The Drought Era - Charts Discussion Thread

[Doncho]

On 6/7/2023 at 8:41 AM, FRANZGA said:

Gaga's team should take note 

her SPOTIFY PUSH really is so aggressive 

Because people love listening to Dua and she is really popular today. Gaga used to have big push on other platforms when she was at her peak too

[FRANZGA PronounsHe/Him/His]

On 6/7/2023 at 8:36 PM, Doncho said:

Because people love listening to Dua and she is really popular today. Gaga used to have big push on other platforms when she was at her peak too

Other BIG STREAMING ARTISTS doesnt have this level of PAYOLA.. remember when LEVITATING stayed on TTH for more than a year 

[Moonlight Shadow]

On 6/7/2023 at 2:43 PM, FRANZGA said:

Other BIG STREAMING ARTISTS doesnt have this level of PAYOLA.. remember when LEVITATING stayed on TTH for more than a year 

Levitating is still played on US radios.It is quite a smash hit. 

If payola was involved that much it would be nowhere to be seen on US  radios top 100 right now (currently #54 on Kworb)

Edited June 7, 2023 by monketsharona

[FRANZGA PronounsHe/Him/His]

 

[XXXlop]

On 6/7/2023 at 11:21 AM, ItsGenuineGuy09 said:

When she's not active or releasing, pride in terms of her streams just adds a song that should be in her top 10 anyway as it sold 10m copies (BTW) and takes momentum off other songs  
Mark my words though: SL will benefit fron the mini boost and finally go platinum after 3+ years in UK
ROM/Chromatica should in France as SL went platinum 3 months after its 3 year annviersary

 

BTW's (song) stats are really tragic. It shows how frontloaded it was, and how little longevity it has.

A few years ago I read somewhere that BTW (song) was a successful single ONLY becouse of the hype post-TFM Gaga was coming from. And that almost any song she would have choosen as the lead, would have been equally succesful.

So, maybe this little longevity and poor stats shows how the song is not (and hasn't ever been) great, but was only released in the right context for it to have a quick success.

Edited June 7, 2023 by Andraslop

[emig_09 Pronounshe/him]

 

[lookwhatyoumademedo]

On 6/7/2023 at 4:36 PM, emig_09 said:

 

Imagine if Gaga posted this. 

[OliverDespechao Pronounshe/him]

On 6/7/2023 at 9:25 AM, FRANZGA said:

 

America Has a Flop is #24 on TTH and doing 1.2M 

Cuff it 1.18

[Miaou]

On 6/7/2023 at 3:35 PM, Andraslop said:

BTW's (song) stats are really tragic. It shows how frontloaded it was, and how little longevity it has.

A few years ago I read somewhere that BTW (song) was a successful single ONLY becouse of the hype post-TFM Gaga was coming from. And that almost any song she would have choosen as the lead, would have been equally succesful.

So, maybe this little longevity and poor stats shows how the song is not (and hasn't ever been) great, but was only released in the right context for it to have a quick success.

BTW (the song) is a gay anthem, it can appeal mostly for the gay community who is of course not a large public

so not surprised by its poor longevity and stats 

so yeah BTW (the song) was very successful because Gaga was literally coming from the biggest era of the 2000s

every song she would’ve released during this time would’ve smashed so

Edited June 7, 2023 by Miaou

[Mario Spears PronounsHe/Him, 22 ☆🪩 Britney/Beyonce/GaGa/CBreezy/Shakira/Doja savior 🤠COWBOY CARTER🤠]

On 6/7/2023 at 3:25 PM, FRANZGA said:

 

Okay. Dragging Beyonce on here Is getting tiring fr...

[Paradise is in my hands PronounsShe/her]

On 6/7/2023 at 10:01 AM, Mario Spears said:

Okay. Dragging Beyonce on here Is getting tiring fr...

You drag artists all the time. Sit this one out, kiddo.

[BenG]

[Miaou]

oh GODUA, a Spotify and YouTube smash 

 

 

[Mario Spears PronounsHe/Him, 22 ☆🪩 Britney/Beyonce/GaGa/CBreezy/Shakira/Doja savior 🤠COWBOY CARTER🤠]

Not Renaissance surpassing Fine Line 👀

 

[Mario Spears PronounsHe/Him, 22 ☆🪩 Britney/Beyonce/GaGa/CBreezy/Shakira/Doja savior 🤠COWBOY CARTER🤠]

Oh Nicki....what have you done now?

Spoiler

 

Self-proclaimed Queen of Rap? i-🤣💀

 

[lookwhatyoumademedo]

On 6/7/2023 at 5:43 PM, OliverDespechao said:

America Has a Flop is #24 on TTH and doing 1.2M 

Cuff it 1.18

America Has a Flop genuinely made me laugh. 

[FRANZGA PronounsHe/Him/His]

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSLYpqn8b/

This Bloody Mary trend has been popping up in my FYP.. is it getting steam or somthn?

[Mario Spears PronounsHe/Him, 22 ☆🪩 Britney/Beyonce/GaGa/CBreezy/Shakira/Doja savior 🤠COWBOY CARTER🤠]

Queen Of Latin Music did that!!!

STREAM ACROSTICO!!!!! 🙌🔥👑

 

[Swallow]

On 6/7/2023 at 4:43 PM, OliverDespechao said:

America Has a Flop is #24 on TTH and doing 1.2M 

Cuff it 1.18

Its 1.6m combined, not bad tbh.

[Thatkat4]

On 6/7/2023 at 9:35 AM, Andraslop said:

BTW's (song) stats are really tragic. It shows how frontloaded it was, and how little longevity it has.

A few years ago I read somewhere that BTW (song) was a successful single ONLY becouse of the hype post-TFM Gaga was coming from. And that almost any song she would have choosen as the lead, would have been equally succesful.

So, maybe this little longevity and poor stats shows how the song is not (and hasn't ever been) great, but was only released in the right context for it to have a quick success.

BTW was front loaded. But longetivity means nothing when measuring how "great" a song is. And it's true that any song Gaga released after TFM would have been huge due to the amount of hype she had going into the era. It also might have been beneficial to her career long term if she chose something more GP friendly and less "gay". But thats one of the reasons why BTW is so great.

Lets get something straight, Gaga released Born This Way at the height of her music career. She used her imperial phase to scream to the public that its okay to be LGBT. Just 3 years prior, California, one of the gayest states in the USA, voted to ban gay marriage. People want to act like Gaga was just bandwagon onto Gay Rights for popularity, but no, it was not some amazing time to be LGBT when she released BTW in 2011. There was still alot of rampant homophobia in our culture(and there still is sadly).

Who cares about its recurrent stats(and they're really not bad, especially when compared to other 2011 hits), it was a song about loving yourself no matter what. Gaga put her neck on the line for the gay community, its great song, and a pride class. So spare us with an attempt to try and invalidate it as front loaded and not great.