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"We once spoke with Steve Greenberg, former Columbia Records president, founder of S-Curve Records and discoverer of the Jonas Brothers, and he speculated that Gaga would have sold 50 million albums if she'd only had the foresight to arrive in the mid-Nineties rather than the late 2000s. Look at Alanis Morissette, Greenberg said, who was (briefly) the world's biggest female pop star. She sold 16 million copies of Jagged Little Pill in the U.S. after it came out in 1995, when the CD boom was very close to its peak. And Gaga dominates the pop world – and pop culture in general – far more than Morissette ever did. Gaga is ubiquitous, with singles on the Billboard charts all year; BigChampagne's Ultimate Chart (which measures online indicators like YouTube views and iTunes sales) lists her latest single "The Edge of Glory" at Number Four. But don't cry for Gaga. Unlike Morissette, whose tours were successful but not monstrously so, Gaga is the biggest live performer of her generation, and she has mastered the New Music Business art of using recordings to promote her tour rather than vice versa. Her personal business model, of generating as many hits and as much hype as possible online in order to make money later off expensive stuff like concert tickets, is making her sufficiently rich, thank you very much. Still, we wonder if Alanis occasionally fires off 'nyeah, nyeah, I was born at the right time' e-mails to Gaga."
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