Rihanna released her new song Lift Me Up on Friday, and within hours, it became the number 1 streamed song in the world.
But Media Take Out has learned that – less than 24 hours after it launched, the song began dropping like a rock on the streaming charts.
Despite a radio deal, playlisting, a music video; lyric videos, visualizer, and heavy marketing in the new Black Panther movie Wakanda Forever – The song is dropping on across all platforms and is predicted to keep dropping.
Rihanna couldn’t hold the #1 position for 24 hours. Here are just a few receipts that we managed to collect:
If this continues, the Bajan JLO might really need someone to “lift this song up,” given the monumental fall it’s experiencing.
And the news gets even worse for Rih-Rih, who sounded very much like a TEMS impersonator on the track, the song continues to fall on streaming platforms experiencing a 50% decrease and it’s on its way out of the top 10 on Apple music. It’s already out of the top 10 on Spotify.
Rihanna is a singer, actress, and businesswoman. Born in Saint Michael and raised in Bridgetown, Barbados, Rihanna auditioned for American record producer Evan Rogers who invited her to the United States to record demo tapes. After signing with Def Jam in 2005, she soon gained recognition with the release of her first two studio albums, Music of the Sun (2005) and A Girl Like Me (2006), both of which were influenced by Caribbean music and peaked within the top ten of the US Billboard 200 chart.
Aside from music, Rihanna is known for her involvement in humanitarian causes, entrepreneurial ventures, and the fashion industry. She is the founder of the nonprofit organisation Clara Lionel Foundation, cosmetics brand Fenty Beauty, and fashion house Fenty under LVMH; she is the first black woman to head a luxury brand for LVMH.
Rihanna has also ventured into acting, appearing in major roles in Battleship (2012), Home (2015), Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017), and Ocean’s 8 (2018). She was appointed as an ambassador of education, tourism, and investment by the Government of Barbados in 2018, and was declared a National Hero of Barbados on the first day of the country’s parliamentary republic in 2021, entitling her to the style of “The Right Excellent” for life.
Rihanna will be headlining the halftime show for Super Bowl LVII on February 12, 2023.
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