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Record Breaking & History Making:
Beyonce
Lady Gaga
Katy Perry
Britney Spears
Rihanna
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Gaga should easily be #1 for 2011.
1. Born this Way was the Billboard Hot 100's 1000th #1 song
2. Born this Way was the fastest-selling song in iTunes history, selling one million copies in five days.
3. Born this Way is one of 2 songs to debut at #1 in 2011.
4. Born this Way sold 448,000 digital downloads in three days, the most downloads in a first week by a female artist, beating the previous record held by Britney Spears' "Hold It Against Me"
5. Born This Way remained at the top the following week, selling another 509,000 copies in its first full week of release, and becoming the first song to enter the Hot 100 at number one and hold that position for a second week since Clay Aiken's "This Is The Night" in 2003.
6. Subsequently, the song held the number one spot for six weeks making it the only song to debut at number one and stay there for over a month since Elton John’s "Candle in the Wind 1997" in 1997.
7. Born This Way debuted at number 14 on Billboard's Pop Songs chart with 4,602 plays after three days of availability, the highest detections total by a debuting song in the chart's history.
8. It was the second-highest debut on that chart, behind Mariah Carey's "Dreamlover" (1993) which debuted at number 12.
9. In its seventh week on the chart, "Born This Way" reached the top, becoming Gaga's seventh number-one song there, thus tying her with Pink and Rihanna as the artist's with the most number one songs on the chart.
10. In addition, the song broke the overall airplay debut record with a first week audience of 78.5 million, entering at number six on the Radio Songs chart; this feat surpassed Janet Jackson's "All for You" (2001) which had debuted at number nine with an audience of 70 million.
11. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 1,108,000 copies, Gaga's first number-one album and the highest first-week total since 50 Cent's The Massacre (2005) sold 1,141,000 in its first week.
12. It is the seventeenth album to sell over a million copies in one week.
13. Gaga is the fifth woman to sell one million copies in a week, after Whitney Houston (The Bodyguard Soundtrack, 1992), Britney Spears (Oops!...I Did It Again, 2000), Norah Jones (Feels Like Home, 2004), and Taylor Swift (Speak Now, 2010).
14. The album also became the eighth best-selling digital album in U.S. history after its first week of sales.
15. That week, the album outsold more than the rest of the top 10 combined[119] and has the best first-week tally of any album by an American female solo artist since Madonna's Confessions on a Dance Floor with sales of 217,610 copies in 2005.
16. Born this Way topped the charts in 26 countries. The only album to do so, so far this year.
. but what would you do if it takes off again 
