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I recall many Gaga stans bashing the “‘meme PGs” Billie and Ariana all last year when the both of them had second weeks that were over twice as what Chromatica is predicted to do in its second week. Suddenly a second week of not even 60k behind an album in its FIFTEENTH week is something good? Interesting. OT: Not surprising.

You said all of this just to practically invalidate my experience, you’re a POC but I’m black. Don’t think you’ll ever understand that struggle so this is where the conversation will come to an end and I still don’t think you as a nonblack individual have the right nor the range to speak on how a black woman or any black person in general chooses to contribute because you’re not black. That’s it, that’s all.

If you’re white or nonblack in general I, as a black gay man living in America don’t really value much of your opinion on how a black woman chooses to contribute during this movement, that’s just how I feel.

Are you really trying to critique how a black woman chose to honor this whole movement while comparing her to a white woman? Really?

They didn’t, I literally linked someone the the old chart from the day following Billie’s album released and it was the chart.

This is where the confusion comes in for me because the rest of the albums listed only used the chart rather than the actual counter.

I just feel like some of the hive sounds very bitter especially because the mass buying only began because of the Nicki stans being taunted by some of the hive speaking on how Megan will get her first #1 before Nicki and how Bey will get another one before her despite both of them being....featured artists. There’s no need to really play oblivious and claim fraudulence because fans stepped up to the plate and changed the possible outcome within 48 hours. Just take it for what it is because there were hive mass buying as well and if this was the case where they were able to change the outcome I don’t believe there would be this big of a discourse about it. More of you would just talk about how it speaks on her fan power and talk about how her fans can spend money as it’s been done before.

This.

The number will end up being higher but yes we love it when talent wins, his best album in years. I haven’t been able to stop listening, it’s up there with his earlier work for me.

Bad Guy in its rightful place, ahh that’s talent.

I would hope her peak would be bigger seeing as she debuted in the digital era, what a shame that would’ve been if it wasn’t.

Everything I Wanted was a random standalone single much like The Cure if you needed perspective but the difference is only one even made the top ten and I’m referring to studio albums not soundtracks for movies that have been remade thrice over the span of 83 years lol. As I’ve said previously I hope Gaga maintains this alleged streak of success because I don’t wanna see Gaga stans on here complaining when she’s dragged for not doing so. You’re comparing everything to Gaga’s numbers but Billie’s album numbers which would clearly be the true indicator but again we shall see how this era plays out for Stefani.

She has an album with 5 billion streams and over 10 billion streams on Spotify just from standalone songs, an EP and one album. Her alleged ability as a streaming force isn’t alleged especially when her Bond song and Gaga’s lead single weren’t even 400k apart in streams and the latter was just released barely a week ago. Not to mention her album has sold more than Gaga’s last two and acclaim isn’t an issue for Billie either if we want to go there as she had one of the most acclaimed albums for 2019 and possibly even made more decade end album lists than Gaga lol. Now let’s hope Gaga can match Billie’s first week album sales even with her bundles and get a hit half as big as Bad Guy throughout this era.

I expect it the way LM were talking so let’s hope this is the case throughout the entire era. That’s cool and all but I expect it to remain just as consistent as both Billie and Ari seeing as the LM had the most to say about them being “meme pop girls” and things of that nature. The avant garde, larger than life figure that is Gaga according to LM should do well beyond them and we’ll be perched to see it.

It’s really not that uncommon lol especially for an artist who was proclaimed to be so successful and repeaked while Billie, Rihanna, Ariana, and Bey are all pale in comparison. This should be the case throughout the remainder of this lovely era as well according to LM.