Still with being basically the most hyped album of the year Artpop unfurtunatly flop HARD for Gaga standars selling only 250k in the US and 700k WW very poorly in comparation to her last album that sold 1 million in the US and 2 million worldwide just in the first week , begining with the release of lead single Applause that fail to reach commercial success even with HUGE promo and create in some way a rivalty against Katy Perry.
Both lead single and album got a very divided opinion of music critics and general people, she release other songs from the album Do What You Want feat. R Kelly which is expected to be the second single still with no music video as well as Venus and Dope, no good news this year for the current "queen of pop" apart than maybe a performance during The Voice finale with Legend X (Christina Aguilera) another big artist that has flop during her last eras.
With a flop album, singles and a break up Britney Spears was almost the queen of flop this year with the release of her 8th album Britney Jean having poor global sales only selling more than 300k in almost a month being this her lowest selling album ever.
She got 3 singles this year Oh Lala soundtrack of The Smurfs 2, Work Bitch and Perfume, she's about to have a Vegas residency for the next 1 or 2 years.
Which better QUEEN to get that #1 than Avril Lavigne
With a wedding to Chad Kroeger and 3 singles this year Here's To Never Growing Up, Rock N Roll and Let Me Go her 5th self-titled album was finally released after 3 delays from her poor flop label epic records, selling around 400k worldwide so far in a bit more than 1 month being this her lowest selling album ever.
Other big legendary artist that flop with their lead single this year:
Thank you for the link. BJ and Avril Lavigne are great albums. They don't deserve to flop. But I am glad Avril is doing great in Japan. I didn't expect Gaga to flop with ARTPOP after so much hype