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Music News: Lady GaGa Sets Digital Sales Records
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Lady GaGa Sets Digital Sales Records
Lady Gaga's The Fame this week surpasses Coldplay's Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends as the best-selling album in digital history. The Fame has sold 783,000 digital copies, compared to 782,000 for Viva La Vida.
While The Fame has sold more digital copies than Viva La Vida, the Coldplay album has realized a higher percentage of its sales (29%) in the digital sphere than the Gaga album has (22%). The obvious reason: Gaga's album has sold more overall copies (physical and digital combined): 3,539,000, compared to 2,693,000 for Coldplay's album.
The key to the success of Gaga's album has been a non-stop barrage of hits. The tracks on The Fame have sold a combined total of 24,645,000 digital copies. This constitutes an all-time record, far ahead of the nearest runners-up, the Black Eyed Peas' The E.N.D. (17,878,000) and Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad (17,041,000).
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/cha...wrGuT3mAEPwiUv
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This is for her two albums, yes?
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THE QUEEN IS COLLECTING WIGS
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Originally posted by RudeBoy
This is for her two albums, yes?
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No this is for her one album and rerelease.
The seperate EP sales aren't counted towards this
& FYI, the other albums listed both also had rereleases.
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Originally posted by RudeBoy
This is for her two albums, yes?
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Don't you start throwing shade here.
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GaGa has broken another record
This album deserves the title
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Originally posted by Bibliotheque
No this is for her one album and rerelease.
The seperate EP sales aren't counted towards this
& FYI, the other albums listed both also had rereleases.
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How did Just Dance, Poker Face, LoveGame and Paparazzi manage to sell 24,645,000 copies?
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Originally posted by RudeBoy
How did Just Dance, Poker Face, LoveGame and Paparazzi manage to sell 24,645,000 copies?
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How did Umbrella, SU&D, DSTM, HTILY & Rehab manage to sell 17m+?
They didn't As I said, they included the rerelease tracks.
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Lady Gaga
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Originally posted by RudeBoy;
How did Just Dance, Poker Face, LoveGame and Paparazzi manage to sell 24,645,000 copies?
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Re-release tracks included, since TF includes the deluxe edition of TFM.
And the album tracks have sold quite a lot. Starstruck alone is gold.
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Originally posted by RudeBoy
How did Just Dance, Poker Face, LoveGame and Paparazzi manage to sell 24,645,000 copies?
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The TRACKS on the Fame (Monster), not the SINGLES
and take your shade with you
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Quote:
Originally posted by Bibliotheque
No this is for her one album and rerelease.
The seperate EP sales aren't counted towards this
& FYI, the other albums listed both also had rereleases.
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Get him RIGHT together.
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Originally posted by Bibliotheque
The seperate EP sales aren't counted towards this
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That's what I meant. I guess you meant to say that the singles from EP WERE counted on the total track sales. That's all I needed to hear.
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She's totally doing the victory dance.
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"I'm on a mission, and it involves some heavy wig-collecting."
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Quote:
Originally posted by RudeBoy
That's what I meant.
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That was in reference to the album sales record, hence "EP sales".
Quote:
Originally posted by RudeBoy
I guess you meant to say that the singles from EP WERE counted on the total track sales. That's all I needed to hear.
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I never said that they weren't
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Originally posted by MonstahNL
The TRACKS on the Fame, not the SINGLES
and take your shade with you
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All the tracks from BOTH albums including singles from BOTH albums managed to do so.
Her total digital sales in the US were 24.4 million in late May, so it's both albums.
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Originally posted by Bibliotheque
That was in reference to the album sales record, hence "EP sales".
I never said that they weren't
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Yes you did. I asked: (As for the Total Tracking Sales)
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This is for her two albums, yes?
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You answered...
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No this is for her one album and rerelease.
The seperate EP sales aren't counted towards this
& FYI, the other albums listed both also had rereleases.
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Originally posted by Duca
All the tracks from BOTH albums including singles from BOTH albums managed to do so.
Her total digital sales in the US were 24.4 million in late May, so it's both albums.
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I'm sorry I forgot to add (Monster)
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