Originally posted by Instant

They still lost Joanne is still the 2nd highest female debut of the year Still the 4th highest debut of the year after Drake, Beyonce and Frank Ocean

You can't just take away the fact that MR SHOOT UP to #1 after Carpool Karaoke Once it gets played on the radio and gets payola'd on Spotify playlists + the AMAS we'll see how everything turns out

But it's kinda really flattering to us that we the monsters have such an impact on the lives of certain OGH so they keep quoting and quoting us and telling "but they said this but they said that"

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Anyway staying on topic:

iTunes US

5. Joanne (Deluxe)

The fact that Joanne is only below of 4 albums that were released this Friday and have main banners on iTunes, wow I can see the album having longevity

And I'm kinda praying for Gaga to have terrible second week sales because I'm a bit worried about some people

Originally posted by Instant

*Watches Carpool Karaoke.
- Omg, Gaga is so amazing!!!1111 That last song is sooooooo beautiful. I would sooooo buy it, if it wasn't priced for 1.29$. I ain't gonna spend that much money on some fad. Is it not enough that I'm praying taxes anyway????? Anyway, lemme check iTunes.
Sees that Million Reasons is 0.69$
- Omg, I'm totally buying itm yeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!*

^ OGH logic

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Staying on topic:

Album: Joanne

iTunes:
#1 Mexico
#2 Canada
#2 New Zealand
#4 Australia
#4 Ireland
#5 United States
#5 Italy
#6 Spain
#8 Brazil
#8 Japan
#8 Switzerland
#9 Denmark

Can't wait for WW promo and the MR video

Originally posted by G.U.Y

Did you really expect a song with no airplay, no MV to stay at #1

+ 199k first week >>
Gaga WON, OGH LOST

OT: 5 - Joanne

Originally posted by Torturo

How the hell is that in any relation? Getting to #1 was achievemt on it's own. It was expected that it will fall eventually cause promo effects wear off, it didn't get additional promo and it didn't have airplay, what the hell was supposed to hold it up there. Use your brain sweetie

Originally posted by Instant

Guys, I know your standards for Gaga are really high and that's totally justified because Gaga is an excellent artist and there should be no place for mediocrity nowaday. But she's not as huge as Adele, Beyonce or Taylor who can keep their songs in iTunes top 10 without the radio but, please, wait a bit.

It's really flattering that y'all were expecting Joanne to debut with more than Lemonade but just keep your expectations a bit low so that you won't be disappointed later

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Staying on topic:

I think Joanne being #5 on iTunes and #2 and #3 on Amazon is a good sign for Joanne's second week sales

Originally posted by State of Grace.

Originally posted by State of Grace.

Originally posted by romonster

Really love the posts in this page!

Some people don't learn until you throw the facts right at them.



OT:

5. Joanne

Originally posted by simmnfierzig

Nobody here expected MR to stay high. I just see complains about the overreactions about it going #1 in the first place

Originally posted by Duca

1-10 Starboy
11-20 Can't Stop the Feeling!
21-30 A-YO
31-40 Cold Water

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Trolls soundtrack top 10 in the UK and Can't Stop the Feeling! almost top 10 combined



priced at $3.99



priced at $0.69

Originally posted by Instant

Priced for 3.99$ for the first day only.

So can we officially say that Taylor's Speak Now debut week sales are not valid since she has sold Speak Now for 3.99$ for A WHOLE WEEK unlike Joanne which was discounted for one day only?

Can you imagine how huge Gaga is on Amazon that she is able to sell more albums for 3.99$ in one day than 40k that Taylor has sold on Amazon in a week for 3.99$

Until Billboard puts an asterisk on Joanne's sales and bans selling albums for a price cheaper that 4.00$, the only thing left to do for OGH - just to deal with it

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As far as I know, everyone except some big artist are discounting songs nowadays on iTunes, no? Digital sales are dying, Gaga is not huge as she was before, now she's slowly re-building everything that was destroyed during the ARTPOP era.

So once again, unless selling songs for 0.69$ is prohibited, y'all can do nothing with that

Should we disqualify a couple of Katy's #1s?

Originally posted by Instant

Guys, I don't know much about iTunes but shouldn't there be any correlation between charting of singles and albums?

I mean, Million Reasons is FREEFALLING hard right now (without any airplay or video) and yet Joanne seems to be steady. Why is that? Can anyone somehow find out if Interscope payed iTunes to keep Joanne in top 5?

Originally posted by Instant

There weren't any overreaction tho, simmnfierzig! Many of us just were genuinely happy and VERY surprised to see Lady Gaga's song in 2016 going #1 four weeks after it's release!

We were surprised because we trusted OGH who made us believe that our fave is a fad! You can't blame us for playing a bit (innocently) with those who forced us to think badly of our fave!