Billie’s “Therefore I Am” debuts on Hot 100 after just 12 hrs of tracking

[Jose P 23,341]

Billie Eilish debuts at No. 94 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated Nov. 21) with her new single "Therefore I Am," following its release on Thursday, Nov. 12.

In just that one day, the last of the latest Hot 100's streaming and sales tracking week, the song tallied 3.1 million U.S. streams and sold 5,000 downloads, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. It also drew 11.7 million radio airplay audience impressions in its first four days, as the Hot 100's airplay tracking week ended Nov. 15.

"Therefore I Am" is likely to make further inroads on next week's charts (dated Nov. 28) after its first full week of tracking.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9485195/billie-eilish-therefore-i-am-debuts-hot-100-rock-alternative-charts/

[vyniildisk 12,689]

The power that she have . Others with full week can't even sneak on the bubble undah 

#1 next week for sure

[Luke78619 23,330]

The exact same thing happened with Taylor’s Me! and I remember petty haters saying that she flopped because it debuted so low  

[Suspiria 10,683]

I don't understand the strategy behind releasing on a Thursday?

[moonsago 7,285]

But why didn’t she release it on a friday? 

[Jose P 23,341]

2 minutes ago, Suspiria said:

I don't understand the strategy behind releasing on a Thursday?

I don’t think there’s any other than she just releases when she wants. It’s not the first time she does this, and everything I wanted even got released on a Wednesday.

[BABYL0N 3,157]

This is giving me tracking Britneys chart vibes back in 2008 

[BlondeQueenOfGGD 25,454]

49 minutes ago, Suspiria said:

I don't understand the strategy behind releasing on a Thursday?

Chart positions imo aren’t really important in 2020, the focus is more on streaming now. Several of Billie’s songs didn’t even enter the Top 40 yet they have over 500M streams on Spotify alone, either that or she’s confident it’ll rise slowly to the top

[pachinko 10,403]

56 minutes ago, moonsago said:

But why didn’t she release it on a friday? 

Because she's a bad kid. 

[TWICE on hatius 4,746]

59 minutes ago, moonsago said:

But why didn’t she release it on a friday? 

 

1 hour ago, Suspiria said:

I don't understand the strategy behind releasing on a Thursday?

If you’re big artists and able to accumulate enough streams on Thursday, by Friday you will be everywhere on playlists. Basically, the first day doesn’t matter if streams are stable.

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

Reminds me of when people thought Rihanna was over because her label mistakingly released 20 minutes early on TIDAL. So it looked like her first week sales album sales were super low  Except everyone said she's was over. 

[BornAsUnic0rn 2,098]

1 hour ago, TWICE said:

 

If you’re big artists and able to accumulate enough streams on Thursday, by Friday you will be everywhere on playlists. Basically, the first day doesn’t matter if streams are stable.

this.