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Lady Gaga debuts at #1 in the Oricon Japanese Album Chart with sales of 184,000. She is the first western solo artist to hit #1 on the chart since Michael Jackson's 'This Is It' in 2009 and the first western female to do so since Madonna's 'Hard Candy' in 2008. http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/88250/full

Even still, if she does get anywhere near the YE #2, I'd be delighted. I mean 3 years in a row in unbelievable. She'll get that YE #1 eventually. Maybe not this year, maybe not next. But eventually :)

I wouldn't be surprised if Gaga was ~130-150k next week. I mean this week probably went something like this: 94k 32k ~30k ~25k ~30k ~40k Giving ~250k for the week. I wouldn't be surprised if she sold around an average of 20-25k per day next week.

This is madness. Usually the final predictions are made on Thursday, but BTW's are constantly increasing!

Billboard increase their prediction to 1.15million: http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/re...005205482.story

Billboard increase their prediction to 1.15million: http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/re...005205482.story

Don't forget, she just spent longer at #1 in the US with one song than she has ever spent with her other #1s combined...

Universal Music now has the last four million selling debuts as Lady Gaga joins Taylor Swift, Lil Wayne and 50 Cent in a very rare category these days. Here's how it looks headed into the weekend: *Lady Gaga (Interscope) 1m+ *Brad Paisley (Arista Nashville) 145-155k Adele (XL/Columbia) 125-135k *Glee Cast Vol. 6 (Columbia) 75-80k Now 38 (Capitol/EMI) 45-50k *Maybach Music Group Presents: Self Made, Vol. 1 (Maybach/WB) 45-50k *NKOTBSB (Columbia/Jive/Legacy) 35-40k *Journey (Nomota) 25-30k (Wal-Mart exclusive) *Foster The People (Startime/Columbia) 25-30k Mumford & Sons (Glassnote) 24-27k Seether (Wind-up) 21-24k Beastie Boys (Capitol/EMI) 18-21k Lady Gaga The Fame (Interscope) 18-21k Lemonade Mouth (Walt Disney) 18-21k Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop) 18-21k *Debuts (5/26p)

Universal Music now has the last four million selling debuts as Lady Gaga joins Taylor Swift, Lil Wayne and 50 Cent in a very rare category these days. Here's how it looks headed into the weekend: *Lady Gaga (Interscope) 1m+ *Brad Paisley (Arista Nashville) 145-155k Adele (XL/Columbia) 125-135k *Glee Cast Vol. 6 (Columbia) 75-80k Now 38 (Capitol/EMI) 45-50k *Maybach Music Group Presents: Self Made, Vol. 1 (Maybach/WB) 45-50k *NKOTBSB (Columbia/Jive/Legacy) 35-40k *Journey (Nomota) 25-30k (Wal-Mart exclusive) *Foster The People (Startime/Columbia) 25-30k Mumford & Sons (Glassnote) 24-27k Seether (Wind-up) 21-24k Beastie Boys (Capitol/EMI) 18-21k Lady Gaga The Fame (Interscope) 18-21k Lemonade Mouth (Walt Disney) 18-21k Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop) 18-21k *Debuts (5/26p)

I voted 200-250k from the very start :smoke:

I don't think that's fair to say. Born This Way has been a huge hit everywhere and her album is set to do much better than The Fame was doing in 2009.

What I don't understand is how certain haters can be so arrogant and not realise (despite being told many times) that the $0.99 deal was not Gaga's doing. Interscope sold the album to Amazon for $9 and Amazon decided to sell the album for $0.99 as a loss-leader to create hype and publicity for its improved MP3 service.

Lady Gaga reportedly sold 400k across all digital markets on her first day of sales. With physicals it could be 600k. HDD are now predicting 950k.

Gaga reportedly sold 400k across all digital markets in her first day in the US. With physicals she could be anything up to 600k for first day there! HDD are predicting 950k now. So 750k >>> 900k >>> 950k... Will it go higher? http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/newsPage.cgi?news08553

It's amazing how it's such a battle between Gaga and Adele. Probably now and then again at the Grammys. Although, I doubt either will win AOTY. Both have been huge, but Gaga is at 73/100 on Metacritic and Adele at 75/100. Kanye's latest has 94/100 :o I think he'll sweep up!

First Day Sales: UK 94k Japan 46k

*laughsat100kpredictions*

I think it could fall a bit during the week, but it will have weekend sales on Saturday.

I think a bit more than 240k. TT sold 235k in two days and went on to sell 523 (45% of their total in two days). If Lady Gaga sold 240k then 39% of her total would have been first day, which seems a bit high, and I think Progress was a much more frontloaded release than Born This Way.

Gaga! Who found the 94k figure?! Edit - found it on ukmix.

Amazon - Digital 1. Born This Way 2. Born This Way (Special Edition) Amazon - Physical 1. Born This Way 3. Born This Way (Special Edition) HMV 1. Born This Way (Special Edition) Play - Digital 1. Born This Way (Special Edition) Play - Physical 1. Born This Way 2. Born This Way (Special Edition)

Love for Gaga, then :)

Well, that's what someone else I was talking to said, so I included a comparison of TFM, which has ~2800 views in its entire history.

Don't know how much this means, but... Born This Way (Bonus Track Version) got 1274 ratings on UK iTunes today, of which 1106 were 5*. Born This Way got 276 ratings on UK iTunes today, of which 247 were 5*. So in total, both versions got 1550 ratings on UK iTunes today, of which 1353 were 5*. I'm not sure if this is any indication of sales, but Adele has 3179 ratings in total, of which 2634 are 5*. TFM has 2797 ratings in total, of which 2366 are 5*. Do you think this could be any indication of sales?

http://twitter.com/#!/search/gaga%20sold%20out http://twitter.com/#!/search/born%20th...ay%20sold%20out http://twitter.com/#!/search/btw%20sold%20out :smoke: