Teenage Dream.

Teenage Dream.

Teenage Dream (nothing beats eight smash hits) > Loud = Born This Way

Loud had the best balance of hits, sales, and touring.

The one that sold 6.2 million in less than a year with no effort and a 49 cent promotional budget, LOUD. The fact that the other two had so much more hype, promotion, and length and still the same sales

At the end of the day hits are what people remembers, the actual songs, which are heard by an astronomically higher number of people than those who go see the artist on tour. While touring is really important, having SO many smash hits trumps it.

Era as a whole? Teenage Dream.

Teenage Dream.

LOUD > BTW

Born This Way

Teenage Dream easily

Considering BTW sold more albums and had the biggest tour....

Born This Way > LOUD > TD

BTW and media traffic is crap. BTW sold so much in Asia and mediatraffic doesn't even count many countries from Asia... BTW had non singles like Bloody Mary go number 1 on official charts in Taiwan etc.

BTW 7M albums >>
BTWBT 185M gross, 19k average attendance, 1.8/1.9M average gross
BTW smashed with 8.2M in 2011 alone, not even 1 song from Loud/TD was as global.
it got bigger critical acclaim and 3 grammy nominations from the main categories

It wins easily

All shade aside, those eras are all REALLY huge - but the whole world's eyes were on Gaga through that era. Yeah the attention was mostly gone by the time "Marry The Night" rolled around, but there was still a lot of eyes out for her then - most of my friends know that song when I put it on. Plus the promo was just insane! I live in like a really rural town in New Zealand and there was a billboard for it here - I couldn't believe it when I saw it.

Teenage Dream spawned a classic and a signature look that's still trendy in Halloween that will live on forever. The other two don't even compare.

Teenage Dream > LOUD >>>>>>>>> BTW

The makeup design from Maleficent says hi.