Lil Nas X's 'Days Before Dreamboy' debuts with 460k streams

[Teletubby 159,899]

On Friday, March 28, Lil Nas X released his latest project, Days Before Dreamboy EP.
Over the past few weeks, Lil Nas X dropped a string of new singles. After kicking things off in November with “Light Again” and “Need Dat Boy,” he dropped “Big Dummy,” “Swish,” “Right There,” and “Hotbox” earlier this month and “Lean On My Body” last week, then he has collected all eight tracks in on his new EP.
He is expected to drop his sophomore album Dreamboy later this year.

Spotify unfiltered streams [March 28]:
HOTBOX - 184 510
LIGHT AGAIN! - 38 634
DREAMBOY - 21 358
BIG DUMMY! - 23 535
SWISH - 19 841
RIGHT THERE! - 41 286
need dat boy - 16 411
LEAN ON MY BODY - 114 409
total: 459 984

 

[AsleepOnTheCeiling 6,835]

I had absolutely no clue this was a thing. Did he promote it?

[Louvre 4,478]

I think these are partial day streams. Spotify publishes early streams from New zealand/australia/oceania mid-day before the full debut streams come out. 

Either way, its so weird to see him plummet to this status. He had a smash album and then he plummeted. He always realied too heavily on shock value/attention and not on substance and connection to his audience. Shock value runs out and for him it truly did. 

[Teletubby 159,899]

1 minute ago, Louvre said:

I think these are partial day streams. Spotify publishes early streams from New zealand/australia/oceania mid-day before the full debut streams come out. 

no, full day

[BUtterfield 8 41,776]

I hope Hot Box rises bc it’s a really good song 

 

[BUtterfield 8 41,776]

I hope Hot Box rises bc it’s a really good song 

 

[ANVEEROY 64,379]

Stream Zombieboy for clear skin

[FfFfFfFF 57,736]

We all know he claims to be a barb..

but what if Lil Nas X is a closeted Katycat and he wanted to prove there are even lower lows in terms of utter plumment from the charts

[Squidward T 2,434]

Honestly, he needs to go back to his MONTERO sounds and visuals. Everything he has release since then has been crap 

[Plastic Flower 5,450]

Just as bad or even worse than Lizzo 

[GagaSuperfan1 383]

Regardless of mainstream success, I’ll be a big supporter of Lil Nas X. I loved all the recent songs he released leading up to Hotbox. It was really cool to see Montero do as well as it did commercially because he explored so many themes that were important to him as a queer artist and to us as a community. Not is it always guaranteed those that reach mainstream success stay there, It’s especially harder for openly queer artists to maintain that level of commercial success. Could that come in the future still for him, of course. But something doesn’t have to be successful for me commercially to enjoy. I don’t love supporting queer artists just for the sake of supporting queer artists, but when I really like their music and they’re talented, when they themselves being queer helps their music speak to me or represent me in a way where I feel seen, valued or heard, I’m always going to show up for those artists, promote them, and support their music. I love showing up for our talent, our queer artists & creatives. Lil Nas X is so talented, and I love how he’s out there right now, representing us, representing himself as a creative as a gay black man, and member of our community. 

[Spanish Eyes 2,309]

He’s always been pretty mid in terms of actual musical skill and artistic vision. His provocations wore off (remember J Christ?), and I don’t know if he actually has the talent to have a comeback.