Lady Gaga's latest album, 'Born This Way,' is expected to top 1,000,000 in first week sales in the United States alone, becoming the 17th album in history to do so.

Several months ago when Taylor Swift topped the mark, industry prognosticators were unsure whether it would ever be topped again. All eyes turned towards Gaga as the last artist capable of breaking the boundary.


http://www.billboard.com/news/lady-g...05203872.story

Congrats.

The Queen doubling my expectations. The worldwide sales will be nothing less than gargantuan.

ogm

Universal Music now has the last four million selling debuts as Lady Gaga joins Taylor Swift, Lil Wayne and 50 Cent in a very rare category these days. Here's how it looks headed into the weekend:

*Lady Gaga (Interscope) 1m+
*Brad Paisley (Arista Nashville) 145-155k
Adele (XL/Columbia) 125-135k
*Glee Cast Vol. 6 (Columbia) 75-80k
Now 38 (Capitol/EMI) 45-50k
*Maybach Music Group Presents: Self Made, Vol. 1 (Maybach/WB) 45-50k
*NKOTBSB (Columbia/Jive/Legacy) 35-40k
*Journey (Nomota) 25-30k (Wal-Mart exclusive)
*Foster The People (Startime/Columbia) 25-30k
Mumford & Sons (Glassnote) 24-27k
Seether (Wind-up) 21-24k
Beastie Boys (Capitol/EMI) 18-21k
Lady Gaga The Fame (Interscope) 18-21k
Lemonade Mouth (Walt Disney) 18-21k
Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop) 18-21k

*Debuts (5/26p)

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/rumormill.cgi

...but...but...BILLBOARDCORRUPT!!!

http://twitter.com/#!/search/billboardcorrupt

no nooo!!

No other pop girl could ever.

Worldwide sales so far (US, UK & Japan):

1,340,000.

God bless her, I'm so proud

I wouldn't expect less from her considering the discounts and everything.

They are saying "if", it could.

US sales will be over 1 million so she will get over 1.5 million worldwide first week

Well..it's true.

Exactly.

The excerpt I quoted clearly says industry prognosticators expect it to. Also, see biblios hits link.

You tried. Not even Taylor got a prediction this high so early before the official numbers. This album was going to be a phenomenon no matter what.

Please don't let this turn into market share and co. discussion People are going to have their opinions on how this was done, no need to continually reply.

There should be a thread for her album predictions and discounts talking. Too much threads on this being created

Anyway,