Gaga Breaks An iTunes Record

Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” has become the fastest-selling single ever on Apple’s iTunes store worldwide, racking up more than one million downloads in five days, Apple said on Friday.

Apple said the song — a Madonna-influenced dance track that the 24 year-old singer performed after “hatching” from a giant egg at the Grammy Awards — had hit the No. 1 spot on iTunes in 23 countries.

“Born This Way”, the title track of a new album to be released in May, also went straight to the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles charts earlier this week.

The flamboyant performance artist also revealed her secret for staying so thin, and how she gets her creative juices flowing.

“I am on the drunk diet,” she told Sirius XM radio on Friday.

“I live my life as I want to, creatively. I like to drink whiskey and stuff while I am working. But the deal is I’ve got to work out every day, and I work out hung over if I am hung over. And it’s about the cross-training and keeping yourself inspired. I have to say, I do a ton of yoga,” she added.
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Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Is No. 1, Selling More Than Britney

Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” made music history on Wednesday by going straight to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 song chart to become the 1,000th top song in the list’s 52-year history.

“It is a tremendous honor,” Gaga tells Billboard of the milestone. “To be the 1000th No. 1 on Billboard…I would be silly not to say this is the greatest honor of my career.”

“I am so humbled and so honored and overwhelmed by the reception to ‘Born This Way,’” Gaga adds. ” (It) has been so life changing for me as an artist, and between Billboard and the international number ones and the radio numbers…I couldn’t be more blessed to have the fans that I have.”

Fittingly for such a milestone, the first single and title track from Lady Gaga’s third album, due May 23, arrives in record-breaking fashion.
On Radio Songs, the Hot 100′s airplay component chart, “Born This Way” begins at No. 6 with a first-week audience of 78.5 million. That’s the highest bow and largest opening airplay figure for a song since the tally began incorporating all radio formats in December 1998.

The arrival of “Born This Way” beat the previous debut record on Radio Songs, set when Janet Jackson’s “All for You” soared in at No. 9 with 70 million in 2001.

With opening-week digital sales of 448,000, “Born This Way” likewise breaks barriers with the largest debut sum for a female artist. Britney Spears established the prior mark four weeks ago upon, the arrival of “Hold It Against Me” (411,000).

The opening of “Born” marks the third-largest debut among all digital tracks. Flo Rida’s “Right Round” started with 636,000 in February 2009 and the Black Eyed Peas’ “Boom Boom Pow” with 465,000 two months later.

Lady Gaga Speaks About Upcoming Album “Born This Way”

Lady Gaga announced the title of her highly anticipated new album, Born This Way, at the 2010 MTV VMA’s and now she’s sharing her personal thoughts on the upcoming album.

“The album is my absolute greatest work I’ve ever done and I’m so excited about it. The message, the melodies, the direction, the meaning, what it will mean to my fans and what it will mean in my own life – it’s utter liberation.”

“I knew I had an ability to change the world when I started to receive letters from fans. They have related to me as a human being and as a non-human being – as a super-human person that I truly am.”

“Everyone tells me I’m arrogant but my music’s the only thing I’ve got, so you’ll have to let me be confident about one thing. I suppose that’s what you can expect from the album: a lot of hit records that will piss people off.

“Beyoncé said: ‘Where the f**k do you get these ideas from?’ And I was like: ‘I don’t know Bee, it was just the way I was born’.”

Are you excited for Lady Gaga’s new album?

New Details On Lady Gaga’s Upcoming Album

Producer RedOne has been dishing out some new details this week on Lady Gaga’s upcoming third album.

RedOne told Billboard:

“It’s going to be shocking, shocking, shocking!”

“You never want to go too far from your brand — people love you for a reason. But we still want to give them something with a kick, something that makes them say, ‘Oh my God! We didn’t expect this!’

“When you heard ‘Bad Romance’ after ‘Poker Face,’ it was like the best thing you’ve ever heard,” he continues. “We want that type of reaction. I think that’s part of my job and her job — to keep her evolving. “

“It [Bad Romance] was really good musically but it was a bit too left. I asked her if we could take it more to the middle, and she said, ‘I’m open. Let’s do it,’”

RedOne told the BBC:

“When you see everyone singing along to something – that’s the goal. You know that the song is good. Especially in countries that don’t speak English.”

BBC: Is that why so many of your songs use nonsense words – like the “ra, ra, ra” refrain in Bad Romance?

“Of course. It’s the same with “ma ma ma ma” in Poker Face. Everything is a hook.”

It sounds like we can expect to hear a familiar sound from the two RedOne produced tracks on Lady Gaga’s album. Is that good or bad?

Lady Gaga Album Sales Reach 13 Million

During her show at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Lady Gaga was presented with a plaque to mark her incredible success. Lady Gaga has sold 13 million albums and 51 millions singles worldwide.

The anticipation is already building for her next album. Do you think it will have record breaking sales as well?