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Post by bibliotheque on Mar 30, 2010 9:05:49 GMT -5
SMH @ all the overdramatic reactions about how this isn't radio friendly and is destined to flop. The fact that over 200k people bought this in its first week and radio is already jumping on it heavily implies that this is going to be a huge smash, anyone who thinks otherwise is blinded by their own dislike for the song. :)
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Post by Choco on Mar 31, 2010 1:09:29 GMT -5
SMH @ all the overdramatic reactions about how this isn't radio friendly and is destined to flop. The fact that over 200k people bought this in its first week and radio is already jumping on it heavily implies that this is going to be a huge smash, anyone who thinks otherwise is blinded by their own dislike for the song. :) LOL! The thing that Bx3 tried to teach us is that we don't need to get fooled by sales, as radio plays whatever they want.
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Post by beachboi69 on Mar 31, 2010 3:11:39 GMT -5
LOL! The thing that Bx3 tried to teach us is that we don't need to get fooled by sales, as radio plays whatever they want. Very true! Very impressive to say the least... this is not even remotely close to a flop. You don`t need radio support to get a top 10 Hot 100 single anymore.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2010 12:48:41 GMT -5
SMH @ all the overdramatic reactions about how this isn't radio friendly and is destined to flop. The fact that over 200k people bought this in its first week and radio is already jumping on it heavily implies that this is going to be a huge smash, anyone who thinks otherwise is blinded by their own dislike for the song. :) smh @ the overdramatic reactions like ^that^ as if this flopped or something. So it wasn't a huge smash like some predicted, is this uncommon for a lot of other songs? No. Is this uncommon on Pulse? No. There are a lot of other songs out right now that people thought would be gigantic monstrous hits that didn't exactly turn out that way and could be but I won't get into that. This was still successful, there's no way you can look at its digital sales and call it a flop.
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Post by Love Plastic Love on Mar 31, 2010 12:52:35 GMT -5
I don't think biblio is picking on people who thought it would be huge so much as picking on the comment that if you said you didn't think it would be big people declared you "blind and delusional." Perhaps some people were able to sense the song wouldn't click.
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Post by jink on Mar 31, 2010 12:53:22 GMT -5
smh @ the overdramatic reactions like ^that^ as if this flopped or something. So it wasn't a huge smash like some predicted, is this uncommon for a lot of other songs? No. Is this uncommon on Pulse? No. There are a lot of other songs out right now that people thought would be gigantic monstrous hits that didn't exactly turn out that way and could be but I won't get into that. This was still successful, there's no way you can look at its digital sales and call it a flop. Agreed. The label saw that people wanted to spend their money on this song, and so they decided to maximise its sales potential by making it a single. No momentum lost, as is apparent by YLIMD's current performance. CHR peaks aren't the end of the world.
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Post by David on Mar 31, 2010 12:54:22 GMT -5
When was the last time an artist had 2 songs with "bullets" over -1000?
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Post by F.A.M.O.U.S. on Mar 31, 2010 13:16:49 GMT -5
SMH @ all the overdramatic reactions about how this isn't radio friendly and is destined to flop. The fact that over 200k people bought this in its first week and radio is already jumping on it heavily implies that this is going to be a huge smash, anyone who thinks otherwise is blinded by their own dislike for the song. :) so? didnt a lot of people think telephone was going to be this earth shattering single and that didnt happen. it was #1 on radio but its performance on itunes (aka the public who actually chooses what they want to hear) has been disappointing. overall telephone wasnt the mindblowing smash people thought it was gonna be
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Post by David on Mar 31, 2010 13:19:20 GMT -5
so? didnt a lot of people think telephone was going to be this earth shattering single and that didnt happen. it was #1 on radio but its performance on itunes (aka the public who actually chooses what they want to hear) has been disappointing. overall telephone wasnt the mindblowing smash people thought it was gonna be Umm.... Telephone IS a smash. What are you talking about?
