Poll: Would Femme Fatale have benefited or suffered from 4 promo?

Duca

‘Femme Fatale’ had music that both critics and pop fans have enjoyed, but it had very little and bad promotion. Since the sales of ‘Femme Fatale’ and ‘4’ are always compared and they are not that far apart (just a little over 700k worldwide,) do you think Britney would have benefited or suffered by doing ‘4’ type promo?

This was the promotional campaign for Beyoncé’s ‘4:’ (well, most of it)

- Target deal including a TV campaign (it helped Taylor Swift sell over 1 million in her first week)
- American Idol Finale: 29.3 million viewers
- ’Run the World’ video premiere on American Idol: 23.6 million viewers
- Oprah Finale: 16.4 million viewers
- MTV Video Music Awards: 12.4 million viewers
- The 35th Annual Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular: 8.6 million viewers
- Billboard Music Awards: 7.9 million viewers
- BET Awards: 7.7 million viewers
- Glastonbury Festival
- Good Morning America
- Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
- Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (she performed two times)
- Le Grand Journal
- The View
- X Factor France
- ‘4 Intimate Nights’ aired on UK TV
- MTV Special: Year of ‘4’
- Music video releases beyond just singles

The negative side of Britney doing this much promo is that her performances are not what they used to be. If Britney had done as much promo for ‘Femme Fatale’ as Beyoncé did for ‘4,’ do you think she could’ve sold more or perhaps passed ‘4’ in sales? Or would she have suffered from backlash over her performances?

Dr.Cake

A little bit for sure...

PopBoi

Well Glastonbury would have well and truely been the nail in the coffin in the UK.

No, she needs to do interviews. But they will be pointless if she doesn't seem ... all there.

She could've outsold 4, just not using the same promo.

RainMan

She could have done more interviews/appearances even if she didnt want to perform

she does 10% of the promo the other girls do

mons†er

Suffered.
I mean she doesn't really give much on stage
so what is there to actually look forward to?
At this point she's kind of selling off of her dedicated fan base
and not really off of her music.

CaptainMusic

If she had promoted like she did in the circus era looking good, confident and like she actually wanted to be there then it would've benefited a lot.

If she performed the same way she did in the few promo performances we got, it would've helped sales a bit but not a lot and would've damaged her reputation even more.

PopBoi

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Originally posted by mons†er

At this point she's kind of selling off of her dedicated fan base
and not really off of her music.

If her music wasn't solid and consistant she wouldn't have this fanbase to support her though.

Radioactive

More promo wouldn't hurt imo. Even if it's just some interviews on a few shows or some performances.

Last Boy on Earth

It's hard to tell, I doubt people would run to buy her album after performances like the ones she gave when promoting this era, this isn't shade, it's an honest opinion, I think it would help a little bit more.

for lovers

Glastonbury would have been a disaster considering she doesn't sing live. If she actually seemed conscious this era (and had the 4 promo campaign) then she would have slayed tbh, especially in America. I Wanna Go could have been #1 WW.

chris1991

Its easy to answer, if Britney killed every performance sales would definatly be better.

However if she performed like she did on gma and jimmy kimmel, she wouldnt have benifitted much!

mons†er

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Originally posted by PopBoi

If her music wasn't solid and consistant she wouldn't have this fanbase to support her though.

Her fan base isn't here for FF.
From what I see, a lot of them are like on Twitter saying
'I like Britney but this music is ******.'
Or 'I'm only buying it cause it's Britney.'
I love FF. It's possibly my 3rd favorite Britney album.
But yeah I don't see much helping with performances.
Possibly an interview. or like a Diary special

SLAYANNA NAVY

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Originally posted by mons†er

Suffered.
I mean she doesn't really give much on stage
so what is there to actually look forward to?
At this point she's kind of selling off of her dedicated fan base
and not really off of her music.

Agreed. I love her but her music is running stale now

primo.

I just can't see her performing on most of those shows.

It would have been disastrous.

PopBoi

Quote:

Originally posted by mons†er

Her fan base isn't here for FF.
From what I see, a lot of them are like on Twitter saying
'I like Britney but this music is ******.'
Or 'I'm only buying it cause it's Britney.'

Wow, are people really saying that?

I also think it's one of her best.

CaptainMusic

Also if the TTWE video had premiered on American idol like RTW did it could've gone #1.

Remixed

It would have helped the singles more than the album

for lovers

I personally think she needs to take advantage of the fact she's 30 now and her fanbase are older than they were 10 years ago and release a Ray of Light-esque album. There were rumours that she was planning on doing that (the William Orbit announcements in 2010 etc) but when Jive found out they were shutting down or whatever, they told her to make a safe-fire album. That's just a rumour though, but I hope it's true.

Robert

She would've sold more but not **** loads more (it probably would've sold about 2-2.5 million). Her TV performances this era have been bad, her singles aren't the type of songs that sell albums and lip-syncing would put people off especially if she did it at Glastonbury (the UK would slaughter her). Britney also had huge airplay this era unlike Beyonce which is one of the best types of promo an artist can get.

Kisuke

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Originally posted by Pierre

I just can't see her performing on most of those shows.

It would have been disastrous.

I Dont see her doing glasto