Lady GaGa :: The "Born This Way" Era

by **Griego** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 2:41 pm

Mythos wrote:
croatiaxtina wrote:Lady Gaga

Exciting news little monsters! I've played my new record for my label and will be announcing my new Album Title in September! X
Probably on 6th September @ MTV Music Awards

I can't wait, hope its so good as BTW Album!

I'm kinda worried tbh. I don't want her to hype this up the way she did with BTW. I want a more light-hearted era where every move is carefully planned, I mean, there's no need to run!! She's one of biggest stars in the world, receives a lot of media attention and has a huge fanbase so I hope she takes it easy this time.

Website · by **Gagich** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 2:44 pm

At the time the MTV VMA 2012 ceremony is held, Gaga`ll be touring in Europe. :wink:

SEPT 5
KOLN, GERMANY
Lanxess Arena

SEPT 8
LONDON, UK
Twickenham Stadium

by **floria** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 9:07 pm

UK Chart
78 (89) 55 BORN THIS WAY

Last FM · by **arab** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 2:55 pm

New Zealand
23(re) Born This Way <P>

Not even top 20. Anyway, should back to top 10 next week IMO

Website · by **Gagich** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:28 pm

arab wrote:New Zealand
23(re) Born This Way <P>

Not even top 20. Anyway, should back to top 10 next week IMO

At least there`s an effect from the tour... :wink:

Last FM · by **arab** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:35 pm

Gagich wrote:
arab wrote:New Zealand
23(re) Born This Way <P>

Not even top 20. Anyway, should back to top 10 next week IMO
At least there`s an effect from the tour...

I know, but I was referring to floria who expected Top 3/5, I guess :wink:

by **floria** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:45 pm

arab wrote:
Gagich wrote:
arab wrote:New Zealand
23(re) Born This Way <P>

Not even top 20. Anyway, should back to top 10 next week IMO
At least there`s an effect from the tour...
I know, but I was referring to floria who expected Top 3/5, I guess

Yes, but I was not sure how big is iTunes in New Zealand.

by **Pororo** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 12:54 pm

Oricon Chart

54(48) 1,423 [Total:741,139]

by **QueenBLadyG** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 3:54 pm

Pororo wrote:Oricon Chart

54(48) 1,423 [Total:741,139]

Her Japanese sales are so impressive! 8-)

Website · by **Gagich** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:18 pm

Updated Born This Way singles sales by Billboard

3.7 million, "Born This Way"
2.6 million, "The Edge of Glory"
2 million, "You and I"

Other singles sales

6.7 million, "Poker Face"
6.6 million, "Just Dance," featuring Colby O'Donis
5.2 million, "Bad Romance"
3.3 million, "Paparazzi"
3.2 million, "Telephone," featuring Beyonce
2.5 million, "LoveGame"
2.4 million, "Alejandro"

http://www.billboard.com/#/column/chart ... ost_recent

Last FM · by **arab** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:20 pm

OF and JD has sold more than BTW and TEOG together :lol:

by **Nackar** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:29 pm

arab wrote:OF and JD has sold more than BTW and TEOG together

Ogre Face? :lol:

But yeah, the drop in single sales is telling!

Still good to see that You and I crossed the 2 million mark!

by **jpguy** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:04 pm

croatiaxtina wrote:Lady Gaga

Exciting news little monsters! I've played my new record for my label and will be announcing my new Album Title in September! X

wow, so fast!

by **Mythos** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:11 pm

Griego wrote:
Mythos wrote:
croatiaxtina wrote:Lady Gaga

Exciting news little monsters! I've played my new record for my label and will be announcing my new Album Title in September! X
Probably on 6th September @ MTV Music Awards

I can't wait, hope its so good as BTW Album!
I'm kinda worried tbh. I don't want her to hype this up the way she did with BTW. I want a more light-hearted era where every move is carefully planned, I mean, there's no need to run!! She's one of biggest stars in the world, receives a lot of media attention and has a huge fanbase so I hope she takes it easy this time.

I headn't really got impression that she hyped it like hell, who really hyped it are the fans. Yes, she said "Record of the decade" but i'm the only one who decide if it is or not. I was only happy to see her really believing in her Album.

Today almost everything is hyped like hell, thanks to the internet. Every Movie, every Single etc.,

But lets wait and see how the next Era will begun

.

