Lady Gaga‘s comeback campaign continues to pick up pace.
Having earned rave reviews for her Jazz foray with Tony Bennett (a journey which spurned a Grammy and a successful world tour), the superstar’s industry praise is still pouring in aplenty. This time via Billboard, who have named the singer their Woman of the Year.
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The ‘Bad Romance’ belter will formally receive the honor on December 11th at Cipriani Midtown in New York, with the ceremony itself being aired (for the first time) on Lifetime December 18th.
Janice Min, co-president of Billboard’s parent company (Guggenheim Media) gushed:
“Billboard’s Woman of the Year has always represented the finest in music, and the anointing of a key influential figure who drove the conversation for that year. No one embodies that more than Lady Gaga in 2015.
From her show-stopping performance at the Oscars, to her co-headlining tour, to her philanthropic outreach and foundation promoting youth wellbeing and empowerment, to her new role as TV star, there is no woman dominating popular culture tastes and its evolution as much as she is today. What a force.”
Liz Gateley, executive vice president and head of programming at Lifetime added:
“We’re delighted to partner with Billboard on this special event, bringing it to a mass audience for the first time ever. Lady Gaga is an extraordinary artist, emblematic of the strength, courage and fortitude that Lifetime celebrates, and we are thrilled to offer our platform to recognize her in every way she deserves {Source}
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Congrats are most certainly in order. Here at TGJ, we believe in ploughing through the smoke and mirrors of the industry and celebrating great talent when and where we see it. Gaga, through all her career highs and lows, has consistently remained just that – an impeccably great talent.
On paper too, this serves as a great press pre-cursor to the arrival of her hotly anticipated ‘ARTPOP’ follow-up.
When will Lana?
When will Braindead be able to own creative direction?
You deadney stans always have something to say this isnt the year 2000 shïtney has no relevancy
Shiteney is dead and stuck in Vegas.
I mean, I like her but there are far more deserving women in this industry who’ve been out LONGER and done far more than what she has. I swear, politics are death of every icon in the industry these days!!!
YEA like janet
Janet is amazing you’re reaching
What tf has she done? She’s peaked and now they wanna honor her.
but.. for what tho ? She’s hasn’t even done anything musically in the last year.
NOT WHEN HER NEW SINGLE DEBUTED AT #2
…………. OH, FORGOT THIS- ON THE BUBBLING UNDER HOT 100 CHART
The stans are really bothered right now Gaga still slaying your favs.
Gaga will make a huge comeback
LOL
Her comeback campaign is focusing on reminding people that she’s talented (The oscar performance, a new sophisticated look…), which is a great move but let’s be honest here this “honor” was bought by her team, it’s not a secret, they pay billboard to write positive articles about her but woman of the year, really?…Taylor is slaying every artist male or female right now, her album and tour are massive, like i don’t even like the girl but she deserve this honor more than anyone else.
THANK YOU……….. HAVE A LONG LIFE
lmao not a long life
facts
Sadly, she build a career out of her image
Her freak image overshadowed her talent.
Once people got tired of her freak ass image, she wanted to let them know thats she’s talented too ..
ITS TOO LATE.
unfortunately, it’s hard for her to comeback again, people just lost interest on her.
Congrats i guess
This Taylor troll is so annoying gosh
We all know who it really is. Can’t use their usual name because it’s the most dragged person to ever grace this site ????
@ A*** YOU SAID THE SAME THING TO @CHILLE BUT YOU ENDED UP EATING YOUR WORDS
ZZZZZZZZ???? I really don’t care… AT. ALL.
SAME…..
LOL EVEN THO IT TROLLED AS ME….. I’M NOT RIHSLAVEY
What. How. Doesn’t make sense. She has been almost MIA all throughout the year lool. Oh billboard *sigh*
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That’s like being named MVP but not playing a single game for the year.
#funfact ciara was the first women to ever receive this award!!!! #doyourresearh
Who is Ciara does she have a career now lmao
Yes the FUXK she does b****. Do you?
Y’all Gaga haters just silly actin like cheek to cheek didn’t happen. What Gaga did was raise the bar on what it means to be talented and how to rise above a culture that refuses to let artists try different things (ahem Rihannas last 3 singles). Good for her. An actual award stanning for talent over commercial success.
Gaga is a great,, unique, authentic talent. Congrats.
