No more than 24 hours after its release this morning, Lady GaGa‘s ‘ARTPOP‘ now finds itself selling enough digital units to give it a healthy chance of topping Billboard 200 next week.
Fortunately, and perhaps unbeknownst for and to her, Google have now taken the decision to slice the album’s retail price, giving the public ample incentive to purchase it from their ‘Google Play’ store and not from its strongest competitor, iTunes.
Full story below…
As of today, US fans can now purchase the LP for $5.99 on the outlet, while fans in the UK can pick it up £4.99, retailing for half the price currently advertised on Google‘s rival stores.
Fortunately, by selling the album for $5.99, Google will see all ‘ARTPOP’ sales generated on its page go towards GaGa’s overall US sales, with LPs sold for any less than $3.49 in the US banned from seeing any copies sold at that price count towards combined sales in the competitive market!
Lmao the desperation of the ARTPOP Era officially begins.
She is making a completely fool of herself. Her music is a an epic joke and boring.
Just go away…already!
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5.99 has become the new .99. How embarrassing. It is clearly showing the world her music sucks and no quality.
..and yet she says that she don’t care about charts ???? 😆
Her need to discount every album like BTW just shows some high level of desperation and its quite shameful how she manipulates the charts, even when she doesn’t make music for the charts? Sad…
Can we please read before we make comments without any facts? Gaga is NOT discounting, its Google play… Again not Gaga, google play…
Y’all do realize that gaga and her label don’t control this… Google is taking the hit in order to drive more traffic to their store instead of iTunes… if anything, this shows just how amazing and popular she is because Google is willing to lose money selling this…
really? That what they said the last time with .99 cent album
.if she didn’t want Google play to do it she could stop it. Just like how labels can stop music video from playing on youtube they sure as hell can stop Google from selling at that price
she needs to sell that sh!t for one cent,she will go double diamond,nothing new with gagga she will do anything for a plat album.
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She is nothing but a snake of pop music. She doesnt care about music?
Then make your music for free, f*cker !!!
GaGa and Tamar are no good.. b****** stay discounting their albums.
Ahem! Same manager?? Ao. GAGA. . What happened?
lol, album from Itunes, Google play, should cost about $5.00, it’s not like you get a physically booklet, a hard copy album, for $5.00 you pay for space on your media player, or ipod.
How u got thumbs down for that will forever remain a mystery… I totally agree!
shes up to her same old tricks again #desperate B*tch
Where is the PROOF you’ve based your opening paragraph on TGJ? You can’t just say “omg Gagas selling so much” and not give any ACTUAL PROOF.
Also, wouldn’t them slashing the prices imply it’s selling BADLY, so consumers need an actual incentive to buy?
Real journalism posts two sides to the story TGJ, not just the one that supports your own bias view.
Yoo you desperate for big first week sales i see sis.
Funny how it’s “healthy” and seen as an “incentive for the public” when one of your favorite artist discounts their albums. But when others you clearly don’t like do, it’s seen as a “desperate attempt to gain copy sales”When will you become consistent with your argument?
Exactly! These people are biased and never stick to anything.
And then she says she doesn’t care about charts.
It’s also discounted at other retailers such as Walmart, Target, and Barnes & Noble in the US.
mess
Dead @ the desperation, I knew there would be a gimmick. I juatr can’t.
let the discounts begin
I wonder if she’ll be selling it for 99 cent this time.
she wont, she needs dem sales. she wont go below the $3.49 limit
Lmao HERE WE GO AGAIN!!!!
Watch it all fall out.
Did Anybody Try “The ARTPOP app” yet ? Doesn’t matter For iPhone or Android Because I can deal With Both OS(s),I didn’t try it “Yet!”, But It Will be so Cool If Anyone going to Tell me What to Expect. 😀
The thirst is real……….
Gaga is up with her shameful tactics!
Flop is the word for ARTPOP.
this is probably being done bcos she might have caught wind of the negative comments on artpoop by many ppl. on tumblr, ppl are calling M.I.A’s Matangi the better album. Gaga u know u done now
ARTPOP on Metacritic -> 67/100
marginally better than Katy’s score, not as much better as the monster said it would be lmao
meanwhile, Matangi on Metacritic -> 76/100
even the critics prefer M.I.A over this attention flashing thing called GaGa lmao. 5 years in and she is free falling. longevity is something Gaga wont ever have
So desperately tryna to make sure she doesn’t get outsold by Eminem in his 2 nd week God knows the breakdowns she’ll have if artpop doesn’t go number 1 .
How long before she discounts the album to the $3.49 minimum LMAO? I guess she can’t let the music speak for itself after all.
