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Poll: Biggest pop star at the moment
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View Poll Results: Biggest Pop Star
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Adele
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13.74% |
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Gaga
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140 |
40.94% |
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Bieber
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15 |
4.39% |
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Katy Perry
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56 |
16.37% |
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Rihanna
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65 |
19.01% |
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Other
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19 |
5.56% |
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Originally posted by HausOfA-M
Leaving out Adele or Bieber, because they would effectively be controversial choices, we have:
Rihanna: strong album sales with Loud, sold half of that with Talk That Talk. 'We Found Love' was a huge smash but all of her following singles failed to match that and the over-hyped 'Where Have You Been' is quite struggling on iTunes despite massive promo and radio play. She's a strong touring artist, and one of the top social media artists.
Katy Perry: the only one who may still have to peak. Her album sales are often underestimated, but, after all, five million looks underwhelming when you count her eight singles and the tons of promo extended over more than two years. Her US singles stats are mind-blowing, but only a part of her singles had a similar worldwide resonance. She's a strong social media artist and currently a weak touring artist.
Lady Gaga (my pick): she lost part of her digital power in the US, but she still manages to get worldwide smashes: 'Born This Way' has, according to the only official source, IFPI, sold 8.2 million, which is more than any Teenage Dream single, despite not even topping the 4 million mark in the US. Her latest album, Born This Way, outsold the latest releases of any of the people listed in the poll and hasn't been re-released: it is currently enjoying a noticeable sales boost thanks to the tour. Her tour is on track to become one of the top10 most-successful of all-time, and her average gross (~2.7M) is three times the one of her closer competition among the other two (Rihanna) and more than five times Katy's. According to starcount, she still is the most popular social media presence and gets headlines despite being officially on a media break. Protests around the globe show her impact. She is a respected and award-winning songwriter, musician, singer, activist and fashion icon, something the other two still can't say. |
 good work sis.
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Originally posted by Remixed
Gaga is in the press because the media follows her every move. There are many tour reviews from many different countries. She isn't the queen of social media just because of "tour controversey". Every time she tweets there are at least 10 articles on it, and when she tweets a picture there are 20.
Bieber is considered to be the "biggest popstar" because a #2 peaking single? And album "buzz"??????  Please. |
And GaGa is the biggest popstar because there are articles written about her tweets?
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Originally posted by Walley
And GaGa is the biggest popstar because there are articles written about her tweets?
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No, because of the other reasons which were already mentioned several times in this thread.
The album sales. The singles sales. The TOUR sales, even though she has no album out at the moment and her last single was in 2011.
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AT THE MOMENT, meaning RIGHT NOW, Katy Perry. Wide Awake is doing good on iTunes, playing a lot on radio, and she has her own movie coming out. After her, it's Justin Bieber. Then Rhianna because of Where Have You Been doing good on radio. Lady Gaga and Adele don't have anything out right now so they shouldn't be options to be honest.
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Originally posted by Walley
GaGa is not the biggest popstar at the moment. Her last #1 single was over a year ago, and the only reason she has been in the press recently is because of the controversy surrounding her tour.
The biggest popstar is between Katy Perry and Justin Bieber. "Boyfriend" peaked and #2, and his album is getting a lot of buzz. Katy Perry has highly anticipated movie coming out, Wide Awake is climbing up the charts, all her singles from her last album are Top 10 hits, all but 1 going #1, and she is everywhere in the press.
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With these two statements you're focusing on the US; "Marry the Night" reached #1 on one of Belgium's two national charts and Brazil's Pop chart, and was actually a decent hit in several other smaller countries, and You and I was a decent hit in many of the larger markets.
Katy's popularity is visibly declining as well - "Wide Awake", despite being new material, isn't doing extremely well outside Katy's usual markets, and she isn't in a very large amount of press internationally. She's still very big, but internationally Gaga is garnering more attention and that will become more apparent very soon when her lead single drops.
Justin really isn't the biggest pop star by a long shot - he had a moderately large hit with "Boyfriend", but nothing spectacular, and he's only sold somewhere around 9 million albums worldwide to date. He's only had three significant hits throughout his career as well.
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Originally posted by Walley
Adele is the current big seller, but she is also not the biggest pop star out at the moment. The Rolling In The Deep fad has passed, her album is finally slowing down sales-wise, and she hasn't been in the press lately.
