I dunno, end of the year just makes so much sense to me Especially with her repeating that the perfume is an extension of her music. She has a lot of press coming up, so by the time the album drops in 2013, she'll have already done plenty of things in the US.
I can't believe you can trust in all this made up information, if you know you fave, you know she wouldn't said all these stupid things, this ****ing asshole is trying to make you believe all this ****, 80% of the information you are getting is FAKE.
Gaga's team wanted to replicate what they failed to do with Born This Way (Gaga got too excited & revealed a lot about the album months & months prior to its release) and that is to release a single/album quick and fast. I really doubt things have changed since her and her team have been working on the new album for almost a year now and it's only recently they've started to tease about it. It's got to be this year, no doubts about it. Unless it's been pulled back which would be ridiculous.