Background
"Switchblade" is a track from aespa's second album LEMONADE (released May 29, debuting at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 with 41,000 equivalent album units in its first week), featuring American singer Ty Dolla $ign. The official music video has just been released. The song got an early preview back in July, when aespa and Ty Dolla $ign performed it together for the first time at Lollapalooza. What fans and most listeners are watching for now is whether this video — arriving more than two months after the album's release — can push the track onto the Billboard Global 200 for the first time.
Will "Switchblade" chart on the Billboard Global 200?
Track record
aespa has charted on the Global 200 before: "Whiplash" reached a career-best No. 5, marking the group's first top-10 entry on the chart, and the album's title track "Armageddon" landed at No. 84. That history shows charting isn't unusual for aespa's music and gives this a reasonable foundation. Still, "Switchblade" is a comparatively lower-profile collaboration track on the album, and with the video landing so long after the album's initial rollout, whether it can match the chart performance of previous lead singles remains uncertain.
