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Poll: Bigger THIS decade? Lady Gaga or Beyoncé
View Poll Results: Bigger this Decade?
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Beyoncé
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30.23% |
Lady Gaga
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69.77% |
Member Since: 1/8/2012
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Originally posted by PoisonPill
As everyone said, Gaga was the world's biggest pop star in 2010-2011.
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And yet after that, Beyonce has consistently remained on top (sans maybe Taylor especially this year) while Gaga has faded from the mainstream.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by GreasyBruce
Gaga has sold 17 million albums this decade.
Beyonce has sold 7 million albums this decade.
Gaga had "Telephone", "Alejandro", "Born This Way", "The Edge of Glory" and "Applause" as major worldwide hits this decade.
Beyonce only has her feature on "Telephone" as a major worldwide hit this decade.
Gaga has grossed almost $500m in touring revenue this decade.
Beyonce has grossed $330m in touring revenue this decade, with $100m+ of that coming from a joint tour with Jay-Z.
The receipts don't lie.
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Fixed, but this is generally correct.
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
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Originally posted by Lyrical.
And yet after that, Beyonce has consistently remained on top (sans maybe Taylor especially this year) while Gaga has faded from the mainstream.
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*Taylor, Adele, P!nk, Katy Perry
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Originally posted by Lyrical.
And yet after that, Beyonce has consistently remained on top (sans maybe Taylor especially this year) while Gaga has faded from the mainstream.
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But Beyonce faded from the mainstream in 2010/2011 and didn't come back "on top" until December 2013 Overall Beyonce is not one of the top 5 biggest females of the decade
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Originally posted by Lyrical.
And yet after that, Beyonce has consistently remained on top (sans maybe Taylor especially this year) while Gaga has faded from the mainstream.
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Since when was Beyonce always on top??? P!nk, Adele, Taylor, Katy, Rihanna etc.. were all more successful than her this decade.
I love Bey but y'all need to stop with the delusion
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Originally posted by Tsuko
Eminem and then Adele were bigger stars during 2010 and 2011. The only difference is that they're not as attention-seeking as Gaga. Gaga tried everything she could to be in the media coverage every day, Eminem and Adele just did their thing and were still bigger stars than Gaga.
If this decade began at 2009 then I'd say Lady Gaga, but she'd already past her peak by 2010. Bad Romance was less successful in almost EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD than Poker Face, despite being a better song, having a more expensive music video, etc. Why? Because Gaga was already past her peak by late 2009.
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This post is such a kiiiii!
If BR is a decline then I can't wait for Beyonce to have a single finally do well, the poor dear. BR sold 12M copies, won multiple Grammys and VMAs, and became the first diamond certified female single in the US.
In 2010 and 2011 Gaga outsold Eminem in albums, singles and tickets. She also won more awards. This decade, she has outsold Eminem in total album sales and demolished him in single sales.
In 2011 Gaga outsold every album in the world except Adele's phenomenon seller. By that standard, every album released bombed in 2011.
Lady Gaga released Born This Way, the song, in early 2011 and it broke all records for sales in three days. She then debuted to 2M albums sold in a single week worldwide in the middle of 2011. The following year she played stadiums across the planet in markets Beyonce hasn't even visited, let alone Adele and Eminem.
It's nice you hate Gaga, but try not to embarrass yourself so much with this type of mess.
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Originally posted by Rusty
This post is such a kiiiii!
If BR is a decline then I can't wait for Beyonce to have a single finally do well, the poor dear. BR sold 12M copies, won multiple Grammys and VMAs, and became the first diamond certified female single in the US.
In 2010 and 2011 Gaga outsold Eminem in albums, singles and tickets. She also won more awards. This decade, she has outsold Eminem in total album sales and demolished him in single sales.
In 2011 Gaga outsold every album in the world except Adele's phenomenon seller. By that standard, every album released bombed in 2011.
Lady Gaga released Born This Way, the song, in early 2011 and it broke all records for sales in three days. She then debuted to 2M albums sold in a single week worldwide in the middle of 2011. The following year she played stadiums across the planet in markets Beyonce hasn't even visited, let alone Adele and Eminem.
It's nice you hate Gaga, but try not to embarrass yourself so much with this type of mess.
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Easy on them.