Gaga is a joke. Pathetic. It is so not cool to be her fans.
Gaga the new Queen of Discounts!!! 😀
THE ALBUM IS PIECE OF CRAP WITH MEANINGLESS SONGS AND TRY HARD LYRICS. THIS H** IS A JOKE. HER FANS ARE DELUSIONAL IF THEY THINK SHE IS RESPECTED IN MUSIC INDUSTRY. SHE IS SEEN AS A GIMMICK WITH GENERIC, CHEAP EDM MUSIC, NOTHING MORE. NOT TO MENTION THAT SHE HAS ONLY INSPIRED 1 ARTIST – WILLOW SMITH. BYE.
Why don´t these guys who often comment in TGJ learn once and for all these are digital retailers fights, nothing to do with the artists? Are you mad your fave is not powerful enough for these companies to start a war? Just saying. It´s been explained time after time. More in that other blog where the info is always better and complete, but also in TGJ I think.
bla bla bla…cocaine addict to gurl???
lol yeah yeah bla bla bla cos it´s too much common sense and true info for your taste right? The desperation to hate is real.
Lady Gaga’s long-awaited ARTPOP album is out now, and has been met with a mixed reception from critics that has settled overwhelmingly on a so-so verdict.
In some ways this is the worst that could have happened as it fails to set anything alight, merely promoting a detachment between Lady Gaga’s lofty claims of “art” and her generic pop music.
And you are a fan of generic music. Stay generic.. 🙁
THIS DESPERATION WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR THE REST OF HER CAREER.
Disgusting. I can’t believe she personally spoke with those retailers and asked them to discount her album. I’m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that Gaga’s album releases are an event that they want to capitalise on. This is purely Gaga’s desperation because she knows she’s going to fade by the start of 2014. I thought she wrote for the music not the charts??? Is $5.99 the music?? Where is the music??????
Hahaha, I KNEW it! I mean, I get it, it’s not her team, but Google and Amazon’s promo, but still. I do think albums should be no more than $7 tho.
What´s so funny then if you know it´s not her fault? You just want to shade cos it is cool now?
Where´s Mariah´s new single? I can´t wait!
Mariah ‘s new single…flop !!!!!!!
B**** you wish it was a flop. Her new single slays and will debut at #1
@johnvidal
bla bla bla Whatever b****! how do u explain that there’re always gimmicks & tricks surrounding Gag’s sales in order to inflate them ? With Gag the music can never sell by itself at full price without any ‘drama’ like many others and with artFLOP the desperation will be realer than ever. #DEAL
Don´t you remember the several Rihanna albums discounts along her career???? Including Rated R in the opening week??? I swear you all are pathetic and blind. The least thing you are interested in is the talent. Just pathetic.
Rated R was released the same week of Black Friday. I recall ALL albums were on sale, and on black Friday, almost everything was. So what’s Gaga’s issue?
it’s all smoke and mirrors with her. without all of these tricks and gimmicks i wounder how her album of full of gay p*** filler music would fair?
LMAO look at her struggling in this era! It looks like no amount of gimmicks can save her this time.
Amazing. She finds new lows to sink to every time.
And u clearly can’t read. Poor that.
Damn the gimmick has another Gimmick! Are we really surprised at this point?? LOL i’m starting to feel bad for this women! with just 5 years in the game, and this…
Soo EXPECTED!
Im buying Mariah’s New single and pre-ordering her album on iTunes now!
Gaga is the type of artist where it doesn’t matter if you illegally download her music or just pay the discounted price for it at a retail store. Hell it may as well be free anyways with all these discounts……
#FreeArtpopAlbumsForEveryone!!!!!!
You know people are a bunch of Hippocrates. We complain about how expensive things are and then you see yourself downloading it illegally. Please be thankful you can buy the music for cheap like seriously. I prefer to sell my music for cheap than have it illegally downloaded.
FYI how about this gimmick: H&M and a few other stores are NOT reporting Artpop sales to Billboard. And what about the leak? Those should ALL take a toll on her. Let’s be rational here guys, I really dislike the hate, seems like you’re all speaking out of your asses. Know your facts and how things work. This is not in her control – it was the same thing with Amazon: Amazon took the hit and made a loss while Gaga got her money from Amazon,
Dead at you desperate h*** using the $5.99 thing to make yourself feel better cause yal know she’s gonna outsell your favs and this is the only way yal can deal with her slaying! Just crawl back into whatever hole yal come from and shut up cause she’s still getting richer while your comments just maks you seem like a grumpy old next door neighbor!