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Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” rises to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The ballad becomes Gaga’s sixth Hot 100 leader and Mars’ ninth. “Die With a Smile,” on Streamline/Interscope/Atlantic/ICLG, totaled 59.7 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 11% week-over-week), 27.1 million official streams (up 11%) and 6,000 sold (up 41%) in the United States Dec. 27-Jan. 2. The song soars from No. 17 on the Hot 100, after initially peaking at No. 2 for four weeks in November. All titles in the top 10 return to the region, a week after holiday songs decorated the top 10, and top 16 spots, for the first time. The chart’s latest data tracking week reflects Dec. 27, 2024, through Jan. 2, 2025, as consumption for Yuletide tracks annually plunges after Christmas. “Die With a Smile” debuted at No. 3 on the Hot 100 in late August. As it leads in its 20th week on the chart, it wraps the lengthiest trip to the top since Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control” took 32 weeks to hit No. 1 last March. Highlighting her hitmaking longevity, Gaga joins select company in having earned multiple Hot 100 No. 1s in three distinct decades, as she adds her second leader of 2020s, following two each in the ‘10s and ‘00s. Previously, only Janet Jackson (‘00s, 1990s, ‘80s) and Michael Jackson (‘90s, ‘80s, ’70s) achieved the feat. Lady Gaga becomes only the third artist – joining Janet and Michael Jackson – to have notched multiple No. 1s in three distinct decades. Here’s a look at the three acts and their totals by decade: - Lady Gaga: two Hot 100 No. 1s in the 2020s, two in the ‘10s, two in the ‘00s - Janet Jackson: two in the ‘00s, six in the 1990s, two in the ‘80s - Michael Jackson two in the ‘90s, nine in the ‘80s, two in the ‘70s Plus, ROSÉ and Mars’ “APT.” soars 34-5 on the Hot 100, surpassing its prior No. 8 peak, set upon its November debut. The song became BLACKPINK member ROSÉ’s first top 10 as a soloist, as she made history as the first female artist prominent in K-pop (Korean pop) to hit the top 10. She now, therefore, becomes the first such artist to reach the top five.

I wish I could meet a dom that was as good as forced edging as Gaga at this point

Disease re-enters at #80!

Spotify Global - Most days above 10M filtered streams #1. Die With A Smile - 79 days* #2. Flowers - 29 days

Goddamn, can she just not share something she’s proud of without little sh*theads complaining about it every. single. time? Until she says differently, the album is not delayed and it’s still coming in February. She’ll announce it when she wants to, there’s no point in complaining when we know it’s coming soon. Like, y’all got work? School? Family? Friends? Any hobbies? The album is coming soon, I know y’all hate the word, but just be more *patient.* We’ve waited this long for more material, we can wait another month.

should we start tracking DWAS with blinding lights, most streamed song on Spotify? Die With A Smile 1,468,910,316 (+10.163.585) Blinding Lights 4,646,496,173 (+1,554,446) Gap — 3.17B

Monthly listeners 115,704,511 (+328,943) *new peak*

Spotify Global #1 DWAS: 10,163,585

Do y'all still blame covid for the lack of promo for Chromatica?

An announcement has to come today otherwise I don't understand this. Even Bobby posted about the #1, so of course she knows

Probably alone I hate when people talk and chat and I’m just trying to focus on the music and really absorb the meaning

https://www.instagram.com/p/DEiUosFxDnz/?igsh=dGZ6YjB0ZWxjdHh4

Guys I've been holding this in for a few days now, but reading this site really hurts. Some comments make me ashamed of being a fan and I think you should stop projecting your own frustration on here. A large pat of your comments are plain insanity. Really, log off for a couple days and recharge.

So I was doing my daily strands today and what do I see FIRST THING??! (ignore that I clearly have found another word based on hint, I tried Lady before taking the screenshot): I was immediately filled with rage at the blatant homophobia of NYT for having a theme of “Front Women” and then spelling “Lady Gaga” through the middle of the screen when it wasn’t a valid word. This was slightly calmed when I then guessed Gaga separately: Anyways our girl got a shout out and I finished the puzzle with no hints Strands #310 “Front women” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Despite the positive outcome for Ms Gaga and myself, I still believe the positioning of Lady and Gaga next to each other was not only intentional but constitutes a hate crime. I WILL, therefore, be contacting the relevant authorities. Feel free to share your experience with today’s Strands as they will be useful as I proceed with a class action lawsuit for emotional damages.

