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LADY'S GAGANTIC!

Brad Paisley, Glee, Maybach, NKOTBSB, Foster the People Debut Top 10

May 31, 2011

After one of the most spectacular release rollouts in the history of the record business, Interscope artist Lady Gaga’s Born This Way enters the HITS Album Sales chart at #1, with a cool 1.1 million in sales.That’s the highest total since 50 Cent moved 1.14 million of Massacre in 2005. Taylor Swift’s Speak Now sold 1.044 million in its first week last October. Counting Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter, which sold 1.005 million in June 2008, UMG has the last four million selling debuts.

Almost 650k of those sales were in digital form, with 460k coming via Amazon’s precedent-shattering two-day 99 cents promotion.

Arista Nashville’s Brad Paisley, with This Is Country Music, is the next highest debut, bowing at #2 with 154k, while Columbia’s Glee: The Music Vol. 6 (#4) and MMG/Warner Bros.’ Maybach Music Group Presents…(#5) are the other Top 5 debuts, sandwiching XL/Columbia’s still-potent Adele (#3), which will soar past double-platinum next week.

Other Top 10 newcomers include Columbia/Jive/Legacy’s NKOTBSB (#7) and Startime/Columbia’s Foster the People (#9), alongside holdovers Capitol/EMI’s Now 38 (#6), Broken Bow’s Jason Aldean (#8, +17%) and Glassnote’s Mumford & Sons (#10), closing in on 1.5 million.

That gives Steve Barnett’s Team Columbia four of the Top 10.

The rest of the new chart entries include 19 Recordings’ American Idol winner Scotty McCreery (#11), Nomota’s Wal-Mart exclusive Journey (#16), 19 Recordings’ Lauren Alaina (#39) and Def Jam/IDJ’s Jadakiss (#41), while RCA Nashville’s Sara Evans is a re-entry (#45).

Big Machine’s Rascal Flatts (#45-25, +54%) is the week’s biggest double-digit gainer, followed by Lady Gaga’s Fame (#33-15, +45%), Atlantic’s Zac Brown Band (#31-22, +26%), Def Jam/IDJ’s Rihanna (#36-32, +12%) and Universal Republic Nashville’s The Band Perry (#41-38, +10%).

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Beyonce is finished... if she was the top bitch she would pull these type of numbers... "girls" won't be powerful enough to do it either that songs a fucking flop.

Was Janet finished when she pulled in only 210,000 for 1st week of VR? No.

And I don't think Beyonce is as cheap as gaga, selling her album at 99 cent. :filenails:

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Was Janet finished when she pulled in only 210,000 for 1st week of VR? No.

And I don't think Beyonce is as cheap as gaga, selling her album at 99 cent. :filenails:

You fucking kidding right? Bitch might sell her cd for 88 cents just to be extra.... beyonce isn't original. Her video was a rip off of judas anyway... gaga inspired that bitch.

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Was Janet finished when she pulled in only 210,000 for 1st week of VR? No.

And I don't think Beyonce is as cheap as gaga, selling her album at 99 cent. :filenails:

Well, first week sales weren't huge until the turn of the century.

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Well, first week sales weren't huge until the turn of the century.

:rolleyes: There is always an excuse for everything with her. Just as long as it favours gaga, we can twist theory and fact and make up achievements under a false pretence.

All the more reason to say this aint that big of a deal then. Especially if your gonna offer your album for the price of single. Daym album should have sold 10 million by now at that price if she was really the it thing.

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:rolleyes: There is always an excuse for everything with her. Just as long as it favours gaga, we can twist theory and fact and make up achievements under a false pretence.

All the more reason to say this aint that big of a deal then. Especially if your gonna offer your album for the price of single. Daym album should have sold 10 million by now at that price if she was really the it thing.

No, I'm not siding with Gaga by any means. I understand that she sonly old that much because it was soo cheap.

I was just stating that starting in perhaps late '98 first weeks sales began to be the tail wagging the dog.

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