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Album: Lady Gaga - 'Born This Way' (#2)
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Rihanna did 3 times X Factor  and now is huge in UK for that reason... so yes, promotion is important expecially if your current single is a "semi-ballad"
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Compared to other places in Europe, the UK music state is such that sometimes anything which isn't: grime/rap, ultra generic, electronic - David Guetta/Pitbull, Rihanna or from people like JLS and the Wanted (boybands) it has no gurantee of huge success.
it has no
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Originally posted by Symphonic
Yep, XF is a huge platform, Gaga needs to get on there this series.
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To be honest, and this may be asking a bit much, but I want her to be the Rihanna of this series... I want her to perform more than once and perform with the finalists.
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Member Since: 4/30/2011
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Originally posted by Darren-5-08
And no US artist has success like she and Rihanna do. Take Rihanna as an example. She performed once on XFUK in 2009 to promote Rated R and it had no #1s and sold around 500k. Then she performed 3 times on XFUK in 2010 to promote Loud and managed 2 #1 singles and a 1.3M selling album. Gaga needs the same exposure; all pop acts do. Adele is the only exception.
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Exactly. Rihanna is the perfect example of how TV promotion can DRAMATICALLY affect album/single sales in the UK.
People are making out like it's a bad thing that I'm asking GaGa to come back to the UK. It is what it is. She's not going to continue to sell albums over here unless she does more promo. It's been almost 2 months since she was here last. Time to come back.
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Member Since: 11/16/2010
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Originally posted by hausofbryan
She's going to the radio festival and Emmy's in September in the US, and she's in India in October.
I'm not sure that she's heading to Europe. (Idk? maybe)
And doesn't You and I still need to get added to Radio 1 and Capital FM later this week? Partly why it's not moving much yet.
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It should be added tomorrow.
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Member Since: 3/4/2011
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Originally posted by Darren-5-08
She sold around 1.9k less this week than last.
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Thanks!
Welcome monster!
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Member Since: 10/14/2010
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Originally posted by Bibs
I'm a new monster....well new to this site as I've lurked here a while.
I'm Brianna (Bibs is a nickname). I'm 18 from the UK. And I can tell you, out of the big US females I think they all need to do promo here apart from Rihanna who is HUGE - unless they get practically ignored.
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Originally posted by Riverwide
Exactly. Rihanna is the perfect example of how TV promotion can DRAMATICALLY affect album/single sales in the UK.
People are making out like it's a bad thing that I'm asking GaGa to come back to the UK. It is what it is. She's not going to continue to sell albums over here unless she does more promo. It's been almost 2 months since she was here last. Time to come back.
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And when she was here she only had one promotional appearance, on a TV show with 3-4M viewers... It isn't like being on a musically-driven show with 15M. Her performances at R1BW and Graham Norton can't even be counted as promotion for BTW. They built hype, which resulted in the huge first week sales, but they will have done nothing for longevity. She has only done one post-album-release promotional appearance, which isn't good enough to sustain sales. But it's ok, because she has various opportunities coming up now which weren't available back when the album first came out. I just hope she makes good use of them.
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Originally posted by Boop
Rihanna did 3 times X Factor and now is huge in UK for that reason... so yes, promotion is important expecially if your current single is a "semi-ballad" |
Yes it does. Ballads in general have less of a chance at success - unless you're Adele of course. Even Rihanna's California King Bed only got lower top 10 here in the UK with no promo - although she's always been huge in the UK since she came out. Alexandra Burke (another big UK female act) only managed #18 with The Silence.
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Member Since: 4/24/2011
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Originally posted by Riverwide
Exactly. Rihanna is the perfect example of how TV promotion can DRAMATICALLY affect album/single sales in the UK.
People are making out like it's a bad thing that I'm asking GaGa to come back to the UK. It is what it is. She's not going to continue to sell albums over here unless she does more promo. It's been almost 2 months since she was here last. Time to come back.
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Exactly. After all Gaga is American artist. She needs to do promotion in order to stay relevant in UK.
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And thanks to everyone who welcomed me 
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Originally posted by hausofbryan
She's going to the radio festival and Emmy's in September in the US, and she's in India in October.
I'm not sure that she's heading to Europe. (Idk? maybe)
And doesn't You and I still need to get added to Radio 1 and Capital FM later this week? Partly why it's not moving much yet.
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Well that's the problem. It wouldn't surprise me at all if Radio 1 doesn't playlist You & I. It's SO not like the stuff they usually play. I'd expect Radio 2 to be much more into it though, as it's more of an AC kind of track. I honestly can't see Radio 1 supporting it though.
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I was expecting bigger sales in the UK this era to be honest.
But seeing how the album is doing not so good over there, I don't see the problem in her focusing a little bit more in the UK. Sure, she shouldn't need to come to the UK whenever she releases a new single, but if that's what it takes this era, then be it. As long as it's profitable, her label will probably book an appearance. After all, the UK is Gaga's 3rd biggest market.
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Welcome Bibs
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Member Since: 8/16/2011
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Originally posted by Symphonic
It should be added tomorrow.
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Oh, cool. Same day as US add date.
I guess tomorrow is just radio day for You and I.
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Member Since: 4/2/2011
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Originally posted by hausofbryan
Tell that to every other US major act that virtually ignores the UK, other than Rihanna.
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Well, Rihanna is huge there, so that's why she promotes there more than everywhere else. When people like you, you go to promote 'cause it increases your sales. It's virtually impossible for Gaga to hit every major market without literally flying to a different place each and every day. If I'm not mistaken, the UK was one of the first stops on the promotional tour Gaga did when BTW came ot, right? Gaga's huge in 20 different countries, so she has to spread her time out. Also, from what Troy was saying, they're planning to span this era across 18-24 months, so she'll be back.
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The album's just gone platinum in the UK though so its not all bad. Sales should actually go up this week due to Y&I and The Edge Of Glory being performed on X Factor.
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Member Since: 11/16/2010
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Originally posted by hausofbryan
Oh, cool. Same day as US add date.
I guess tomorrow is just radio day for You and I.
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Well someone told me it was tomorrow, because that's when the US adds date is.
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Member Since: 3/5/2011
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Spins today so far:
Z100 - 2
KIIS - 1
Total spins yesterday:
Z100 - 7
KIIS - 3
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Member Since: 8/16/2011
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Originally posted by Anthagio
Well, Rihanna is huge there, so that's why she promotes there more than everywhere else. When people like you, you go to promote 'cause it increases your sales. It's virtually impossible for Gaga to hit every major market without literally flying to a different place each and every day. If I'm not mistaken, the UK was one of the first stops on the promotional tour Gaga did when BTW came ot, right? Gaga's huge in 20 different countries, so she has to spread her time out. Also, from what Troy was saying, they're planning to span this era across 18-24 months, so she'll be back.
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People really need to realize that Lady Gaga is MUCH bigger in other countries this era versus at the start of TFM era. That explains the whirlwind push in Asia, and hell, she even had that one magazine interview in UAE. Her promotional schedule will be spread more thin across more countries, and that does mean some areas will be taking a hit chart wise while she's flying around. She was out of the US from mid-May through most of July.
She still needs to shore up herself here after all of the time abroad, because You and I is just beginning to launch on the radio.
She is bound to return to Europe eventually, she's huge there as people have pointed out. Luckily when she left, Edge of Glory was a hit on Euro radio so that'll buy time until shes back.
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