'ARTPOP' set to debut at 240-260k

[Creyk 17,792]

Lady Gaga: "ARTPOP is my best album ever, I don't know if I'll ever be able to top it"

(who remembers this?)

 

[Mariann 301]

These are just some numbers for me. I know what it means to follow chart positions and sales. I have done that with my favourite artists before Gaga but I guess I just grew out of it. Now I honestly don't care. As long as the music is good and the artist herself seems to enjoy it, I am perfectly fine. There are a lot more bigger problems in the world than somebody outselling Gaga. I think she would agree with me. 

[faux 2,190]

Oh my god everyone...

We all know that Gaga has been having longitivtiy this year. And that's exactly what we need. We don't need a million copy debut, then just crash and burn... We need like 200k copies every week for the next few months.

Just like applause.

If ARTPOP does this, it will have longetivity, and a bigger chance of becoming iconic, because everyone talks about it for so long

 

thiss

[BloodyM 1,256]

I'm sorry to say that ARTPOP isn't arty enough to me. It's a brilliant pop album thats all. It's slightly more experimental then Prism and Bangerz but sitll on the same wave lenght . She needs to stop being so delusional about this art thing and if she truly wants to go artsy then Gaga should drop creating generic pop music. And saying all this I'm still a huge Lady Gaga fan and i feel sorry for her.

[kupo 201]

Oh and tell me how artistic is the telephone video continuation if it really is AURA. And keep telling me how artistic is to change single one week before release just because went #1 on iTunes everywhere. 

She surely know ONE THING. To hype us all. 

"I'm gonna conquer the world with ARTPOP." (LESS THAN ANY KATY OR MILEY)

"With the APP you can do this and that and also that" (GIF CREATOR)

"VMA's performance"

and I can keep goin'.

She want to do the artist all way long? I'M TOTALLY OK WITH THAT. TOTALLY FINE. So stop tweeting BUY APPLAUSE BUY ARTPOP BUY THIS BUY THAT!

 

This suggestion is unfair. Someone can care about their artistry and STILL care about selling records. Most artists--many who never make serious money off their art--still promote it and TRY to make money off their art. Why shouldn't they?

 

Gaga knows she can make money (and a lot of it!) off of her art, so of course she's going to promote it publicly. Wanting to sell albums IS NOT the same thing as thinking that's more important than your artistic integrity. Someone can have both, and to this point, Gaga has. So she's going to try. If it's inflating her fans' expectations too much, that's not really her problem.

[Joey1 0]

The delusion that some of you think ARTPOP will sell 200k copies every week. The only good weeks will be the rest of november, and christmas, after that.....I'm sure none of you want to even think about it

[Jay.P 2,336]

[JaggedMonster 2]

Im starting to really hate being a part of the online Little Monsters community, it seems that the majority of fans would rather Gaga have mainstream success over a more creative and artistic product. Think of David Bowie or Grace Jones, their music never sold as much as Madonna or Michael Jackson but they are still remembered for their music, and are respected a lot more than the latter artists. I tend to find that what is the most popular with the GP is the least artistic and most basic, if you look at films, the most popular films are dumb action blockbusters made for profit, whereas the most artistic arthouse releases barely make any money at all, yet are so much better. If you're here for mainstream success over music you may as well go and stan for Katy or Miley, watching all of Gaga's recent interviews it has become so clear that she cares more about her artistry than how it does on the charts.

 

Also, I dont know why you lot are worrying when her album is a good 20 places ahead of PRISM on the Amazon annual chart, she had 100k preorders and most of her sales are going to come from the physical copies considering she has tweeted about the foil cover and now the golden tickets. It seems that HDD isnt ALWAYS right in their predictions. So just relax and enjoy the music, if she does in fact sell 250-275k she will have pretty much equalled what Katy and Miley have done, who are considered much bigger stars in the mainstream population.

[Valextra 58]

Im starting to really hate being a part of the online Little Monsters community, it seems that the majority of fans would rather Gaga have mainstream success over a more creative and artistic product. Think of David Bowie or Grace Jones, their music never sold as much as Madonna or Michael Jackson but they are still remembered for their music, and are respected a lot more than the latter artists. I tend to find that what is the most popular with the GP is the least artistic and most basic, if you look at films, the most popular films are dumb action blockbusters made for profit, whereas the most artistic arthouse releases barely make any money at all, yet are so much better. If you're here for mainstream success over music you may as well go and stan for Katy or Miley, watching all of Gaga's recent interviews it has become so clear that she cares more about her artistry than how it does on the charts.

 

Also, I dont know why you lot are worrying when her album is a good 20 places ahead of PRISM on the Amazon annual chart, she had 100k preorders and most of her sales are going to come from the physical copies considering she has tweeted about the foil cover and now the golden tickets. It seems that HDD isnt ALWAYS right in their predictions. So just relax and enjoy the music, if she does in fact sell 250-275k she will have pretty much equalled what Katy and Miley have done, who are considered much bigger stars in the mainstream population.

 

[Americano 31,061]

Stop bashing popular artists. Gaga used to be the biggest star in the world, it's literally embarrassing to suggest success = bad art. Get out

[queenraven 0]

Album sales for the biggest selling popstar since you were all born:

 

1 - 12m

2 - 10m

3 - 5m

4 - 3m

5 - 1m

6 - 1m

7 - 1m

 

Her name's Britney Spears.

legend   nd shell continue to slay with album sales

bookmark me :reductive:

[Rollercoaster 2]

she has a lot of promo coming up stateside so a relatively lowish first week is no big issue.

TFM didnt have a great opening week and also failed to get any number one singles.

[Cameron Dallas 11]

I'm hearing excuses left and right. Why can't we all agree that Gaga isn't what she used to be?

[Karl 3,375]

Stop bashing popular artists. Gaga used to be the biggest star in the world, it's literally embarrassing to suggest success = bad art. Get out

 

Its true though, look at all of the popular art forms: Blockbuster Hollywood films, Pop Music, trashy television. The mainstream public enjoy basic entertainment and art because they don't have to think about it or a--lyse it, therefore making the majority of mainstream or popular media the most basic and easy to digest.

 

When Gaga was at her peak with The Fame and the Fame Monster she was making quirky pop music with quirky videos, that was still easy to digest, the first backlash came from the Alejandro video where she actually began to make artisitic statements and take her visuals to new places that need to be a--lysed to be understood. Then came Born This Way which was successful but lost her a lot of 'GP' support through the visuals and some of the music, most noticably the more experimental songs (for pop radio) like Marry the Night and Born This Way. The facts suggest that the general public just arent here for anyone who tries to make statements or create deep and meaningful art, therefore they no longer have interest in Gaga, and im fine with that.

[fede ARTPOP 6,728]