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The Fame passes digital landmark
15:46 | Tuesday March 1, 2011
Lady GaGa’s The Fame has become the first album to reach platinum level for downloads in the UK, according to the Official Charts Company.
The Fame is one of only three albums in the UK to have sold more than quarter of a million downloads, alongside Kings Of Leon’s Only By The Night and Florence + The Machine’s Lungs.
However, it is the only release to date to have passed the 300,000 – or platinum – mark for downloads.
In total the album has sold more than 2.5m copies in the UK, spawning one million-selling single (Poker Face), three platinum singles (Poker Face, Bad Romance and Just Dance) and four number ones (Just Dance, Poker Face, Bad Romance and Telephone).
]Digital albums are currently a rare growth area for the recorded music industry: BPI figures released earlier this year revealed that digital album sales rose 30.6% in 2010 to 21.0m units. This was equivalent to 17.5% of the albums market last year, up from 12.5% in 2009.
The hope is that this growth in digital albums will soon compensate for the slump in CD sales, which fell 12.4% year-on-year in 2010.
Official Charts Company managing director Martin Talbot said that in setting this landmark, GaGa had “cemented her position in the annals of pop music history”.
“Lady GaGa is the kind of artist who is constantly striving to break new ground and she has done that yet again for album downloads,” he added.
GaGa’s new album, Born This Way, is due for release on May 23.
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