Avatar: The Way of Water | 16 DEC 2022 | Don't worry guys, critics like it

[XXR & Friends]

5 minutes ago, Elessar said:

Wasn't Cameron hesitating to put a song at the end of Titanic for fear of being corny?

 

Oh how times have changed...

 

Yea but then you see MHWGO selling 50 million records around the world and he's like, "You know maybe this isn't such a bad idea."

 

[Reddroast]

The Weeknd is involved? Well even if I don't like the movie ill like the song

[poweranimals]

1 hour ago, Eric Claus said:

Would Taylor Swift even be interested in making an Avatar song? Is she a big fan of the movie?

"Hey, wanna make a song for the sequel to the highest grossing movie of all time?" "Nah I'm good."

[Reddroast]

1 hour ago, Elessar said:

 

He only got the job because he's canadian.

Thank God JC didn't go with Drake

[WittyUsername]

Imagine if artists started doing songs for Star Wars movies. 

[Gavin Feng]

1 minute ago, WittyUsername said:

Imagine if artists started doing songs for Star Wars movies. 

Lady Gaga for Star Wars: A Top Gun Story.

[WrathOfHan]

 

[Grebacio]

2 hours ago, Elessar said:

 

rabid fanbase = buts in seats

 

That's why i suggested her, basically.

Box Office of movies featuring an original Taylor song:

-Hunger Games: 677M

-50 Shades Darker: 381M

-Cats: 75M

-Where The Crawdads sing: 136M

 

 

Box Office of movies featuring an original Weeknd song

- 50 shades of Grey: 570M

-Black Panther: 1.3bn

 

Weeknd officialy a bigger draw😎

This is obviously a comment that should be taken seriously 

[Fanboy]

36 minutes ago, Grebacio said:

Box Office of movies featuring an original Taylor song:

-Hunger Games: 677M

-50 Shades Darker: 381M

-Cats: 75M

-Where The Crawdads sing: 136M

 

 

Box Office of movies featuring an original Weeknd song

- 50 shades of Grey: 570M

-Black Panther: 1.3bn

 

Weeknd officialy a bigger draw😎

This is obviously a comment that should be taken seriously 

To be fair to Taylor though both of The Weeknd's movies had multiple hits off their soundtrack with other artists as well. 

[CoolioD1]

Hope the weeknd shows up like in Uncut Gems to cuck jake sully.

[Cmasterclay]

This should help to improve the Weeknd IM.

[Borobudur]

So what we know about A2 world tour premiere? I know London and Tokyo has one each, but any other places? 

[Flamengo81]

6 hours ago, Deuce66 said:

 

Go BIG or go home I say.....

 

 

Most monthly listeners

 

Taylor Swift is the artist with the most monthly listeners on Spotify as of December 2022

 

The Weeknd is the male artist with the most monthly listeners on Spotify as of December 2022

Rank	Artist	Monthly listeners (millions)	Chg	Ref(s)
1	Taylor Swift	81.87		[1]
2	The Weeknd	80.30		[2]
3	Ed Sheeran	77.16		[3]
4	Justin Bieber	73.24		[4]
5	Drake	71.75		[5]
6	Sam Smith	70.85		[6]
7	Rihanna	70.49		[7]
8	David Guetta	67.00		[8]
9	Ariana Grande	64.17		[9]
10	Harry Styles	63.63		[10]

 

 

 

All time

The numbers in this chart are based off of lead songs, which means that if an artist is featured on a song, it doesn't count in this section.

Data collated by chartmasters.org, originally published by Spotify charts.^[60]

Rank	Artist	Streams	Total tracks	Over 1B	Over 100M	Over 10M	Over 1M
1	Drake	52,205,723,024	277	7	134	271	274
2	Bad Bunny	47,523,364,808	163	8	121	157	162
3	Ed Sheeran	39,178,166,744	244	11	65	181	221
4	Taylor Swift	37,400,985,640	349	2	114	273	336
5	The Weeknd	36,414,778,613	186	9	74	147	173
6	Justin Bieber	33,354,992,350	225	6	58	175	197
7	Ariana Grande	33,069,682,016	181	8	72	130	175
8	Eminem	31,431,617,127	302	6	65	228	268
9	Post Malone	30,562,555,539	99	9	57	81	83
10	BTS	29,711,109,328	263	2	102	212	263

Man... This tells the state of mainstream music today. 80% of this list is pretty bad IMO. But that is for another discussion.

I like the choice of The Weeknd, I think he can give a nostalgic vibe to it that will resonates with the movie's tone and the audience.

[interiorgatordecorator]

Is there any precedent of a sequel to a very succesful first movie taking 10+ years of active, but smooth, development?

[filmlover]

I just hope The Weeknd’s song is a lot better than the overdone Leona Lewis wannabe power ballad from the original. How badly did they want that Best Original Song Oscar when they were penning that thing (it ended up being snubbed, though the Globes nominated it because of course they did)?

[Borobudur]

So Avatar 2 will feature two songs right???  Just like TGM....

[AniNate]

43 minutes ago, filmlover said:

I just hope The Weeknd’s song is a lot better than the overdone Leona Lewis wannabe power ballad from the original. How badly did they want that Best Original Song Oscar when they were penning that thing (it ended up being snubbed, though the Globes nominated it because of course they did)?

 

 

You can make a reasonable argument about that not having much cultural impact. Leona Lewis herself was pretty much a Mariah Carey wannabe.

[krla]

12 hours ago, Alexdube said:

it's the next best thing after Cats obviously

God I'd love a blue Taylor Swift. Still waiting for the butthole cut.

 

11 hours ago, Elessar said:

Wasn't Cameron hesitating to put a song at the end of Titanic for fear of being corny?

 

Oh how times have changed...

Even Celine wasn't a fan of the song and didn't want to record it, lol.

 

Has James Cameron ever talked about the song or Celine? I've looked before and couldn't find him mentioning it.

[IronJimbo]

5 hours ago, Borobudur said:

So Avatar 2 will feature two songs right???  Just like TGM....

zoe's one in the movie itself, weeknd in the credits. That's my prediction

[Deep Wang]

On 12/3/2022 at 4:42 PM, Reddroast said:

Brie Larson did nothing wrong 

 

Uh-oh, looks like Jim did the worst thing he could have done - insult men!

 

 

 

Pack it up boys, it's all over!  He is now going to be Larson'd.