“Levitating experienced an atypical resurgence in radio…”

“gains…including a half-dozen versions of the song…discounted to 69¢”
—billboard.com

Key word " atypical"

Facts are facts.
This is a extract from the billboard article that exposed dua for using payola.

This is not the first time dua has been exposed for using payola

Last year rolling stone magazine exposed dua for using payola.

Dua uses payola. That's why her album sold 18k pure sales first week and debuted at number 4.