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Chart News: ARTPOP #1 in UK
Member Since: 9/26/2011
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It sold 65,608 copies this week:
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Lady Gaga follows in the footsteps of Avril Lavigne and Susan Boyle to become only the third female solo artist in chart history to top the chart with each of her first three studio albums, completing her triptych with Artpop, which debuts at number one on sales of 65,608 copies.
Although that tally exceeds the 25,228 copies that her first album The Fame sold when debuting at number three in 2009 - it reached number one 11 weeks later - it is less than a third of the 215,639 copies that follow-up Born This Way sold when reaching number one on its 2011 debut. Racking up only the ninth highest sale for a number one album so far this year, Artpop would likely have opened with a lower tally had it not been for the mp3 version of the album being priced at just £4.99 at Amazon and Sainsbury (£8.99 as iTunes), a fact which helped it to sell 30,211 copies on download.
Artpop's first single, Applause became Gaga's 10th Top 10 single on release in August but - moving 42-51 (8,049 sales) this week - it remains the smallest seller of the ten, with a 14 week tally of 234,979. Do What U Want (feat. R. Kelly), Venus and Dope were also released in the run-up to Artpop but were all instant gratification singles and were thus barred from the chart until now.
Do What U Want now debuts at number nine (29,657 sales), with Venus at number 76 (3,174 sales) and Dope at number 124 (1,666 sales). No other Gaga tracks are in the singles Top 200, although Artpop's release sparks a revival in album sales of Born This Way (151-121, 1,234 sales) and The Fame, which re-enters the chart at number 170 (784 sales). Overall sales of The Fame including the expanded Fame Monster edition are 2,881,664, while Born This Way has sold 960,151 copies. Both albums also charted separately in remixed editions. The Remix - which revisited tracks from The Fame - reached number three and has sold 164,293 copies, while Born This Way: The Remix got to number 77 and has sold 16,094 copies.
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Artpop would likely have opened with a lower tally had it not been for the mp3 version of the album being priced at just £4.99 at Amazon and Sainsbury (£8.99 as iTunes), a fact which helped it to sell 30,211 copies on download.
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Lawd 
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Not bad 
"Overall sales of The Fame including the expanded Fame Monster edition are 2,881,664"
Wow didn't know it was that high, almost diamond.
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Member Since: 12/12/2004
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Originally posted by pabloanxiety
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Omg not these discounts again 
its like we get an ounce of good news but it's clouded in overall bad news...like, what does this mean for her second week? 
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Member Since: 10/14/2008
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The Fame/Monster - 2,881,664
Born This Way - 960,151
The Remix - 164,293
Born This Way: The Remix - 16,094
"Applause" - 234,979
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Member Since: 8/13/2012
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Our struggle is so real right now
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Member Since: 2/16/2012
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She's dropping by over 70% in each country in comparison with BTW..I say her first week grand total WW (including Japan sales) will be somewhere 475k-525k.
But anything near 600k would be highly impressive at this point.
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Member Since: 8/29/2012
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Daniel O'Donnell and his chart record. Gaga's discounts. People still buying Cliff Richard albums.
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Member Since: 8/17/2013
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Just as a random comparison: Born to Die sold 112k during the first week in the 1st week of February 2012
Album sales in the UK are pretty much horrible this year.
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Member Since: 8/29/2012
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Originally posted by ontherocks
Just as a random comparison: Born to Die sold 112k during the first week in the 1st week of February.
Album sales in the UK are pretty much horrible this year.
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They weren't great when Born to Die was released, either. Same year Marina and Conor Maynard opened at #1 with 21k and 17k.
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Artpop would likely have opened with a lower tally had it not been for the mp3 version of the album being priced at just £4.99 at Amazon and Sainsbury (£8.99 as iTunes), a fact which helped it to sell 30,211 copies on download.
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Omg , they will bring this up in every article in future now
But this makes me worried a bit for her second week drop  ....by how much do pop albums generally fall second week in the UK ?
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Member Since: 1/10/2010
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So actually from 65K = 30K were from digital retailers where the album was literally a BARGAIN????? WTF!!!!
I mean.... one year after its release UNAPOLOGETIC is still 16$ in the US iTunes store and 12 pounds in the UK iTunes store...
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Another first week discount for Gaga. 
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Member Since: 4/21/2011
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Those people would still have bought the album, who can say otherwise?
She's still debuted at #1 and still sold more copies than people who had #1 songs this year in UK. That's the receipt and the truth
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Originally posted by YR.
Our struggle is so real right now
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Not really. If she gets #1 in US, it's still a #1 debut in the 3 most important markets (UK/US/Japan.)
Gaga fans are just harsher than her critics and overlook the fact DWUW is gonna be massive, etc.
BTW era sucked and made me wanna kill myself and I'm a fan, I can only imagine how other people felt.
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Member Since: 8/22/2011
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Originally posted by zzmyth
So actually from 65K = 30K were from digital retailers where the album was literally a BARGAIN????? WTF!!!!
I mean.... one year after its release UNAPOLOGETIC is still 16$ in the US iTunes store and 12 pounds in the UK iTunes store...
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That's not true.
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Rihanna’s ‘Unapologetic’ Storms UK Top 10 Following Price Slash
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http://thatgrapejuice.net/2013/04/ri...0-price-slash/
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Anyway, good numbers for Gaga... i guess.
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Member Since: 6/7/2010
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Originally posted by Boop
Those people would still have bought the album, who can say otherwise?
She's still debuted at #1 and still sold more copies than people who had #1 songs this year in UK. That's the receipt and the truth
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Isn't she an album artist? It would be embarrasing for her if she didn't.
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Member Since: 9/1/2013
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Oh please not another discount scandal for us lol.
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