RS crowns Gaga "Queen of Pop"

[juju 18,907]

"Introducing the Queen of Pop
We crunched the numbers to determine who takes the crown"
6/29/11

Some excerpts and key notes for you all:

(On albums sales)
"Recently joining Swift in the million-weeker club is our second-place finisher Lady Gaga, whose Born This Way has piled up 1.4 million in sales (a sizable chunk of which went for a buck on Amazon the day the album came out in May). That's on top of the multiplatinum sales rung up by Gaga's The Fame and The Fame Monster. In 2011, Gaga's having a bigger year than Swift, but over our two-and-a-half-year period Swift outsells Gaga by 2.6 million units."

(On digital tracks)
"Appropriately, on the digital tracks list, our top two in album sales reverse their positions, with Gaga taking the top slot over Swift by a huge margin of nearly eight million downloads. A large chunk of Gaga's margin can be attributed to one hit: her very first, "Just Dance," which topped the charts in January 2009 and is one of only two songs in digital history to sell more than six million copies (the Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling" is the other). "Just Dance" is to Gaga what "Get the Party Started" is to P!nk: not her most artistically representative hit – that would be "Poker Face" or "Bad Romance" – but an annuity that keeps on selling as long as people like to party."

(On airplay  )
"Lady Gaga wins this one in a walk, topping second-ranked Taylor Swift by nearly one-third. Over the last three years, radio programmers have spun no artist more than Gaga, with 10 ranked tracks. With the exception of the short-lived flop single "Judas," every one of those tracks has reached the Radio Songs Top 10; that includes Gaga's new hit, "Edge of Glory," which reached the airplay winners' circle even before the death of guest sax player Clarence Clemons."

FULL ARTICLE HERE.

Do these types of articles make anyone else feel nostalgic? Obviously, early-to-mid 2011 was arguably Gaga's peak: with epic performances like Paparazzi at the VMAs and the Grammy debut of Born This Way under her belt, thousands of iconic looks (including the meat and living dresses), dazzling videos and hit singles all proceeding the summer of 2011, she was on top of the world. Truthfully, it's not the nature of the game for one to stay "on top" forever: eventually, fresh meat attracts the limelight and the former It-girls sit cozy (although, I'll go out on a limb to say not a single new artist debuting after 2010 has attained such a level of critical or commercial success as Gaga has, at least not as consistently). In actuality, her prolific career was only starting: this article was posted nearly 6 years ago. With her following projects being equally as polarizing as her previous, Gaga has expanded her talents and wracked up a good number of awards and world records - it's highly unlikely Rolling Stone would retract this consensus; the only other contender imaginable would be Beyonce, who blew the Internet out of the water with her self-titled visual album in 2013, and Lemonade in 2016. But if her performance at the Superbowl was any indication, Gaga's best has yet to come. 

[Radio Ga Ga 5,671]

I was like yaaaaas, until I saw the throwback tag

[Duella Dvil 10,584]

We will do it again kids

[juju 18,907]

Just now, Radio Ga Ga said:

I was like yaaaaas, until I saw the throwback tag

 

But has anything truly changed? My point was, she's more a Queen now than she was then.

[Borislshere 53,088]

She's still the Queen tbh

[Radio Ga Ga 5,671]

4 minutes ago, jujubae said:

 

But has anything truly changed? My point was, she's more a Queen now than she was then.

She's the queen of music, Madonna and other pop girls can keep their little competition going on

[juju 18,907]

3 minutes ago, Radio Ga Ga said:

She's the queen of music, Madonna and other pop girls can keep their little competition going on

There is no competition once Rolling Stone has spoken