Straight men liking Gaga = a reason to hang out with them = me hanging around hot guys = me inviting them to my room = me being happy = .....well, you get the point. Don't judge me.

Not you betraying the good sis of religious-pop "Judas". Let's look at it's potential.

It debuted at #10 on the Hot 100 with 162,000 copies sold + 13 million AI. That was with just 2 and a half days of the tracking week left. Let’s assume that Gaga had been more reasonable, and released “Judas” in early May, after “Born This Way” had died, and after Easter, on a Monday so she could have the full tracking week. For this ~fantasy~, the 9th of May. Assuming she had the full week of sales + video premiere the same week + a first week promo performance (cause she didn’t have promo for the song until 2 weeks after it’s release), she could’ve easily done 350,000-400,000 first week (the #1 digital song that week, “Rolling In The Deep”, sold 353,000 copies). In it’s first week, “Judas” got a radio audience of 13 million AI. With a full week, it probably would’ve achieved what it actually did in it’s first week (36 million impressions). However, it’s kind of important to consider the fact that “Judas“‘s radio deal was messed up by it’s leak. Many radio stations that were scheduled to give the song top of the hour radio play for the first week got confused, so that messed things up a bit. I say it could’ve gotten 45-50 million impressions if it was released properly. So, if we were left with, let’s say, 385,000 copies sold and 53 million radio impressions, it most likely would’ve gone #1. and even if it didn’t, it still would’ve gone top 3. Couple this with occasional promo throughout May and June 2011 (like SNL, American Idol, Billboard Music Awards, etc), and in reality, “Judas” could’ve became one of 2011’s summer anthems. How about that?