Madonna is still relevant like a millennium into her career, now THAT'S longevity
Gaga is currently at her 'Erotica' period, where the media gives her mixed reviews on everything even when it's good, and her chart positions are good but not exceptional
No it's her Back to Basics/A Night to Remember era.
Born This Way is Lady Gaga’s third album. It’s lead single, Born This Way, became the first track to top all 23 iTunes world charts simultaneously. The album’s singles - Born This Way, Judas, The Edge of Glory, Yoü and I and Marry The Night sold 20 million copies worldwide. The album became the fastest-selling US digital album, selling 1.1 million copies in it’s first week. It also attained the highest first day album sales in history, with 524,000. In 2012, Lady Gaga embarked on the Born This Way Ball tour - her first tour in all continents excluding Antarctica. Despite cancellation of it’s final 2013 dates due to a sustained hip injury, it brought Gaga’s career-tour gross to over $400M. Her perfume, released in Q3 2012 - during the highly successful European Born This Way Ball tour, in which she became the youngest artist to ever grace the largest stadium in France, sold 6 million bottles in it’s first week alone. It later became the most successful perfume of 2012, with earnings of an estimated 2.4 billion US dollars
Looks like it worked in reverse and destroyed Dinodonnas own career this time judging by MDNA