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Posted by: liamk97 1st February 2017, 01:07 PM
Lady Gaga's biggest songs and albums revealed
01 February 2017 | By Justin Myers
Ahead of Gaga's Super Bowl Half Time Show takeover, we look at some of her biggest UK chart feats.
It's that time of the year again when the rest of the world suddenly catches up on American football fever, the Super Bowl. True, some of us are here for the sports, but most of the show's huge global audience are into the Half Time show, which has recently boasted showstopping performances (literally if you think about it) from Beyoncé, Coldplay, Madonna, and Katy Perry.
This year, it's Lady Gaga's turn to take the stage, and while details of her setlist and performance are tightly under wraps, there's a good chance we'll be hearing some of her monster hits. We look at Gaga's biggest songs and album in her eight-year chart history in the UK.
Just Dance
Gaga's debut was a phenomenon when it spent three weeks at the top in January 2009 – in its first month it sold 260,000 copies. Altogether the track has a sales tally of 959,000 and streams of 6.3 million.
Poker Face
Poker Face is certainly Gaga's biggest song of all time in the UK. It's shifted 1.18 million copies, 8.27 million streams and has many a chart feat attached to its name. It was the star's first million-seller (spoiler: there is another one to come) and it's spent longer in the Top 100 than any of her other hits – 84 weeks! It was also the best selling single of 2009. Not bad, eh?
Do What U Want
Gaga's most streamed song in the UK is not one of her huge early hits, but Do What U Want, which featured R Kelly on one version, and Christina Aguilera on another. It's on 248,000 sales, but 8.5 million streams, which isn't bad to say it came out in 2013, before streaming counted toward the Official Singles Chart. In fact, her streaming Top 3 is pretty close, with Applause and Poker Face not far behind the leader.
While we're here, let's look at Gaga's most streamed Top 10 – some new ones manage to sneak, in, you'll notice.
1 DO WHAT U WANT
2 APPLAUSE
3 POKER FACE
4 PERFECT ILLUSION
5 BAD ROMANCE
6 JUST DANCE
7 MILLION REASONS
8 TELEPHONE
9 BORN THIS WAY
10 THE EDGE OF GLORY
©2017 Official Charts Company
Bad Romance
Ma-ma-ma-maaaaaaa! Gaga's third Number 1 takes the honour of being her second million-seller, and topped the charts in both 2009 and 2010. It's shifted 1.04 million copies, and has racked up 7.58 million plays on streaming services, despite predating streams being counted toward the chart by over four years.
Telephone
Notching up 723,000 sales and 5.74 million streams, Telephone has the dubious honour of being Gaga's most recent Number 1 – her fourth over all. The Beyoncé duet, which spent two weeks at the top in early 2010, is also Bey's last chart-topping single – she's not had one since either. Who do you reckon will break the curse of Telephone first? Surely one of them has another chart-topper in them?
Beyoncé hated it when Gaga changed the radio station without asking. And she never took her turn with the driving either.
Shall we have a look at Gaga's Official Top 10 best selling singles in the UK while we're here?
1 POKER FACE
2 BAD ROMANCE
3 JUST DANCE
4 TELEPHONE
5 BORN THIS WAY
6 THE EDGE OF GLORY
7 PAPARAZZI
8 ALEJANDRO
9 JUDAS
10 APPLAUSE
©2017 Official Charts Company
What about her albums, then?
The Fame
Lady Gaga's debut is the big one, with combined chart sales of 2.94 million, including an astonishing 2.5 million physical copies sold, and 403,000 downloads. The album was a pretty consistent seller in its first year, but when The Fame Monster arrived as part of the reissue at the very end of 2009, it sold nearly 400,000 copies in just three weeks in the run-up to Christmas.
The Fame spent seven weeks at Number 1 and has notched up a whopping 174 weeks in the Official Albums Chart Top 100.
