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Lady Gaga bags third Number 1 album with ARTPOP
ARTPOP flies straight in at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart, delivering Lady Gaga her third UK Number 1.
Lady Gaga follows in the footsteps of Avril Lavigne and Susan Boyle to become only the third female solo artist in chart history to top the chart with each of her first three studio albums, completing her triptych with ARTPOP, which debuts at number one on sales of 65,608 copies.
Although that tally exceeds the 25,228 copies that her first album The Fame sold when debuting at number three in 2009 - it reached number one 11 weeks later - it is less than a third of the 215,639 copies that follow-up Born This Way sold when reaching number one on its 2011 debut. Racking up only the ninth highest sale for a number one album so far this year, ARTPOP would likely have opened with a lower tally had it not been for the mp3 version of the album being priced at just £4.99 at Amazon and Sainsbury (£8.99 as iTunes), a fact which helped it to sell 30,211 copies on download.
ARTPOP's first single, Applause became Gaga's 10th Top 10 single on release in August but - moving 42-51 (8,049 sales) this week - it remains the smallest seller of the ten, with a 14 week tally of 234,979. Do What U Want (feat. R. Kelly), Venus and Dope were also released in the run-up to ARTPOP but were all instant gratification singles and were thus barred from the chart until now.
Do What U Want now debuts at number nine (29,657 sales), with Venus at number 76 (3,174 sales) and Dope at number 124 (1,666 sales). No other Gaga tracks are in the singles Top 200, although ARTPOP's release sparks a revival in album sales of Born This Way (151-121, 1,234 sales) and The Fame, which re-enters the chart at number 170 (784 sales). Overall sales of The Fame including the expanded Fame Monster edition are 2,881,664, while Born This Way has sold 960,151 copies. Both albums also charted separately in remixed editions. The Remix - which revisited tracks from The Fame - reached number three and has sold 164,293 copies, while Born This Way: The Remix got to number 77 and has sold 16,094 copies.
High profile TV appearances, including an interview on The Jonathan Ross Show and singing on The X Factor Results Show helped raise awareness of Celine Dion's new album Loved Me Back To Life but failed to secure the 45 year old Canadian her sixth number one. Debuting at number three (52,856 sales), Loved Me Back To Life is Dion's highest charting album since 2002 chart-topper A New Day Has Come. Her last new English language album was Taking Chances, which debuted and peaked six years ago this week at number five on sales of 55,592 copies, and has subsequently sold 392,998 copies. The title track of Loved Me Back To Life jumps 75-14 (22,223 sales) to become Celine Dion's highest charting single since the title track of A New Day Has Come got to number seven in 2002.
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