Will the all-female ‘Birds of Prey’ soundtrack fall prey to the same lack of interest the girl-powered 2019 ‘Charlie’s Angels’ soundtrack faced?
Initial response to its lead single, ‘Diamonds’ (performed by Megan Thee Stallion, Normani), suggests the answer is ‘yes.’
Look inside to see what we mean:
As we first reported here, Meg sent fans into a frenzy a month ago when it was revealed she would be teaming with the former Fifth Harmony hitmaker for the ‘Birds of Prey’ official soundtrack. Later revealed to be the project’s first single, the Bell and MD$– produced tune saw its official premiere accompanied by the release of its funhouse-themed music video on January 10.
Powered by its mallet-wielding starlets, the arrival of the ‘Diamonds’ video ignited Twitter’s trending topic list and digital sales tallies. However, that amplification was short-lived. Just days later, the song plummeted out of the upper rankings of real-time sales and streaming charts – a feat that suggested a sluggish start for a tune so highly anticipated.
Peruse of the most updated Hot 100 chart sees ‘Diamonds’ absent as it premiered at #16 on the Bubbling Under Charts.
The nonperformance echoes the commercial response to ‘Don’t Call Me Angel’ – the first single from the soundtrack of the 2019 reboot of ‘Charlie’s Angels.’ Powered by Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus, and Lana Del Rey – all respected hitmakers by their lonesome – their combined effort, albeit greeted by ample buzz, did not see that excitement mirrored commercially (as we reported here).
Either way, after checking out ‘Prey’s star-studded soundtrack tracklist by clicking here, tell us: what will it take to generate interest in the movie’s companion album?
??????? 2 overrated artists meg replacing who ? ?
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO
No shade it just wasn’t that good of a song. Weak song. Weak “artists”.
How’s Camicky doing with the tour? HDD states it’s flopping. ???
No prob with this song. It sucked!!!
Normani is getting ready for another hit in 2020.
After the smashes Love Lies , Dancing with stranger and top 40 solo hit.
VMA received as well. No album OWT.
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Your excuse is that the song sucked? ???
Another hit in 2020? ???
Clown ??
You realize all of Camilas songs from NOmance have yet to outpeak Motivation, right?
Seniorita outcharted all of normani’s discography
Here comes the senorita is not her song
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Okay? You and Camila and Epic records continue to cling to senorita and Havana. Why can’t she get a hit without a feature? Aww. Boohoo. She is a racist and you’re the clown that is a person of color supporting her.
Never be the same outpeaked normani entire discography
Gurl this is a new year, we’ve had this conversation before.
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Liar has more streams than motivation
Liar- 217 million streams
Motivation-147 million streams
Shameless has more YouTube views than motivation , a viral video that every celebrity posted about to their millions of followers on Instagram and Twitter
Shameless- 82 million views
Motivation- 81 million streams
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My color doesn’t define who I am or what I listen to.
There is a difference between making a mistake as a child and being racist.
For a grown man who wants to destroy a YOUNG GIRL’S life and career, that to me is worse than any racial comment.
Don’t think that just because you’re q**** that makes you exempt from being misogynistic.
Whöremila is racist slüt. Stop blaming it on her age when she has shown racist behavior over YEARS
Like when?
It’s not that great of a song. But to also be fair, society isn’t checking for two dark skin black girls on one single. You can’t argue that complexion doesn’t come into play. Also many aren’t excited for the movie in general. Comic geeks already are shîtting on the movie, but like I said, song isn’t that great too
Don’t bring complexion into a space where it’s irrelevant. The song is bad and neither one brings ANYTHING unique to it. So instead their skin tone and society, blame their lack of “it” factor or musical personality to make the song spark.
Did you not read when I said the song isn’t good? Complexion still plays a part. This song is far better than Yummy lyrically and sonically, but guess who is on the charts – complexion is always a factor.