Born This Way
Lady Gaga's second album proper spent three weeks at the top and has a combined sales tally of 989,000. 787,000 of you bought a physical copy and it's sold 194,000 downloads.
Here's how all of Lady Gaga's albums rank in the UK when sales and streams are combined:
1 THE FAME
2 BORN THIS WAY
3 ARTPOP
4 THE REMIX
5 JOANNE
6 CHEEK TO CHEEK (WITH TONY BENNETT)
©2017 Official Charts Company
Posted by: Ne Plus Ultra 1st February 2017, 01:11 PM
I thought for sure the Born This Way album was well over a million?
Posted by: liamk97 1st February 2017, 01:14 PM
Combined sales:
1,263,000 Poker Face
1,116,000 Bad Romance
1,022,000 Just Dance
780,000 Telephone
333,000 Do What U Want (excluding sales from when chart ineligible)
2,940,000 The Fame
989,000 Born This Way
That's what I thought.
Posted by: SKOB 1st February 2017, 02:27 PM
Never knew she actually has three million sellers, thought PF was the only one
Posted by: M4NG0 1st February 2017, 03:14 PM
Ma-ma-ma-maaaaaaa!
Lol @ them quoting the lyrics to Poker Face when talking about Bad Romance
Posted by: Rogue 1st February 2017, 05:33 PM
It's disappointing that even The Remix has sold more than poor old Joanne.
Posted by: mr_pmt 1st February 2017, 05:49 PM
It's been teetering around the 985-990,000 mark for forever.
Posted by: Ne Plus Ultra 1st February 2017, 11:22 PM
Gezza estimated the album at over 1 million in his latest top 100 best selling albums of the decade post.
Posted by: slowdown73 1st February 2017, 11:34 PM
Given her massive start, she has declined very quickly particularly after born this way era.
Posted by: SKOB 2nd February 2017, 07:15 AM
I'd say Joanne has been more successful than Artpop because the sales in general have gone down a lot in couple of years
Posted by: JCM20 2nd February 2017, 09:02 AM
Who's PF?
Posted by: garyfeld 2nd February 2017, 02:12 PM
Not who...what!....Poker Face
Posted by: sammy01 2nd February 2017, 05:28 PM
Truth is both have done horribly. For me Gaga seems an artist or at least her record company obsessed with trying to increase sales and chart positions. The 99 cents deal the first week of Born this ways release in the US (which lead Billboard to change the rules), how she managed to manipulate the rules again to get Dope top 10 in the US. Million Reasons has been 59p more than it has been full price and Joanne was basically on sale in the UK straight after release. Even now the deluxe is only £6.99 on itunes.
I'm fully expecting Joanne to be £4.99 the day before the super bowl.
I think when you take into account how hard she tries to sell, her last 2 albums sales especially in the UK are pretty shocking.
Posted by: JosephStyles 2nd February 2017, 05:39 PM
I'm fully expecting Joanne to be £4.99 the day before the super bowl.
I think when you take into account how hard she tries to sell, her last 2 albums sales especially in the UK are pretty shocking.
What's wrong with promotion tactics? Most artists reduce their songs or albums to help encourage purchases, this isn't just a desperate move from Gaga. "Truth is", Joanne just isn't a very commercial album. It's a nice listen but it's clear Gaga's aim wasn't for huge selling singles. ARTPOP is a different case of course, its sales are underwhelming considering it had two pretty decent-sized hits on it, but I don't think Joanne has done "horribly" at all.
Posted by: SKOB 2nd February 2017, 05:59 PM
Joanne is at 90k at the moment, ARTPOP I believe has sold a bit over 200k so obviously it's still way ahead but it spent only 13 weeks on top 75 and Joanne has registered 14 already so not sure which is more successful given the business climate.
Posted by: sammy01 2nd February 2017, 06:03 PM
You don't think the change of direction and lack of 'gimmicks' for Joanne wasn't an attempt to stop alienating people and thus stop her sales from declining?
