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Her image (teal public hair, "don't be a drag, just be a queen", etc)
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She overhyped it. When you call your album THE BIGGEST ALBUM OF THE DECADE before it even comes out, you're just asking for people to be underwhelmed with the final product. I love Gaga, and I do think that BTW was, and is, a great album...but the way she talked it up she had people expecting perfection, and suddenly a "great album" wasn't going to be good enough. It was her own doing, IMO.
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too much hype
claiming it will be the album of our generation.....pfft. yeah right.
poor single choices.
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and basically the album just gets old quickly.
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The hype was part of the epic promotion that led the album to being one of the biggest selling albums of the year 
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You know this was written by a Gaga fan from GGD who has an Examiner account, right? Mike something. He DM'd me this article last month to tell me I was right 
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I was hoping to get general ATRL opinions now that the album is 100 percent dead and done.
But I guess since someone reported that it's not going to happen. 
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watch someone make one about 4 but i like it i thought it was good not better then TFM Era though
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The hype was part of the epic promotion that led the album to being one of the biggest selling albums of the year |
Dude the album sold 10M copies less than her previous album, it sold +5M copies according to Mediatraffic chart ..... Trust me she is not on a good situation right now.
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Single choices, the hype, but most importantly HER IMAGE.
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I was hoping to get general ATRL opinions now that the album is 100 percent dead and done.
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You really didn't need to wait til the album was "done" to see "what went wrong." It was happening as the era progressed.
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Dude the album sold 10M copies less than her previous album, +5M copies according to Mediatraffic chart ..... Trust me she is not on a good situation right now.
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PLEASE! GO ON!
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watch someone make one about 4 but i like it i thought it was good not better then TFM though
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Well with 4 it was pretty straightforward, the album just wasn't friendly to pop radio at all. It sold on her R&B base, and did pretty well all things considered.
Song of the Week: Can't Hold Us (feat. Ray Dalton) - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
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Well with 4 it was pretty straightforward, the album just wasn't friendly to pop radio at all. It sold on her R&B base, and did pretty well all things considered.
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Love on Top was WASTED.
WASTED.
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Where is the "All of the Above" option??
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I do think it's interesting that all the reasons (except promotion & other) are getting pretty much equal support.
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PLEASE! GO ON!
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How much do you think is going to sell her next album? 
TF / TFM = 15M
BTW = 5M
3rd album = 3M?
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When you're releasing your 4th single only 2-3 months after your album has been released, there's a problem.
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Dude the album sold 10M copies less than her previous album, it sold +5M copies according to Mediatraffic chart ..... Trust me she is not on a good situation right now.
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it barely sold 5 million
EDIT: oh i got what u meant lol my bad
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Love on Top was WASTED.
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I think Love on Top is getting some spins, though I don't know if it was sent to pop.
The only Beyonce song I heard on pop from 4 was BTINH.
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Where is the "All of the Above" option??
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Check the boxes, honey.
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When you're releasing your 4th single only 2-3 months after your album has been released, there's a problem.
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she wanted to release 8-10 singles, and Judas would have lasted longer if it hadn't flop. But I agree, You and I was still charting when she released MTN
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