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Poll: Is Lady Gaga still a fad?
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by MissedTheTrain
Care to provide some receipts?
And the ARTPOP era was a mess, that's pretty clear.....last minute single changes, cancelled videos, mid era blackout lasting months, of course it wasn't going to go smoothly. My point is, all of that considered, the album still sold decently well.
And why are you acting like first week sales mean everything? And why are you acting like a jazz album is part of a downward trajectory? The fact that Gaga was able to have a #1 JAZZ album selling 131k is absolutely fantastic, you guys look ridiculous trying to drag that when you know good and well your faves could not do it better.
And what are you talking about? Applause outsold Heart Attack. Come & Get It was a hit song so its not like its some huge insult if it sold more. And of course ARTPOP isn't platinum, she stopped the era a few months in and is now on a new project.
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Bangerz is struggling to sell 1M outside of the US, it didnt even cross the 2M mark
ARTPOP latterly had to stop charting so Bangerz can outsell it
May I remind you that ARTPOP and Bangerz did the same numbers except Gaga didnt have half the attention Miley had
and artRAVE will outsell the Bangerz tour so keep bragging about those 2 singles
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Member Since: 8/17/2013
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Originally posted by Alchemist
The exaggeration
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It's not though. The fact that it hit #1 with only 130k is pathetic
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Member Since: 4/10/2012
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Originally posted by Scheiße.
I love it when Miley stans forget that their fav had one of the biggest flop albums ever
Did Bangerz even cross the 2M mark WW? did it even sell 1M outside of the US? Did her tour manage to do better than the so called fad? No to all that so why are trying to drag the QUEEN?
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Miley is nearly a decade into her career and with her last era she scored a #1 hit ( ) a platinum album ( ) a VOTY VMA, EMA, WMA, BBMA, ( ) ranked higher than Gaga on Forbes, ranked on TIME Most Influential ( ) compared to Gaga who debuted after Miley and is already plummeting into obscurity. Join us the real world!
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Member Since: 8/31/2013
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Originally posted by MissedTheTrain
The fact that Gaga was able to have a #1 JAZZ album selling 131k is absolutely fantastic, you guys look ridiculous trying to drag that when you know good and well your faves could not do it better.
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Its been long established at this point that Gaga was knocked off her diamond pedestal of a few years ago. Yet people continue to cling to her "downfall" trying to argue that everything thats come from her post-heyday is further proof that shes dust. When if it were anyone else they would've accepted the downfall long ago and started seeing something like a collaborative Tony album selling 131k and going #1 as an obvious career improvement however slight. But its Gaga so they have to find a way to argue that its just apart of how much she doesn't matter anymore. Only Gaga can get 2 #1 albums and ATRL will find a way to argue that shes nothing.
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Originally posted by mikeyace16
It's not though. The fact that it hit #1 with only 130k is pathetic
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Sia hit #1 with 52,000 copies in July. Is it Gaga's fault the industry is the pits?
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Originally posted by mikeyace16
Okay Gaga can stay winning with one of the worst weekly sales for a #1 album ever
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Unless you'd like to provide a list of the lowest sales debuts for #1 albums, that's false. Sia's album debuted at #1 this year with like 50k.
And try to drag all you want, but Gaga just released a jazz album with Tony Bennett, low-key promo (not one televised performance yet), and it debuted at #1 with 131k. More than quite a few Pop girls' albums with much more promo, singles, etc. I don't know of any other pop girl who could release a jazz album and do so well with it.
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Member Since: 8/31/2013
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Originally posted by mikeyace16
It's not though. The fact that it hit #1 with only 130k is pathetic
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You're too far into deluding yourself into talking **** about her that you refuse to acknowledge the simple and basic fact that this album going #1 with 131k is anything but pathetic. Especially considering the fact that someone like you probably only a week ago would've argued that it wouldn't have sold even 80k let alone go #1.
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Originally posted by Scheiße.
Bangerz is struggling to sell 1M outside of the US, it didnt even cross the 2M mark
ARTPOP latterly had to stop charting so Bangerz can outsell it
May I remind you that ARTPOP and Bangerz did the same numbers except Gaga didnt have half the attention Miley had
and artRAVE will outsell the Bangerz tour so keep bragging about those 2 singles
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Exactly. People are throwing logic out the window.
