"CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE" for Extra Gum

[john]

Currently 164,204,000 streams on Spotify.  The Extragum commercial has provided ongoing visability for the song to television audiences.  I wonder if Spotify (etc.) plays will be affected by the termination of the ads.

The song has 169,273,087 streams on Spotify.  So it has been getting more than 158,000 listens per day since June 4th. Steady.

[Miguel]

That is crazy. Shows the world is a big place.
And nearly everything in it is yours if you can break through.

[Tusk]

H/T Niall

CHFIL played on last night's episode of iZombie on the CW, episode 12 of Season 5, at the 19:25 mark in the episode

[Rcul4u998]

I know this had been floating in the ether for a while, but CHFIL was finally just officially certified Platinum by RIAA on October 4, indicating 1,000,000 units sold!

   

[Miguel]

I know this had been floating in the ether for a while, but CHFIL was finally just officially certified Platinum by RIAA on October 4, indicating 1,000,000 units sold!

Thanks for staying on top of it. I've checked periodically myself. It's nice to finally see it declared official.

[john]

While it just got certified I believe it qualified as Platinum long ago (didn't Haley mention something once at a concert?). Glad to see it is finally official.  

When the record was certified gold, in February 2017, the number of Spotify streams was at about 35 million.  Currently there are 184 million plays on Spotify in addition to the many millions of plays on YT and other music streaming services.  Once she got to gold, an additional 75 million total streams in the Unitied States would get the record to platinum (150 streams = one unit sale).

[Rcul4u998]

I've been checking to keep the Wikipedia up to date when it happens. She had mentioned it in a few interviews/articles, and a few articles had referred to her as "Platinum" recording artist but I could never use any of those sources because it hadn't come from RIAA officially until now.

[Rcul4u998]

Yeah, I try hard to use solid references but there's some things that I think are really important to include that just don't have coverage in reputable articles/news sources. In a few cases I've resorted to using MJ's Big Blog and even HF/HRN.

[ssm93]

Haley also mentioned that it "just went platinum" in that Jimmy Kimmel bit, but I don't think that qualifies as a "solid reference" XD

[john]

34097138 Lyrics version
23354909 Gurly Girl (was the “official” version)
 8289016 Extra Gum version
 4793270 Paperman version

Together these videos account for 70.5 million views on Youtube.
The song is also posted on Haley's channel where it has almost 275,000 views.

Current numbers on the videos:
41,844,817 lyrics version
23,907,310 Gurly Girly
9,238,886 Extra Gum version
4,995,226 Paperman version

Gain of 9486239 views.  That is about 71K views per day.
The "lyrics version" gets more than 60K of these views per day, making it the most popular of her YT videos.

Currently these videos account for 92.5 million views (the Extra Gum version is gone but it accounts for 9.5 million views).  That is a gain of roughly 12.5 million since the end of March or about 60K views per day on the three remaining.  The views are largely concentrated on the lyrics version, which has 52.2 million views.