Gaga is the oldest woman on US pop radio right now

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6 hours ago, Julien Mayer said:

This is very tragic, the oldest woman at 36 ? How ?

This means she will no longer be aired on radio soon because of her age like Madonna with her two last album, radios refused to play her songs because she was too old ... 

Not necessarily. The industry is all numbers based. If Gaga is selling music and concert tickets, gaining many views and likes on her videos, generating high streaming numbers and increasing viewership when she appears at awards shows, that is all the proof that the business needs to keep her up there. It's when older artists start declining on these fronts that provides the validation that they are indeed too old. Gaga getting her contract renewed and being gifted a horse by Interscope is evidence that they value her highly and will make sure she's in good rotation. There will be always be room for artists who can command a paying audience. We'll only need to get really worried if Gaga releases a lead single that's very commercial and it doesn't even crack the top 40 with promo, releases an album in a week with no competition and can't even get in the top 3, has extremely low streams, has to cancel concerts because she's not selling tickets and becomes the victim of ageism jokes. We're a long way off from that.

If there's one positive way of looking at it, there actually aren't all that many amazingly successful female popstars in their 20's right now. Apart from Dua, Olivia, Billie, Ariana and maybe Doja, who else is there? Not all those girls can even get #1's right now and yet they're the most successful 20-something pop girls we have. That means that those looking for pop will have no option but to seek out the more advanced age ones, a lot of whom are heading towards that point now.

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15 hours ago, ChicaSkas said:

Eeeeeek. I'm a month older than she is and I already have grays sneaking in

Did you know they call us Geriatric Millennials? 

Girl I already have the black hair dye ready for the day I start seeing little grey curls. Nope nope nope.

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46 minutes ago, StrawberryBlond said:

Gaga getting her contract renewed and being gifted a horse by Interscope is evidence that they value her highly

Oh my f*cking god. I am 27 years old. Thanks to this post, after speaking English for...idk, 25? 26 years? I finally realize "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" means the horse is the gift, not the horse has a gift...like, a psychic horse or something

Granted that's one of those things I've never dwelled on but jesus...

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5 hours ago, PartySick said:

Girl I already have the black hair dye ready for the day I start seeing little grey curls. Nope nope nope.

Right? Suffering. My hairdressers assistant says I'm turning into a Shiny pokemon

 

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On 5/22/2022 at 1:44 PM, TheFame Monster said:

She’s the third oldest overall charting right now on Top 40 radio. The only older people right now are Diplo and Tiesto and they aren’t the vocalist of their music. Each song has a feature. Gaga is basically the oldest person overall, not women only. 

It's a pretty agiest industry in general. Women do have it slightly worse (struggling by mid 30s while more men up to around age 40 get a few hits sometimes) but even so, it's not like older men get major chart toppers all that often either

 

I think part of it as well is that once an artist is established and has a name for themselves u don't need to promote them anymore they will still make money on tours etc so labels would rather spend resources promoting someone new vs someone that doesn't need to be promoted anymore

 

I don't think it's just the public that's ageist. The record labels themselves pull the plug on support after a certain point. Some of these artists that start to fail to chart might still have hits for a longer period of time if they had the same level of promo and support they did in early career