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Calvin Harris & Rihanna - This Is What You Came For (Single)
Calvin Harris has announced that his new single will be a collaboration with Rihanna and will drop tomorrow. Will lightning strike twice after the immense success of We Found Love? Either way I can't wait to hear it 
. It seems that those who want a more commercial Rihanna sound might get their wish after all.
. It seems that those who want a more commercial Rihanna sound might get their wish after all. 0
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https://twitter.com/CalvinHarris/status/725729734030561280
Sounds interesting
Apparently Rihanna only heard the track for the first time 2 weeks ago and immediately loved it and said she'd record it.
Same it's quite annoying. I suspect Drake may release it as a single at some point though.
TIWYCF #1 on iTunes now.
That said, I really This Is What You Came For. It's got that subtle dance sound that worked really well on How Deep Is Your Love?
Calvin just delivers hit after hit. He's unstoppable at the moment.
This is so much better than work
I think it's too close to call with Drake's domination on Spotify (getting over 800k streams per day!!!
Calvin Harris would need a massive lead over #2 - and continue to have a massive lead all week - to secure the #1 spot next Friday.
Apparently it's entered at #6 on Spotify so it's left to be seen if the track grows on Spotify.
Indeed. Not a patch on We Found Love tbh.
I imagine it will probably keep rising, how deep is your love was in the charts for a lifetime can imagine this being in the top 40 throughout the summer
Also the info I posted earlier about the origins of this track was incorrect as I misunderstood. It turns out Calvin pitched this song to her for ANTI but Rihanna said it wouldn't fit on her album but then later agreed to record it as a feature.
I thought the charts took all streaming services into account when calculating sales? Not just Spotify, but others like Apple Music and Google Play Music?
This Is What You Came For on first listen was instantly better than the whole of ANTI(climax) combined. I sort of get that Rihanna wants to "mature" as an artist and move away from the type of pop/dance music that made her popular in the first place. Would explain why even in such tragic sales climate, ANTI couldn't even sell enough to go top 5.
Indeed they do, but Spotify makes up by far the biggest percentage of stream sales each week. Apple Music probably contributes about tenth of what Spotify does in the charts.
It's the equivalent of iTunes - by far the biggest market for paid for downloads. iTunes makes up about 90% of all sales data.
Last year, Amazon had Marvin Gaye by Charlie Puth available to download whilst the song was still only a pre-order on iTunes. On Amazon, it was the most bought single for one week but never made the top 100. Either Amazon's singles sales didn't count towards the chart, or Marvin Gaye - despite being #1 - simply didn't sell enough to make the top 100 that week.
i love music snobbery
I disagree with BIB but there you go. Drop this in the middle of ANTI and it would completely destroy the credibility and flow of the album. Similar to how 'Right Now' sticks out like a turd in the middle of Unapologetic. She's finally got it right in terms of delivering a fully cohesive album. Even Rated R didn't achieve that. TIWYCF is just basic and that's fine but it would be a huge step back for her to put a song like this on one of her albums now just because it'll be a hit. That's not to say that she can't return to that sound in the future but I'd expect something a bit more innovative and fresh if she did. Thankfully she saw sense and didn't put it on ANTI even though she clearly liked the track. If anything this proves that she hasn't moved away from full on pop/dance completely but clearly ANTI was a project she felt she needed to get out of her system. I'd actually like to see her go further down that route but that's just my opinion.
Apparently the video for TIWYCF has already been shot. The video could propel it to #1.
I think Calvin has got an excellent knowledge of how the charts work these days and is releasing his music in a way so that the song builds on its first week.
If this does go to #1 this coming Friday, its streaming will continue to increase next week and then if the music video goes to all music channels this coming weekend then that will boost the song even more.
How Deep Is Your Love? would've been #1 had it not been for One Direction releasing Drag Me Down out of nowhere. Calvin, like Drake, is one of the few artists now who is able to sell well on iTunes and stream well on Spotify.
Anti is indeed cohesive - in that every single song is crap.
Rihanna is and always will be a pop star, she needs to stick to what she's good at.