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Originally posted by Rusty
This post is such a kiiiii!
If BR is a decline then I can't wait for Beyonce to have a single finally do well, the poor dear. BR sold 12M copies, won multiple Grammys and VMAs, and became the first diamond certified female single in the US.
In 2010 and 2011 Gaga outsold Eminem in albums, singles and tickets. She also won more awards. This decade, she has outsold Eminem in total album sales and demolished him in single sales.
In 2011 Gaga outsold every album in the world except Adele's phenomenon seller. By that standard, every album released bombed in 2011.
Lady Gaga released Born This Way, the song, in early 2011 and it broke all records for sales in three days. She then debuted to 2M albums sold in a single week worldwide in the middle of 2011. The following year she played stadiums across the planet in markets Beyonce hasn't even visited, let alone Adele and Eminem.
It's nice you hate Gaga, but try not to embarrass yourself so much with this type of mess.
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cause she sold it for $0,99 just like her entire album What an achievement to sell more when Beys was one of the most expensive albums with its $18. Yet it still managed to sell 5 million including shippings.
the rest is true and this is why Gaga is definitely superior in 2010-2012.
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Originally posted by *-ChriZ-*
cause she sold it for $0,99 just like her entire album What an achievement to sell more when Beys was one of the most expensive albums with its $18. Yet it still managed to sell 5 million including shippings.
the rest is true and this is why Gaga is definitely superior in 2010-2012.
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how much did the 99c deal even sell? 400k? out of 2 MILLION? Sad
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Originally posted by *-ChriZ-*
cause she sold it for $0,99 just like her entire album What an achievement to sell more when Beys was one of the most expensive albums with its $18. Yet it still managed to sell 5 million including shippings.
the rest is true and this is why Gaga is definitely superior in 2010-2012.
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She sold only 400k with just 0.99 and sold 1.5m+ with 14$ so that excuse won't work here, find another one.
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Originally posted by *-ChriZ-*
cause she sold it for $0,99 just like her entire album What an achievement to sell more when Beys was one of the most expensive albums with its $18. Yet it still managed to sell 5 million including shippings.
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Gaga should sell her singles for $18? Don't be a flop, just be a Queen, sis.
Take away the 440K copies of Gaga's album Amazon paid for and BEYONCE has yet to outsell Born This Way. In fact, take away the 440K and Gaga still has one of the biggest opening weeks WW for a female artist in history, far higher than any Beyonce release, even the surprise release. The idea Gaga is successful because of that is as stupid as it is pathetic.
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Member Since: 2/2/2014
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Originally posted by Lyrical.
And yet after that, Beyonce has consistently remained on top (sans maybe Taylor especially this year) while Gaga has faded from the mainstream.
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After 2011 comes 2012, and Beyoncé didn't release anything. The only time Beyoncé has been bigger this decade is 2013, and then 2014 belongs to Katy and 2015 to Taylor. Gaga was at the top for 2 years while Beyoncé for 1. And Gaga's 2010-11 numbers annihilate Beyoncé's entire decade. This is an actual fact backed by numbers.
Try being unbiased for once.
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Considering Telephone is Beyoncé's biggest hit... and it's a Lady Gaga song...
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You guys get way too involved in arguing over such petty things completely unrelated to you
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Originally posted by brndksk
You all have such short memories. In 2010/11 Lady Gaga was THE biggest star on the planet by a long shot... the star power she had then was bigger than any Bey has ever had.
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Member Since: 1/13/2012
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Gaga's 2010/2011 kind of makes everything Beyonce did this decade seem insignificant in comparison.
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Member Since: 8/31/2013
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Lady Gaga imo. Beyoncé has impacted the music industry somehow but she hasn't achieved the overall success of Gaga this decade worlwide, but that's normal, because Beyoncé debuted 5 years before Gaga
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Beyonce for everything, easily.
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Member Since: 11/13/2011
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Originally posted by Aleks
Gaga's 2010/2011 kind of makes everything Beyonce did this decade seem insignificant in comparison.
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Let's not go too far and call ST insignificant when its impact is undeniable. I know the Monsters cling very hard to 2009-2012 cause it was Gagas peak and she will never be this successfull again, so thats fair enough. No need to downgrade other people's achievements.
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