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Post by F.A.M.O.U.S. on Mar 31, 2010 13:19:46 GMT -5
LOL! The thing that Bx3 tried to teach us is that we don't need to get fooled by sales, as radio plays whatever they want. oh well. telephone taught us that we dont need to be fooled by radio, as people will buy whatever they want
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Post by F.A.M.O.U.S. on Mar 31, 2010 13:21:52 GMT -5
so? didnt a lot of people think telephone was going to be this earth shattering single and that didnt happen. it was #1 on radio but its performance on itunes (aka the public who actually chooses what they want to hear) has been disappointing. overall telephone wasnt the mindblowing smash people thought it was gonna be Umm.... Telephone IS a smash. What are you talking about? lol please, i know it hit #1 on radio but everybody was creaming themselves like it was going to be some sort of earth shattering hit because it was from the 2 biggest popstars, not to mention the super hyped music video and whatnot else you would think it would be more popular with the public but it isnt. it's good that she has the radio stations support
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Post by David on Mar 31, 2010 13:23:19 GMT -5
Umm.... Telephone IS a smash. What are you talking about? lol please, i know it hit #1 on radio but everybody was creaming themselves like it was going to be some sort of earth shattering hit because it was from the 2 biggest popstars, not to mention the super hyped music video and whatnot else you would think it would be more popular with the public but it isnt. it's good that she has the radio stations support Top 10 on itunes isn't popular?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2010 13:31:39 GMT -5
smh @ the overdramatic reactions like ^that^ as if this flopped or something. So it wasn't a huge smash like some predicted, is this uncommon for a lot of other songs? No. Is this uncommon on Pulse? No. There are a lot of other songs out right now that people thought would be gigantic monstrous hits that didn't exactly turn out that way and could be but I won't get into that. This was still successful, there's no way you can look at its digital sales and call it a flop. Agreed. The label saw that people wanted to spend their money on this song, and so they decided to maximise its sales potential by making it a single. No momentum lost, as is apparent by YLIMD's current performance. CHR peaks aren't the end of the world. Exactly, and her album sales have held up consistently. And I do sort of agree with makeufamous, even though he is going a little bit extreme with his comment. As far as iTunes goes at least, "Telephone" was a bit of a letdown before and even after the music video premiered and came with all its hype. I don't think anyone can really deny that, but there's no use even talking about that anyway because that wasn't a flop and neither was this.
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Post by bibliotheque on Mar 31, 2010 13:34:43 GMT -5
Telephone is a lock for 2 x Platinum and it will probably sell 2.5 million when all is said and done, letdown ??? A lot of artists would give an arm and a leg for second single success like that. I don't think biblio is picking on people who thought it would be huge so much as picking on the comment that if you said you didn't think it would be big people declared you "blind and delusional." Perhaps some people were able to sense the song wouldn't click. Yes, I was definitely picking up on the latter half of the post rather than the first. I just found it funny that it turned out THEY were the blind ones and they just couldn't accept the fact that the song was very polarizing, dismissing the dislike we saw for the song when people actually rang/texted in to stations just to hate on it ( ) and the RTM score.
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Post by kpasa on Mar 31, 2010 13:37:17 GMT -5
Ugh this thread..
anyway, back up to number 9 on iTunes lololol
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Post by F.A.M.O.U.S. on Mar 31, 2010 13:40:50 GMT -5
lol please, i know it hit #1 on radio but everybody was creaming themselves like it was going to be some sort of earth shattering hit because it was from the 2 biggest popstars, not to mention the super hyped music video and whatnot else you would think it would be more popular with the public but it isnt. it's good that she has the radio stations support Top 10 on itunes isn't popular? of course telephone is popular, it's VERY popular that's the problem. considering all the hype and attention it had (more than any other song currently in the top 10) you would have expected it (and many did) to be owning
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Post by David on Mar 31, 2010 13:43:27 GMT -5
Top 10 on itunes isn't popular? of course telephone is popular, it's VERY popular that's the problem. considering all the hype and attention it had (more than any other song currently in the top 10) you would have expected it (and many did) to be owning Her album sales are currently OWNING. So, obviously, it made people buy her albums.