You talk about Joanne as if it is some experimental tough to digest album, this isn't Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, it is going in the other direction trying to be more accessible.
Well it depends how you look at 'promotion tactics', the German chart is revenue based for a reason.
Posted by: JosephStyles 2nd February 2017, 07:18 PM
You talk about Joanne as if it is some experimental tough to digest album, this isn't Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, it is going in the other direction trying to be more accessible.
Well it depends how you look at 'promotion tactics', the German chart is revenue based for a reason.
More accessible to who, though? That's the point I'm making, it's not necessarily going to appeal to all the people who loved Just Dance, Poker Face, Bad Romance, etc. It may well do, but some won't (and don't, from my own experience) find it as good, and it's certainly not as commercial. It's not exactly a massive success but I don't think it's done quite as badly as you've suggested.
Posted by: 777666jason 2nd February 2017, 08:30 PM
Well surely we will know which really is most popular after Super Bowl if she performs something from all
Posted by: Regina 2nd February 2017, 08:50 PM
You talk about Joanne as if it is some experimental tough to digest album, this isn't Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, it is going in the other direction trying to be more accessible.
Well it depends how you look at 'promotion tactics', the German chart is revenue based for a reason.
SFIJ wasn't that either though.
Posted by: Gezza 2nd February 2017, 09:12 PM
The "Born This Way" album sale is just bizarre. I can't see anyway that it is not over a million now, I thought I was being rather stingy with my estimates of it. We know that it sold 939k to the end of 2012 so it seems it only sold just 50k in 4 years which seems unlikely since two subsequent solo studio albums have been released plus world tours since that point.
My only thought it is that for some reasons streaming was missed out of the total for the album as an oversight?
Posted by: liamk97 2nd February 2017, 09:19 PM
It was on 986k when Cheek to Cheek was released so 3k in just over 2 years seems very low. I don't think it's been explicitly said that it was a million seller, but I'm pretty sure there was a list of some sort revealed by the OCC and its positioning on the list made it clear it must have been a million seller, because of an album below it.
Posted by: cqmerqn 2nd February 2017, 09:23 PM
Can't blame her for trying to sell an album..
Posted by: Gezza 2nd February 2017, 09:48 PM
Thanks Liam. Yes so it sold 47k in 2.5 years then just 3k since as you note. Sounds very suspicious.
Posted by: sammy01 2nd February 2017, 09:49 PM
Of course it was/is.
It has non traditional song structure running through it. Songs where every line starts with the same phrase (That I would be good, Are you still mad) which completely forgo the verse/chorus/verse structure. A song that is a set of letters to former lovers, again that has no chorus (unsent). A song that is one long ramble with again no chorus (The Couch). Not to mention the subject matter being about her trip to India, suicidal thoughts, abusive relationship etc.
If Joanne was her SFIJ then fair enough, but Joanne is an attempt to be commercial to a wider audience.
Posted by: Regina 2nd February 2017, 10:25 PM
None of that was all tgat experimental or hard ot digest, especially when she came off singing about giving blowjobs in a theatre, drugs and religion.
Posted by: 360Jupiter 2nd February 2017, 10:53 PM
To be fair if she wants to discount the album to get better chart positions and certifications, she's free to.
She doesn't need the sales to pay the bills. She's one of the top 50 richest musicians in the world already according to the list published at the end of the last year, one of only five or six women on there.
http://www.therichest.com/top-lists/top-100-richest-musicians/ #22 and some 20 years plus younger than any of those above her. She must have a really good accountant and business head on her! Katy P and Rihanna are nowhere to be seen - not that I'm pitting women against each other, but they are often seen as contemporaries and I would've expected them to be up near her.
Posted by: sammy01 3rd February 2017, 12:32 PM
If not having a regular strong structure of verse/chorus/verse is easy to digest then why aren't all songs like that and why is the chart filled with songs that follow that structure?
