Was Lady Gaga’s ‘A Star Is Born’ the Biggest Celebrity Comeback of the Decade?
Lady Gaga was once considered the world’s biggest artist — until she wasn’t — until she was again. She’s had a lot of controversies and hiccups in her career over the last decade — from the meat dress, to her feuds with Madonna and Perez Hilton, to her shocking music video for “Judas” — and while some of these things would normally end the careers of other celebrities, Gaga has always managed to persevere through it all. She was here to stay, and reminded us of that during her tribute performance for ‘The Sound of Music’ at 2015’s Oscars, followed by her performance at Super Bowl LI’s halftime show in 2017 — and, more recently, with her big-screen debut starring alongside Bradley Cooper in the critically-acclaimed A Star Is Born and what some are calling the biggest celebrity “comeback” of the last decade.
Some might scoff at the idea, but let’s remind everyone what Gaga (and Cooper, too) accomplished with this film:
- Soundtrack: 7M WW/2.5M US SPS / 3M WW/1.2M US PURE
#1 on Billboard Top 200 Albums (4 weeks) - “Shallow”: 95.5M US SPS | 1.3M US Pure
#1 on Billboard Hot 100
Most Awarded Song in History - 2.4B Spotify Streams overall
- 1.7B YouTube Views overall
- $500M Gross
- 1 Academy Award
- 3 Grammy Awards
All of this is, of course, assuming Lady Gaga needed to come back from anything in the first place, which in my opinion is furthest from the truth — but still, you can’t really ignore the fact that this film has done wonders for her career, and is probably the biggest celebrity era of the century.
