In a gay club right now. And the top artists that gain most positive feedback are...
1. Lady Gaga
2. Kelly Clarkson
3. Rihanna
I went a a gay club over the summer. They played Scheiße and Marry the Night. The crowd went NUTS. One of the best nights of my life, though I don't remember much after the club
I went a a gay club over the summer. They played Scheiße and Marry the Night. The crowd went NUTS. One of the best nights of my life, though I don't remember much after the club
I heard them playing Scheisse here once in the summer. The lesbians love it and sang to EVERY SINGLE WORD.
In last week's "Ask Billboard," you wrote that Lady Gaga has nine one-million selling downloads. It seems that, as of this week, she has 10, as "You and I" joins the list. (I wonder how fast "Judas" can become her 11th one-million selling download).
Could you please update us with the SoundScan sales of Gaga's digital singles, as well as her total album sales?
Thanks,
Chris Gorecki
Lublin, Poland
Hi Chris,
As "You and I" sold another 95,000 downloads last week, the song indeed passed the 1-million threshold.
Here's a rundown of the digital sales to-date of Mother Monster's singles:
6,388,000, "Poker Face"
6,348,000, "Just Dance"
4,939,000, "Bad Romance"
3,285,000, "Born This Way"
3,126,000, "Paparazzi"
3,011,000, "Telephone"
2,433,000, "LoveGame"
2,285,000, "Alejandro"
2,036,000, "The Edge of Glory"
1,003,000, "You and I"
822,000, "Judas"
... and, Lady Gaga's total album sales:
4,312,000, "The Fame"
1,827,000, "Born This Way"
1,510,000, "The Fame Monster"
249,000, "The Remix"
As for "Judas," the song is 178,000 downloads from reaching 1 million in digital sales. If it continues to sell 3,000 a week, as it has averaged the last two weeks (no guarantee, since interest in the song could wane, considering it was not at all a radio hit on the scale of all her other singles), it would reach the million mark approximately 14 months from now.
And, with all this talk of digital sales, it seems like a good time to add yet another tribute to the revolutionary work of Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder and father of the digital music era who passed away Wednesday (Oct. 5) at age 56.
Since getting my first iPod in 2005, which I promptly filled and whose contents I continue to tweak today, it's become one of my essential possessions. I continue to be fascinated that 20-plus years of record, tape and CD collecting can be compressed into a palm-sized museum of one's favorite music.
(Plus, the iPod gives my brother, Michael, the opportunity to joke that every time I add a batch of songs to it, it gets a little heavier).
When the hell were these released!?! 