I just discovered this thread somehow:
http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?t=112613
and I remembered the slayage (and the fact I wasn't on ATRL back then
but at least I was on BB/GGD)
From the anticipation, to the hype, Justin Bieber and Ellen trying to come up with the right melody knowing just the lyrics (Justin Bieber at his peak...)
To the mini meltdowns when she was going to release on Friday, to only get clocked with this:
Quote:
After its first three days of availability, Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" rockets to a record-setting debut on Billboard's Mainstream Top 40 radio airplay chart. And thanks to exceptionally strong opening digital sales estimates -- not to mention her eye-grabbing performance of the song at the Grammy Awards last night -- looks likely to storm the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 1 when the latter list is released Wednesday. This, of course, would make the song the 1,000th No. 1 single in the Billboard Hot 100's history.
The first single and title track from the star's third studio album, due May 23, storms Mainstream Top 40 at No. 14 with 4,602 plays, according to Nielsen BDS, the highest detections total by a debuting title in the chart's 18-year history. Additionally, sources say that "Born" shifted more than 450,000 downloads its first three days of release since Friday morning.
A bow of 450,000 downloads would secure Lady Gaga the biggest debut for a track by a woman, surpassing Britney Spears' bow with "Hold It Against Me" four weeks ago (411,000). If Gaga moves 450,000, it would also mark the fourth-largest debut among all digital tracks -- a remarkable feat, considering the song had less than three full days of sales availability.
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Will we witness something like this again ?
She sold 440k in the first 2.7 days of release (the song was released in the morning
) and sold 520k the next 7 days (it was reported to have sold almost 1M in exactly 10 days, making it the fastest selling track of all time, it reportedly sold 1M in 5 days Worldwide, also making it the fastest selling digital track of all time).
The song stayed at number 1 for 6 weeks, making it the only song to not fall from number 1 right after debut week in like 10 years or something and the longest running number 1 (that debuted at the top).
It had an iconic Grammy red carpet and performance + several other big performances. . . it's one of the few (or the only one) tracks to sell 1M in Japan.
Will something like that happen again ? It never happened before Gaga (digital era) and haven't happened yet either... ?
Watcha think '-'
Inb4 "Stop living in the past"
it wasn't even supposed to be the lead single ..
EVER.
yeah sure..
