90% of the people I know don't even know what a 'Roar' is.
When Bad Romance was smashing everywhere, half of my school had it as their ringtone, you couldn't even walk the corridor of the school without hearing someone playing the song on his phone. 'Bad Romance' was literally everywhere here, on TV, on the news, on radio.
You have to consider there is a world outside the US, and the fact that Roar peaked at #1, while Bad Romance didn't doesn't make it a bigger hit. We'll talk when Roar sells its 5.4M copies in the US and its over 11M copies WW. Kay?