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Originally posted by Rei
The excuses the monsters are saying
600k worldwide? Who is she being compared to?
Adele, Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and Rihanna all did 600k in the US alone and Adele, Taylor Swift and Rihanna had multiple hits as well.
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Uh...I think we've established long ago that in terms of commercial sales and streaming Gaga has long since not been on the level of Taylor Swift, Beyonce, or Adele. Like.....update your expectations.
As far as Rihanna goes, everyone was calling ANTi a flop as well even with Work being a #1 hit for how many weeks and the album going #1 not once but twice. Like....you want Joanne to be some sort of tragedy and everyone wanted ARTPOP to be a tragedy as well. The thing is, Joanne is literally just doing adequate. Which in terms of Fame-era Gaga is pretty bad but in terms of anything released post-BTW backlash is genuinely just satisfactory. And considering how
whatever I find this album to be and its
total lack of hit singles, I think its performance is fine. Shes hitting 600k worldwide for an album thats lacking hits and you want to call that a tragedy? This isn't Bionic or Warrior. A lot of you in this thread just don't like Gaga and want to reinforce how terrible you think shes gotten.