Originally posted by BlondUnicorn
- The only artist in the digital era to top the 6 million sales mark with her first two singles ("Just Dance" and Poker Face").
- The first artist in the history of Billboard's Pop Songs chart to notch #1 hits from a debut album ("Just Dance", "Poker Face", "LoveGame" and "Paparazzi").
- The Monster Ball was the named by Billboard the biggest tour ever by a debut headlining artist.
- "Born This Way", the album, debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 1,108,000 copies sold in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It's only the 18th album to sell a million in a week since SoundScan began tracking sales data in 1991. Additionally, Gaga is only the fifth woman to notch a million-plus week.
- "Born This Way" set a music industry record by becoming the fastest single in history to reach sales of 1,000,000 copies (five days after its February 11th release). On iTunes, the song debuted at the top spot in 14 countries, including the U.S., and hit #1 in all 23 iTunes stores worldwide its first week out.
- The first artist to hit the 20 million mark in the category of digital single sales according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
- The 6th solo artist with most consecutive top 10 singles in the US (11 in total): "Just Dance" (#1), "Poker Face" (#1), "LoveGame" (#3), "Paparazzi" (#6), "Bad Romance" (#2), "Telephone" (#3), "Alejandro" (#5), "Born This Way" (#1), "Judas" (#10), "The Edge of Glory" (#3) and "Yoü and I" (#6).
- The first artist to achieve more than 1 billion views of her videos on YouTube.
- Most nominations ever in a single VMA season (13 nominations for the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards).
- The first person in Twitter history to ever hit 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 33 million followers. Today she is followed by more than 37 million people, being only behind Justin Bieber.
- The most followed person on Google+, with over 6.5 million followers.
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I get so embarrassed when I hear fans say "Mother Monster" or worse......."Mommy Monster" *shutters*
