Hey Justin Bieber fans: you do know that your boy has a track out with Diddy? It’s called “Moments.” So far after 20 hours it has only 74,000 views on YouTube.
Hey fans of The Weeknd: you do know your star has a new single out called “Another One Like Me” with Diddy, right? That one’s doing a little better with 389K views on YouTube, which isn’t that great.
And no one’s buying these singles on iTunes. The singles — at 38 and 45 — and the Diddy album, which were released last night, are lying around like a lox.
Not The Lox, who ironically was an artist on Sean Combs’s old label, Bad Boy Records. Diddy recently said he’d return the rights to Bad Boy artists now that no one wants them anymore. The records are 30 years old.
Diddy’s new release, “The Love Album: Off the Grid” is at number 8 on iTunes after almost 24 hours. There is no clamor for it from fans of any of the 30 artists on the collection. The lack of interest in the Bieber track is surprising, but he’s a little out of vogue at this point. The Weeknd may have really harmed himself with that HBO summer series, “The Idol.”
None of the songs are on the Spotify daily streaming chart. This is a far cry from Diddy’s halcyon days but don’t forget — they were catalyzed by him re-recording Sting’s Police song “Every Breath You Take” and passing it off as his own. This album has some nice tracks but nothing that leaps out. That may be the problem.