Yummy is way better than this. Although generic, it’s still groovy And Justin Bieber is on of the biggest artists on the planet. And has a dance challenge. This is wack across the board and Megan isn’t spitting any bars. Color isn’t playing an issue. It’s just a bad song.
Finally, someone with some sense!
Normani was the weak link on this one simply because of the weak hook, it’s not about race because the City girls, Meghan, Lizzo, Summer Walker just to name a few have been on the charts soooooo that isn’t the issue. I even said it to myself that Megan might get an L for this one simply because Normani l didn’t vocally bring it on the record. She is talented but she needs to find her own vibe and be very creative in her visuals s*** maybe borrow from Solange videos mixed with a little Beyonce might do the trick
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO @ society isn’t checking for 2 black skinned girls
Lmao even moneybag yo her x got singles that’s higher up ????
That’s to show u, people are checking for only megan thee stallion, not normani.
Umm no she’s not on his songs nobody checking for her either tbh
The movie gon flop as well
After all the hype
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Normani is only popular on Twitter.
Normani stans what’s good?
U guys said she was gonna end Camila in 2020 but here we are
Camila has 3 songs on the chart right now
Seniorita -24
My oh my – 44
South of the boarder- 56 (rose 5 spot)
While normani hasn’t charted any song since 2020 began.
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YOU WANT TO BE NORMANI SO BAD ???
they think twitter and instagram hype equal sales
No one cares.
This generation of pop stars is doomed b/c aside from their stans on social media no one cares.
The only ppl charting well are MALE rappers and WHITE female pop stars.
Agreed. There needs to be more diversity on the charts, for sure. Just Meg, Normani, nor this song ain’t it ?
Agree and haters thought meg would take cardi down she gotta get a hit first they be trying it ?
Cardi had 3 number 1 singles she’s not male or white ??
Cardi is Queen!
Cardi B is not white she is a Latina woman.
She has a huge demographic of young folks, Latina girls in particular, that never purchased hip hop looking up to her. In order for a black female rapper to acheive the same level of success as Cardi they have to CROSSOVER to multiple demographics. You cant have a Lizzo or Cardi B without a singular crossover smash hit song.
Like I said, your Halseys, Selenas, Justin’s, Ed’s, Male rap stars dominate the Billboard charts ONLY due to heavy streaming. The main Hot 100 charts will never be as diverse like they were before streaming took over.
Can you name a black female artist aside from Lizzo who has dominated streaming, sales, and Billboard w/ a huge smash hit? Probably not.
Can you name a white female artist who has dominated streaming, sales, and Billboard w/ a huge smash hit? Absolutely.
I said in the first post about the song that this was Normani’s first misstep. The song was a no for me and Megan is CLEARLY staying in 2019. #next
Is anyone even expecting big things from soundtrack songs in 2020?
Sunflower
Shallow
Love me like you do
Skyfall
Elastic heart
All the stars
All are soundtrack songs that did well.
Even spirit by beyonce charted. lol
Normani’s first misstep?
Motivation was normani’s first misstep and it has been misstep after misstep since then
Motivation remix feat. 21 savage
Bad to u
Now diamonds.
Her next single is what’s gonna determine if she’s can redeem herself but I doubt it. She will flop.
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Should we list all of Camila’s flops that failed to chart and/or impact the top 50?
Real Friends (even with a remix from Swae Lee)
Consequences (failed to enter top 50 even after Grammy performance)
Mi Persona Favorita
Sangria Wine (even after billboard performance)
Liar (even after countless performances)
Shameless
Cry for Me (even after a high budget SNL performance)
Easy (even after a high budget SNL performance)
Living Proof (after COUNTLESS high budget performances at AMA’s, Ellen, etc)
Love Incredible
Hey Ma
Know No Better
Almost Like Praying
Find U Again
South of The Border
OMG
In other words, CAMILA RACIST CABELLO has released more FLOPS than ANYONE in Fifth Harmony.