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Originally posted by Alchemist
Sia hit #1 with 52,000 copies in July. Is it Gaga's fault the industry is the pits?
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Taylor and Adele disgaree
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Originally posted by minxie
Miley is nearly a decade into her career and with her last era she scored a #1 hit ( ) a platinum album ( ) a VOTY VMA, EMA, WMA, BBMA, ( ) ranked higher than Gaga on Forbes, ranked on TIME Most Influential ( ) compared to Gaga who debuted after Miley and is already plummeting into obscurity. Join us the real world!
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But Miley flopped HAAAAAAAARD in her 3rd album, did CBT manged to go GOLD? NO, did CBT go 2x platinum? No, did she managed to have a successful tour in her "flop" era? No
With all those awards, why didn't her album cross the 2M mark? Why is she struggling to sell 1M outside of the US?
Embarrassing "CRUSHING LADY GAGA" her album did the same numbers as Gaga except Gaga is in her flop era and Miley is successful
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Originally posted by Misanthrope
Its been long established at this point that Gaga was knocked off her diamond pedestal of a few years ago. Yet people continue to cling to her "downfall" trying to argue that everything thats come from her post-heyday is further proof that shes dust. When if it were anyone else they would've accepted the downfall long ago and started seeing something like a collaborative Tony album selling 131k and going #1 as an obvious career improvement however slight. But its Gaga so they have to find a way to argue that its just apart of how much she doesn't matter anymore. Only Gaga can get 2 #1 albums and ATRL will find a way to argue that shes nothing.
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Exactly. She's got to have the most dedicated haters on here, and its sad. They twist anything and everything to make sure she can't win. Like, are their faves not entertaining them enough and they have to resort to Gaga? Are their own lives so boring that they have to hate on a freaking pop star to stay busy?
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this is sad the amount of 'Yes's' in this thread. she's obviously not. Haters can stay pressed
and seethe and most 'talented' successful artist to emerge from the 2005+ (i know she debuted in 2009, others haven't though)
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Keep bragging about those 2 singles, YOU'D think after all that attention, streaming, single, etc. her album would sell at least 2M WW but it didn't
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Gaga stans when discussing Adele: "Adele may have had album sales, but Gaga had bigger singles, bigger videos, media attention, impact, etc."
Gaga stan when discussing Miley: "Well Bangerz and ARTPOP sold about the same so why is Miley considered above Gaga??!!!"
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Originally posted by MissedTheTrain
Unless you'd like to provide a list of the lowest sales debuts for #1 albums, that's false. Sia's album debuted at #1 this year with like 50k.
And try to drag all you want, but Gaga just released a jazz album with Tony Bennett, low-key promo (not one televised performance yet), and it debuted at #1 with 131k. More than quite a few Pop girls' albums with much more promo, singles, etc. I don't know of any other pop girl who could release a jazz album and do so well with it.
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Tony, his power
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Originally posted by mikeyace16
Taylor and Adele disgaree
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They're good album sellers, that does not change the fact that the industry is in a state of low album sales. Sia debuted at #1 with around 50k. Adam Lambert debuted at #1 a couple years ago with 90k. Ariana debuted at #1 last year with barely over 100k. Those are all Pop albums, mind you, not jazz ones with low-key promo.
Regardless, saying those are pathetic numbers for a #1 is just bashing the state of record sales, not Gaga.
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Uhm no...of course this thread is fu of trolls
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Originally posted by mikeyace16
Tony, his power
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So now you're changing your game? I thought that these were pathetic sales for a #1, but Tony his power?
Seriously, you're coming across like a biased hater with these comments, desperate to drag.
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Even her biggest hits this era did not sell 4M+ in the US
her album is struggling to sell 1M outside of the US
It didn't even cross the 2M mark
like I said keep bragging about those 2 singles
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Originally posted by LordMombi
first and foremost, I said it was jazz themed, not a jazz album.
I don't need any type of long discussion because you're also a stereotypical gaga fan
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Oh yes. I'm stereotypical because I acknowledge how not only nonsensical it is to compare this album to I'm Breathless but how tired it is to compare her to Madonna period. Its nothing short of lazy. And at any rate, I doubt it'd be intellectually possible to have any kind of discussion with you.
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