Originally Posted by jovifan85 (Post 1283751)

Amazing Achevement! Could "It's My Life", "Always" reach this target?

Originally Posted by Thinny (Post 1283753)

...and suprsingly Thank You For Loving Me (77mill)

Originally Posted by Walleris (Post 1283758)

It's not surprising to me. Say It Isn't So was a total flop, so that extra attention gathered from It's My Life needed to go somewhere. And I think with time it's legacy probably increased, given how they never really did another big power ballad like this ever since. Plus, I think the music video in Venice was quite a good one, by their standards. When I first switched from casual to a diehard around 2008, I couldn't understand why Jon completely ignored it on the setlist, especially given how the more popular ballads were more vocally challenging.



I just think, much like with the Bounce era songs, he completely underestimated the local element of songs popularity and not playing the European or South American hits even in those markets, just because those songs were not popular in US.

Originally Posted by Walleris (Post 1283758)

And I think with time it's legacy probably increased, given how they never really did another big power ballad like this ever since.

Originally Posted by Walleris (Post 1283758)

It's not surprising to me. Say It Isn't So was a total flop, so that extra attention gathered from It's My Life needed to go somewhere. And I think with time it's legacy probably increased, given how they never really did another big power ballad like this ever since.

Originally Posted by Walleris (Post 1283758)

I just think, much like with the Bounce era songs, he completely underestimated the local element of songs popularity and not playing the European or South American hits even in those markets, just because those songs were not popular in US.

Originally Posted by Faceman (Post 1283763)

While you are not wrong at all I don't think this relates too good to spotify since Crush was already 8 years old when Spotify started and it took another couple of years until the user figures really went through the roof. So at that point of time there was no attention for Crush or It's My Life anymore from which any song could have gathered.