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Basically that's how many times it has been played since it's release. The record spin debut was Britney's with just over 600 (HIAM). GaGa has over 1000 halfway through the day, if those numbers are to be believed.

:o :o :o :o :o HOLY S**T :o :o :o :o :o US Born This Way spins so far: AC: 6 Alternative: 2 Hot AC: 173 Rhythmic: 196 Top 40: 853

WOW http://twitter.com/INTERSCOPEPROMO #BornThiswayFriday Already 612 plays at Top 40 Radio only 87 plays from debuting on the chart WOW-not even 9 in the am

Billboard count single sales until Sunday night (Monday is the start of their sales week rather than Sunday as ours is) and airplay until Tuesday. They predicted 500k in 3 days and I'm starting to really believe it's possible given the HUGE promo she has lined up!!

They were asleep at the time of release :)

So ~80k in 30 hours?? Is it do-able??

^^^ :)

5 hours since release... #1 - USA #1 - UK #1 - Canada #1 - Finland #1 - France #1 - Ireland #1 - Mexico #1 - Greece #1 - Sweden #1 - Ireland #1 - Portugal #1 - Netherlands #1 - Switzerland #1 - Belgium #2 - Spain #2 - Norway #3 - Italy #3 - Luxembourg #3 - Austria #4 - Germany #6 - Denmark #13 - Japan #11 - New Zealand #41 - Australia

Correction, but I LOVE GaGa and BTW!!

Ahhhh the British love GaGa.

I hate how the popbars will take hours to update properly because of the rate at which BTW climbed.

Wow, exaggeration much?? I'm not embarrassing myself to be honest. If I got embarrassed on an online forum I'd have serious problems. I will stay here to watch the ascent of pop's current greatest actually.

Taylor Swift took 5 hours with 'Mine'. GaGa took only 3 :)

It is on US iTunes, as GaGa just broke it by 2 hours!!

It's hardly appropriate for someone with Cheryl Cole in their signature to criticise anyone.

What is the record time to get to #1??

BTW #1 US iTunes!!

I've never been online for iTunes debuts before, so forgive this question if it seems stupid, but is a #21 debut particularly high??

Why is it only available on iTunes through the banner??

I got it from a link, but it isn't showing on my homepage yet :/ Does it have a banner??

Do you have an iTunes link?? It hasn't come up on mine yet.

I like that it's not completely GaGa. It's not what I was expecting at all and that's good. Her sound has progressed from Poker Face to Bad Romance to Born This Way and I like that. I think the next song will be a lot darker and probably an epic and better song (as Just Dance was overshadowed by Poker Face), but I really love the song now.

It may have actually been Billboard's Editorial Director who made the prediction based on information he received from Apple :P

atrl (America's Buzzjack, hahaa) http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?t=112175

Apple have apparently predicted it will sell 500k in 3 days in the USA.