of him. The song only needs 7.3M more sales to bypass SoY Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen 30,423 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doot 2 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 3 minutes ago, Yuuri said: I'm sure people outside of China and his fans don't know the song or of him. The song only needs 7.3M more sales to bypass SoY Didn't the rules just change with China, though? Was Shape of You even released there? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Economy 49,829 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 27 minutes ago, frederiickx said: How tf is a song no one knows about to dethrone Shape Of You? I hate Ed, but lemme go buy the better song. Maybe because the Western World isn't the whole World Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
whore 11,447 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 It’s like people think culture is limited to just Western consumption The population of China could absolutely obliterate any music record set by a Western or European artist Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovelife 460 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 1 hour ago, KatieJudasGaga4 said: I've never heard this song before. How did it sell that much so quickly? China alone is a huge huge ass market... More than a billion people lives there, and he's so popular there too, and Chinese people tend to not use spotify and streaming services that often compared to western or other Asia regions in general, so I guess digital and physical copies are still dominant there, in fact they have their own Google, it's Bing which is huge, so they don't use Google, so don't be shock when you hear a song we don't know but still outsold the ed sheeran song Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaGaAst 13,023 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 this song has not even 250k views in most viewed video in Youtube for this song. WTF. Is this new TIDAL scandal? Love it when you call me legs In the morning, buy me eggs Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatieJudasGaga4 67,907 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 6 minutes ago, Lovelife said: China alone is a huge huge ass market... More than a billion people lives there, and he's so popular there too, and Chinese people tend to not use spotify and streaming services that often compared to western or other Asia regions in general, so I guess digital and physical copies are still dominant there, in fact they have their own Google, it's Bing which is huge, so they don't use Google, so don't be shock when you hear a song we don't know but still outsold the ed sheeran song I wasn't trying to be rude. It was released in April of this year and its already sold over 30m, I'm just shocked Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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