womanfish
Rock n' Roll Doggie ALL ACCESS
You know this doesn't mean anything real, right? It's bragging rights at this point. I find it amusing that this difference of placement (either way, not very high) would bother you; whether they place in the top 40, top 100, whatever. It's not going to affect people buying the album. How good the song is, how much people are into it, that's going to affect it.
If you're going to be concerned with chart performance, I don't see this as being anywhere near a big deal as the album itself debuting at #1. Because however high a new U2 single places, it sure as hell isn't going to contend for a top spot, or even close. You can take a guess which one the band cares more about.
My point is that it makes no sense!!
You can’t say that them charting on the main singles charts around the world isn’t better for them than NOT charting.
They went for a Wednesday release with TBT to try and get the song as much radio play as possible. With the thought, I’m sure, that they wanted it to chart somewhat respectably. But splitting your highest traffic week in two is just stupid.
They could have easily announced it last Friday and had a full week of downloads, streams,etc... and had even more time to have the album up for presale.
Or wait til this Friday, which wouldn’t be a huge difference in time frame.
Just pointing out it doesn’t make sense when we know this band wants attention and chart success.