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Do you agree with Tony Bennett?

yes 20 14.39%
 
no 65 46.76%
 
lady gaga has no talent o... 29 20.86%
 
lady gaga certainly has talent so maybe 9 6.47%
 
who's lady gaga 16 11.51%
 
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HappySqurriel said:
PlaystaionGamer said:

sorry, who said 'albums' i said 'RECORDS' and a record is acounted as an Album or a Single sale. look it up. but yes im very proud in this day and age talented Artiests shine through and she can sell 115million Records


I'm sorry, but it is kind of moronic to compare album sales of an artist historically to single sales today because of how the music industry has changed in recent years ...

It is kind of like comparing the number of people who watch a 5 minute clip on youtube to the number of people who paid to see movie and to claim that Nyan Cat is as important of a "movie" as Gone With the Wind.

thats true, if Lady Gaga had been around 20 years ago then jesus her Record sale would be so much bigger. 

for the record we arnt comparing Album sales from years ago to Singles today.. Madonna sold 250-300mil records.. thats Albums and Singles. Gaga has sold 115million Records.. thats albums and singles. and its alot harder today as people can choose not to pay for it alot easier 



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PlaystaionGamer said:
HappySqurriel said:
PlaystaionGamer said:

sorry, who said 'albums' i said 'RECORDS' and a record is acounted as an Album or a Single sale. look it up. but yes im very proud in this day and age talented Artiests shine through and she can sell 115million Records


I'm sorry, but it is kind of moronic to compare album sales of an artist historically to single sales today because of how the music industry has changed in recent years ...

It is kind of like comparing the number of people who watch a 5 minute clip on youtube to the number of people who paid to see movie and to claim that Nyan Cat is as important of a "movie" as Gone With the Wind.

thats true, if Lady Gaga had been around 20 years ago then jesus her Record sale would be so much bigger. 

for the record we arnt comparing Album sales from years ago to Singles today.. Madonna sold 250-300mil records.. thats Albums and Singles. Gaga has sold 115million Records.. thats albums and singles. and its alot harder today as people can choose not to pay for it alot easier 

How is it any easier not to pay for an album?

If you go back to before Napster most of the people who would download music without paying would copy their friends' music without paying.

I personally think that on similar popularity levels Lady Gaga's album sales would be far lower 20 years ago. I remember paying $20 (or often more) for a CD in the early 1990s which would work out to being closer to $30 to $40 today, and the fear of paying that much money for an album that only had the 1 good song on it kept people from buying.



If she eats enough peanut butter and fried bacon, she can become even larger and fatter than Elvis, but she'll never be taller than him, even including monster heels.



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PlaystaionGamer said:

thats true, if Lady Gaga had been around 20 years ago then jesus her Record sale would be so much bigger. 

for the record we arnt comparing Album sales from years ago to Singles today.. Madonna sold 250-300mil records.. thats Albums and Singles. Gaga has sold 115million Records.. thats albums and singles. and its alot harder today as people can choose not to pay for it alot easier 

If Lady Gaga was around 20 years ago she would have been passed over by more iconic female artists already in their prime, like Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, Madonna, and Mariah Carey.



On youtube she was like the queen but that were songs from the last album.

None of the songs have become as big youtube sensations as Bad Romance and Pokerface and such.

 

IMO youtube sort of tells you what the average music listener likes.

Mainstream media overhypes certain people and gives them more popularity then what is reality,



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Tony who?

And lol no way dude. Lady gaga is a dime a dozen singer.



maybe in sales,but not in legend and icon status.



Lady Gaga peaked with The Fame / The Fame Monster. By the time she releases her next studio album, she might no longer be commercially relevant.



Maybe she will be bigger than elvis but no way near as big as The Beatles. Can she become as good as Madonna or Mariah Carey in terms of female solo number one hits and album sales?

Lady Gaga musical/singing talent is aided by modern technology.
The Beatles and Elvis and other classic singers came from an era that relied on pure singing ability and musical talent and there were no studio editing tricks and voice emulators.

Tony Bennet is a distant shadow to the greatest crooner of all time, Frank Sinatra.



Didn't Aloha from Hawaii have around 1-1.5 billion viewers across the world and that was the 1970s, even now with all the overpopulation Lady Gaga could never even come close to an event like that.



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