Don’t Pretend to lower your expectations for soundtracks because your girls song is wack af. Soundtracks have brought some of the best music in history since the dawn of time, by quality artists so yes… we will always expect big things from soundtracks from artists who actually have the talent and art to provide Memorable music of quality. Maybe your girl just can’t pull it off
Exactly if it woulda been a hit they woulda loved soundtracks lol
SHE SURE DOES HAVE MEGA FLOPS LIKE SHOULD WE BRING UP CRYING IN THE CLUB FLOPPING AS WELL AS I HAVE QUESTIONS ????
people don’t want to believe it but Megan was left in summer 2019. Once Autum began she was out. She hasn’t had any impact and Hot Girl Summer peaked at 11. that’s the most she ever did. everything after that just became irrelevant. She only poppin on twitter and instagram where The Shade Room is getting paid to post her every 2 seconds.
Normani is coming
Normani is coming
Normani is coming
Coming to flop
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Twitter and the real world are two different things.
Twitter hype doesnt translate into sales on streams.
Cancelling Camila is not gonna stop normani from flopping
Calling Camila racist is not gonna stop normani from flopping
Normani is not a star. Period
Bad song
The song is catchy and the video is hot. They dropped the ball on promotion, shame on them
Better loosen up your man weave if you ain’t hearing what the rest of us hear…
Good – knowing your loose dumb ass and stinky p**** disagree lets me know I’m right.
Maybe you only hear it while being too high off Molly during your gang bangs and getting that ass poz bred.
Stfu it was a flop out the gate
They need to stop playing with these wack producers and get Pharrell, Timbaland, Scott Storch, Danja and the Clutch, Rodney Jerkins and Tricky Stewart to create them some REAL songs.
This song was dated enough. They don’t need an even more dated sound.
Dummy they are real lifetime producers. Their music has transcended throughout decades so you sound a fool.
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Rodney Jerkins hasn’t had a hit in years lol. But I agree on the others.
Rodney Jerkins won a Grammy last year with H.E.R. for his song he did with her, “Hard Place”. Whatchu talmbout.?
Should we list all of Camila’s flops that failed to chart and/or impact the top 50?
Real Friends (even with a remix from Swae Lee)
Consequences (failed to enter top 50 even after Grammy performance)
Mi Persona Favorita
Sangria Wine (even after billboard performance)
Liar (even after countless performances)
Shameless
Cry for Me (even after a high budget SNL performance)
Easy (even after a high budget SNL performance)
Living Proof (after COUNTLESS high budget performances at AMA’s, Ellen, etc)
Love Incredible
Hey Ma
Know No Better
Almost Like Praying
Find U Again
South of The Border
OMG
In other words, CAMILA RACIST CABELLO has released more FLOPS than ANYONE in Fifth Harmony.
only MISOGYNISTIC facts!
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You can’t whine about misogyny when you use female-hating shade online. Rotten ass hypocrite
How can you cry “misogyny” in the same thread you make jokes about people contracting Hîv. You make no sense
You gays stay hating on females because you wish you had p****
I got love for all girls, cis or trans, that’s why I made you your own tag #Shower4Shayla
Read above comment.
So it’s okay for you to create multiple accounts calling Normani a flop, but I cannot list of of Camila Cabello’s flops? Are you insulted that she’s released more flops than anyone else from Fifth Harmony? Girl, bye.
Multiple accounts? Camila’s flops? I could care less lol. I care about your misogyny…
I like the song but people are not checking for this 2 lady’s the video only have 5 millions that a big flop
RIGHT! 5 million views barely… this wildly flopped.
The song sucked ??♂️
and I oop
Normani will be ok. Song just wasn’t good.
“Consequences (failed to enter top 50 even after Grammy performance)”
@onlyfacts
It’s a new year, girl u have started with ur fake news. Lol
Normani hasn’t appeared on the chart since 2020 began.
January is about to come to an end.
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U people said she was gonna dominate 2020, so explain this mess.
Most of those flops Camila released all have 100 million streams and above.