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Well, her album sales slowing down would be a compelling argument had the album not been on a tear for EIGHTEEN MONTHS prior to its slow downfall. It's hard to keep up consistent sales for a couple of months nowadays. Adele was consistently at or near the top for a year and a half. That is astonishing in this music climate.
Oh, and RITD would only have been a "fad" if the follow-up singles did not perform similarly well...which they did.
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The biggest popstar is between Katy Perry and Justin Bieber.
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No, really, it's not. You can make a compelling argument for Katy (and for any of the other choices), but Bieber's appeal is too limited, even now. In a couple of years? Sure, I could consider it. But his audience is still made up too much of a specific demographic. "Boyfriend" is a step in the right direction toward ultimate pop star glory, but it's not enough.
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Why do people keep saying Justin Bieber? All he has is a single that peaked at #2?  stop it.
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Katy Perry. 
Lady Gaga is just touring.
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Originally posted by Walley
GaGa is not the biggest popstar at the moment. Her last #1 single was over a year ago, and the only reason she has been in the press recently is because of the controversy surrounding her tour.
Adele is the current big seller, but she is also not the biggest pop star out at the moment. The Rolling In The Deep fad has passed, her album is finally slowing down sales-wise, and she hasn't been in the press lately.
The biggest popstar is between Katy Perry and Justin Bieber. "Boyfriend" peaked and #2, and his album is getting a lot of buzz. Katy Perry has highly anticipated movie coming out, Wide Awake is climbing up the charts, all her singles from her last album are Top 10 hits, all but 1 going #1, and she is everywhere in the press.
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The question wasn't "who is being talked about more in the US?", If we use your logic, even Skrillex is more popular now., Bieber is the biggest pop star because of BUZZ?  Katy Perry is nowhere near Gaga's impact, influence and importance worldwide. 
Gaga is on a media blackout, she hasn't released ANY new material for over a year but she still gets articles about her fragrance, her jewelry collection, the controversy, the international reviews and critical acclaim of her tour, and she stands out for being a major social media force, let's not.
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worldwide its really rihanna and adele but us katy perry and adele
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Originally posted by Marvin
AT THE MOMENT, meaning RIGHT NOW, Katy Perry. Wide Awake is doing good on iTunes, playing a lot on radio, and she has her own movie coming out. After her, it's Justin Bieber. Then Rhianna because of Where Have You Been doing good on radio. Lady Gaga and Adele don't have anything out right now so they shouldn't be options to be honest.
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So one must have material so they can be somehow relevant? 
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Lady Gaga may be on the DL in the US at the moment, but she's an international BOMB. Wherever she goes, she always provokes some giant protest or large following by fans, regualr civilians, and media alike. All of the other pop acts are a minor blip on the international radar. Adele is an exception, but she doesn't have much of an impact with her brand. She's much more about the music than presence or a message. In my opinion, she'll always remain relevant because much of her music is regarded as classic.
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The question wasn't "who is being talked about more in the US?", If we use your logic, even Skrillex is more popular now., Bieber is the biggest pop star because of BUZZ? Katy Perry is nowhere near Gaga's impact, influence and importance worldwide.
Gaga is on a media blackout, she hasn't released ANY new material for over a year but she still gets articles about her fragrance, her jewelry collection, the controversy, the international reviews and critical acclaim of her tour, and she stands out for being a major social media force, let's not. |
But where is she on TV or radio?
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Originally posted by Marvin
But where is she on TV or radio?
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Stories about controversy in Jakarta, Manila and Singapore were on many international TV news programmes She was even on the news in 3rd-world countries like mine (  ) and do you really want her to have anything on the radio, again, after NOT releasing any new material for over a year, and after her last single underperformed drastically? It would be unfair to compare Katy's presence in Radio to Gaga's, you should have to wait until Gaga releases a new single so we can discuss this easier 
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Adele (though I don't consider her a pop star).
Followed closely by Gaga.
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Originally posted by PeterTheMonster
Stories about controversy in Jakarta, Manila and Singapore were on many international TV news programmes She was even on the news in 3rd-world countries like mine ( ) and do you really want her to have anything on the radio, again, after NOT releasing any new material for over a year, and after her last single underperformed drastically? It would be unfair to compare Katy's presence in Radio to Gaga's, you should have to wait until Gaga releases a new single so we can discuss this easier |
Oh okay. Lol.
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Originally posted by izzy
and gaga is on her damn blackout,and she's still talked more then any pop star.if that's not enough proof then idk |
This is false and utter delusion
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Where is Gaga on the charts???
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