Because she had the biggest hit of the year and her label just rocks.
But having the biggest hit of the year doesn't mean anything. She's more like a singles artist, that's why I always predicted that she would sell something around 200k which is reasonable for her standars. But then I saw some people predicting 700k for her opening sales and I was shocked with those crazy predictions
2 Years later the album is still in the top 20 though
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Originally posted by Hi.Ðefinitiøn
Gaga was new with no hit single, so it's no surprise her 1st week sales were low.
Although if we want to fast forward TFM debuted with 174K, and that was still while she had her debut album in the Top 10. Combined they sold 350K.
Katy is established and coming off of 2 majorly successful singles, and all she can do combined with this hype is 200K?
Try again.
Right.
I knew sooner or later Gaga would be brought into this. Let's stay on topic folks, and focus on Katy Perry not living up to people's expectations instead of trying to trash talk Gaga (because we all know how that will end )
Imagine if "TEENAGE DREAM" was her DEBUT ALBUM, and One of the Boys never came into existence, would you still love and appreciate her music??
No, this album is nowhere near as good as One Of The Boys. I really feel that this one is missing stuff, and I don't hear much of that Rock/Pop I liked. It's more Dance, which is so generic these days.