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Chart News: Billboard: 16 000 copies for Anything Goes in its First Week
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Originally posted by Pop pop123
huge flop.
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You're pathetic, to be honest...Jazz isn't popular and isn't appealing to the mainstream as pop or other genres are. You're just one of those bitter fans who need to find someone to drag Gaga over, just to give themselves a purpose in life.
Well done, Gaga!
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Gaga looks beautiful in the OP
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fff calm down, ain't nobody insultin' Nicki. She did revive female Rap.
And it looks like Gaga will do the same with Jazz. Pop culture is ha bitch
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Queen and King of Jazz
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Originally posted by Ale-Alejandro
just because you don't listen to Jazz, the genre is the dead? If the genre was so dead, why did the song departed from the top 100 in the second week?
Trying too hard? I am casually commenting, you don't have to reply to everyone and change their opinion.
As I said, Lady Gaga, called Queen Of Pop by some of you, with the biggest fan base in the world, in your words, debuted with 16k? Please don't try to justify it, it's just... tragic 1st week sales. Second week looks even worse.
Ain't nobody trying it, stating facts only.
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Just because she has one of the biggest fan bases in the world, it doesn't mean we're going to buy everything she releases. I, like a lot of her fans, have no interest in her Jazz music and if she gets awards, acclaim and is given an easier ride, then all the better.
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I can't believe some people are trying to drag these sales. You have to remember what genre we're talking about here. Even though she's a pop artist, this song is jazz, and because of the genre's low popularity among the largest demographic that uses iTunes - female teenagers - sales were bound to be low in comparison to her past debuts. However, for a jazz song, a 16,000 debut is obviously stellar, which is proven by the fact that it's all it took to dethrone a song that spent "239 weeks at #1". Does that not make it click for some of you? A 16,000 debut is all it took to get to #1. So by that logic, 16,000 copies sold in a week must be pretty stellar in the jazz world.
Also, many of you are overestimating the fan base. First, literally no one knew we were getting it, so it's not like we could go get our iTunes cards ready and waiting as in the past. Second, yet again, this is a jazz single, and while many fans love Gaga for Gaga, many more love her simply for her pop music. That means only a portion of her the fan base would willingly buy any genre from her. (Including jazz.)
In conclusion, is a 16,000 debut noteworthy for Gaga? No, of course not, especially when we look at her past lead singles' debuts. But is it great for a jazz song? Hell yes. And it's arguably because Gaga's name is attached to the song that it did so well on the jazz charts.
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So G.U.Y. sold 9k and Anything Goes sold 16k, what's the problem?
It's a 178% improvement
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Sorry but all I see are excuses, no matter what genre the song is, 16k for a lead single of a major popstar is terrible.
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Originally posted by ivi
So G.U.Y. sold 9k and Anything Goes sold 16k, what's the problem?
It's a 178% improvement
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QUEEN of pop
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Originally posted by MM3
fff calm down, ain't nobody insultin' Nicki. She did revive female Rap.
And it looks like Gaga will do the same with Jazz. Pop culture is ha bitch
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Originally posted by ivi
So G.U.Y. sold 9k and Anything Goes sold 16k, what's the problem?
It's a 178% improvement
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and all that with a 2-minute JAZZ promo surprise single!
QUEEN!
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Originally posted by Brando
Tragic
... regardless of genre, because it has a major pop girl name attached to it.
How much did Ooh La La sell in first week? Cause you know it's a children's song for a cartoon...
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Are we really comparing a Bonnie McKee/Dr. Luke pop candy that had a radio deal to a jazz song
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ddd this thread will be a mess
But congrats Better than any other pop artist venturing into jazz would have done. Some of y'all need to calm down though Stop throwing hands over the fact that people don't like your fave. This can be seen as a massive flop or success based on whether or not you like her.
And I wouldn't call dethroning that 239 week song from #1 an accomplishment. If it had sold a fifth of what it did it still would have done the same. Jazz sales aren't exactly where the $ is.
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What were some of you expecting? It is a cover of a jazz standard, it is great that it even made the top100 on iTunes. See you when the album sales come in.
BTW, it is her second #1 on the chart, after The Lady Is A Tramp. Kween of digital Jazz.
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Originally posted by Nialler
Sorry but all I see are excuses, no matter what genre the song is, 16k for a lead single of a major popstar is terrible.
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How much has sold Ferras' song with Katy featuring? I think 300K+, right? I mean any song with Queen of Pop featured won't sell less than 300k
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Originally posted by Instant
How much has sold Ferras' song with Katy featuring? I think 300K+, right? I mean any song with Queen of Pop featured won't sell less than 300k
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OOP!
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Originally posted by Nialler
Sorry but all I see are excuses, no matter what genre the song is, 16k for a lead single of a major popstar is terrible.
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no matter what genre the song is
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Woo. Look at the irony right here.
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Originally posted by Nialler
Sorry but all I see are excuses, no matter what genre the song is, 16k for a lead single of a major popstar is terrible.
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Why are you throwing out the fact that she's a popstar? It's not a pop song. It's jazz, which a lot of people, including myself, don't listen to or care for and ultimately didn't buy the song for that reason.
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Originally posted by Instant
How much has sold Ferras' song with Katy featuring? I think 300K+, right? I mean any song with Queen of Pop featured won't sell less than 300k
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not sure why you bring Katy in this thread but if you want to compare Gaga's lead single to an album track of an unknown artist then I am really worried about C2C, the decline is very sad I hope she can recover
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