Lady Gaga has done it.
The superstar singer will officially open atop of the Billboard 200 this week.
With initial estimates rising over the course of the week, all eyes are on where the diva’s fifth studio effort bowed.
Well wonder no more because the numbers await below…
According to Hits Daily Double, ‘Joanne’ drummed up a sales + streaming first week figure of…
199,000 [SPS]
[168,000: Pure Sales]
The number represents a lead of over 100k from Gaga’s nearest competitor Michael Buble.
Beyond the album’s strong performance on the pure sales front, the various layers of its streaming push have certainly come in handy.
On the one hand, there’s the Bud Light Dive Bar Tour that was streamed to thousands on Facebook. While the viral effect of ‘Carpool Karaoke’ gifted individual songs a sales boost, momentum that would ultimately go on to benefit the album.
Of course, there’s the ultra official numbers from Billboard/Nielsen due imminently. There’ll be reported in Rashad‘s next Chart Check.
More times than not, there’s next to no movement in the numbers. That said, it’ll be interesting to see whether the figure is rounded up or down.
Whatever the case, it’s a touchdown for next year’s Super Bowl Halftime headliner. Especially given all the factors.
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Lol it flopped so badly? Gaga is officially over
It will struggle to go gold in pure sales like Anti did??
People acting like these numbers are good are beyond delusional like her fans. She should be debuting with 300K sales anything less is a massive flop.
It’s not too late for the NFL to pick someone else for the half time show
$16.99 is a discount???? HAHAHAHA tried and failed!!!!
Meanwhile on Lemonade is being sold on groupon at a discount
https://www.groupon.com/deals/gg-beyonce-lemonade
For 16.99 and it’s being bought. That’s innovative af most people sell concert tickets on there but she put her album.
And yet at 17 dollars it is still more expensive than all the albums on I TUNES..(IN WHICH IT IS STILL BEING SOLD AT FULL PRICE OF 18 DOLLARS)..LMAO. On the other hand, CANTi will not even reach 700k pure sales at this rate.. FRIH better thank streaming for saving her….AND NOT AT MARK SAYING CANTi HAS SOLD 3 MILLION COPIES…LOL
Beyoncé nor Gaga flopped. Times are hard… they’re pulling in great numbers… Adele is just a part of the new English explosion. Keep in mind the beetles were selling 1 million records a month consecutively… she did it once in a. Week
Tragic flop for massive promo and an album the price of a whopper
Wasn’t this album $3? Does this count if you cheat?
Few artists can have beyoncé’s longevity
Sorry but this is a huge flop for a well established pop star like her
Wow!! GOOD numbers! She really has a chance at going gold ASAP, especially after the SB performance. Congratulations to her!
This isn’t a flop these posters are delusional she sold 200k and will only do better around holiday
Esp next year after her big tour and Super Bowl
I haven’t seen one commercial for this album
Carpool karaoke and a dive bar tour is hardly “massive promo”
She sold 168K. You stans said streaming is cheap, remember?
And Canti hasn’t sold 3 mill WW.
Great push thru Gaga. Love seeing this era turn around for the better because god knows I can’t stand the bandwagon haters who hates something just too go with the popular opinion. They did the same with Rihanna and her era turn out one of the best this year.
She should ask Samsung to purchase her flop album so it can go platinum??
Can’t, don’t own her music masters.
As a fan, just need to share something that has been bothering me about this site. The writing here continues to get worse. In fact, it’s so bad it has become a chore to visit on a daily basis. Between the often misleading headlines, poorly written sentences and embarrassingly inaccurate analysis of the music industry, it has become difficult to continue coming here. You guys have built such a massive platform — please invest in better writers.
or you could always INVEST your time in other sites, ya know? you won’t be missed hun
*sips*
Might as well begin a new era this is a flop
A lot of promo and excessive discounts yet she still flopped
I’m so happy I jumped ship??
Poor Gaga now she can retire and go to being a live act at her fathers resturant and sell stale breadsticks
Selling less than Ariana Grande kii what a flop?????????
Bruh chill… Ariana only sold 175,000 equivalent album units (of which 129,000 were in traditional album sales).
She won’t go gold bookmark me ??
I think she will…. I mean they did have to revise her predicted numbers sooo…
Lol! I don’t follow Gaga at all BUT I do remember her previous album numbers, and those numbers had the whole industry/everyone talking like “wow” and telling her to keep her head up etc…. So for her to come back out with numbers like this? I think it’s pretty good. She kind of stayed consistent. TBH, besides her news about her SB performance, this album was barley promoted, and besides the usual that everyone does. I just can’t wait until the superbowl performance and after. I mean from what I’ve only SEEN, it’s interesting to see someone who literally had the WORLD in their hands end up doing unthinkable (now) numbers. Shes definitely a contender for the underdogs right now.
