Why are Justin Timberlake and Lady Gaga allowed to have massive flops and still get top billing?

[Booker T Garvey]

This sold around 3 million albums:

This shyt went Gold (500k sold)

Lady Gaga's project ARTPOP (700K sold) flopped so badly and lost so much money, that people lost their jobs at the record label

Was Lady Gaga's ARTPOP such a flop that her label was forced into staff redundancies?



But Timberlake is still getting top billing. Lady Gaga bounced right back and is an oscar nominated actress, documentaries on Netflix, still considered an A list star...

I know it's easy to say "it's because they're white!!" - not so fast. Popular white artists get dropped all the time, especially when they cost the labels money and they don't recoup...what's so special about these two? why are they being protected like they are?

 

[VegetasHairline]

 

[Stacks]

They suck and fukk a lot

 

[Afrodroid]

"the network that keep them from falling" :crackass:

 

[Dorian Breh]

They bring in the gays/ thread

 

[Marc Spector]

Everybody flops

I'm not understanding this thread OP. Black artists are given second chances after flops.

In this era though flops are a lot harder to gauge since streaming numbers matter more than physical sales and singles can have staying power

 

[Burned Verses]

Because they also have years worth of success.

 

[AlainLocke]

Lady Gaga and Justin Timberlake are legacy acts.

They aren't 24 year olds with one hot album, they are 30 plus and pretty much defined Pop culture for a decade (in Timberlake's case, 2 decades)

You really expect people to care about that one flop they had in a decade plus career?

Do we care about Jay Z 3 flops in a row until he made 4:44?

How many flops Snoop Dogg has had? Snoop Dogg hasn't made worthwhile music in a decade or so?

Justin Timberlake and Lady Gaga and Jay Z and Snoop are pop culture institutions, they aren't going anywhere no matter how much they suck.

 

[Zero]

Everybody flops

I'm not understanding this thread OP. Black artists are given second chances after flops.

In this era though flops are a lot harder to gauge since streaming numbers matter more than physical sales and singles can have staying power

OP makes terrible threads

 

[Dynamite James]

Usher has sold more records than TimberSnake Period. (Not Just Confessions either)
Yet he is treated like a B list star while JT is their "King of Pop"

 

[Marc Spector]

Usher has sold more records than TimberSnake Period. (Not Just Confessions either)
Yet he is treated like a B list star while JT is their "King of Pop"

FRFR?

Just solo work would make sense as Usher as always been solo.

But Timberlake gets NSync records credited as well and No Strings Attached was a fukkin monster of an album. The album alone might have outsold most of Ushers catalog combined.

 

[King Frost]

Because justin bieber & ariana grande need about 5-7 years to mature

 

[Dynamite James]

FRFR?

Just solo work would make sense as Usher as always been solo.

But Timberlake gets NSync records credited as well and No Strings Attached was a fukkin monster of an album. The album alone might have outsold most of Ushers catalog combined.

I'm comparing Solo Career Cac

 

[Marc Spector]

I'm comparing Solo Career Cac

im a cac because i asked a honest fukkin question?


You think I was refuting your post bruh?

If i was trying to be a smartass i woulda just told you were wrong

 

[Sauce Dab]

Gaga had a resurgence with a star is born. The movie and soundtrack been doing numbers