Well Gaga's at her prime right now whereas Beyonce and Britney aren't. They already had their perfect eras. People expect much more from Gaga as she is the "it" star at the moment.
Popularity of all artists fluctuates though. Look at Rihanna. Late 2009 she has Russian Roulette and Hard which only scrape into the top 10, then going into 2010, it doesn't look like it'll be a big year for her. Then she ends the year with 4 #1s!!!
You can really never tell imo. In 2011 Rihanna released a song that spent 10 weeks at #1, and she also released two songs that flopped and missed the top 30.
It'll be the same for Lady Gaga. She'll continue to have lots of big hits and lots of flops in her career. The same as every other pop girl that has been around for over 5 years.
Rihanna was forced by her label to record and come back with themost generic album ever to recover from a lackluster era, something Interscope can't force Gaga to. BTW era is much more successful then RR, but the sequel might be different. We'll see.
I don't think it's that easy to make a smash album.
Last time I checked...TF and TFM combined has sold 4 mil in US. Not sure bout now though
um no.The Fame and The Fame + TFM combined CDs have together sold 4.5 million.The Fame Monster,separate CD has sold 1.5 million alone.So the total combined sales of TF+TFM are 6 million.And BTW has sold 5.7 million WW acc. To Mediatraffic
she's fading in terms of the shock value and being original as if she was lately trying to be different just to be different nothin new or creative is being added so people started to get sick of her and saying things like that but she still has her fans who will buy her albums and songs
So the word success was redifined yet again by Lady Gaga to be defined as "one who is the baddest pop girl but still not invisible because it's not convenient to the haters/pressed souls." Only a bad bitch could redefine vocabulary!
Her career success is leveling out. Shock tactics don't work much for her anymore, and people in general are kinda tired of her eccentricity at this point. It happens to every major star eventually, it's nothing to cause concern.
Here for a reinvented sound/personality in the coming albums.
I think she is not fading in at all. This era wasn't as successful as The Fame and/or The Fame Monster but that doesn't mean anything. That time she was something new, now she is a regular. I think THAT will sooner or later happen do everyone. But she still have tons of fans (she's incomparable the ruler of Twitter) and she is very talented girl. We will see when she releases a new album.
The first sign was "Judas" flopping in America (it doesn't matter that it reached Top 10, it was only for one week and it had no longevity and little airplay compared to her other songs) and underperforming everywhere else.
The song only spent 3 weeks in the lower Top 10 on the worldwide charts.....whereas her other songs had all been Top 5 hits for many weeks. Its peaks look great beacuse it debuted high everywhere, but aftewards it fell like a rock. No one was here for it.