You are arguing for the sake of it.
Posted by: Regina 3rd February 2017, 12:50 PM
Just because it's not the norm, doesn't mean it's hard to digest. Alanis has been doing songs that don't follow the norm her whole career. But this is about Gaga,
so just take some Antacid and calm down.
Posted by: Jonjo 3rd February 2017, 12:52 PM
What's SFIJ? (Usually I'm good at deciphering these, but I cannot think what that one is for the life of me :')
'Joanne' was a very daring album! Like, who would that album honestly appeal to? It's completely different for Gaga! I can't see who it was supposed to appeal to when a lot of her core fanbase were initially disappointed by it? I've seen a lot of comments from people who basically say that it's actually not that bad of an album in retrospect. There were no pop bangers in the same way that we're used to from her.
So I would say it was a daring move to release something like 'Joanne' for her. Especially here in the UK. At least the US have an audience for that sort of adult contemporary/borderline country influenced pop.
Posted by: liamk97 3rd February 2017, 01:27 PM
'Joanne' was a very daring album! Like, who would that album honestly appeal to? It's completely different for Gaga! I can't see who it was supposed to appeal to when a lot of her core fanbase were initially disappointed by it? I've seen a lot of comments from people who basically say that it's actually not that bad of an album in retrospect. There were no pop bangers in the same way that we're used to from her.
So I would say it was a daring move to release something like 'Joanne' for her. Especially here in the UK. At least the US have an audience for that sort of adult contemporary/borderline country influenced pop.
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie by Alanis!
It didn't take me long to get used to the change of direction with Joanne and I can comfortably say I prefer it to ARTPOP, but it's easy to see why her fanbase would have struggled relating to this album, especially when they're so used to Gaga delivering such solid pop songs. 'Perfect Illusion' is the closest thing resembling Gaga pre-Joanne and that wasn't really well-received at all, not at first at least.
Posted by: mr_pmt 3rd February 2017, 01:29 PM
I personally think Joanne was brave of her and I admire her for it, you can tell she truly did what she wanted to do on it. The predictable move would have been for her to try and come back with another average sounding pop/dance track or album.
Posted by: sammy01 4th February 2017, 04:43 PM
I cant believe people think 'Joanne' was daring, it was the exact opposite. Her loyal fans were going to buy anything she releases and it is clear from her career trajectory until now that the general public have moved on past the pop/dance/banger and over the topness.
She basically released an album meant to endear her back to the general public, when you look at the music scene right now no one relevant is releasing dance/pop music (maybe aside from Little Mix who are targeting kids). You could say she is evolving but I think she is far more calculating and it is more down to what she thinks will get her back in favour than a natural progression.
Posted by: mack25 6th February 2017, 10:52 AM
She basically released an album meant to endear her back to the general public, when you look at the music scene right now no one relevant is releasing dance/pop music (maybe aside from Little Mix who are targeting kids). You could say she is evolving but I think she is far more calculating and it is more down to what she thinks will get her back in favour than a natural progression.
Not at all. Half of the top 10 in the UK singles chart right now is dance/pop infused:
Ed Sheeran - Shape of You
The Chainsmokers - Paris
Clean Bandit ft. Anne Marie & Sean Paul - Rockabye
Sean Paul ft. Dua Lipa - No Lie
..not forgetting Little Mix - Touch!!
Jax Jones possibly too...
Posted by: 360Jupiter 6th February 2017, 12:42 PM
Think she'll get a chart boost on either side of the pond from the Superbowl performance?
Glad she did Million Reasons. It's stunning how much better that song sounds live than studio.
Posted by: ___∆___ 6th February 2017, 05:46 PM
Like others have said above I LOVE 'Joanne' however was initially disappointed but after taking time with it I think it's a beautiful album.
Frustrating that she has given 'A Million Reasons' almost endless promo worldwide and failed to turn it into the monster hit she clearly wants the song to become.
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