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LG5: Big Album or Big Singles?


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Big Singles or Album?  

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  1. 1. LG5: Singles or Album?

    • Big Album Sales, One Legendary Hit
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    • Moderate Album Sales, Long Era, Multiple #1s
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SISTERV

For LG5 would you rather have:

- Like Adele's 25. Pros: One of the highest selling album debuts of her career (2 million -3 million) with a massive lead single like Hello that dominates(bigger than Bad Romance). Cons: Because so many people have purchased the album, there is no need to buy more singles, leaving the era with one big hit, the possibility of only 2 or 3 singles, and less music videos.

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Like Katy Perry's Teenage Dream. Pros: Not everyone owns the album at first and let's the music speak. This allows for a longer era with 5-7 singles and the album achieves strong numbers in the long run. Gaga achieves multiple number one hits (IE: 4 or 5 #1s, 1 or 2 Top Fives) over the course of a year -18 months, and we get more music videos. Cons: The album debuts at moderate numbers(200K-400K). Many non singles aren't heard of making it more about "specific big hits" and less about the entire album concept. This might alienate the GP. The singles can be easily pirated if Interscope doesn't do a good job in making them unavailable on streaming services.

So....should do you want big legendary album sales or big singles/"event" videos?

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Dorothy Gale

I think I'd prefer the longevity of an era with 3-5 #1s and the album sales will catch up eventually. 

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SISTERV
2 minutes ago, vrajesh said:

She will have both, now that GP is by her side :giveup:

Why would you buy an album and then rebuy the singles unless you stan which is like, 256K people only apparently because only fans bought ARTPOP lol.

And even those stand didn't buy G.U.Y. :toofunny:

 

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SISTERV
1 minute ago, manyatyau said:

I think gaga is more of a single artisit.. she sees herself as an album artisit, but she really isn't. 

Thank you! I think you can have a concept record and still have big singles....which is what TFM and BTW were. (I wouldn't call The Fame a "concept record" as it dabbled into everything). But ARTPOP was messy because of the singles mess. People liked Gaga's music videos to be events and Applause was but after that it got messy with DWUW being cancelled, and ARTPOP, Venus, G.U.Y., MANiCURE being shoved into one montage. 

 

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OmgSum1Actually
8 minutes ago, manyatyau said:

I think gaga is more of a single artisit.. she sees herself as an album artisit, but she really isn't. 

She's an album artist. Bye

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1 minute ago, Matangi said:

She's an album artist. Bye

Not really.

The Fame sold so much because of the singles.

The Fame Monster sold so much because of the singles.

Born This Way was her first big debut open, which to many was a disappointment because of the choice of singles. (People wanted Scheibe, Government Hooker, and Bloody Mary more than TEOG, Y+I, and MTN...not to mention the let down of the edge of glory and Judas' early leak)

ARTPOP sold low albums but spawned a long lasting single Applause and a sleeper single DWUW. The era dissolved after Gaga failed to deliver singles. 

Obviously Gaga's albums do well when her singles and music videos do well first. 

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Mr Judas
17 minutes ago, SISTERV said:

Why would you buy an album and then rebuy the singles unless you stan which is like, 256K people only apparently because only fans bought ARTPOP lol.

And even those stand didn't buy G.U.Y. :toofunny:

 

Instead of having 2 mil albums sold in a week, she can do 1 mil which is pretty good enough ... And then the GP can BOP to the singles for the rest of their lives :green:

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ShockPop

If she has a big album, singles will not do as well.

If she has big singles, the album will be boosted by it.

You're asking if we want the fame or born this way.

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Well pull a 25 is almost impossible, I prefer a big album with a good but not massive start, and 2 or 3 big, or at least medium size hits.

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Singles make more impact aka longevity of the era... A big album will definitely be big... for the first 1 or 2 months. :lolga:

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