Smile debuts at #5

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But... how?

[Mirrion Rizzons 11,879]

Not bad for an indie artist 

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4 hours ago, Akiki said:

Beyoncé and Rihanna aren't 10's girls. Beyoncé is early 00's and Rihanna is mid 00's. 

Kesha, Katy, Gaga, Goulding and a few others are the stars of early 10's.

 

 

Rihanna had 8 number ones from 2010-2013, she counts as a star of the early 10’s 

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I really really really hope she finds a way to crawl back to being respected again like Gaga did

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4 hours ago, Akiki said:

Beyoncé and Rihanna aren't 10's girls. Beyoncé is early 00's and Rihanna is mid 00's. 

Kesha, Katy, Gaga, Goulding and a few others are the stars of early 10's.

 

 

 We really naming everyone stars I see

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4 hours ago, SHayne said:

Nope, that's not true. Back in the days, Gaga is stronger in album sales while Katy is stronger in single sales. Gaga kept her strength in album sales later in her career with ARTPOP and Joanne both secured more than 200.000 unit sales in their first week. Even C2C has a more than 150.000 sales in its first week. Katy only made her 200,000 in the first week at her peak, Prism (and not even teenage dreams). Katy's failure in her recent singles perfectly predicted that her album sales would be doomed. Gaga does not show a drastic album drop even at her lowest, like ARTPOP or Joanne (way before ASIB), but Katy showed an unbelievable single failure from multiple no.1 from an album to only top 40. You can clearly see the difference.

I wonder what is the difference that makes Gaga stronger in albums than Katy..

[Deagan 608]

Omg I can't at some people here.

I find Smile much much better than Witness. Kesha's High Road is also a really great album. All this "no growth" bullshit is nonsense. It's not like Gaga just put out an album which shows artistic growth either.. in fact, quite the opposite. Honestly, we, Gaga fans, only have Ariana to thank for Chromatica's "sales".

The problem with Smile: it doesn't have a hit single. (Bad single choices, bad rollout)

And we shouldn't be so bad towards Katy. Look at the quality. Champagne Problems and Tucked sound totally like what is happening in pop music right now: funky disco vibes, future nostalgia. Tucked is a total teenage dream smash too. Not the End of the World sounds like a total Iggy Black Widow Dark Horse throwback. Only Love is so cute. 

 

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7 hours ago, frederiickx said:

How is Capital to blame? The album has had TONS of promo, music videos and the album is in stores and out. No one is buying it and this time it has nothing to do with Capital. Her fans have moved on.

People said it's weird Smile is the first time Katy didn't thank her label, so something fishy might be going on

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24 minutes ago, Deagan said:

Omg I can't at some people here.

I find Smile much much better than Witness. Kesha's High Road is also a really great album. All this "no growth" bullshit is nonsense. It's not like Gaga just put out an album which shows artistic growth either.. in fact, quite the opposite. Honestly, we, Gaga fans, only have Ariana to thank for Chromatica's "sales".

The problem with Smile: it doesn't have a hit single. (Bad single choices, bad rollout)

And we shouldn't be so bad towards Katy. Look at the quality. Champagne Problems and Tucked sound totally like what is happening in pop music right now: funky disco vibes, future nostalgia. Tucked is a total teenage dream smash too. Not the End of the World sounds like a total Iggy Black Widow Dark Horse throwback. Only Love is so cute. 

 

This is delusion. She’s just coke off the back of one of her most successful eras ever... and it was a movie soundtrack. She has proven time and time again she has no problem selling albums or music in general for that matter. 

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36 minutes ago, Deagan said:

Omg I can't at some people here.

I find Smile much much better than Witness. Kesha's High Road is also a really great album. All this "no growth" bullshit is nonsense. It's not like Gaga just put out an album which shows artistic growth either.. in fact, quite the opposite. Honestly, we, Gaga fans, only have Ariana to thank for Chromatica's "sales".

The problem with Smile: it doesn't have a hit single. (Bad single choices, bad rollout)

And we shouldn't be so bad towards Katy. Look at the quality. Champagne Problems and Tucked sound totally like what is happening in pop music right now: funky disco vibes, future nostalgia. Tucked is a total teenage dream smash too. Not the End of the World sounds like a total Iggy Black Widow Dark Horse throwback. Only Love is so cute. 

 

Am about to give "thanks" reaction but then I realized this sentence, lol. Big no no sorry.

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44 minutes ago, Deagan said:

Omg I can't at some people here.

I find Smile much much better than Witness. Kesha's High Road is also a really great album. All this "no growth" bullshit is nonsense. It's not like Gaga just put out an album which shows artistic growth either.. in fact, quite the opposite. Honestly, we, Gaga fans, only have Ariana to thank for Chromatica's "sales".

The problem with Smile: it doesn't have a hit single. (Bad single choices, bad rollout)

And we shouldn't be so bad towards Katy. Look at the quality. Champagne Problems and Tucked sound totally like what is happening in pop music right now: funky disco vibes, future nostalgia. Tucked is a total teenage dream smash too. Not the End of the World sounds like a total Iggy Black Widow Dark Horse throwback. Only Love is so cute. 

 

i dont agree with this. she wouldve sold well whether ariana was involved or not, and its shows in all of her past projects. i do agree with everything else though

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48 minutes ago, Deagan said:

It's not like Gaga just put out an album which shows artistic growth either.. in fact, quite the opposite.

Oh please... Did you mean Gaga releasing the most cohesive album in her discography is not an artistic growth? Wtf? 

48 minutes ago, Deagan said:

Honestly, we, Gaga fans, only have Ariana to thank for Chromatica's "sales".

If that's the case, then people should have just sticked to listening only to ROM. Why would they waste their time and money to stream/buy the rest of the album if there's no Ariana in them? Right?

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51 minutes ago, Deagan said:

Honestly, we, Gaga fans, only have Ariana to thank for Chromatica's "sales".

Yeah thanks Ariana it's all because of u 

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She thought she had her humble pie but her stans are getting the whole bakery

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1 hour ago, Adrenaliner said:

I wonder what is the difference that makes Gaga stronger in albums than Katy..

I think it’s because Gaga has always just had a much larger fan base, as well as a closer relationship with the fans than Katy ever did

gagas team also seemed to have caught on that she was best at album sales so they focused on that from born this way onwards, rather than katys team who would focus on getting her songs to #1 instead

different management strategies me thinks as well as differences in fan base size/commitment