Lady Gaga's amazy album Born This Way had it's first big debut in the UK this week, starting in the top spot with the highest selling first week of any album in that country for this year with 215,000 units sold. That edges out Adele's 21 which charted with 208,000 in it's first week out. Born This Way's release also vaulted her first album, The Fame, back into the top 10 at #7. Damn. Now in the US Born This Way is blasting projections and will sell well over a MILLION copies in it's first week. On it's first day of release alone the album shifted 550,000 units and the 99 cent offer on Amazon (which shut down the site's server by the way) drove it up even further. Billboard reports "iTunes totaled 104,000 units; Best Buy, 45,000 units; Target, 35,000 units and Starbucks, 10,000 units. Consequently, industry prognosticators project that Best Buy will hit 200,000 units by the end of the SoundScan week on May 29; Target will reach 150,000; Wal-Mart will hit 125,000, and iTunes will hit 200,000 units". The album has already debuted at #1 in Australia, Germany, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, and Sweden. Go, GAGA!!! Of course I already reviewed the disc and LOVE it. Gaga for president! Here is Lady Gaga's performance of her single Edge of Glory from last week's American Idol finale. It's hot.
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