From the numbers then it looks like she's had the position for a while but it's only just been confirmed
From this weeks Music Week Sales Report:
Quote:
"BEP’s career tally of 3.3m digital sales is inferior only to Lady GaGa, whose songs have sold a combined 4,087,071 copies digitally."
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Here's a rough breakdown of her digital sales, thanks to orens @ Haven forum:
Poker Face - 950K
Just Dance - 825K
Bad Romance - 783K
Paparazzi - 495K
Telephone - 482K
Love Game - 176K
The previous owner of the record was Rihanna, who Guinness said last year had sold 2.5 million digital downloads so she'll probably now be third, just below BEP.
Oh and I did hesitate to post this after all the recent record threads but this is a really big one