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So she basically sold 150 million records purely (albums & singles), very impressive. Her downfall was pretty quick tho. She only had 2 major era's and then flop. The Fame/Monster era was EXPLOSIVE. 20 million on 1 single alone. Amazing.
Do you know the SPS for Just Dance in the US? How far is it from the Diamond certification? It was certified 8x platinum in 2015.
Hi MJD
Joanne sold 130,000 pure copies by January in the UK, not 105,000 copies.
Check it out: http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/lady-gagas-joanne-uk-arena-tour-support-announced__21510/
Hi Teca!
The OCC includes Streaming Equivalent Albums into its sales figures, the 105,000 number refers to pure sales only!
Thank u. I have anothet question, here you have 4,390,000 pure albums combined (Worldwide Album Sales): http://chartmasters.org/2018/03/cspc-lady-gaga-popularity-analysis-2/15/
And here you have the same at 4,341,000 combined (Other Releases): http://chartmasters.org/2018/03/cspc-lady-gaga-popularity-analysis-2/17/
49,000 albums less that the first link. Is that a mistake? If true, can you fix it? Thank you.
Hi Teca!
EPs are valued as 0,5 albums, The Cherry Tree Sessions and A Very Gaga Holiday fell in that situation, so their 100,000 units are worth 50,000 albums! The remaining 1k difference is due to rounding 🙂
PS: The Fame Monster EP is worth 1 giving its length.
Joanne did ok? Femme Fatale sold double in equivalent sales and you said that it was a flop. Britney fans made pointless accusations. In my opinion, you dont want more hatred from fans of pop divas.
So youre saying Joanne sold 709K from streams (thats about 1B streams) but Witness is more successful at streams and it only sold 962K (1.4B streams).
Your numbers must be wrong.
Hi Moore,
Comparing absolute numbers to judge the success of a record is nonsense. The whole notion of success / flop is always relative to expectations. Joanne was the follow up of a major failure, FF followed a great comeback to form, so comparing their raw figures is truly irrelevant.
Joanne's expectations were also high. It was supposed to be Lady Gaga's comeback and has it had a very big and ambitious promotion campaign, in addition to many discounts. However, it has only sold 55 percent of what Art Pop sold, which was a flop. On the other hand, Femme Fatale sold 60 percent of what Circus sold, a successful album. Therefore, Femme Fatale's sales are more impressive than Joanne's.
I don't get why Telephone is higher than Just Dance on the singles CSPC list when Just Dance outsold it by a large margin...? and the streams ain't that different for both songs ?
Hi Nicolas,
Its higher EAS from streams provide it a bigger share of sales from the original album. It puts Telephone ahead in all formats except downloads.
Hi Moore,
Expectations aren't defined by wishes of fans but by investments of majors. Labels always invest their money as per the sales history of an artist: when he comes back from a failure, they will plan limited budgets for their promotional efforts and they will have consistent expectations as per the investments. FF did OK just like Joanne.
It doesn't seem right to credit sales from the first year of The Fame era to singles from the Fame Monster. All album sales in the first 13 months of The Fame era would have been driven by Just Dance and Poker Face and The Fame-only singles. So don't you think if you are going to allocate CSPC numbers to singles based on streams, it should be sales generated after that song was released? Meaning if The Fame sold 5 million (or however much, I'm just guessing) in it's first year of release, those 5 million album sales should only be divided between the singles from the Fame, based on streaming popularity. Then the sales that started after the release of the Fame Monster should be dived by all songs on both editions. Doesn't that make more sense?
This would be the case with all albums that had re-releases. Just a thought.
