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Originally posted by Chileno
If Born This Way underperformed and was the second best selling of the year, what happened with her competition (except Adele), everyone else flopped?
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Underperformed means performs less than people expected. So to those people who expected it to be the biggest album of 2011, it underperformed, because it *only* finished 2nd or 3rd.
I agree though, it was a success.
In my opinion it was simple the media attention. In 2009, all I remember about Lady Gaga was "She's came and saved pop music", "She's so original", "She dressed up as Kermit the Frog, that's hilarious", "Wow. She plays the piano and writes her own lyrics, she's so talented", "She's friends with Akon, so she must be really cool", "I heard that she's a man. Do you think that's true?" and so on.
The media attention she got in 2011 was very different, and more realistic, which I think hurt her sales. She was practically being worshipped by 98% of the media when Poker Face came out, so of course the song sold well.