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How Should Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco Feel About the First-Week Performance of ‘I Said I Love You First’?
Selena Gomez' and Benny Blanco's 'I Said I Love You First' debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 this week.
Similar to PND with the Drake joint album last month, I Said I Love You First smartly leverages Selena’s star power to lift Benny to commercial heights that he’s never seen before – and likely wouldn’t ever see – as a billed lead artist. Andrew Unterberger: It’s very telling about where pop music is in 2025 that the dreamy, downtempo bilingual collaboration with The Marias feels like it has a higher commercial ceiling than the hooky, uptempo teamup with Gracie Abrams — but “Ojos Tristes” certainly seems to have captured the moment and the momentum. Kyle Denis: I think it reinforces her overall brand strength and general celebrity, but none of these songs have really caught on in a meaningful way, she and Benny couldn’t overcome Carti’s second week despite a breadth of variants, and the music of the record seems to have taken a backseat to the sappy theatrics of the press run – whether it’s a radio interview or that t-shirt.
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