Liar has more streams than motivation
Liar- 217 million streams
Motivation- 147 million streams
Let’s not forget motivation had a remix feat 21 savage. ?????
Camila cant relate
3 songs on the charts.
They hate to see it
Consequences peaked at 51 after she performed at the AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS. Thank you for letting me correct myself. Girl has so many flops and has performed everywhere, it’s hard to keep up. Corrected list below 🙂 MWAH!
Real Friends (even with a remix from Swae Lee)
Consequences (failed to enter top 50 even after AMA performance)
Mi Persona Favorita
Sangria Wine (even after billboard performance)
Liar (even after countless performances)
Shameless
Cry for Me (even after a high budget SNL performance)
Easy (even after a high budget SNL performance)
Living Proof (after COUNTLESS high budget performances at AMA’s, Ellen, etc)
Love Incredible
Hey Ma
Know No Better
Almost Like Praying
Find U Again
South of The Border
OMG
In other words, CAMILA RACIST CABELLO has released more FLOPS than ANYONE in Fifth Harmony.
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When normani’s debut album flops, you’re gonna copy and paste this comment aren’t you?
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Ur a fùcking loser.
Camila cabello has also released more number 1’s than anybody in 5th harmony.
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Camila has more Grammy nominations than any body from 5th harmony
Normani’s last top 10 ever in her career is gonna be dancing with a stranger, wanna bet?
The girl is over.
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Real Friends (even with a remix from Swae Lee)
Consequences (failed to enter top 50 even after AMA performance)
Mi Persona Favorita
Sangria Wine (even after billboard performance)
Liar (even after countless performances)
Shameless
Cry for Me (even after a high budget SNL performance)
Easy (even after a high budget SNL performance)
Living Proof (after COUNTLESS high budget performances at AMA’s, Ellen, etc)
Love Incredible
Hey Ma
Know No Better
Almost Like Praying
Find U Again
South of The Border
OMG
In other words, CAMILA RACIST CABELLO has released more FLOPS than ANYONE in Fifth Harmony.
Troll
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Another L for u and normani
Diamonds, the first flop of 2020.
WITH ALL HER PROMO & PERFORMANCE SLOTS SHE SHOULD HAVE A LIST OF HITS WORTHY OF RIHANNA BUT FLOPMILA CANNOT SNAG SOLO HITS ??
The song wasn’t good at all. Visually it was definitely candy! But sound? Uuuhh… No. They’re definitely not playing that on any radio I listen to. BUT add some censorship and it could’ve been a Disney channel HIT! ?
The song was str8 up wack AF!
A HIT ON DISNEY CHANNEL? LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO the shade
The song itself is generic, so I didn’t expect to do much chart wise. Honestly Meg is using her time to perfect her twerking skills besides posing for pictures in the studio. Hopefully she finds her stride because as of right now she is has brought nothing fresh to the game. As for Normani she needs better material, and needs to find an image, and sound that works beyond social media hype.
she was left in 2019. she can’t revive after so many back to back flops
Told ya so…this damn Normani poor baby just ain got that it factor. It’s the Nicole Shirzinger factor…you need them other broads to make you look better, because them other girls were just flat out terrible.
but she was never the Nicole from the group… That’s Camila who by the way has had a good amount of success on her own.
tbh it was normani that ruined the song idky but she just sounded fake love megs part she can do no wrong
Can you all stop trying to make Megan happen, she’s not gonna happen! Her music sucks, her rhymes are weak and she isn’t a beauty lol just stahp!
honestly people claim she’s not versatile enough and I see it. she sounds the same in every song so i guess she won’t have that crossover appeal as Cardi B and Nicki Minaj
The song sucks so this isn’t surprising.
at this rate Normani needs to stop wasting her label’s money I can a Tinashe kinda career where she goes independent after failing to be commercial. As far as Megan idk what to say. Once Cardi B drops her first single, album cover and release date.. its a wrap.