Britney Spears & Iggy Azalea’s Hilarious Pretty Girls Underperformed

Uh oh, is it me, or why Pretty Girls did poorly on the radio? I mean, that song is very funny and to me, it’s the most hilarious Britney Spears song yet thanks to Iggy Azalea. But why radio did not play the epic Britney Spears song? Let me guess: RCA. That’s right, RCA killed Britney Spears. If this song was made by Jive instead of RCA, then that song was a hit.

Now, what could possibly go wrong: The song missed the number 1 Billboard chart peak and RCA killed Pretty Girls. Last week, Pretty Girls, according to the report, which surveys pop radio listeners, received a positive score of 35.5 and a negative score of 41.2. Its net score, therefore, registers at -5.7% and yesterday, the song reached number 52 on the US Billboard chart. This is why I hate radio because radio ruined people listening to music like One Direction and people only listen to what’s popular like Kelly Clarkson and Taylor Swift. Why can’t Pretty Girls reached number 1 on any Billboard chart? Play Britney Spears like this one, radio because she is huge for nearly 2 decades ever since 1998. I bet Headline Planet know the answer on why the song failed to reach number 1 on a Billboard chart. Take it away, Headline Planet.

“Britney Spears & Iggy Azalea’s “Pretty Girls” Scores Poorly With Pop Listeners

Listener callout scores reveal a cold reception to Britney Spears and Iggy Azalea's "Pretty Girls."

Mediabase/CMM’s latest pop radio callout report confirms a net negative reaction to Britney Spears and Iggy Azalea’s “Pretty Girls.”

According to the report, which surveys pop radio listeners, “Pretty Girls” received a positive score of 35.5 and a negative score of 41.2. Its net score, therefore, registers at -5.7%.

Now that reception to Carly Rae Jepsen’s “I Really Like You” has moved into net positive territory (6.3), “Pretty Girls” is the only active pop radio song with a net negative score.

“Pretty Girls” and “I Really Like You” are the only songs with net positive scores below 18.8%.

“Pretty Girls” also fares poorly in all individual metrics. Of the 35 active pop songs measured in this week’s report, “Pretty Girls” possesses the highest negative score, lowest positive score and second-lowest favorite score (11.0, ahead of only the 8.4 for “I Really Like You”).

While the relatively low familiarity rate of 72.6% means the current margin of error is heightened, it is significant enough to paint a general portrait of audience reaction to “Pretty Girls.” The song’s scores may rise slightly in conjunction with growing familiarity (as they have done for “I Really Like You”), but “Pretty Girls” will doubtfully transform into a top-scoring pop track.

— Unpopular with radio audiences, “Pretty Girls” has also been failing to garner excitement from radio programmers.

Since debuting at #23 on the Mediabase pop airplay chart (May 3-9 tracking week), “Pretty Girls” has lost ground at the format. It appears at #29 on this week’s real-time/building airplay chart and suffered a week-over-week decline in spins.

Unsurprising given the tepid audience reaction, its sales performance has been lukewarm for a heavily hyped single involving two high-profile names. It is presently #54 on the all-genre iTunes sales chart.”

Thanks, Headline Planet. It looks like people are getting tired of Britney Spears and moved on to other artists like Taylor Swift. Even me 2 years ago on my now defunct PM’s Personal Thoughts. But now, I felt that I want Britney Spears to stay in the pop world no matter how old she was because she is a big mainstream artist. Also, take a look at this:

POP

27 28 BRITNEY SPEARS & IGGY AZALEA Pretty Girls 2589 3237 -648 8.533

-216 spins

-224 bullet

-0.832 Al

Ouch. This is why radio has to go. I want streaming music and watching music videos like Spotify and MTV respectively. If only MTV needs to play more music videos like Rihanna music videos instead of those annoying mornings and reality shows. MTV needs to stop overairing mornings/reality shows/movies and bring back MTV goes by music videos like Taylor Swift music videos. Anyway, the song’s music video was very lucky.

The music video gains more than 60 million views on Vevo which is great for a Britney Spears music video 2 days ago. That will get more views in no time this summer. Also 2 days ago, Spotify stream this song 8,731,727 times thanks to adding 252,208 more streams. That is quite good. Hopefully veterans like Britney Spears needs to make new music including future number 1 for today’s generations as well as future generations to come.

What are your thoughts on Pretty Girls’s struggles on the radio? Can Pretty Girls’s big number of streams on the internet save the song on something like MTV and digital downloads thanks to Vevo and Spotify? Sound Off!