Cheek to Cheek was all we ever heard about from Lady Gaga until its release. Now that it has made it to number one in the U.S., has the hype passed? Or is she still trying to heavily (and some may say desperately) promote it?
You tell me! If you look at her Twitter, all you see are ads for the album! Every other tweet is about how she wants you to buy the album...
or about how well its doing...
How many remixes do you need for an album that's only been out a couple weeks?! Anything to get those numbers, I guess... right, Gaga?
Yeah, the album is doing pretty well... but if you actually do look at the numbers, you'll see that Cheek to Cheek has taken a bit of a dive in the charts, going from number one to number four in one week with a drop of 58%.
In comparison, you can see that Streisand's album Partners - which has been out a week longer - has overtaken Cheek to Cheek and sold almost 20,000 more copies this past week. So what could that mean for Cheek to Cheek? Does it have staying power? Or has Gaga bitten off more than she can chew by trying to become a serious jazz artist?
As I alluded to in the title, Gaga may just be in trouble if this jazz stuff she's trying to do doesn't work out. She's suggested to HER OWN FANS that pop music is not real music...
...all while in the middle of her artRAVE tour!
And while reports of "sold out shows" are still coming in, other sources seem to be saying differently. The Oslo show, for example, was considered sold out and the numbers we were given (8,948/8,948 = 100%) may not be accurate.
For example, this source states that the show sold only 7000 tickets, and this one says 5,500 tickets, for the Telenor arena which has a capacity of 23,000! This source shows surprise that she has such low demand, since the last time she was in Norway for the Born This Way Ball, she sold out an arena with 16,000 tickets (just paste the article into Google translate to read it in your language).
With evidence that her "pop" star is fading, do you think Gaga's behaviour and comments like the one above are going to end up hurting her in the end? Is Gaga burning her bridges by insulting the pop genre and - by extent - its fans? Or do you think she has a future in jazz?