THIS TWO GENITALS HAVING B**** HAS BEEN FLOPPING SINCE OCT 2013 AND SHE GETS AWARD OF THE YEAR?
PAYOLA INDEED
The respect of the industry: she has it. More now than ever, with a successful and award winning Jazz album and this years performance at the oscars. But commercially she hasn´t even released anything this year, so it´s totally weird that they give her this now, coming from Billboard, which is only about charts.
But I won´t complain. As long as they give these awards to talented people I´m ok.
Now, you know they created that Millennium Award for Beybonic!
Should be going to Taylor honestly .. but hey. Shake it off
YAAAAS…. YOU SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE???
YOU SPOKE THE TRUTH’EST’ THING I’VE HEARD TODAY
THIS IS THE LAST TIME I SAY I’M NOT RIHSLAVEY…
HERE IT GOES:
“I’M NOT RIHSLAVEY”
Taylor has been the biggest commercial success no doubt and if that’s what they were going off of she would have gotten it (again). But its various things. Glad they are actually recognizing someone who’s doing things differently and being successful at it. And lets be honest, talent wise Gaga is one of the few who could even be mentioned in that debate. As much success as Taylor is having commercially I don’t think anyone would debate her talent level versus Gagas and Gagaz current commercial success vs. Taylor’s.
It’s absolutely ridiculous. Rihanna should’ve been named “Woman of The Year” with her achievements in 2015 with no album out.
LOL lol LOL lol LOL
AT YOUR COMMENT…… AND YOUR AVI
Mhmm, you keep thinking that sis. ????????
Uh huh. The real kii is that Beyonce couldn’t amass these receipts with or without an album out. ????
Rihanna (So far) in 2015:
—Won her 8th Grammy.
—Became the Creative Director and Brand Ambassador for Puma.
—BBHMM is the most viewed televized performance of 2015.
—Garnered her 26th Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 (FFS).
—Went #1 on the Official Video Chart in the UK, with ‘Home’ selling over 100K copies!
—Became the most streamed female artist on Spotify with 2 Billion streams and remains the most streamed female artist in the world.
—Became the first artist to achieve 17 million subscribers on Vevo and remains the most viewed.
—Became the first ever Black spokesperson / brand ambassador for Dior.
—Covered Vogue’s special Met Gala issue for a 2nd consecutive year in a row.
—Became the fastest selling female solo act to sell out Rock in Rio (85K in 57 minutes).
—Featured on the first ever digital magazine (AnOther Magazine).
—Became the first Black lead in a 3D animated film (Home).
—Became the first artist ever to amass over 100 million RIAA certifications.
—Helped profits rise for companies; Dior by 34% ($118.4M), Puma in Q2 by 7.6% ($852.0M), and Dreamworks by 40% ($54.5M).
—Named the best-selling Digital artist of all time by RIAA and/or Billboard.
Billboard gave Ciara this award in 2008 right after her career took a nosedive. It’s obvious that this thing is paid for by the artists’ PR teams. The only time it was truly deserved was when Katy and Taylor both received it during their peaks.
Congrats though. AHS Hotel’s ratings will be very interesting.
And when Beyonce had her most commercially successful era (2009).
Forgot about that too.
The first time they gave this out in like 2007 it went to Reba (????) and in 2010 Fergie got it, so obviously this award isn’t really that prestigious.
Ciara? In 2008? Interesting. After hearing that, well, they can keep it.
Lana will never b****. Nor will the h** in your avi, d***.
The kii is even with Honeymoon flopping both albums still outsold Jackii in like a week, so I don’t see why you’re trying it.
Gaga left everybody wigless at the Oscars lol…
http://giphy.com/gifs/lady-gaga-oscars-2015-sound-of-music-5yLgockcqGokKMf9KFO
🙂
Congrats G. She mite just make a comeback after all w/ her weird a**.
Well they gave this same title to this woMAN after she peaked, starting flopping and is now the biggest flop ever. That year that album flopped (this was in 2008, the album was pushed back so many times that it wasn’t released til April of 2009), THAT movie never seen the light of day and was pushed back for YEARS and what?
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http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/MusicScene/upload/2008/10/billboard_names_ciara_woman_of/ciaracoverFinalBILB.jpg
I now truly understand where the t***** rumors come from after seeing that pic, it’s HORRID