SAY WHAT YOU WANT THE FACT IS SHE IS OVER
RIP GAGA YOUR CAREER IS OFFICIALLY OVER
HER TOUR WILL ALSO FLOP AND WILL RESORT TO SELLING TICKETS FOR $10 LIKE THE ANTI WORLD FLOP TOUR
Congratulations Gaga! This is great considering she put out a folk album and hasn’t had a proper hit from this album….. yet
Lol these are very good numbers for her. Congrats LG. She wasn’t coming off of a huge hit nor a huge era. She is pure talent. Lol, y’all are mad. 300k without a massive hit? Lol, you’re delusional. She doesn’t give up. Her marketing was smart. Promotion, being a great singer & artist does wonders. If she can get two hits, all will be amazing..
Chris sold these same numbers.
This is good especially since streaming is coming through. It’s all about the end sale and who you are pleasing. I can’t get mad for discounting her album because whether it’s full price or discounted, this means that over 168k people in the U.S. decided to spend some type of money on her album.
She actually sold more than Grande. And this album is definitely going gold. Her singles are doing great on iTunes too. So that’s good. Stop hating and give her her credit. She’s a very hard worker. Her performances helps her album sales.
If this is her débuted front end sales then what will she do to push her remaining album sales??
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Gagz has no pending hits on this album to drive its success.
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She already promoted and discounted the album to its stretched limits. Lol Her *comeback* is such a kiiii
Good numbers regardless
. I can’t hate.
Great numbers Gaga! You proved the haters so f****** wrong.
Cant wait for those SECOND week PURE sales….EXCITED FOR HER.
Um… weren’t you one of the ones saying she didn’t have a chance with this album in another post?
@Tori, that is clear sarcasm from @Surprise. We all know Fad’s second week is going to be so sad! LOL
Congratz Gaga
Stans didn’t seem to have a problem when MDNA + Rated R were sold for $0.99, Anti was given away for free, and Katy’s #1 singles were $0.69?
MDNA tour goases $300 million. That also the amount of sales Manna has sold so she doesn’t have to sell albums anymore.
Kudos to Gaga. The seething is severe in here lol.
Sis even you know her SECOND WEEK will be tragic….and u have to see that she might not even go gold.
Very good and solid numbers, and she did it TRADITIONALLY, no gimmicks, flop HBO specials, shaming your husband, 7310583715087105 flop pretentious videos, fake Black lives matter support, RADIO avengers, and paid for reviews.
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Just pure song writing skill, and extraordinary music. No need for 11805710 radio avengers that flop on radio anyway. Good job gags.
erm…you can’t tell me that Gaga didn’t pay for those reviews that were praising the album like it was the next best thing to sliced bread.
next, $3.99 and $.69 is not traditional hun. she didn’t sell this album on her name alone. she sold it with tactics
She did a 100k more than I predicted, so good for her. I know the car pool did Million Excuses justice because it turned my opinion on the song. Super Bowl is too far away from this album, but as long as she hit some night shows and some award shows, she’ll do fine. It’s her LIVE performances that is turning this train wreck around. Still only see this doing 350K tops tho.
Agreed…. i don’t even see it doing past 350 too..
It will cross 350K and you will continue to cry and weep you hateful maggot.
‘HATEFUL’…U ARE THE MOST HATEFUL MISERABLE TROL ON THIS BLOG. U HAVE SAID HORRIBLE THINGS ABOUT BEY, NEVER PAID HER A COMPLIMENT, INSULTED HER CHILD(INNOCENT) AND CALLED HER UGLY(AND PLS DON’T ASK FOR RECEIPTS, CAUSE U KNOW WHAT U’VE SAID). U HAVE NOT F****** RIGHT TO CALL ANYONE HATEFUL WHEN UR ENTIRE EXISTENCE ONTHIS BLOG IS BASED ON THE SENTIMENT OF BEING…….’HATEFUL’.
All caps = you’re mad.
LOL @Mark, the the lie too;
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“NEVER PAID HER A COMPLIMENT, INSULTED HER CHILD(INNOCENT) AND CALLED HER UGLY(AND PLS DON’T ASK FOR RECEIPTS, CAUSE U KNOW WHAT U’VE SAID).”
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Never happened. And it cannot produce a receipt because there is non. Try again maggot.
$3.99 or not, Amazon is still paying full price for Gags, album, and seeing that she wrote and produced most of the songs, and didn’t rely on expensive radio avengers, and tacky 12857105871 music videos, that’s a huge share for her and Interscope. She ain’t mad, Interscope ain’t mad.
