Lady Gaga has fired Troy Carter

[Jonttutan 0]

"Lady Gaga has fired her manager, Troy Carter, just days before the release of her new album, according to three people with direct knowledge of the news who were not authorized to speak about it.

Mr. Carter had managed Lady Gaga  whose real name is Stefani Germanotta  since 2007, before the release of her first album, and he is regarded in the music industry as an important force in her rise to megastar status.

The reasons for their split were not immediately clear. Showbiz411, a celebrity blog that, along with the music industry gossip site Hits Daily Double, was the first to report the news, attributed it to “creative differences.†But for months the music business has been rife with talk about an estrangement between the two, as well as speculation about how it might affect the commercial performance of her album, “ARTPOP,†to be released next week by Interscope Records.

Representatives of Mr. Carter and Lady Gaga declined to comment, and a spokesman for Interscope did not respond to an email on Tuesday morning.

The dismissal of a manager by a top pop act is an occasional occurrence in the music industry; such representatives often serve at will or through loose handshake contracts. But it is rare for such a break to happen on the eve of a major release.

Previous Lady Gaga albums have been phenomenons. The last, “Born This Way,†in 2011, had an enormous and flawlessly executed marketing campaign, and sold more than 2 million copies in the United States. Lady Gaga, who is in constant dialogue with her 40 million Twitter followers, has also become emblematic of pop’s reach on social media.

But the performance of early singles for “Artopop,†her third studio album, have been disappointing. “Applause,†released in August, peaked at No. 4 on Billboard’s chart, and has been outshined by Lorde and Katy Perry “Do What You Want,†released two weeks ago, opened with 156,000 sales, the third-most downloaded track that week. Her tearful appearance at the YouTube Music Awards on Sunday was mocked in the news media as “bizarre†and “deeply strange and out-of-tune.â€

Mr. Carter, who also manages John Legend and the violinist Lindsey Stirling  a breakout star on YouTube  has also made a name for himself in Silicon Valley as an investor in technology start-ups, including the taxi-hailing app Uber and the music site Songza. According to the technology news site PandoDaily, Mr. Carter is also raising $75 million to $100 million for an investment fund."

The New York Times

E: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/business/media/lady-gaga-said-to-fire-her-manager.html?smid=tw-nytimes

[Dolev 850]

i'm afraid it's true.

[Amen Fashion 1,127]

This is so dumb. She would never ever fire such a person as Troy! Troy is such a huge reason for Gaga being on top right now.

[KING5KAT 223]

I'll be her manager

[Mariano 958]

this is AP but anyway I really don't want this to be true ..

[Dann 354]

can u stop

[faux 2,190]

I don't think so? I mean she even thanked Troy in the ARTPOP booklet.

[asongforxx 0]

But the performance of early singles for “Artopop,†her third studio album, have been disappointing. “Applause,†released in August, peaked at No. 4 on Billboard’s chart, and has been outshined by Lorde and Katy Perry “Do What You Want,†released two weeks ago, opened with 156,000 sales, the third-most downloaded track that week. Her tearful appearance at the YouTube Music Awards on Sunday was mocked in the news media as “bizarre†and “deeply strange and out-of-tune.â€

[MJH07 0]

Bad decision. She should of waited to fire him till after ARTPOP.

[GagaLady 0]

and Taylor dumped Gaga, too 

[Mariann 301]

This would be the worst time for such a move. I hope it's not true. 

[ALX 170]

Now y'all aren't believing the NYT?

 

delusional. it's true

[Slojo 51]

So just rumour then nothing confirmed

[phoenixxx 33]

given that this is ALL OVER the news, I think that it should stay in this section. Just because we don't want it to be true doesn't mean that it's not news.

[hausofandrew 105]

Never liked him anyways. He looks like a try-hard sellout imo.