After spending the last few years being overlooked by the casual listener, it seems Contemporary R&B is finally reaping the fruits of its Frank Ocean fueled labor.
For, thanks to the public’s renewed interest in the genre and a well executed push by her label ‘EPIC‘, Ciara‘s ‘Body Party‘ has found itself on its way to the chart heavens…selling 20,000 units in the last week.
In the last week, the R&B slow jam moved an impressive 20,479 units digitally pushing its combined sales to 142,422.
Outselling Alicia Keys‘ ‘Girl On Fire’ and Kelly Clarkson‘s ‘People Like Us‘ in the last seven days, the song’s meteoric digital rise sees it soar on the back of paid for downloads, and not free streams-which now count to overall chart positions.
The best about it’s ascent? The fact that it’s being generated by casual listeners and not die hard Ciara or R&B fans.
For, as stats pulled on a number of contemporaries prove, R&B singles targeted at R&B audiences alone never fare as well as ‘Party‘ has, and that the genre can only really soar when its promo is tailored for a wider audience.
Congratulations Cici!
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Frank Ocean had NOTHING to do with the uprising of RnB. HEll, RnB aint back. Its still a mess. S*** music wont help the genre return to its former glory
#PREACH. It is sad when the only music making any waves these days are COPIED (I don’t even say sampled, as they are stealing full instrumentals, lyrics and choruses now) from hit singles. Chris brown stole swv’s sound for a hit single, ciara is doing it, so many do it now a days, and besides rihanna/beyonce/adelle, that is really the only way most of them are charting.
Please don’t say besides Beyoncé, when u thow she’s one of the entertainment business biggest thiefs.
*know
Teamciara b**** !!! Bodyparty slaying !!! Ciara 7/9 !!! Follow me on twitter heaux @ibesoofresh
This statement alone: “the song’s meteoric digital rise”…
Are u serious? I´m glad for her and I congratulate her and her fans on TGJ if these sales are better than her previous singles. I really do. But how can you write a post like this as if this were total slayage (comparing it to Girl on Fire??? released like 9 months ago? lol) and then you write some other biased posts making it seem like some other artists singles are being outsold by your faves when they are selling way more than them?
Girl on fire isn’t R&B it was a hip hop song
y’all need to learn your genres on TGJ
girl on fire is an r&b song. hip hop consist of an artist rapping or rap singing. this song was straight r&b so i think you need to learn your genre
@OOPS
Kudos to Ciara for the success of ‘Body Party’…..but Sam, are you REALLY going to compare it with Girl On Fire?! A track that was released SEPTEMBER in 2012! Plus, Kelly Clarkson’s ‘People Like Us’ has been available to download since November last year too from the Greatest Hits album…you can’t exactly call it a an accomplishment when Ciara is only just outselling releases from last year…but well done to her, nonetheless.
Well congrats ciare! But if my fav make such sale I will not be impresses but I guess this is more than ciare fans can hope for. It is a great sale for her level. Congrat ciara for selling more than eve lip lock. Impressive for your level. Lol
142K for Cedric? That’s it? Love Song & PIU both slay this flop t***** with no promo, no video 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Lmao@ Body Flop tumbling down the charts now in the 50’s on BB HOT 100 🙁 🙁
Now let’s hope that kelly rowland beats this sales, but am sure she will. Cus with all the tears she has been shading on stage and useing dirty laundry to get attention. She should expect a pretty deciet sales. Lol
Kelly is a flop deal
LIKE A CIARA STAN HAS ANY ROOM TO CALL SOMEONE A DAMN FLOP LMFAO KELLY>>>CIARA NOW U DEAL F*****
You are so delusional 😆
Old news, but Slayara is f****** doing it and ain’t nothin no hater can say.
LMAO ONCE A FLOP ALWAYS A FLOP
Yess so proud,but why yall fight i love Kelly Rowland,Rihanna,Beyonce but most C and i wouldnt ever hate :/
Im confused, i thought tgj love cici
why the shady post?
Fuc# them Ciara is Back!
Lest be real, the song is good, but its being overrated by this post…
What about Girl on Fire (the Nicki version) sounds like R&B to y’all? Thats CLEARLY hip-hop. listen to the beat, pls
Anyway, congrats, Ci ppl like to laugh & count certain songs out while they quietly slay. A slow 90s based R&B track selling 150k in 2mos will surely go gold in 5-6 and outshine some of these *cough* popular songs about strippers & h***.. & to think Ci hasn’t even performed it live, yet
girl were u BORN this stupid?? Girl On Fire is an R&B song with a hip pop artist featured!! a hip hop song would be rapping with singn as a hook. this is reversed you dumb h**! but then again i shouldn’t expect YOU to know music when you a Nicki stan
that funny comparing for example to Can’t Hold Us by Macklemore which moves over 300,000 this week, or their Thrift Shop which still moves more in one week than her overall sales.
Happy B’Day Mel B!
Congrats Ci-Ci!!…keep on- Keep keep keepin on!
But lets see if this b******* goes gold
Gratz to her.
TGJ you better stan for Mel B! that song made missy elliott the first female mc to ever get a #1 in the UK.
Good for her and her wacky stans lol.
Let’s Not forget the song is #7 on urban radio and almost top 20 on rhythmic it leaped back to 51 last week on the hot 100!!!!! All with no performance!!!! Since it debut it has not left the top 60 on the hot 100 we talking R&B not you generic pop and dance single #Proud
This s*** is a joke, TGJ would never praise such mediocre sales for another artist, “Tailored to a wider audience” is code for R&B turned pop, just like Rihanna … only thing is if Ri sold 20k in a week TGJ would have her ass dragged for filth
Damn why can’t people let her have something she’s done nothing wrong and so what if girl on fire came out last year the point is, that it’s still playing like it was released yesterday people really aggrivate me always trying to pick out everything negative damn the girl is doing extremely well
But GOF has sold 2 million worldwide. Ciara will never.
Cute sales! Congrats to her! 🙂
LOL. Meanwhile my fave’s current single sold almost 100k last week.
He looks smoking hot in that picture.
Damn, the haters come from everywhere when someone starts doing well…smh
Who?
We love U Ciara!!
Cierror is always flopping!
I expected more tbh , her singles are selling as fast as a worm, but i guess that is what’s up with R&B without radio deals.
but i’m so happy for her regardless , she promoted it so well.
Now where’s “overdose” b**** ?
pretty good for someone that hasnt done any live performances of the song ….
and is too lazy to tour for her fans.
Best performer of her generation but she STAY losing b/c of her lack of work ethic….
Rihanna not a great performer but she works hard…. that why she STAY winning
YALL KEEP USING THIS R&B EXCUSE, BUT FRANK OCEAN AND MIGUEL GOT PLATINUM SINGLES. ROBIN THICKES NEW R&B TRACK WITH TI IS AT 700K ALREADY. EVEN FANTASIA IS SELLING. PEOPLE JUST DON’T F*** WITH CIARA SHES WASHED UP
Chart glory? Wtf?!
overdose?