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PI, CTTR, & GL: A tale of 3 'flops'


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What does a single gay do on a Friday night? Make Excel spreadsheets for pop songs :madge:

Anyway, below is a graph I made using data from kworb.net. I compared three "I-haven't-released-new-solo-pop-music-in-three-years" comeback singles: PI, CTTR, and Green Light.

Recall that Katy, Lorde, and Gaga all released their last albums three years ago within a few weeks of each other -- Lorde in late Sep 2013, Katy in Oct 2013, and Gaga in early Nov 2013.)

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X-axis is hours since the first kworb.net update for the song, and y-axis is the iTunes US update/rating/whatever it's called (with the highest being 1.0). So basically this chart shows what the first 30 or so hours for the songs looked like on iTunes.

Some observations:

:sis: Green Light and CTTR are following very similar paths. Both started with iTunes updates of about 0.2 and peaked close to 0.8 before declining.

:sis: Green Light had a much steadier rise, but it looks like CTTR has a much steadier decline. For some reason I feel like Green Light is just going to take a nosedive :gum: (Since writing this sentence I checked kworb again and there was yet another red update for Green Light. 0.7041 --> 0.6719 :madge:)

:sis: PI had a MUCH higher debut (0.5); it shot right to 1.0 within hours, and held that for almost a day before it ultimately floppedT

Now compare all of this to Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You", arguably the most successful song of the year so far. I checked the archives and that song was at 1.0 right out of the gate and it's still at 1.0. And it's been 2 months :cryga:

TL;DR: The pop girls are dropping like flies and need to step their chart games up if they want to stay relevant

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Waiting for Chart Queen @DiscoHeaven23 to read my amateur analysis for filth

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FGGrayson

And they said Gagz is over :diane:  only the kween, the only one after a flop/non event era slaying, talent always wins tbh

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pedrohemg

"What does a single gay do on a Friday night? Make Excel spreadsheets for pop songs " - Stereotype detected.

But ok.

PI - flopped without any promotion.

CTTR - flopped with Grammy performance and payola.

Green Ligths - won't flop.

 

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Decodekid

The difference ? 

PI underperformed because Gaga didn't do promo 

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PunkTheFunk
2 minutes ago, pedrohemg said:

"What does a single gay do on a Friday night? Make Excel spreadsheets for pop songs " - Stereotype detected.

But ok.

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Bayonetta
7 minutes ago, pedrohemg said:

"What does a single gay do on a Friday night? Make Excel spreadsheets for pop songs " - Stereotype detected.

 
 

that was dumb and unnecessary but I still laughed :air::poot: 

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PartySick
2 minutes ago, Decodekid said:

The difference ? 

PI underperformed because Gaga didn't do promo 

I'll never forgive her :giveup:

1 minute ago, Ronnie said:

Music is in yet another weird stagnant phase. What will be the new sound?!  :excited2:

Hopefully the polar opposite of tropical pop :madge:

I actually hate the sound :madge:

I can't tell Cheap Thrills or Shape of You apart from almost anything else on the radio atm :madge:

Spoiler

"Almost" because MR comes to save me :diane:

Also that's not to shade Sia or Ed, just that those songs all sound too similar for my taste :awkney:

 

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Shaney
26 minutes ago, Decodekid said:

The difference ? 

PI underperformed because Gaga didn't do promo 

Queen of being one of the biggest pop stars ever and releasing a highly anticipated lead single for your "comeback" album and not even promoting it. 

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FGGrayson
20 minutes ago, PunkTheFunk said:

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omg, noT a gif from thaT video :air:  :sharon:

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Chic
26 minutes ago, pedrohemg said:

"What does a single gay do on a Friday night? Make Excel spreadsheets for pop songs " - Stereotype detected.

But ok.

PI - flopped without any promotion.

CTTR - flopped with Grammy performance and payola.

Green Ligths - won't flop.

 

And what does a tranny do on a saturday night? Get the **** beaten out of her by her pimp

Take a joke

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Irrelevant

PI would've done better if gaga actually did something about it, instead of just posting rainbow banners on insta :trollga:

CTTR I think will have similar success to Applause, so its gagz revenge :trollga:

GL was just newly released, so we can't REALLY judge it now, its WAY better than Royals at least, that song was boring :trollga:

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PunkTheFunk
21 minutes ago, Ronnie said:

Music is in yet another weird stagnant phase. What will be the new sound?!  :excited2:

 

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Bette Davis
23 minutes ago, pedrohemg said:

"What does a single gay do on a Friday night? Make Excel spreadsheets for pop songs " - Stereotype detected.

But ok.

PI - flopped without any promotion.

CTTR - flopped with Grammy performance and payola.

Green Ligths - won't flop.

 

This is so dramatic I can't

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Cold as ice cream, but still as sweet.
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GagaXCupcakke

Chained to the Rhythm hasn't even flopped yet. Neither has Green Light.  

Perfect Illusion ......:sweat: ummmm yea but it's a bop. 

Anyway 

This just proves that Gaga has the strongest fan base.  When a lead single gets released they buy that ****. 

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