Hi Gary,

This past week, Lady Gaga's album "Born This Way" fell off the Billboard 200. At least Gaga is already teasing us with new album.

Do you think that the "Born This Way" era was a disappointment, compared to her "The Fame"/"The Fame" Monster" stretch?

Also, could you please give a gift to the Little Monsters and update us with the Nielsen SoundScan sales of Gaga's albums and top-selling singles?

Hi Krzysztof,

After 53 weeks, "Born" departed having spent its first two weeks at No. 1 and racked sales to date of 2.2 million. Granted, its first week sales - 1.1 million - were aided by a promotion that discounted the set to 99 cents by AmazonMP3 for a day. Then again, the album still sold 446,000 physical copies that week, far ahead of the 153,000 copies that the No. 2 title, Brad Paisley's "This Is Country Music," sold overall in that frame, so "Born" would've attained No. 1 bow despite the Amazon sale-pricing.

(By the way, "Born" debuted atop the Billboard 200 dated June 11, 2011, so, happy first birthday and a day since "Born" was born on the tally.)

First, per your sales question, the totals of Gaga's two other releases: "The Fame" has sold 4.4 million and her EP "The Fame Monster," 1.5 million.

As for her biggest downloads, here are her top 10 (as she's released 10 2-million sellers):

6.7 million, "Poker Face"
6.6 million, "Just Dance," featuring Colby O'Donis
5.2 million, "Bad Romance"


3.7 million, "Born This Way"
3.3 million, "Paparazzi"
3.2 million, "Telephone," featuring Beyonce
2.6 million, "The Edge of Glory"
2.5 million, "LoveGame"
2.4 million, "Alejandro"
2 million, "You and I"

Now, the bigger question: was the "Born This Way" era a success?

I think no matter how you define "success," a year on the Billboard 200, 2.2 million copies sold and six top 40 Billboard Hot 100 hits, including the six-week No. 1 title cut and three other top 10s, is pretty good, no? "Born" was also Billboard's No. 3-selling album of the 2011 chart year after Adele's "21" and Taylor Swift's "Speak Now."

http://www.billboard.com/#/column/ch...ce=most_recent

Is "LG" just not selling.

I ran here thinking this was the boxscores.

The Born This Way era is not as big as a "flop" as so many stans make it out to be. It's not even a "flop".

Poker face 6.7 million never expected it to be that high

It's her least talked about hit, so it's not surprising it has stalled in sales.

So The Fame and The Fame+Monster,the combined CD has sold 4.4 million?And The Fame Monster,the separate CD alone has sold 1.5 million?I thought 1.5 million was included in 4.4.I always get confused with the sales of The Fame and Monster.And well BTW's WW numbers look a lot better,but US numbers aren't bad either.

It's so strange because it's one of her best hits

EDIT: Never mind.

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FAR from a 'flop'.Loud is considered Rihanna's most successful era,and even that CD has sold less than BTW inspite of being out for a longer period(but it should be considered as successful since BTW includes 400k sold for $1).Just giving an example.So if Gaga's 'flop' album is outselling her contemporaries' most successful ones,then good for her.

Add insult to injury.
Judas and MTN did not scrape Platinum.

Were you expecting them to? One suffered controversy, the other suffered over-exposure.

I don't see how the era was unsuccessful. She might not have released giant singles, thanks to poor choices, but the era was obviously a success. Hardly the flop ATRL makes it out to be. If you consider this a flop, then hopefully the standards for the others equate to selling 10 million in the US alone.


Right, The Fame Monster Deluxe Edition has its numbers attached to The Fame Standard Edition, while the stand alone E.P has its own numbers.

From Gaga? Honestly, yes.

Bad Romance should be higher. It's one of the most iconic songs in history

It is strange. "Disco stick" was an ongoing thing with her at one point. One of my faves. But I'm glad to see "Paparazzi" moving along.