I don’t understand why Gaga fans hold her to impossible + contradictory standards. “Million Reasons” success gets undermined because it had exposure, yet 1. few songs have or could see a similar rebound, 2. It didn’t plummet after; it remained Top 20+40 and ultimately completed 20 weeks on BB100 more 2+ months after SB, 3. When a song like “Stupid Love” or “Disease” struggles and some point out a lack of promo, it gets called obsolete / ineffective. So which is it? There’s context behind literally every hit; few artists just throw a song on platforms and it goes #1. “SB,” “ASIB,” “Wednesday,” etc. are rubbish arguments, and fans who always use them don’t look objective, they look silly (in the nicest way possible). Thousands of songs became hits “because…” without being questioned and dozens more have gotten nowhere near the levels of MR, BM, ARUTW, INLA, etc. despite being included in a film, performed on a big stage, or attached to a viral video. Also, the reason she has so few “solo hits!!” since 2013 is because she literally hasn’t released many. She’s released *7* singles from studio albums since: Applause (#4), DWUW (#13), GUY (#76), Perfect Illusion (#15), Million Reasons (#4), Stupid Love (#5), Rain On Me (#1)… I suppose you could include Bloody Mary (#41), DWAS (#1), Disease (#27). 80% were Top 40, 70% were Top 20, and 50% were Top 5. That’s incredible! 7 were solo, of which 3 went Top 10, 4 went Top 20, and 5 went Top 40. Do a similar analysis for Taylor, Ariana, Beyoncé, etc. please: they’ve not only released MANY more singles, they also have a much lower % of hits.

Girl imagine having your role on this site being to stop arguments happening and moderate but instead you start arguments with members just because you don’t get your own way with Gaga’s career… ANYWAYS… Congrats to our icon who’s still culturally and commercially relevant almost 20 years into her career, not many people have that to their credit. Congrats to LG7’s lead single finally going number 1 and having a chart run equal to (and about to pass) Just Dance. Longevity divas. LG7 debuting with 500k incoming.

Only a FEATURE on it? What are you talking about, Gaga is a lead on DWAS & she literally took part in making it. You are being beyond harsh and unreasonable, everybody else gets to add their smash collab where they are ACTUAL features on yet Gaga doesn’t with her OWN song? Mind you, ALL of Gaga’s 3 hit collabs have her as lead and NEVER as a basic feature. It’s a smart business move and at this point in her career she needs business too not just the arts. Can we stop being so pretentious with her career?

Canada HOT 100 Die With A Smile : #1 Charts run : 09-10-10-08-07-04-06-04-04-06-05-04-03-03-06-04-04-05-17-01-

With Die With a Smile reaching the top on the Canadian Hot 100, Gaga scores her 7th number one in the country! Her previous chart toppers include Just Dance, Poker Face, Bad Romance, Born This Way, Shallow and Rain On Me. So its pretty similar to the US, but Bad Romance got it’s well-deserved place at the top here at least.

I could be 84 by the time it drops so probably on very loud speakers

She was so emotional discussing the fact DWAS reached a billion streams, and now she’s at the top of the chart; I bet she is over the moon. I am so incredibly happy for her and all of her hard work. What a great victory for talent! Bravo Gaga & Mars.

I remember coming home from high school and refreshing the Billboard Hot 100 all afternoon, waiting for the delayed charts to drop. Shallow was expected to finally hit #1, and for some reason, it felt like her last chance to get another number-one hit. At the time, it felt like a personal victory—like her success validated something in me. Years later, I realized that a number-one hit doesn’t define an artist’s impact, nor does it change anything about my own life. Gaga’s music got me through my teen years, and she remains a role model whose artistry and resilience I strive to embody. But if there’s anything she’s taught us, it’s that numbers don’t dictate legacy. America loves Gaga’s voice—she will always be welcomed and celebrated. I’m pumped for LG7, but instead of obsessing over stats, let’s just enjoy the music and share it with the people around us. That’s how her impact grows—not through charts, but through connection.

Spotify : DWAS 1,469,089,162 (+10,342,431) Disease 106,522,445 (+807,563)

I am not from Mexico but I was baffled, it's extremely insensitive and borderline racist, I am not joking, I can't believe this movie is even a contender. Maybe you are not from Latin America, but this movie has been receiving backlash since September, Selena Gomez ridiculous accent went viral many times.

