This week was all about the charts — specifically, all the things a pop star’s got to do to stay on top of them. Katy Perry cut a remix of “The One That Got Away” in pursuit of that elusive sixth #1. Little Monsters organized to give an iTunes boost to Lady Gaga’s underperformer, “Marry The Night”. And Rihanna’s “We Found Love” moved into position to overtake Adele’s “Rolling In The Deep” for longest-running single in the top spot. Plus, Kelly Clarkson made fans’ dreams come true, and our picks for the Best Songs of 2011. See what feelings stirred in our readers below.
:: Emerence was less than enthused that Rihanna’s “We Found Love” Tied Adele’s Single For Longest Run At #1 In 2011, explaining: “Seriously!? I don’t have anything against Rihanna, but that just doesn’t sound right to me. Adele put a lot of hard work and herself into her songs. Rihanna just chose a couple songs and recorded them quickly — which I think reflects the quality of Talk That Talk.”
:: Fan4me couldn’t have been more enthused that Kelly Clarkson and Demi Lovato sidled up for a “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” duet. In fact, it was a dream come true: “I was freaking out on Twitter last night! The KC fanbase has been trying to get this to happen for at least 2 years now. A giant weight has been lifted off our shoulders. A non-fan cannot even imagine how amazing this feels to finally have a real Kelly+Demi duet.”
:: Eric Toribio Lora, responding to our inclusion of Lady Gaga’s “Heavy Metal Lover” in our roundup of Best Songs Of 2011: The Top 10 Pop Non-Singles Of The Year, noted: “The real question is why was “Judas” even a single? With a handful of great songs on that album she had to choose that one. “Heavy Metal Lover” would’ve worked a lot more and I’m still waiting for it and “Scheiße” to be singles. Those two tracks are to [Born This Way] what “Dance In The Dark” and “Monster” were to [The Fame Monster].”
:: Saura has no qualms with Lady Gaga’s fans creating a Facebook campaign to move “Marry The Night” up the charts: “The thing I like in a way is that unlike other artists, GaGa doesn’t even know about this. Meaning, she is not endorsing it or didn’t create this event, her fans did so by themselves because they know how important it is to her. Her fan base is extremely strong, like she just has to sit back and her fans do the marketing and promotion for her. That’s when you know you’ve won when your fans handle it all for you lol.”
:: TallStack felt “Marry The Night”‘s (so far) disappointing sales are due in part to poor planning: “If she had released this as her first single off of Born This Way, as she had originally planned, it would have hit #1 without any trouble. But the airwaves are over-saturated with her songs, and as the fifth single in 10 months, it’s going to struggle. At one point she said she could release 9 singles from this album, so we’ll see how the rest survive. But this is probably her best song to-date, and it’s sad to see that poor planning is resulting in poor performance in the charts. And the 13 minute music video isn’t helping.”
:: Edward doesn’t agree that there’s too much Mother Monster out there right now: “I can’t believe that people are saying that she needs to “take a break” — she was practically on break for half of 2010. And I see nothing wrong with her fans buying the song en masse; at least Lady Gaga isn’t using cheap gimmicks like discounts and remixes to get the song into the top ten.” [It's worth noting that Gaga did slash prices for "Born This Way" earlier in the year.]
:: Peter wouldn’t call Katy Perry’s “The One That Got Away” remix a “cheap gimmick,” though: “I consider this as a smart business move. She isn’t forcing anyone to buy her songs. She is releasing a remix with B.o.B. Of course when people see this, they are going to buy it because it will be represented as new. It’s the fans and the public that buy her singles and make it number 1, not her. It doesn’t matter how many remixes she releases or the price of her music. There is no way this should be considered cheating.”
How dare bashing Katy or Adele and overrating Tra nny Gaga…. “cheap gimmick” was done by Tranny Gaga selling BTW album at .99 cents I diot =(
the only idiot i see is you trying to spell.
First of all, LADY GAGA did NOT slash prices for Born This Way AMAZON did so you can’t make it look like she was doing like Katy Perry does and discounting it to boost sales when she had nothing to do with it.
