The week that followed felt strange.
Everything had gone quiet.
Not completely — JD's name was still out there, but something about the noise had changed.
The numbers of streams and sales were still high, but the energy, the buzz, the spark — it was fading faster than expected.
And of course, Dayo noticed it before anyone said a word.
He could feel it in the way the charts updated more slowly, the way media mentions dropped almost instantly after the spotlight timeline ended, the way other stories started to take over.
Scandals. Random celebrity fights. Fake leaks. Viral distractions that had no business trending — yet somehow, they were everywhere.
He knew this wasn't normal.
After an album sold eleven million in its first week, the second week was supposed to be massive too — maybe five, six million more at least.
But this? The decline was sharp. Too sharp to be normal.
The projections showed a drop of over fifty percent in just three days after the first week.
