Posted November 12, 201311 yr Lady Gaga's Official Top 10 Biggest Selling UK Singles Revealed! 12/11/2013 By Justin Myers http://c0903002.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/3231-ladygaga2011_420x250.jpg To celebrate the release of Mother Monster's new album ARTPOP, we count down Lady Gaga’s biggest sellers on the UK's Official Singles Chart! In a career spanning just half a decade, Lady Gaga has become one of the most talked-about artists in the music biz. Every song and every image change is something of an event, and as Gaga unleashes her third full studio album ARTPOP, we count down her big ones. Here is Lady Gaga’s Official Top 10 Biggest Selling UK Singles - each one unforgettable. 10. Applause (2013) The newest track on the countdown, and Lady Gaga’s most recent chart hit, Applause served as the lead track from new album ARTPOP. It had been a long wait for new Gaga music – a hip injury meant that we’d been hanging on for almost two years before Applause hit the stores. Gaga was back and bigger than ever! PEAK POSITION: 5 SALES: 215,000 CHART FACT: Applause was Lady Gaga’s first Top 5 hit for two and half years. 9. Judas (2011) Frantic, frenetic, energetic and unstoppable, Judas was the second official cut from Gaga’s heavily anticipated second album – or sophomore, if that’s your thing – Born This Way. Gaga continued her trend of controversial videos packed with action, by joining a biker gang and partying in an Elizabethan banqueting hall in the slick clip for Judas. (Are you sure about this? – Video Ed) PEAK POSITION: 8 SALES: 302,000 CHART FACT: Judas took six weeks to reach its peak of Number 8, after slipping to Number 23 before climbing again. 8. Alejandro (2010) This third and final single to be lifted from Gaga’s The Fame Monster EP, which was included in a re-release of debut album The Fame in the UK, was Gaga’s biggest love letter to Europop yet, with definite ABBA influences. The video combined Gaga’s by-now trademark highly stylised imagery with what every good pop video needs – some hardcore dance routines.| PEAK POSITION: 7 SALES: 436,000 CHART FACT: Such was demand for new material from Gaga on the release of The Fame Monster, a number of tracks from the album charted straight away. Alejandro was one of them, making it to Number 75 long before its proper release. 7. The Edge Of Glory (2011) This upbeat track, the third to be released from Born This Way, is one of Gaga’s more upbeat numbers but was actually written in the aftermath of the death of the singer’s grandfather. The euphoric dance track has one of Gaga’s more low-key videos – she doesn’t even change her outfit once! She mustn’t have seen anything she liked in the shops; we have days like that too. Soul-destroying. PEAK POSITION: 6 SALES: 580,000 CHART FACT: As well as being about her late grandfather, Edge Of Glory was also inspired the film series Rocky. "That song is about looking life in the eye and when you die saying 'I won, I'm a champion' like Rocky sprinting to the top of the staircase," she told MTV. "Rocky is my favourite movie – I love Rocky 3 because he gets his ass kicked in the first round and comes back." Yeah! 6. Paparazzi (2009) Gaga’s third single from debut album The Fame was perhaps the first time we got a proper look at the artist Lady Gaga was set to become. We’re treated to look after look in Paparazzi’s video, a cautionary tale about the quest for fame, in which Gaga decides it really is time her violent boyfriend was bumped off. The video features True Blood actor Alexander Skarsgård and was directed by Jonas Åkerlund and would pave the way for Gaga to show more of her murderous side in another big hit yet to come… PEAK POSITION: 4 SALES: 585,000 CHART FACT: Paparazzi was Gaga’s third consecutive Top 5 hit. Follow-up single LoveGame broke the run by peaking at Number 19, despite its sizeable disco stick. 5. Born This Way (2011) Don’t call it a comeback, but it kinda was. As Gaga prepared to release her second full album of new material, the world waited with bated breath. Could she live up to the hype of her early hits? After two massive tours – The Fame Ball and The Monster Ball – would Gaga still have the energy to pull off another dazzling album campaign? In short: yes. PEAK POSITION: 3 SALES: 690,000 CHART FACT: In its first two weeks on sale, Born This Way sold 144,000 copies. That’s not bad, is it? 4. Telephone (2010) If you’re going to do a collaboration, this is probably the best way to do it. Gaga teamed up with Queen B for a raucous girls’ night out in a ‘clerb’, sipping some ‘berb’ and definitely not answering their phones, thank you very much. The epic video was a sequel to Paparazzi, with Gaga being banged up for putting something nasty in her boyfriend’s tea. Luckily, Beyoncé was on hand to spring her out of jail, and the two went on a further rampage, causing no end of headaches for the environmental health department of their local council. Apart from featuring lots of telephones and Lady Gaga wearing a gravity defying phone wig, the video didn’t have much to do with the song, but it was Gaga. And Beyoncé. Who cares? PEAK POSITION: 1 SALES: 694,000 CHART FACT: Telephone is Beyoncé’s third best selling single. Neither Gaga nor Beyoncé have had a UK Number 1 since. 3. Just Dance (2009) Here’s where it all began. Who knew as this debut single raced to Number 1 we were witnessing the start of something really big? (Pretty much everyone, we know.) Before the meat dress and arriving at awards ceremonies in an egg, there was Just Dance – a slice of perfect pop and the ideal way to introduce the world to a true pop phenomenon. We’re getting quite emotional at the thought of it, actually. PEAK POSITION: 1 SALES: 935,000 CHART FACT: Just Dance was the third best selling song on the Official Singles Chart in 2009. 2. Bad Romance (2009) Lady Gaga’s first release from The Fame Monster was something of a slow-burner, but once it got going, it certainly made up for lost time. Bad Romance took seven weeks to reach the top of the Official Singles Chart, only to be knocked off by Rage Against The Machine. It returned two weeks later, not quite ready to give up on all the glory just yet. From the cover art to the video and the defiant chant of 'Gaga ooh la la', everything about Bad Romance made a good case for iconic status. PEAK POSITION: 1 SALES: 1 million CHART FACT: In August 2013, Bad Romance became only the 138th song to break the million sales barrier in the UK, Gaga’s second song to achieve that feat. It was her third Number 1 single of 2009 and her first of 2010. 1. Poker Face (2009) There can only be one winner, and while Bad Romance might catch up one day, it’s Gaga’s second single and Number 1 Poker Face that takes the crown as her best-selling song on the Official Singles Chart. It’s classic Gaga territory: hairpieces as far as the eye can see and the flamboyant popstar outwitting the guys in a hedonistic party setting. Chants ('ma-ma-ma-ma'), a catchy chorus, a talky middle-eight – it’s Gaga 101 and worthy of its million-selling status. PEAK POSITION: 1 SALES: 1.1 million CHART FACT: Poker Face was the best-selling single of 2009, and passed the million sales mark in September 2010.
