MULTIPLE CHOICE POLL.

 

'Judas' is my opinion her 2nd best single to-date and it did not deserve to underperform as much as it has at all. :(

 

I voted it was lyrically to controversial. Radio in America never really got behind it at all, it's by far her least successful radio hit there. In South Africa where I live, they never playlisted it at all because of the lyrics, instead they have playlisted TEOG now. It has been banned in all the nightclubs here as well! TEOG's release also overshadowed it which got my 2nd vote AND a lack of promotion got my 3rd vote.

Edited May 23, 201114 yr by CHЯIS.

That stupid Friday release didn't help :/ And when it first came out, she didn't promote, but now she is doing some promoting, and I also think EOG actually helped a bit too!

As a song it wasn't up to standard by a long shot. Bad Romance did the exact same thing in terms of structure and hooks a million times better. The vocals are dodgy to say the least and for a good half of the song you can't make up what she's singing. The chorus seems as though it's been airlifted in from a different song entirely. And Born This Way was better.

Wrong timing and because it was quite religious related and released very near Easter, either the song was going to be hyped and controversal in that it would do really well or the song would be literally destroyed by the religious background in the song. Shame it was destroyed like that. That's my opinion anyway.

 

Judas doesn't deserve to be her lowest selling single. It's better than Love Game anyways. AND the fact it was barely promoted in the US doesn't help (only promotion was Ellen and yesterday's Saturday Night Live..)

 

Another factor was The Edge Of Glory being released 3 weeks after and being announced as the third single, all the attention went and switched into it making another cause why Judas underperformed. She's performing The Edge Of Glory on American Idol this week and not Judas, it shows that hopes for the song has literally died.

It underperformed over here because of a wacky release tactic (which had already killed "Born This Way"'s chances of #1) and then she didn't release the video or promote until it was too late, hence the rollercoaster chart run. Had the song been more original, it might have done a little better but it would have to be world-endingly good to overcome its conditions.

 

It underperformed in the US because radio stations were scared to get behind it and she didn't do enough promotion right at the start of its chart run. At least, that's my best guess.

- It's too similar to 'Bad Romance'.

- The video isn't great at all.

- The rush-release didn't help either.

 

All of the above.

Wrong timing and because it was quite religious related and released very near Easter, either the song was going to be hyped and controversal in that it would do really well or the song would be literally destroyed by the religious background in the song. Shame it was destroyed like that. That's my opinion anyway.

 

Judas doesn't deserve to be her lowest selling single. It's better than Love Game anyways. AND the fact it was barely promoted in the US doesn't help (only promotion was Ellen and yesterday's Saturday Night Live..)

So many excuses...

 

Performances on Ellen and SNL are more promotion than many hit songs get! Controversy in pop music has only ever done a song or artist good and frankly I very much doubt anybody thought 'this song mentions Judas and it's Easter so I'm going to boycott it even though I like it'. If I Kissed A Girl can overcome right wing conservatism to become a huge US hit and LoveGame, a song revolving around a thinly disguised metaphor for penises, can get to #5, Judas should not have had any trouble.

 

It's under performed due to 'The Edge of Glory' overshadowing it's release. Although it seems to have remained stable (comfortably) in the iTunes top 10 now. I think it'll definitely be a bigger seller than 'LoveGame' (If it hasn't already outsold it) and will comfortably sell at LEAST 250k-300k in total. So it hasn't flopped as such. Just under performed. It was may be a bit TOO controversial? Particularly for it's time of release.

Intensely agree with Oricon about bad timing. The correct time to release the second single was the time we got The Edge of Glory. It probably isn't one of those instant likeable tracks outside fanbase, so it needed its time. Once video was out and started to rise, we got The Edge of Glory which got instantly attention.

 

Maybe the audience didn't like it. Or didn't have the chance to decide whether it's good or not.

So many excuses...

 

Performances on Ellen and SNL are more promotion than many hit songs get! Controversy in pop music has only ever done a song or artist good and frankly I very much doubt anybody thought 'this song mentions Judas and it's Easter so I'm going to boycott it even though I like it'. If I Kissed A Girl can overcome right wing conservatism to become a huge US hit and LoveGame, a song revolving around a thinly disguised metaphor for penises, can get to #5, Judas should not have had any trouble.

 

The thing is 'Judas' is religiously controversial and that's about as risky you can go with releasing a pop single. All my friends refuse to listen to it because they think its bashing the Bible, most radio stations feel the same and even nightclubs don't play the song! LG and IKAG are nowhere near as controversial and extreme as Judas! If she releases a song like 'Bloody Mary' or 'Government Hooker' as a single I think it will suffer exactly the same fate as 'Judas', ordinary people thinking the song is evil. .

People can make silly excuses till the cows come home, fact is, it underperformed cause people didn't like it enough to wanna download it.

 

It does rank in my top 3 GaGa songs ever though, I happen to love it.

Well in my opinion the song is nowhere near her best, so I'd say thats the reason. I wouldn't say the release tactic was a reason - that didn't help the peak, but it doesn't kill overall sales. It's being over-shadowed by TEOG now, but it had time to perform better before that was released. So I'd say the song itself, and a delayed video release perhaps (though it was a really good video when we finally got it).

The song isn't good enough, it's too obvious and a fairly lazy re-hash of previous stuff.

I think the release of TEOG actually threw it off incredibly. The video was barely out and the song had no chance with radio. I had expected Judas to be a radio slow-burner the first time I had heard it, and, had the record company not gone straight to single #3, that's probably what it would've ended up as.

 

I blame impatience and lack of promotion. Also, the music video sucked.

Song not upto Standard. Its a good song. But I don't think its deserving of a Top 5 chart position, although its much better than Born This Way. But there is far better songs on the album.

For me now, i'll change my word.

 

I think it's a mixture of all factors which effected the performance of Judas

The main reasons I think are:

 

- Some people just think its a 'Bad Romance' rip-off

- Many people didn't like the lead single 'Born This Way' so many casual buyers wouldn't have gone out their way to listen to Judas

- It alienated some Christians with the lyrics

- The video was released FAR too late

- The promotional performances took place FAR too late

I am not sure what to vote for

 

I wouldn't be suprised if the name Judas put people off and lyrically read into the song as it being religious and being disrespectful.

 

I don't blame lack of promo though. The video summed the song up perfectly.

It is far from her best song, but then again neither are 'Telephone' and 'Born This Way' and they were massive hits.

 

I think it can justify a #8 peak as long as it sells well and healthily overall, which I believe it will. Anyway, none of this even matters. What matters is that people are buying the album.

Judas is "flopping" in America (Flop for Gaga's standards), it's struggling to even sell 1 million+ downloads which is a shame :(