DWAS is predicted bing #1 next week with 40 points ahead of #2 (ABS)

I listen to all new music laying down in a dark room with noise cancelling headphones. Maybe that’s weird but that’s always been my method lol

Okay this is gonna be a long response but as someone who’s almost the same age as Gaga and has been a fan since day 1 lemme just say all this, cause I’m kinda over seeing fans not understand how AGE and experience plays a big part in what she does now; Id actually say it proves when she does Pop music (DWAS is still pop after all) she doesn’t need to do anything at all anymore from a personal standpoint because her fans will still like it, and if it resonates with the public, it just will have a life of it’s own. Her not promoting doesn’t mean she doesn’t care about her LGBTQ+ fanbase either, she literally just recently acknowledged she never responded to rumours about her genitals because she never wanted her trans fans to feel like it mattered, she’s also making an entire album with genre influence that we have begged for YEARS for. For her fans. As for Chromatica’s management, if anything that’s probably the best management Bobby’s given her since C2C, in terms of image, she could’ve carried on promoting her music in a pandemic and had been dogpiled like a LOT of famous people were but instead she went into philanthropy work to help people suffering in the pandemic. ADg- Let’s not act like she wasn’t promoting nightclubs, alcohol, mobile games and more back in the day. She has been the face of everything from high fashion brands, to helping Asian countries promote their nightlife in 2009, or a Poker Face mobile game or the face of the world’s most expensive Champaign brand. Her promoting a drug that is for people with Chronic Pain imo made sense since she is probably the biggest profiled celebrity suffering from it besides Selena Gomez. Maybe it makes less sense to US fans because the US medical system runs more like a business than a health service like it does here in the UK.Also, much like her private gigs, most of the money from these gigs goes back into her work with the BTWF. And I don’t blame her loving jazz more, it’s something that she’s not judged for commercially in the same way she is for her pop music. Hence why she clearly went off of making Pop the way she used to from 2016-2023 very heavily. Only coming back to loving it once she realised how fun it is when she can keep her life and art separately. As an added bonus; she’s nearly 40- runs a makeup company, runs a charity, makes music, makes movies, is involved more in the business BTS than a lot of us know (we know she’s been involved in politics more behind the scenes over the last 7 years for example). She also needs time to herself. She quite clearly works 5 day weeks like a normal person but just we don’t see it 24/7. She’s not a hungry 22 year old anymore doll. She’s a middle aged famous woman who’s trying to have a life balance after spending almost 2 decades of putting her career first. Like god help us when she actually disappears for a decade to have a kid, get married and live her life. She owes us literally NOTHING, money means nothing, she’s not a naive kid who will lose sleep for their career anymore. Let’s leave that to people like Sabrina Carpenter or Taylor Swift.

can we get AI to produce monthly summaries of this thread? I want something to read with popcorn

https://x.com/dollopgaga/status/1876502493871604049?t=mEOkidRzUYciuO9DUvnEzQ&s=19

Yeah nobody here (Mexico) is supporting this movie. And I agree with that.

Spotify US #1 DWAS: 1,781,090

Damn, she’s not even a fart at this point.

how depressing it is to open up a thread and it's the same usual suspects complaining and moaning and spreading lies about an album delay when actual fans are trying to celebrate another number 1 this site used to be fun, some of you desperately need therapy

She looks and sounds angelic and sweet. I'm glad she also said publicly that DWAS is on LG7, haters can have several sits and seethe

Hitting 22 million today! Give it a stream (or 5)

she is visibly forced to do this, little chartsters are the worst

DWAS breaks its tie with Senorita and is now the only 3rd longest running song at #1 on Global Spotify

Billboard Global 200 #2 (+8) Die With A Smile

So that makes Gaga the first among artists who debuted in the 21st century to score multiple #1 Billboard Hot 100 hits in 3 separate decades. That's pop royalty/legendary behavior. oh Godga have mercy. #Winning