November 12, 201311 yr Author I posted this in the Gaga forum but it may as well be posted here too. In short: 01. Poker Face 1.1m 02. Bad Romance 1.0m 03. Just Dance 935k 04. Telephone 694k 05. Born This Way 690k 06. Paparazzi 585k 07. The Edge of Glory 580k 08. Alejandro 436k 09. Judas 302k 10. Applause 215k
November 12, 201311 yr Fascinating that her grandad passed in the same year and month mine did. The Edge of Glory is a trumedous record and I'm hopeful it will shoot into the top 5 eventually.
November 12, 201311 yr That is incredible that neither Gaga or Beyonce have had a #1 since Telephone :o The Edge of Glory is my fave Gaga song by a mile. Poker Face and Alejandro are good for summer 2009/2010 memories.
November 12, 201311 yr Wish they had done a Celine Dion countdown instead oh well. Good sales tho for Gaga.
November 12, 201311 yr Great to see sales for her! I didn't realise how much less 'Applause' has sold than 'Judas'. And to think we all called that a massive flop by her standards :o I'm sure 'Do What U Want' will save the era and outsell Applause/Judas.
November 12, 201311 yr I always thought Edge of Glory was a weak version of Marry the Night. Her best three at the top, though.
November 12, 201311 yr Why must they give such vague totals for the top 2? They go from the nearest 1k for the rest to the nearest 100k for those 2.
November 12, 201311 yr I always thought Edge of Glory was a weak version of Marry the Night. Her best three at the top, though. Haha that's exactly what I thik about them too! Agreed about the top 3 as well. Hopefully Just Dance passes 1mil eventually. It deserves it, too.
November 12, 201311 yr HOw much is Just Dance selling a week these days? Or how long will it take to reach a million, if at all?
November 12, 201311 yr Author HOw much is Just Dance selling a week these days? Or how long will it take to reach a million, if at all? I don't think it sells much more than ~200 copies per week to be honest, so it will be the end of this decade before it reaches 1m, unless it receives some significant boosts from 59p reductions along the way (on that note, has 'Just Dance' ever been reduced on iTunes?).
November 12, 201311 yr Earlier this Year The OCC told me that 'Just Dance' only sells a few hundred copies per Week, these days. I guess that is 200 to 300 copies a Week.
November 12, 201311 yr Author Earlier this Year The OCC told me that 'Just Dance' only sells a few hundred copies per Week, these days. I guess that is 200 to 300 copies a Week. Cheers, so about 4-6 years then - 2018-2020. Obviously there could be many factors that could make it pass quicker (I think it will be closer to 4 years rather than 6).
November 13, 201311 yr Excellent information in that post, great to see her sales, applause respect of what we see made the top 10 is doing well as there is still i would predict 25,000 more sales to come for it in the coming weeks.
November 13, 201311 yr Applause has certainly not done as well considering it was a comeback song and lead single from a new album.
November 13, 201311 yr (on that note, has 'Just Dance' ever been reduced on iTunes?). Yes, it has. In 2011 Lady Gaga's entire discography got discounted to 59p (even album tracks). It was when You and I was out I think.
November 13, 201311 yr I wish she'd released Dance In The Dark instead if Alejandro. I'm sure it would be in her top 3!! It's just amazing!! :) Nice to see poker face #1, although that's obviously coming!!
November 13, 201311 yr I wish she'd released Dance In The Dark instead if Alejandro. I'm sure it would be in her top 3!! It's just amazing!! :) Nice to see poker face #1, although that's obviously coming!! Oi! Alejandro shade will NOT be tolerated! You could have just said you wish she'd released Dance In The Dark as well as Alejandro :unsure:
November 13, 201311 yr Oi! Alejandro shade will NOT be tolerated! You could have just said you wish she'd released Dance In The Dark as well as Alejandro :unsure: :blink: that's what I meant :P
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