Luc 4,775 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 By the way guys, it doesn't really matter that much. Music is going to be much more focused on melody rather than lyrics in the next 5 years, digital sales are going to decline fast (like REALLY fast), album sales are going to decline too, and the rise of Spotify, Pandora, iTunes Radio, etc will start. This means that sooner or later, sales will mostly be fan-driven (beneficial for Gaga) and streams will be way more global rather than focused on Anglophone markets - more like Youtube, where countries like Brazil, Italy, Mexico, Colombia, Russia and Vietnam are the more important ones while Anglophone markets don't make such a big difference anymore. Katy can have her US #1s, but she's not that big outside Anglophone markets. This is where Gaga shines. So the best thing Gaga can do now is build an even bigger fanbase, and help the decline in single sales/rise of streaming more. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foivos 64 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 By the way guys, it doesn't really matter that much. Music is going to be much more focused on melody rather than lyrics in the next 5 years, digital sales are going to decline fast (like REALLY fast), album sales are going to decline too, and the rise of Spotify, Pandora, iTunes Radio, etc will start. This means that sooner or later, sales will mostly be fan-driven (beneficial for Gaga) and streams will be way more global rather than focused on Anglophone markets - more like Youtube, where countries like Brazil, Italy, Mexico, Colombia, Russia and Vietnam are the more important ones while Anglophone markets don't make such a big difference anymore. Katy can have her US #1s, but she's not that big outside Anglophone markets. This is where Gaga shines. So the best thing Gaga can do now is build an even bigger fanbase, and help the decline in single sales/rise of streaming more. Yes.. but Gaga needs to do something to attract people either way Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViviLittleM 3 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 how many sales does DWUW need to reach Plat??? it must be quite close right ??? very close but... on iTunes... very very far Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brown Eyes 0 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 By the way guys, it doesn't really matter that much. Music is going to be much more focused on melody rather than lyrics in the next 5 years, digital sales are going to decline fast (like REALLY fast), album sales are going to decline too, and the rise of Spotify, Pandora, iTunes Radio, etc will start. This means that sooner or later, sales will mostly be fan-driven (beneficial for Gaga) and streams will be way more global rather than focused on Anglophone markets - more like Youtube, where countries like Brazil, Italy, Mexico, Colombia, Russia and Vietnam are the more important ones while Anglophone markets don't make such a big difference anymore. Katy can have her US #1s, but she's not that big outside Anglophone markets. This is where Gaga shines. So the best thing Gaga can do now is build an even bigger fanbase, and help the decline in single sales/rise of streaming more. But Gaga isn't doing good on streaming (Spotify and Youtube) either. (whereas Katy is a beast in global streaming on both Youtube and Spotify, not sure why you brought her up) http://kworb.net/spotify/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luc 4,775 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Yes.. but Gaga needs to do something to attract people either way Easy - make good and catchy melodies, make flashy and nice-themed music videos, do nice visually appealing and entertaining performances around the globe, go on tour and entertain people, do nice interviews I don't know what else there is to gain fans. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mariano 958 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I can't help but disagree. I'd love Gaga to do what she wants, and I might be totally wrong but it didn't feel like Gaga did exactly what she wanted with ARTPOP, and that her manager/Interscope got involved when choosing tracks for the album that's what I think. And the only problem with ARTPOP is the lyrics. The album isn't cohesive, because of the lyrics. Some lyrics are just weird. I'd love her to go BTW-style with lyrics again, tracks like Americano, Bloody Mary, Highway Unicorn, Heavy Metal Lover, Government Hooker SLAY me :applause: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bye 3,947 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Yes.. but Gaga needs to do something to attract people either way Let's face it, ARTPOP has failed in getting new fans, sure a few here and there but it hasn't noticeably increased the fanbase. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jjang 2,262 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Easy - make good and catchy melodies, make flashy and nice-themed music videos, do nice visually appealing and entertaining performances around the globe, go on tour and entertain people, do nice interviews I don't know what else there is to gain fans. *If it was so easy then why is she not doing it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mariano 958 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 By the way guys, it doesn't really matter that much. Music is going to be much more focused on melody rather than lyrics in the next 5 years, digital sales are going to decline fast (like REALLY fast), album sales are going to decline too, and the rise of Spotify, Pandora, iTunes Radio, etc will start. This means that sooner or later, sales will mostly be fan-driven (beneficial for Gaga) and streams will be way more global rather than focused on Anglophone markets - more like Youtube, where countries like Brazil, Italy, Mexico, Colombia, Russia and Vietnam are the more important ones while Anglophone markets don't make such a big difference anymore. Katy can have her US #1s, but she's not that big outside Anglophone markets. This is where Gaga shines. So the best thing Gaga can do now is build an even bigger fanbase, and help the decline in single sales/rise of streaming more. What I loved about Troy Carter is that he was always seeing into the future and he knows these facts. I really hope Gaga's new manager also knows that. Instead of making deals only with Itunes, with Gaga's next album they should make a deal with Spotify ... Some kinda deal idk .. Spotify is everything here in the Netherlands .. :X Almost everyone uses it ... (except for me ) But music sales are still really important, so I won't be surprised if labels keep ignoring Spotify as long as they can earn money from Itunes ... I think they will wait to get "forced" (when sales really decline to minimum) in order to start making deals with Spotify etc.. It's not that easy when you are in the business .. Spotify looks like It will be the future, but nothing is certain.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luc 4,775 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 But Gaga isn't doing good on streaming either. (whereas Katy is a beast in global streaming, not sure why you brought her up) She's a beast Spotify hasn't had its breakthrough in Latin America/Asia yet, where like 5 out of 7 billion earthlings live. Currently, the top 10 Spotify markets are: 1. the US 2. Sweden 3. the UK 4. Norway 5. Germany 6. Spain 7. Netherlands 8. Denmark 9. Finland 10. Mexico You see a big contrast. Sweden is where Spotify is the most popular, Sweden has a 9,5M population (35x less than the US), yet their #1 streamed song gets only 1,2x less streams than the US'. And Spotify already is quite big in the US. There are so many big countries in the world, which easily outnumber the US. What I'm mostly happy about is that the singles market isn't entirely focused on Canada, South Korea, Japan, Australia, the UK, Germany and the US. In the future, but that globalness is much more important (those 7 countries make up for about 10% of the world's population, while those countries make up for about 75% of Poker Face's sales). What I loved about Troy Carter is that he was always seeing into the future and he knows these facts. I really hope Gaga's new manager also knows that. Instead of making deals only with Itunes, with Gaga's next album they should make a deal with Spotify ... Some kinda deal idk .. Spotify is everything here in the Netherlands .. :X Almost everyone uses it ... (except for me ) But music sales are still really important, so I won't be surprised if labels keep ignoring Spotify as long as they can earn money from Itunes ... I think they will wait to get "forced" (when sales really decline to minimum) in order to start making deals with Spotify etc.. It's not that easy when you are in the business .. Spotify looks like It will be the future, but nothing is certain.. I know right. Like 50% of my class has a paid Spotify subscription (although they share it with their family because we're greedy like that ) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mariano 958 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Easy - make good and catchy melodies, make flashy and nice-themed music videos, do nice visually appealing and entertaining performances around the globe, go on tour and entertain people, do nice interviews I don't know what else there is to gain fans. In the beginning Gaga was so big because everyone in her team including her were AMBITIOUS as **** ... Both of her managers were calling radios daily, she was touring all over USA from small clubs to bigger platforms to perform Just Dance. LG, POker Face and other old songs that were not even in the album .. etc.. And now neither of them seems that ambitious anymore Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gypsy Life 118,907 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 By Sunday night, and thanks to the weekend effect, Applause will pass DWUW on iTunes. Real longevity. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runway 27,876 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 By Sunday night, and thanks to the weekend effect, Applause will pass DWUW on iTunes. Real longevity. i'm still not tired of Applause tbh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mariano 958 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Applause is a proof that we know **** It's already Iconic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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