U ARE PRESSED….LMAO. STILL WAITING FOR THOSE BOXSCORES FRIH IS HIDING….
She is not hiding them, they are being released gradually. You’re just too damn, incompetent and stupid to do a simple google search; which, judging by your sentence construction and consistent grammatical errors, is way beyond your scope.
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Stick to what you’re good at, which is “yaaassssing” everytime your queen roach takes a sh!t, and address me when you gain 10 more IQ points, ok.
It’s so mad Slaygend Yonce is making more than fRih with her $18 album!
@Hailbeysus….can u imagine the GUTS and IRONY of that PARASITE called FAGGBIRD calling me ‘HATEFUL”…LOL
@Surprise right! The Slavi is so bothered by Beyoncé because she can still sell her album and sell out stadiums. Not her fault fRih was scared of flopping and gave away albums to mask her inevitable flop! Im going to laugh so hard if her Boxscores come back with these outrageous $160-180m claim yet no dates reported! ???? Hoeanna is all SMOKES AND MIRRORS!
LOL…@Hailbeysus…She is scared to release those numbers. At this rate she might have begged SAMSAVE to help purchase those unsold tickets and save her once again.
LOL…NOT ‘RELEASED GRADUALLY’, ITS BEEN MONTHS NOW. SHE COULD NOT EVEN SELL OUT A 10K ARENA DESPITE HAVING ONE OF THE BIGGEST SONGS OF THE YEAR. SHE IS HIDING THOSE TRAGIC NUMBERS….SEETHE
Good for her, How many albums this year debuted with 200k im sales or more? The sales this year are tragic and Beyond repair! Not even Queen Adele can save the sales. Her album is like a little over 1m over Drake and Bey for 2016 album sales.
@Hailbeysus….can u imagine the GUTS and IRONY of that PARASITE called FAGGBIRD calling me ‘HATEFUL”…LOL
Gaga fans should most definitely make sure they stream this album, it is so good. I must say I was skeptical but after listening to it on my Spotify PREMIUM account (which others cannot afford), I was happy with everything I’ve heard.
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-summer-that-streaming-took-over-1472151516
LMAO all The Wall street Journal had to say about your “stream queen” was: Indeed, traditional album sales are no longer an indicator of success. Released in late January, Rihanna’s album “Anti” sold a paltry 5,000 copies in the past week, yet it’s still in the Billboard’s Top 10 thanks to more than 26 million streams.
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??? That whole article all they could mention was Drake (The true Queen of Streams) ???
Pest are just bitter. Minutemaid sold less than Beyonce, so by your logic, is it a flop? Cause it only sold 1.4M in the states.
No because it didn’t debute with 199,000 copies (little bus much) check the receipts not knocking Gaga. But yea facts are facts bro.
Da **** how do i change this pic i want shiz up ☝
I decided to give this album a listen and I’m happy I did. It’s definitely a good album but you can only enjoy this album if you don’t expect the Gaga we are used to.
I still prefer “The Fame” Gaga but I love this mature sound of her. Maybe because I matured and my taste in music has matured too.
Adele has the best selling album this yr. she’s sold over a half a million or more copies in pure sales than Drake..
What Adele has done is almost inconceivable. Never seen since the 90s.
And Beyonce. She actually sold over two million in pure sales in the US this yr..
Beyonce has been doing really well. Her change to concept albums was for the better and it shows in the long run. Despite this Gaga change being way more abrupt (pure Jazz album and then this flok-indie-country inspired album many people got a bit of trouble getting into at first), I´ve been saying for months it was going to be a pleasant pay off for her, at least as an artist. Turns out such thing is coming sooner than I thought.
where’s that b**** who said she predicted this would do 90k? killed herself yet? #WhòresieIsOverParty
Calling me a w**** won’t erase the STDs leaking from your loose bottom.
now back to what’s truly relevant – congrats Gaga! <3
LOL The hive and their lack of critical thinking abilities, it is pathetic how dumb and stupid these people are they should be classified as people with mental disabilities.
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Not only is their cognitive dissonance an annoyance to the intelligent thinking public, but their path dependence is laughable if not pathetically sad. A reason I no longer visit this struggling site.
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I bring up an article from the WSJ, one the most respected publications in the world (a fact the hive do not know) and all a Yonce fan does is look for Rihanna. Not the fact that streaming is surpassing tradtional in revenue
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Not the fact that there is a change in the trend of the way music is tracked and consumed, and streaming is popular among millennials, not the fact that streaming is getting even more popular due to mobile phones.