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Post by F.A.M.O.U.S. on Mar 31, 2010 13:43:28 GMT -5
Telephone is a lock for 2 x Platinum and it will probably sell 2.5 million when all is said and done, letdown ??? A lot of artists would give an arm and a leg for second single success like that. hasnt blah blah blah sold 2 million? ??? in your own words "A lot of artists would give an arm and a leg for second single success like that." i didnt say telephone did badly, i was just saying it didnt really live up to initial expectations that people had for it anyways :)
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Post by F.A.M.O.U.S. on Mar 31, 2010 13:45:39 GMT -5
Ugh this thread.. anyway, back up to number 9 on iTunes lololol haha so much for a flop...at least the public are still loving it
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Post by Love Plastic Love on Mar 31, 2010 13:45:50 GMT -5
I love how 2-3 million sellers that help an album up to selling 70K plus per week in 2010 and hold at #1 in multiple countries and in America on pop for a month are considered a disappointment. Lol.
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Post by bibliotheque on Mar 31, 2010 13:53:01 GMT -5
Telephone is a lock for 2 x Platinum and it will probably sell 2.5 million when all is said and done, letdown ??? A lot of artists would give an arm and a leg for second single success like that. hasnt blah blah blah sold 2 million? ??? no
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Post by kpasa on Mar 31, 2010 13:56:10 GMT -5
hasnt blah blah blah sold 2 million? ??? no Can't be far from it though I would think.
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Post by bibliotheque on Mar 31, 2010 13:56:44 GMT -5
Can't be far from it though I would think. It's at around 1.3 million.
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Post by kpasa on Mar 31, 2010 13:58:13 GMT -5
well, given the lack of promo (one AI performance don't cut it) and underwhelming radio support, I'd say this isn't doing too badly. Platinum is Platinum.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2010 13:59:09 GMT -5
Ugh this thread.. anyway, back up to number 9 on iTunes lololol This whole argument is a mess. Both sides should just leave it alone because it's starting to look ridiculous. The Chris Brown fan going on and on and trying to shove things down people's throat, and some of the obvious pressed-ness coming from the other side and the irony of people describing some facts about why "Telephone" is a success when some of those can be applied to "Blah Blah Blah" as well. Bottom line, it's a pointless argument. Gaga got a top 3 hit and Ke$ha got a top 10 hit. Their albums are both holding up. What's the problem?
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Post by bibliotheque on Mar 31, 2010 14:04:26 GMT -5
people who are using facts about why "Telephone" is a success when some of those facts are easily applied to "Blah Blah Blah" as well. What like? The helping the album fact which you edited out is a bit of a lose term because of course any single is going to help an album by a certain amount, no matter how low the extra sales are, but clearly Telephone helped TFM much more than BBB helped Animal.
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Post by kpasa on Mar 31, 2010 14:06:23 GMT -5
FUN FACT this thread is about a song called Blah Blah Blah, not Telephone.
shocking, but true.
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Post by bibliotheque on Mar 31, 2010 14:22:02 GMT -5
FUN FACTthis thread is about a song called Blah Blah Blah, not Telephone. shocking, but true. I know, it's a shame that the CB stan thought he was slick by bringing up Telephone here to try and make this song look better just because I have GaGa in my avi, he should have known would never work.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2010 15:00:39 GMT -5
people who are using facts about why "Telephone" is a success when some of those facts are easily applied to "Blah Blah Blah" as well. What like? The helping the album fact which you edited out is a bit of a lose term because of course any single is going to help an album by a certain amount, no matter how low the extra sales are, but clearly Telephone helped TFM much more than BBB helped Animal. Not every single helps albums. There have been lots of albums that plummeted once the first single was done with and the 2nd single didn't do much to help, even IF it was a hit. Anyways, it's clear you seem to have some sort of point to prove when it comes to Ke$ha since you seem just as dead set on fueling an argument like makeufamous. I don't get it...is Gaga the general standard of success or something? ??? All I said was that they both got their top 3/top 10 hit and T/BBB both helped their albums...so what really was the point of saying Telephone had the bigger effect? Was that supposed to take away from the fact that BBB had an effect on Animal?
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Post by Choco on Mar 31, 2010 19:26:55 GMT -5
Why is people feeling like they should do GaGa vs Ke$ha all the time? They're not even that similar to begin with... and they're both successful atm.
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