Lady GaGa helps BBC Three find new musical high notes
Lady GaGa's controversial appearance at Radio 1’s Big Weekend festival last month gave BBC Three its highest audience for a music programme to date, the BBC has revealed.
The singer, who emerged from a coffin to start her Big Weekend show and ended it with what one reviewer described as a “jazz odyssey”, attracted mixed notices for her performance at the R1 event, which took place in Carlisle on May 14 and 15.
However, the show attracted a peak average audience of 1.5m, the highest for a music programme on BBC Three, after being heavily trailed on the station. GaGa’s appearance also helped the singer’s second full album Born This Way to chalk up the highest first-week sales of 2011 when it was released on May 23.
The BBC said that the Big Weekend – a flagship show for Radio 1 that also featured on BBCThree, online and via Red Button – had performed “extremely well” this year, with audiences up on BBC Three, largely thanks to GaGa.
Overall it had 5.3m viewers on the digital channel.
08. (16) The Edge Of Glory - Lady Gaga (+87.1%)
31. (29) Judas - Lady Gaga (-7.7%)
34. (39) Born This Way - Lady Gaga (+0.9%)
136. (179) Hair - Lady Gaga (+22.4%)
139. (140) Bad Romance - Lady Gaga (-6.8%)
160. (162) Poker Face - Lady Gaga (-3.4%)
163. (RE) Yoü & I - Lady Gaga (+23.5%)
At the UK and US selling around the same amount weekly.
I'm not familiar w/ sales in Japan - it seems that certain huge Japanese artists can score like 600K first week...but even a huge Western artist can't sell all that much...
I'm not familiar w/ sales in Japan - it seems that certain huge Japanese artists can score like 600K first week...but even a huge Western artist can't sell all that much...
Lady Gaga debuts #1 on Japanese Oricon charts with the highest debut of the year, and i believe in the last 2 years(I don't understand the article fully) for an international artist
Oricon Japan:
1 (NE) - Born This Way - Lady Gaga - 184,000
"'the Japanese article basically says she hit #1 with 184.000 sales; she is the first western solo artist to hit #1 since MJ's This Is It in 2009; and the first western female artist to hit #1 since Madonna's Hard Candy in 2008"
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Just to compare, the opening weeks for „recent” albums by some of Japan’s biggest female solo artists:
Koda Kumi - Dejavu (2011) - 138,005
Namie Amuro - Checkmate! (2011) - 252,889
Ayumi Hamasaki - Love Songs (2010) - 180,048
Nishino Kana - To Love (2010) - 290,048
Superfly - Box Emotions (2009) - 213,956
aiko - Matome I (2011) - 226,030
JUJU - Request (2010) - 128,965
YUI - Holidays in the Sun (2010) - 184,952
Ringo Shiina - Sanmon Gossip (2009) - 120,446
Yuki - Ureshikutte Dakiauyo (2010) - 102,679
Kato Miliyah - HEAVEN (2010) - 150,804
Utada Hikaru - Single Collection vol. 2 (2010) - 230,979
awake - awake history (2009) - 348,013
Kaela Kimura - 5 Years (2010) - 215,974
I'm not familiar w/ sales in Japan - it seems that certain huge Japanese artists can score like 600K first week...but even a huge Western artist can't sell all that much...
184 000 in the first week in Japan.
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3 = LADY GAGA The Edge Of Glory 10475 +59 1077 -121 61.819 -0.251 6
At the UK and US selling around the same amount weekly.