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Not the fact that streaming is responsible for the success of some genrees like RnB and Hip Hop, nope, Rihanna. Hive can’t do critical thinking LOL.
Wooo you a fine ass brotha!!! What’s yours Instagram?
That’s not me
The Nazí are typing essays and shxt… SEETHE BÍTCH!!!!
On another note… ? TELEPATHY ? HAS HIT NUMBER ONE #️⃣1️⃣ ON THE BILLBOARD DANCE CHART ?????
Pinkprint outsold.
bam
That’s very good to start with. I was scared for her.
Glad she pulling in those sale did artpop sell more 1st week?
Yes it did. But it was still pop Gaga and Applause had been a moderate hit for months. Plus sales keep decreasing. I´d say she has equalised Artpop, taking into account it´s big change of direction and the promo campaign has been way smaller than what her previous albums got. I´m as surprised as the haters. I though she was going to do around 100k (and only thanks to loyal fans cause maisntream and othe rpeople seemed to be prepared to never let her in again).
Oh didn’t think art did more. Where only a few really sell I think she did excellent in my opinion so congrats to her.
Not the Navi clinging to Gaga now djdodnsdk ⚰️? How the mighty have fallen.
Good numbers, but that’s expected when you discount your album to less than the cost of a tray at Cook Out, perform on SNL and Carpool Karoke, have Super Bowl promos shown during every NFL game, and do interviews at literally every major radio show in the US. At least she got the soccer moms to buy Million Reasons (still flopping @ streaming though).
Like I said last week, the true test is tomorrow.
LMAO Girl are you ok? First you said she was doing less than 100k, then u focused on every single chart or discount move for a day in one platform, then when the album finally got mainstream exposure in SNL and Carpool and predictions started to go up thanks to her great performances you disappeared… and now, you accept is is good but still you are full of “buts”. And now you are waiting for week 2? Why do you care that much anyway? Why? Does Lana do better with this type of indie-folk albums? No. So why so angry?
Fāg do you have Google Alerts on for me or something? Why is it that everytime someone says something similar to whatever I post, you’re MIA but by the time I finally show up you reply within 30 minutes? And bringing up Lana for NO reason whatsoever as always because apparently I’m “pressed” that she’s less successful? News flash: Lana did NO promo and had NO radio play. What do you expect? Her first week sales were just fine. Every song on Toucanne still a MILLION times more radio/GP friendly than anything on Honeymoon except for maybe High By The Beach. Girl bye, go reset your alarm clock so you can be on time for your shift at Wendy’s soon.
First of all wash your mouth before you insult anyone. You´re truly loosing it over this. Your life must be truly pathetic. Secondly, you´re wrong as usual, you´ve been mia these last few days (conveniently) and I left comments on Gaga´s post (you know, an artist I like) regardless. How are Joanne´s listening parties going at yours btw? 🙂
Also apparently Frih is hiding Empti Tour box scores now? After Fāgbird dragged my fave for apparently doing the same? Death.
The tea is Rihanna is actually releasing her boxscores, still waiting for that tumble weed to pass by for Lana’s boxscores huh.
Good numbers. I suppose she´ll keep having her good performances here and there on tv from now until Xmas and then next year the Superbowl exposure will come. I think she has totally saved this era. Well deserved.
Yeeeeees Johnvidal scalp that kookoo ass b**** Alyssa Edwards style! #WhòresieIsOverParty go back to f****** your loose walls with razors listening to ULTRABOMB and Moonshine.
Reading all your comments guys is the most horrifying thing ever seen!
You don’t enjoy anything, lives your lifes criticizing other and talking s*** like that kind of things is going to make the world a better place.
RELAX! And if you don’t like some music just don’t listen to it, focus on your kind of and let the rest enjoy it.
It looks like most of you guys are obsessed with Lady Gaga…. Chill out
These are good numbers. I expected more with all of the promo. Let’s see how the 2nd week turns out…..
Kii the standards have sunk so low in camp Monster and Navy. The bish is selling her album for 3.99 and yall are praising these tragic numbers just like you praised CANTi #Tragic
With the music industry being in such a bad state, I think 200K is pretty good. With streams being counted, and the super bowl approaching, she’ll have no problem going gold. Congrats Gaga.
Better debuted than Anti but what else is new…
*debut
Rihanna didn’t even have physical copies out to include in the first week and it was only a tidal exclusive for a week and she gave away 1.4 million albums that people had to click to download and got a 25 million dollar check next
Nice
I’m not sure why people are calling a flop. I think those numbers are great for the current music industry.
Did she get help from Samsung?