If you think Gaga and her camp weren't in on that 99¢ thing, then I have a burning bridge to sell your ass. That crap was plotted and planned months in advance; they all knew that shit was happening. Gaga and Interscope ***conspired with*** Amazon to sell her wack ass album for peanuts because she wanted to debut high to prove some point that wound up backfiring on her. Period. Don't try to act like this was above her loony toon head. She knew.

Furthermore, the album went on to drop 85% in the second week, the biggest drop ever for an album that "sold" over a million copies. Why did it drop? Because when the shit stopped selling for quarters, the general public stopped being interested. Compare BTW to all the other albums that sold over a million in its first week, and you'll see what a flop it was comparatively. Reason being, those other albums LEGITIMATELY sold a million and didn't fake the funk like hers did.

BTW was not a hit. It sold less than The Fame...and in the music business, you are only as good as the sales of your previous album. 10 million, my ass...that shit sold just over 5. Leave it to a "monster" to lie about #'s. Unfortunately for you, I'm not buying your snow job. Interscope shelled tens of millions to promote that album; the hype was massive. You know so good and damn well they expected it to sell more than double platinum in the US and 5 million WW. Please. They didn't turn a profit and wound up losing their shirts on that shit…which is why promotion was halted less than a year after its release and they sent her crackhead ass back to the studio to come up with something new and more cost effective.

BTW existed on *nothing but* hype continued from Gaga's 2009-2010 era. It didn't generate its own acclaim and when the smoke cleared, people weren't feeling it.