I dont know how many times ive seen "if only gaga....." written by some of her little creatures, in threads that have nothing to with her.

Well she has increased viewership for many programs, so it's relevant

I am not a little creature.

You can't compare MTV's ratings.. to ABC's!

Sometimes i can't at some people.

Of course you cant compare! MTV caters to people that like music, and ABC had a music show on a non-music channel. And thats one more reason why the Ama's overperformed. And dont bring me that cable s*** vs open tv. Ive lived in the us, and every household with teens (target audience of the vmas) has Mtv.

The AMAs have been around much longer than the VMAs, so not really. Some of these comparisons on this board are hilarious.

And there are other artists who could have up the ratings more outside of GaGa. I don't think she's the end all and be all of saving shows. Last night was a night where not many big artists of the year attended mixed with the fact the show was going up against NFL, so that hurt ratings as well.

I beg to differ.

By a substantial amount or not, this thread is not about her, and if we didn't get it the first 1,000 times, we definitely got it this time around. We get it, you wanted to see gaga perform, dont post just for the sake of riling people up. Oh and I never pointed any fingers.

Preach!

She didn't help when she was performing Bad Romance two years ago and when she was at the high peak on her career.

Would be funny to see VMA's ratings vs NFL

Seriously shutup. GaGa wouldn't have made it any better.

it was the crap Nicki Minaj opening, Taylor sweeping despite it clearly not being her year, and LMFAO closing the show with Justin Bieber.

If only Rihanna could have been there but I guess she opened the show last year and they had their lowest ratings ever, but whatever.

“2011 American Music Awards” (8:00-11:00 p.m.)
Opposite fierce competition on the evening, including a high rated and down-to-the-wire “Sunday Night Football” contest (NY Giants-Philadelphia Eagles) and an NFL primetime overrun-boosted CBS, the “2011 American Music Awards” made ABC the dominant No. 1 non-sports network from 8:00-11:00 p.m. among Adults 18-49 (4.3/10), towering over CBS by 87% (2.3/5) and Fox by 72% (2.5/6 – 8:00-10:00 p.m. average). In addition, ABC’s “AMA” broadcast won its 3-hour time period over “Sunday Night Football” to stand as the No. 1 TV show of the night across all key Women (W18-34/W18-49/W25-54), Teens 12-17 and Kids 2-11.

Despite the intense competition during primetime, ABC achieved Sunday night season highs with its coverage of the “2011 AMAs” among Total Viewers and Adults 18-49. The show generated ABC’s top Adult 18-49 number in the time period with entertainment programming in 9 months – since the “Academy Awards” on 2/27/11.

* An estimated 32.0 million viewers watched at least some portion of the “2011 American Music Awards” on ABC during its 3-hour broadcast – unduplicated Viewers 2+ watching 6 minutes or more of the broadcast.

A note about increasing DVR penetration and year-to-year rating comparisons: Year-to-year rating comparisons based on the Live + Same Day data stream are distorted by the level of DVR penetration in the Nielsen sample, which has jumped up to 43% currently, from 38% at the same point in 2010. More viewers are watching shows on their own timetables, which may not be reflected in the overnight next day numbers.

Source: The Nielsen Company (Fast Affiliate, Live + Same Day Ratings), 11/20/11.

http://www.mediamarketjournal.com/20...atings-victory

http://www.medialifemagazine.com/art...-big-crowd.asp

Why so mad, kids?