"Queen of Mean" | ||||
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Single by Sarah Jeffery | ||||
from the album Descendants 3 | ||||
Released | August 2, 2019 | |||
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Length | 3:09 | |||
Label | Walt Disney | |||
Songwriter(s) | Adam Schmalhoz, Thomas Sturges, Tim James & Antonina Armato | |||
Sarah Jeffery singles chronology | ||||
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Descendants singles chronology | ||||
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"Queen of Mean" is a song by Sarah Jeffery in her role of Princess Audrey from the Descendants 3 film and its soundtrack. [1] The song was released on August 2,2019,along with the album. The song has reached No. 49 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. [2] The song has also peaked at No. 57 on the Canadian Hot 100, [3] and No. 89 on the UK Singles Chart. [4] The official CLOUDxCITY remix was released on October 13,2019. [5]
The song debuted at number 67 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart becoming Jeffery's first entry on the chart and one of the highest-charting songs from the Descendants franchise as well as the highest charting solo song from any of the films. [6] [7] In its second week,the song jumped to number forty nine on the chart becoming the second highest-charting song from any Descendants film behind “Rotten To The Core”. [8] The song spent eight consecutive weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 becoming the longest charting Descendants song. [9]
The music video was released on Disney Music's Vevo channel on August 2,2019 following the premiere of the film. Overnight,the music video achieved two million views,and later reached number one on YouTube's Trending videos list. [10] It has since received over 450 million views. The video became the first from Descendants 3 to reach 100 million views and 200 million views and is the second most viewed music video from the film as well as one of the most viewed from any of the films. It also has over three million likes,becoming the franchise's most liked music video. [11]
On September 27,2019,Disney released a Memoji music video for the song. [12]
Chart (2019) | Peak position |
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Canada (Canadian Hot 100) [3] | 57 |
Ireland (IRMA) [13] | 83 |
Scotland (OCC) [14] | 65 |
UK Singles (OCC) [4] | 89 |
US Billboard Hot 100 [2] | 49 |
US Kid Digital Songs (Billboard) [15] | 1 |
US Pop Digital Songs (Billboard) [16] | 11 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil) [17] | Platinum | 40,000‡ |
United Kingdom (BPI) [18] | Silver | 200,000‡ |
United States (RIAA) [19] | Platinum | 1,000,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
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