[Bicassie]

Im SHOOK

[Loghen]

Originally posted by BabyCantYouSee

There was hype but a song like Perfect Illusion is not for everybody. If she came out with a pop banger she would be smashing the charts with it right now.

But she had some massive hype, then. She performed at two of the most watched shows of the year in America to great reviews. Those are almost Make Me numbers, and her fans laughed a lot at those, so you would expect, despite the sound of the song, a tad better than that.

[Revel]

[Donovan]

The flock of Army and Kats that rushed in here to try iT
Devote less time obsessing over an artist that y'all hate and more into promoting your fave's music they need it

[The Unforgiving]

That song is very mediocre in comparison with the rest of her discography. Did y'all exect anything above 100K?

[Womanizah]

Originally posted by KORDEI

The same Beyoncé "most/last global hit was Telephone!1" Knowles... perched at #1 for highest digital first weeks [slaps knee]

Interesting. How the tables have turned...

[URBAN]

Where tf are the little monsters?!

Ya'll need to gift this to ya'll mama, grandmama, uncle, daddy, sister, 3rd cousins, EVERYONE!

Get to work!

[Qwerty1234]

Originally posted by Salacious

And that's why I posed a question rather than a statement.

You said: " It just makes sense that Beyoncé sells a lot when you factor in the loyalty of her black fans."

Which is ********. Black power anthem or not, Beyoncé has loyal fans of all races, many who would purchase anything she releases, especially if it's a good song.

Plus blacks are a diverse minority group; not every member of that group likes Beyonce. Any "advantage" she enjoys from a "large" support of a minority group surely fails in comparison to the support that can be obtained from the large white market others usually cater to.

[Lyrical.]

Originally posted by gerardsuxx

Monsters trying to say Gaga was under a rock since 2013/ARTPOP, when she released "an acclaimed and successful" album with Tony Bennet in 2014, had 2 tours, performed at Oscars (twice), Superbowl, Grammys (twice), AHS, Woman Of The Year, released TIHTY, etc, etc...

The fact that NONE of that helped

sdfkl I'm yelping.

[Donovan]

Originally posted by Revel

Already reported.

I hope it was worth it for this stale joke

[Sasha.]

Originally posted by Donovan

The flock of Army and Kats that rushed in here to try iT
Devote less time obsessing over an artist that y'all hate and more into promoting your fave's music they need it

honey....

Perfect Illusion 100K

[MarinaKal]

Well it's not a good song

[Robyn]

Originally posted by Donovan

The flock of Army and Kats that rushed in here to try iT
Devote less time obsessing over an artist that y'all hate and more into promoting your fave's music they need it

this drag..

[wesleywalrus]

That's pretty good ngl

[RobynFKA]

Originally posted by - JED -

Time to recover those scrapped RedOne tracks

Only Katy's lead can take over Formation's 4 days sales .. a song that was free for months and didn't have any video or airplay...A song that was FREE and never got a listed video on YT, no lyrics vid or audio... I keep saying it because if someone told me this back in may I'd have laughed but wow look how things turned out...

[Salacious]

Originally posted by RobynFKA

Why are urban artists doing so great on streaming platforms? Isn't it because young and the POC are less likely to pay for music... Ans as someone who went to her concert I can tell you that the place was 99% white. I am not surprised by your post though when I went to the Belgian date of FWT I met a black girl and she basically was shocked to see that the crowed was only white and said that we whites should like Beyonce because we can't understand her since we aren't black or something.. She also was bitter over the fact that we knew all he songs...why do you lot think that we can't love Beyonce because we are white... I don't care about Formation being a black-girls anthem...it's cool and all but I like it because it's a bop and being white won't stop me from stanning for Queen B. All of the Bey fans I know are either white or latinos so i don4t get your point at all

No, I don't think that's true, because the majority of the people in the major Western music markets are white, so that means that the majority of white people are less likely to pay for music, and I'm not black.

Originally posted by robotdanger

Wow. Had no clue that Adele and Taylor Swift has so many black fans. That explains everything.

I thought it was a common assumption on ATRL that Taylor sells so much because she has a hugely loyal white following? Adele is an anomaly. You shouldn't use her to make a point about Beyonce. They're on different levels.

[OneAndOnly]

I do truly think she could've done better with an actual good song. But she dropped Perfect Illusion instead. I'm a little shocked but at the same time not suprised that it's performing this way on iTunes.

[darkfantasy]

she really is the cyndi lauper of this generation. sad

[liberalmusiclover]

It's definitely time for Gaga to rush-release the next single a la The Edge of Glory.

Originally posted by WeFoundWill

with only 2 days of sale.
The true #1

1.5 days. The true queen of pop.

It's also the only one to go #1 on the Hot 100 and is the biggest selling female single of the year. A true digital queen.

[heartbeats]

Originally posted by Donovan

The flock of Army and Kats that rushed in here to try iT
Devote less time obsessing over an artist that y'all hate and more into promoting your fave's music they need it