Gaga, Rihanna, Katy, can’t wait for them to fade out
talentless bunch right there
rihanna and katy yes
but gaga is not shes very talented: you are olbviously ignorant and just focus on what the superficial perception of gaga is
go on youtube and watch gaga’s live acoustic performances
Look at all the little retards getting angry hilarious. And I love when people say the same thing(followers that can’t be leaders and have to copy everything) say the same thing about spelling. It’s the internet as long as you can spell when it matters most like for job applications it doesn’t matter.
Lady Gaga is a conceited moron talentless moron, she’s a mediocre piano player, mediocre singer, extremely mediore songwriter though she says otherwise.(check out her 2011 FEB VOGUE INTERVIEW ONLINE). I must applaud her though for tricking everyone well. She hoped on that gay rights thing because singers know gays are the best fans. She’s all up for bullying when she hasn’t been bullied she can’t relate people who went to school with her though says she was popular not bullied at all, she lies and says she was bullied, but it’s obvious she’s lying her body language says it all. She says she’s born this way when people behind her said they had to come up with something to get gaga attention.
SHE IS A FRAUD.
FYI, Gaga is not talented in anything she does, just because SOME think so doesn’t make it true, I don’t go by what majority says. Most believe 9/11 was caused by muslim terrorists when it was caused by our government.
well lets take a fair look at what gaga is and is not ..
She’s an way over rated over exposed over hyped mass manufactured cheap generic imitation ripoff artist…*Shes an ok singer..*a mediocre dancer..
*a somewhat ok to amaturous songwriter..
*A really good piano player….*A great marketer…
*a good performer… * a good eye for fashion…
*a good mimic at times but to phony and corny…
however she is not *a great singer *dancer…*songwriter… *performer or *artist!…* Shes not original like she and her troll try to claim and Shes not that creative considering Shes had all the ies of Madonna and others to copy and paste from and also have her hire help give like her creative director whom she just fired for admiting she clone gaga off of Madonna.
So in conclusion its good to have a fair balance and clear objective prospective view of an artist not a delusinal diluted brainwashed view like gagas troll that eat from her hands and feets! Lol
Never fear, in 2012 Madonna is going to wipe the stage with all of these stupid girls…the Queen is coming back with a vengeance…
You can argue about how well Gaga performs, writes, and sings all you want. That’s a matter of personal opinion. Some people will like her more than others, while some will dislike her.
What you should keep in mind, however, is that the reason you can argue about how competent Gaga is in each of those disciplines is that she does everything! Gaga writes her own music and lyrics, performs it live and never lip syncs, designs her own fashions and shows, and writes and directs her own music videos. “Artists” like Katy Perry, Rihanna, and Britney Spears have other people write their songs, lip sync on playback at concerts, have other people dress them, and do their videos!
Of course, Gaga has a team to help her, but she’s the creative force behind everything, and the sole writer and performer. The reason you can even judge her on everything she does is, well, because she does everything. That, if nothing else, is worth the respect. People compare Gaga and Adele, instead of Adele and Britney, because Gaga and Adele are both the sole songwriters, performers, and creative directors of their acts and live shows.
In the “Poker Face” video, Gaga wears glasses that say “Pop Music Will Never Be Low Brow.” This, in short, is what I’m trying to explain. Gaga is a genuine artist who chooses to make pop music, which is, because of these fake artists, the least respected genre nowadays.
UMmm pretty sure Katy is doing the same thing now with the one that got a way a cheap poorly written song
NIce shading of Lady Gaga
This website forgets to mention that Lady Gaga sold 750k WITHOUT the 99 cents promotion, meaning she was way ahead of anything that week.
What people are mad about is that Katy Perry’s label using cheap promotional tactics instead of performing it live just so they can slap on that she passed MJ’s record.
Too bad her vocal talents would get her nowhere, so she results to getting rappers to remix her single for a boost in sales.