@ Title Announcement
Didn't she also announced the BTW Title in Sept. 2 Years ago? Wearing that meat dress ^^?

by **jeangrey** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:52 pm

Gary anwsered my question in Ask Billboard column!

WAS LADY GAGA'S 'BORN THIS WAY' A DISAPPOINTMENT?

Hi Gary,

This past week, Lady Gaga's album "Born This Way" fell off the Billboard 200. At least Gaga is already teasing us with new album.

Do you think that the "Born This Way" era was a disappointment, compared to her "The Fame"/"The Fame" Monster" stretch?

Also, could you please give a gift to the Little Monsters and update us with the Nielsen SoundScan sales of Gaga's albums and top-selling singles?

Greetings,

Krzysztof Gorecki
Lublin, Poland

Hi Krzysztof,

After 53 weeks, "Born" departed having spent its first two weeks at No. 1 and racked sales to date of 2.2 million. Granted, its first week sales - 1.1 million - were aided by a promotion that discounted the set to 99 cents by AmazonMP3 for a day. Then again, the album still sold 446,000 physical copies that week, far ahead of the 153,000 copies that the No. 2 title, Brad Paisley's "This Is Country Music," sold overall in that frame, so "Born" would've attained No. 1 bow despite the Amazon sale-pricing.

(By the way, "Born" debuted atop the Billboard 200 dated June 11, 2011, so, happy first birthday and a day since "Born" was born on the tally.)

First, per your sales question, the totals of Gaga's two other releases: "The Fame" has sold 4.4 million and her EP "The Fame Monster," 1.5 million.

As for her biggest downloads, here are her top 10 (as she's released 10 2-million sellers):

6.7 million, "Poker Face"
6.6 million, "Just Dance," featuring Colby O'Donis
5.2 million, "Bad Romance"
3.7 million, "Born This Way"
3.3 million, "Paparazzi"
3.2 million, "Telephone," featuring Beyonce
2.6 million, "The Edge of Glory"
2.5 million, "LoveGame"
2.4 million, "Alejandro"
2 million, "You and I"

Now, the bigger question: was the "Born This Way" era a success?

I think no matter how you define "success," a year on the Billboard 200, 2.2 million copies sold and six top 40 Billboard Hot 100 hits, including the six-week No. 1 title cut and three other top 10s, is pretty good, no? "Born" was also Billboard's No. 3-selling album of the 2011 chart year after Adele's "21" and Taylor Swift's "Speak Now."

Compared to "The Fame" and "The Fame Monster," however, the album hit some hiccups at radio, as only the title track topped the Pop Songs chart - after seven of her prior eight career-opening singles had reached No. 1. Against that arrival, anything less than a No. 1 song might seem a bit disappointing. But, that's a pace that essentially can't be sustained. Even the Beatles, Michael Jackson and Madonna never led the Hot 100 with every single they released.

If anything, Gaga's grabbing of the spotlight from her 2008 entrance up until "Born" may have left her vulnerable to overexposure at radio. With stations still playing so many of her earlier hits, programmers could've considered it safer to play those familiar titles instead of, say, "Judas" or "Marry the Night." Of course, if audience research had been better for those songs, stations would've played them more. Instead, they stopped at Nos. 15 and 14, respectively, on Pop Songs.

This question actually reminds me of talk surrounding the Boston Celtics after their loss (deep breath …) in the NBA's Eastern Conference Finals this weekend to the Miami Heat. Sports radio is focusing on whether the Celtics' five-year run with stars Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen, who joined forces on the team in 2007, should be considered successful considering they won "only" one championship in that span (in 2008).

Certain commentators have said that they don't consider that stretch an all-out success because they feel that the team was likely good enough to have won more than one title. (We Celtics fans are a bit spoiled; the team won eight straight crowns in 1959-66). It's the same perspective that has surrounded baseball's Atlanta Braves after they won one World Series (in 1995) despite winning their division for 14 straight seasons. Or, Ted Williams, who won six AL batting titles - but he never won a Series. And, the Heat's LeBron James has won three MVPs - but no titles.

So, can success be considered disappointing? I'd go with that there are degrees of success; it's not black-and-white.

Overall, I'd rather celebrate triumphs than try to find fault with them. It's one thing if an artist or album - or team or player - never hits No. 1 (i.e., is the best in its sport). It's another if you reach the summit. No one else did in that particular time frame, so it seems most fruitful to laud such a hard-earned achievement.

