Tila Snubbed by MySpace Friends
March 19th, 2007 by dd
Lesson learned: Much like kids, it is better for Tila to be seen rather than heard. Oh, and she needs new cyber-buddies… the 1.687 million MySpacers who didn’t buy your single aren’t really your friends!
Tila Tequila may be the most popular person ever on MySpace, but it turns out not very many of her 1.7 million friends wanted to shell out a buck for her first single, “I Love U.”
In the first week after the single’s release, only 13,000 copies of the single were sold, or less than 1 percent of her MySpace posse — and the single didn’t even make it onto the 75-deep Billboard Hot Digital Songs chart. And after a brief appearance at the bottom end of the iTunes top 100 singles chart, “I Love U” disappeared.
To be fair, Tila didn’t have the benefit of a major record label pushing her single. Then again, as she herself told everyone from the New York Times to Rolling Stone, she turned down two label deals to do it her own way — and may be paying the price. (Oh, and the fact that the song itself sucks might have a little something to do with it too).
On the bright side of things, a week after the single’s release, the video for “I Love U” — which prominently features Tila’s more salient assets — was the most-downloaded music video on iTunes. [TMZ]
