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Originally posted by Retro Dance Freak
Well an extremely large number of Adele's album sales are from simple casual listeners rather than "fans". Haven't you noticed her fanbase has very little internet presence? Her Twitter only has abut 7.5 million followers, and those are worldwide. Adele doesn't sell to a fanbase like "Born This Way" did, she sells to the average person.
Additionally, Gaga has almost 4 times the Twitter followers and over 20 million more Facebook fans, suggesting higher overall popularity. Furthermore, the 99 tour dates Adele was able to complete grossed a cumulative total under $20 million - had her label expected a larger demand they likely would have at least bumped up her venues a little higher than a 4,000-person average. Of course, she may have been hurt in ticket sales with much larger venues due to the fact that she does not do choreography or detailed theatrical performances and chooses mainly to sing.
Adele will always have a more widespread appeal, and in that sense more popularity, but will never attract the sort of "stans" that other acts attract on a large scale. Because of the passion that Gaga brings out in her famously-dedicated and very large fanbase, the passion which her opponents display so widely and loudly, the fact that almost everyone knows her name and has an opinion on her, and her still-constant presence in news and culture, I would argue that in many ways Gaga is still the bigger star at this relative time.
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Originally posted by Ramcoro
What does it matter if Adele has casual listeners and Gaga has a crazier fanbase? More casual fans than stans still fits with the word bigger.
Now your social media argument confuses me, it kinda conflicts with your casual fans vs stans argument. Anyways, of course Adele doesn't have the same Facebook likes/ followers, she blew up long after Gaga did. What would you expect Adele to jump to 40 million likes in 6 months? It took Gaga a while to aquire those likes/followers. They both have the same amount of weeks at #1 on the Social 50.
Let's look at YouTube. Her videos are doing A LOT better, and her's are a lot more simple. Hell there are some of her live performances that have more views than each of Gaga's recent music videos.
Adele only had one tour. No one grosses 100 million on their debut tour.
There is a reason why Gaga made that tweet about Adele. Even if it was a joke. She wouldn't have tweeted it if it wasn't at least partially true.
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Originally posted by vuelve88
You're trying too hard to discredit Adele.
1. Adele appeals to a different demographic that would be less likely to use Twitter and social media
2. Adele chose smaller venues out of preference, not out of fears that people would not attend her show.
3. Making comments about her lack of dancing and theatrical performances in an attempt to discredit her is pathetic. She's wildly successful just the way she is.
4. Stop trying to come up with excuses.
Only in your warped reality can somebody sell over 2 times as many albums with her latest release, score multiple radio hits, achieve multiple Grammy awards, and still be inferior to Lady Gaga.
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