A forgotten mess: How Applause lost the top of BB because of a wrong choice

[rocketnumber9 6]

I will always love Dope. I'm a huge Nirvana fan, as is my roommate. I saw my first Lady Gaga concert in 2009 with her. She has dealt with a lot of drug addiction since then and she really connected with Dope. The song really means a lot to us both as Gaga fans and it couldn't have been released at a better time. It really has helped her overcome addiction.

[Lord Temptation 11,209]

Gaga was in a really vulnerable state when she made and released ARTPOP. It shows in her interviews and performances. 

[MonsterOfSpain 8,318]

How Do Want U Want* lost the top of BB because of a wrong choice

[Bradley 59,023]

Thanks for pointing this out. I never knew it could rise even further though. It's good to know it wasn't Gaga's lost of appeal that resulted in a lack of #1 (Don't get me wrong, Applause was very successful already commercially but it could have been better) but misarranged promotion choices.

[VforVendetta 2,024]

5 hours ago, Gypsy Life said:

Live performances didn't count for the Hot100 back then. YouTube had a deal with Billboard to incorporate the live performances views to their chart in order to promote the YouTube Awards, which were done for the first year at that time.

Gaga's team neither knew that the performance will be used as a commercial to promote the YouTube Awards, nor did they know the video views will count toward Billboard.

Still the performance was good promo for the song, the logical thing was to perform the single, not Dope...

[VforVendetta 2,024]

2 hours ago, MonsterOfSpain said:

How Do Want U Want* lost the top of BB because of a wrong choice

DWUW wouldn't have reachen the top 3 even with the performance...

[steven 5,944]

I don't wanna sound mean or anything but ARTPOP brought her back to who she trully is an an artist. She needed to go down in order to know what it feels to not be on top anymore, not to be the hit girl... Now that she's learned, she will trully master the art of Fame in a whole different way and I'm NOT worried about her. Look what 2016 has brought to us, she will shine again. Don't worry guys.

[ViviLittleM 3]

I can't wait for the LG5 era to slay everybody so after that we will forget the mess which was the ARTPOP era.

 

 

[MonsterOfSpain 8,318]

58 minutes ago, VforVendetta said:

DWUW wouldn't have reachen the top 3 even with the performance...

But it would've been top 5, and then the video would've put it on top  The classic that got away

[Edible Cloud 11,255]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAVgwA9Gx1A

+15,000,000 views

[Rock Jock 993]

I think Gaga and lil monsters should forget everything about ARTPOP era. I like this album but the era was a mess

[VforVendetta 2,024]

1 hour ago, Rock Jock said:

I think Gaga and lil monsters should forget everything about ARTPOP era. I like this album but the era was a mess

The important thng is not to forget it but to learn from it...