mcfan wrote:
esettle0 wrote:
mcfan wrote:
MrSpice wrote:
I did the same thing the other David did.
Forever Melt Away
US radio stations disagree 
Melt Away >>>>> Forever

It didn't need to replace it.
5th single could have been great
I think a 5th single would have underperformed regardless since "Forever" pseudo-flopped at Top 40 (coming off three huge hits, a #9 peak is almost a flop) and "UTS" didn't do anything at R&B radio (I have no idea if it was truly pushed there, though). "Melt Away" would have been a nice 4th single, and then they could have targeted genres with "Forever" and "UTS" after that.
I still don't get why more genre-specific promotion hasn't happened with Mariah. "Whenever You Call" could have gone to AC when more of the urban songs from Butterfly were being pushed. Why wasn't "Against All Odds" pushed to AC radio? And then with Charmbracelet, "TTR" was the lead single but clearly didn't appeal to urban radio. Why not have pushed something else there?