We get that. Gaga was a huge source of comfort and healing when we discovered her. Most of us were very young, going through bad stages in our lives, feeling excluded and not good enough and Gaga helped us feel seen, appreciated and reassured that we weren't freaks, that we were goddamn superstars and we were born that way. It's just that, over time, we've grown up, healed, moved on, and Gaga has to. She's settled and happy now, is thinking about becoming a wife and mother. She's not looking to get out her pain in her music, she got her true rebellious ways out her system long ago and no longer needs to guide her fans anymore as we've found our way too. Gaga will always be my fave and hold a special place in my heart but I don't need her to be that guiding force, that mother figure. Gaga realises it's like that for a lot of us, so she moved her music on too. It would be artistically inauthentic for her to act like she's still in that same troubled space she once was. The beautiful thing about music is, there's an artist for every occasion. One artist doesn't need to fulfil all your requirements. However you're feeling, there's an artist for that moment. Some of the best songs for dealing with pain are from artists I don't stan or am familiar with other than this one song. Gaga doesn't need to be everything you need all the time. Now that she's hit that sweet spot of working out what the public want and when, she will naturally use that intuition to make hits so she can extend her legacy and can continue to make music that will be acknowledged and beloved for the rest of time. And she can't do that by constantly chasing alternative, experimental sounds. She's always been an artist who wants to take the alternative, experimental scene and make it mainstream. You can't do that by always taking risks. If she wants to continue to be a successful artist and give us everything we want (frequent albums, big budget music videos, world tours at major venues, heavy promo, etc) she needs to make commercial choices when it matters. Every hit she has helps towards her achieving this aim, so we should be happy every time it happens. It's a good thing that Gaga has changed as an artist. Every healthy person evolves. Artists whose careers die are the ones who refuse to change. I loved The Fame back in the day but nearly 16 years later, I am so over that sound and if she had never let up with that style, she would have been totally done over a decade ago because the world moved on from electropop too. Gaga had to leave the outrageous, avant garde stuff behind because the public got bored with it and was demanding singers be more down to earth, normal, with no theatrical distractions. So she took off the crazy costumes, pulled back on the anthemic pop and gave us acoustic realness in plain clothes and no make up. And the world realised how talented and versatile she was, she got respect and more hits in return. Maybe she'll switch it up one day when the public want a spectacle again but for now, she adhering to their boundaries to maintain a solid career. Even Madonna could only get so wild before she had to pull it back. Once she posed naked, the world had had it with her, they thought she'd gone too far and was done. So she toned it down and ended up with one of the most successful and acclaimed albums of her career. Christina Aguilera did it after her. So did Miley Cyrus. You can only push artistic expression too far before the world's jaws stop dropping open and they get immune to being shocked. We haven't heard the album yet. Perhaps it'll make it all right again. But until then, Gaga's still the same person, she just wants to keep her career successful and alive, like everyone else. Be grateful for every success that she gets because nothing is forever. Always remember we picked the right artist to stan.

Thought we would've got the confirmation before now, was getting worried not to have heard it but now I can rest. Finally, we came through, this time without the debut week of all those additional versions to boot. Granted, it wasn't my favourite single of hers but it's still a solid song and after its continued success, deserves the top spot. So glad she now matches the same amount of #1's in the US as she does in my country, the UK, at last (different ones, but heyho). When tastes align with the US, it's a good sign of relevancy for a long time to come. Who would've thought, when this was released and was remaining steady but not doing anything crazy for weeks on end and then coming so close a few weeks back only to be pipped to the post again, would we be here, 5 months later, celebrating its #1 status? What a start to 2025. This just shows you that slow and steady wins the race and longevity matters more than chart data. But let's not kid ourselves, a 6th #1 looks fantastically credible on an artist's list of achievements and helps massively towards their legend status. The fact they've been spaced out since 2011 is also a good sign of continued relevancy. How many female popstars can get #1 songs just under 16 years into their career? Any more and we're looking at undisputable legend at this point. I don't think its completely sunk in yet. This is massive. This just shows adding it to LG7 was 100% the right choice and course-corrected an otherwise extremely shaky start. The album already has a #1 hit on it and we don't even know its tracklist, artwork or title yet so this will hopefully be a sign of a much longer era to come. Here's to 2025, monsters, it's going to be a wild one!

I’m a fan of all three and you trying to diminish Gaga’s achievement is so pathetic, honestly. Die With A Smile is a Lady Gaga AND Bruno Mars song. If you don’t want to consider it as such in your own mind, then that’s a YOU problem. Sure, the number of #1 hits overall might be less than MJ and Janet, but the fact that Gaga has been able to have multiple #1’s, collaborations or not, in multiple decades speaks to the versatility of her talents over many years. It’s so sad that you are trying to tear her down when she’s literally just creating and doing an amazing job at it. You are free to remain as pressed and “salty” as you want, but spewing hatred on Gaga and diminishing her accomplishments just for the sake of your own satisfaction is more a reflection of you than her. If you are that upset with Gaga and her management, maybe just support a different artist instead of word vomiting negativity.

in my dre headphones with the left side on

Next goals: - Longest #1 in Spotify Top Song Global history - UK #1 - GrammyS

naked

At last our long national nightmare is over

Spotify monthly listeners: 1 Bruno Mars 145,036,832 (+345,890) 2 Ariana Grande 117,268,185 (-653,872) 3 The Weeknd 116,823,540 (+63,377) 4 Lady Gaga 115,704,511 (+328,943) *new peak in listeners* 5 Billie Eilish 105,339,912 (-47,988) This week Gaga will definitely surpass Ariana on the actual chart and to be #3, but she could even surpass The Weeknd and to be #2. Taylor's all-time peak is 116,229,071 listeners, so there is a good chance Gaga will surpass that and repeak as #4 on all-time chart.

great, now announce LG7