Whatever, TOTGA is dropping anyways. I am HOPING she reaches #2 and then drops. And I actually liked TOTGA too.
It pains me that Rihanna is even being mentioned here. Honestly, I’m outraged. The women is a piece of commercial mish mash. Honestly, she and her music is more plastic than the CD cases it comes in… You say that the airwaves are saturated with Gaga, what aboit this women? Two albums in one year..it’s abit much, and seriously, the music lacks any creative input or imagination. She’s like a factory now, churning out hot mess pop reject rubbish for the masses, too fast for any sane music lover’s liking. To her its that money, sales and mass apeal. What happened to caring for the quality of the music??? Gaga does a superb job of that, as does Katy…they both deserve the success they have achieved this year, but unfortunately Gaga does not get enough… Born This Way was, argue as you may, a pop masterpiece. Gaga herself mentioned that it was so good it may “annoy people” and it seem she’s being proved right. Ita work of art, in its own right, just as she is, and it takes a certain appreciation to enjoy it. Katy proved phenomenal, 5 No.1 singles of any album is something worth celebrating…But maybe she’s pushing it with this gimmick…my point is, Rihanna is not an artist at all, just a cheap puppet of an industry thats lost all sense of “artistry” it ever had…
I can’t stand Katy Perry. She is a fraud. She has no talent, can’t write her own songs and can’t sing live. Yet she’s about to break the late great Michael Jackson’s record on the Hot 100 Billboard chart with that lame song ‘The one that got away’. By selling all her songs for 69 cents and releasing multiple remixes at the same time she can have 50 #1 songs in one month. Her fans are cheap and dumb just like her if they think she is talented.
thou dost protest too much! people spend more time online trying to make an argument that LGG is talentless etc but in fact she writes her own music and is an accomplished pianist. but more so, she has played the media perfectly into her hands while making fun of the whole ‘fame’ process at the same time. she will evolve as she needs to in order to satisfy her fans’ whims via social media. since she has become iconic as a performer other performers (katy perry, beyoncee etc) have tried to copy her outrageous and mercurial persona but have failed. and she is very, very smart…
I Think that accusing Lady Gaga of selling her album for 99c in Amazon is a cheap trick to devaluate her power and appeal in the music industry today. First of all, she sold around 750 copies with the regular priced album. That is way more sales than any artist releasing albums that week, month, and even year. Secondly, she was not the one that decided to sell the album for that price, but it was rather that the Amazon website used her popularity to promote their own product. And Lastly, many of the fans that bought it for 99cents, simply chose to buy that album at a cheaper price and they would have still bought the album even without the price reduction.
Just to point out a factual error in this article, Lady Gaga herself did not slash the price for Born This Way, Amazon.com did it to promote their new cloud service, so you may want to look at correcting that.
Music is not a competition. Music is freedom. Who cares if songs aren’t selling as much as people would anticipate them to? As long has one person feels free listening to a song, then the song is a hit. Lady Gaga doesn’t care if her songs/ albums sell. She only care if her fans are happy. If they are happy then she feels that she is doing her job. Her music actually has meaning to it. She makes songs/videos that give you a new perspective on things. Katy Perry just makes songs that she knows will sell. Gaga truly loves her job and doesn’t care about the money. She doesn’t rely on gimmicks to sustain her popularity.
Gaga is talented. She has more talent in one ass cheek than you do in your entire body.
U Lazy Caca stans are sick, go get help! the rest of the world is bored with your shemale idol, R.I.P.
Obviously by you’re idiotic form of writing and your belief that 9/11 wasn’t actually caused by terrorists. Also you can’t “trick” people into thinking you’re talented. Because you can’t fake being able to play piano or singing live. Lady Gaga got into NYU at 17 for her talent. She is not a mediocre singer or piano player. You are so sadly mistaken with basically everything you’ve said so far this argument is just futile because you’re simply that stupid.
All these divas are F*cked the Queen has returned.. Bow down wannabee, Copycat, chart manipulator Ca CA…. Madonna is returning 2012 so get all your songs in now…LOL