Mess. I need a new ARTPOP CD too after the wreck. Is Best Buy still doing there 8 dollar deal?

We can agree that TFM should have been MILKED clean of singles, the receipts we'd have now

At least all the copies were non-foiled ones

So are the 15 dollar ones at Hot Topic. She'll never sell them all.

Also - swear I heard Donatella play at Hot Topic right when I left.

The slayage if Capitol had managed TF/TFM

It's the weakest song on TFM

Clearly they wanted to milk that Bey/Gaga collab. But the fact that it came after Bad Romance and basically underperformed is proof it was a mistake. Monster could've matched BR's success, imo.

They could've made BTW and ARTPOP huge

Monster and Speechless would have smashed no matter what. The first is easily the most radio friendly song she's made since Just Dance while Speechless was something completely different from her sound could have drawn in a new crowd. I would've also been happy if she was risky and tried SHICD too.

Basically every song but Teeth could have been a single.

Born This Way was huge though. The usual media backlash of an experimental popstar just made it look a lot worse than it is.

It's still questionable that Gaga and Bey never performed Telephone once.

I stopped reading when you said Telephone underperformed

I would say that it did at least in the US. The unimaginable HYPE after Bad Romance, the combined star power of Gaga and Beyoncé at their peaks and the music video event of the decade adding up to a week at #3 on Billboard

What was #1 and 2? That's kinda shocking because I remember what a huge event it was when the music video dropped too.

Rude Boy and Nothin' on You

Lol. Honestly, peaks mean nothing, it's still multiplatinum and sold well. It didn't underperform, the fact that Gaga and Bey were huge at the time doesn't take away from the fact that the song still sold well and was a global multiplatinum smash. Plus, the Billboard rules for the videos/streaming didn't apply yet.

I'm aware of its impressive global sales, it's just the cynic in me coming out looking back on it. It ended up outselling both songs that blocked it, they just had stronger radio support so yeah

Telephone was handled horribly

I remember the song sales peaked a lot earlier than the video. The video took AGES to be released.

Same with Alejandro. She was really busy at that time though with TMB.

I meant huge on its own merit, not huge because it was riding off of TF and TFM's success.