8.29.11 Adam News & Info

It is interesting that Gaga is between a rock and a hard place. I doubt she could win whatever she did.

Re the 'just be Stephani Giamotti [something like that...fail :-[] ...I think she did that for several years...just like Adam did...and that was not successful.

With the exception of Adele ... and everyone hastened to call her an 'anomaly' just the other day....all the femal diva's sell their sexuality... nakedness...near soft porn....and they are criticized relentlessly for that. It seems to me that females in pop almost have to sell their beauty and sexuality to be popular so if the do not want to do that, they need to come up with another 'schtick'...which is what Gaga did. And with astounding success.

It is that, or go country [which it seems Adele is considering] or go into musical theatre...those genre's appreciate a good voice. Pop does not particularly....

If I really wanted to be a big success, I think I would prefer Gaga's route to the other naked diva's. It is true that she seems to have pushed herself into a corner though and she has to keep on upping the ante. Perhaps that is what last night was all about....changing the game altogether.

BTW, it was interesting that being pregger's gave Beyonce the license to stay dressed last night as she is usually semi-naked.

Adam sure did take the tough route didn't he! Thank goodness he has the talent and drive to do it....And, it seemed almost like a conspiracy to eviscerate any sense of accomplishment or achievement for Brittany on that award....could they have treated it more cavalierly!? Poor thing had no idea what to even do...and that was not her fault...her moment was completely hijacked by Gaga and then Beyonce. Something was really wrong there, IMO.

I thought the 824K was physical only? NVM then.

ETA: Rihannsu I checked and I'm pretty sure 824K is for physical sales.

It matters for the purpose of being able to say "the number 1 album in the country" just like it matters to say Grammy nominated Album or song. It's a selling point. Perhaps not by much but it's still a selling point.



Is traffic necessarily lower in October? Maybe but if people want to buy the album it doesn't matter what time of year it is released, as evidenced by the fact that Kelly Clarkson has released albums in March, April, June and December and they've all sold relatively the same amount, between 250K - 300K opening week.



What do you base this on? The same shows Adam appeared on for opening week promo were running in October. In fact some could argue that he might have sold more had he not appeared on AMAs the same week of his release and gotten so much backlash for that performance. It's one of those "we'll never know" type of situations. As for the price, FYE was sold at a higher price for the deluxe edition (as are all albums that offer that option) but the regular version was in fact $9.99 opening week, as is standard for the debut week of any album.



I don't know that WWFM would've had the same impact had it been released first but who knows. I'd have liked to see them actually try to work FYE, the single, to radio weeks prior to the AMAs which never happened. That song was dead before the performance ever happened and the switch to another single had been made. Some thought it was switched due to the backlash but that's not the case. WWFM was serviced to radio a week before the AMAs.



Of course you're right.



Pop does not have it's own category on the BB album charts so there is no such thing as a #1 pop album in the Billboard catalog.



That would've been nice but there wasn't enough Rock on the album to qualify it for rock. Perhaps Pop/Electronic/Dance?

Several years? She broke HUGE as Gaga when she was 23. How many years could it have been? Most people have just graduated college at that age. I know she went to NYU, Tisch School of the Arts, don't know if she graduated, but even so, she tried to break through for three or four years out of high school? *yawn* And she secured a writing contract ("Fever" was a demo for that) prior to her recording contract.

The girl's journey does NOT make my heart bleed.

Like I said, she's smart. She decided she needed a niche and she found one, but instead of using it as a tool, it's become her entire offering. That's where I think she makes her mistake.