(We could similarly consider Gaga's "Telephone" partner, Beyonce, and her latest album, "4." The set has logged no Hot 100 top 10s after her previous effort, "I Am…Sasha Fierce," yielded four. Still, it won praise for Beyonce's deeper exploration into traditional R&B, topped the Billboard 200 and generated a seven-week R&B/Hip-Hop Songs No. 1, "Love on Top").

As for Gaga herself? She likewise sees the optimistic side of any hard-fought accolades.

"It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves to put other people down or make fun of them or maybe make mockery of their work," she said in concert in New Zealand this weekend.

"That doesn't make me feel good at all. That just makes me feel like I'm not being a good human being.

"I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what."

http://www.billboard.com/#/news/ask-bil ... 8762.story

by **Timmy94** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:23 am

This Gary is really writing like a politician. Instead of writing straight whether it's a success or not, he tries to hide it behind flowery phrases and clever words, somehow even avoiding to give a real answer to the question.

It depends on you how to see this, but even if it's a long answer, it is quite disappointing!

by **VoReason** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 9:03 pm

Timmy94 wrote:This Gary is really writing like a politician. Instead of writing straight whether it's a success or not, he tries to hide it behind flowery phrases and clever words, somehow even avoiding to give a real answer to the question.

It depends on you how to see this, but even if it's a long answer, it is quite disappointing!

Writing whether it's a success or not? His entire reply is about what 'success' is defined by and where she excelled/fell.. There is no correct answer to the question the person asked, so a 'yes' or 'no' reply would've been ridiculous.

by **Nichu94** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 10:57 pm

VoReason wrote:
Timmy94 wrote:This Gary is really writing like a politician. Instead of writing straight whether it's a success or not, he tries to hide it behind flowery phrases and clever words, somehow even avoiding to give a real answer to the question.

It depends on you how to see this, but even if it's a long answer, it is quite disappointing!
Writing whether it's a success or not? His entire reply is about what 'success' is defined by and where she excelled/fell.. There is no correct answer to the question the person asked, so a 'yes' or 'no' reply would've been ridiculous.

Agreed. I really enjoyed the article! Everything but disappointing IMO

by **Rub_rb** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 5:11 am

6 Lady Gaga, Zedd Indoor Stadium
Singapore
May 28-29, 31, 2012
$4,744,331
30,952 /
30,952
3 /
3
$223.67, $83.88
Live Nation Global Touring/Live Nation Asia

10 Lady Gaga, Zedd Rajamangala National Stadium
Bangkok, Thailand
May 25, 2012
$4,299,376
41,478 /
41,478
1 /
1
$225.81, $43.55
Live Nation Global Touring/BEC Tero

11 Lady Gaga, Zedd Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall
Taipei, Taiwan
May 17-18, 2012
$4,274,243
22,173 /
22,173
2 /
2
$433.61, $60.98
Live Nation Global Touring/Kuang Hong Arts Management

39 Lady Gaga, Zedd Mall of Asia Arena
Manila, Philippines
May 21-22, 2012
$1,275,387
18,915 /
18,915
2 /
2
$367.18, $39.31
Live Nation Global Touring/Ovation Productions

Sold out shows all the way!

Asian leg finished with 100% atendance and $ 44 million.

by **croatiaxtina** » Sat Jun 16, 2012 3:59 pm

by **LotsOfLove** » Sat Jun 16, 2012 5:45 pm

Wow this looks stunning !

Sad that it's fake.

by **GUS** » Sat Jun 16, 2012 6:16 pm

The Asian leg of her tour was a smash. Congratulations!

by **jeangrey** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 6:46 am

Australia

Born This Way (album) - re-entry at #45.

by **Timmy94** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 11:10 am

jeangrey wrote:Australia

Born This Way (album) - re-entry at #45.

I hope for top 20 next week and top 10 the following week as tours usually greatly push albums there and Lady Gaga is actually a big name in Australia...

by **stteezy** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 12:05 pm

Just found out gaga is coming to South Africa........whaaat? Ticket prices a bit hefty but ey I have a feeling they wil be sold day of release on Thursday....hopefully even manage to break U2's record for fastest selling tickets.....doing the happy dance whooooop foop