As I said Bundles are important for the first week but if they relied that hard on them they would have fallen off the chart hard.. which they did not.
Ice cream didnt really have a radio push at all, not payola wise at least.
So you accuse BP of gimmicks yet dont think BTS have ever used them is that right?
“Bundles are important for the first week”
It’s a gimmick. It’s literally one of the most commonly used gimmicks by Western acts (and recently Kpop acts) to earn high debuts on Billboard and some of them have abused it so much (for example, Super M), that Billboard had revised its rules on it.
Boy, if Ice-Cream became BP’s longest charting song on the Hot 100 thanks to radio...then it’s pushed on the radio. Their Selena feature helped too, that’s why y’all badly want your faves to collab with Olivia or Ariana.
Without all of that, you get LSG’s results.