{"id":127784,"date":"2019-04-28T16:03:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T20:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=127784"},"modified":"2019-04-28T16:30:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T20:30:20","slug":"report-taylor-swift-brendon-uries-me-reached-67k-sales-in-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2019\/04\/28\/report-taylor-swift-brendon-uries-me-reached-67k-sales-in-day-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Taylor Swift &#038; Brendon Urie&#8217;s &#8220;ME!&#8221; Reached 67K Sales In Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8220;ME! (featuring Brendon Urie)&#8221; did not match the opening day sales performance of previous lead single &#8220;Look What You Made Me Do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It did, however, deliver the biggest opening day sales performance for a song in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hits Daily Double, &#8220;ME!&#8221; sold about 67K pure US downloads on Friday, April 26.<\/p>\n<p>The aforementioned &#8220;Look What You Made Me Do&#8221; moved 252K first-day tracks in 2017.  That single, of course, had several advantages.  It launched in a better climate for pure sales, it represented her first lead single in three years (as opposed to a year-and-a-half), it launched concurrently with the pre-order for her next studio album, and it was the follow-up to a more successful, momentum-building album (&#8220;1989&#8221; vs. &#8220;reputation&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>In reporting on the story, Hits offers a comparison to a more recent high-profile lead single launch:  Jonas Brothers&#8217; &#8220;Sucker.&#8221;  That song sold 43k copies on its first day of release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;ME!&#8221; posted the biggest opening sales day of 2019.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1047,206],"tags":[6566,3532,145],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Report: Taylor Swift &amp; Brendon Urie&#039;s &quot;ME!&quot; Reached 67K Sales In Day One<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"No, Taylor Swift&#039;s &quot;ME! 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