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Chart Listings: Billboard Hot 100 Singles (October 28-November 4, 2009)
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Lady Gaga Sets Latest Billboard Chart Record
by Gary Trust, N.Y. | November 02, 2009 5:46 EST
Lady Gaga becomes the first artist in the 17-year history of Billboard's Pop Songs chart to notch four No. 1s from a debut album, as "Paparazzi" rises 3-1.
The singer - recently honored as Billboard's Rising Star - previously led Pop Songs with "Just Dance," "Poker Face" and "LoveGame" from her debut release, "The Fame." The set has sold 1.56 million copies to date, according to Nielsen SoundScan, The album will be re-released in expanded form as "The Fame Monster" Nov. 23.
Since the Pop Songs chart debuted in October 1992, two artists prior to Lady Gaga had plated three No. 1s from their first albums: Ace of Base and Avril Lavigne. (Alanis Morissette also enjoyed a trio of leaders from her first U.S. album, "Jagged Little Pill").
KMVQ (Movin' 99.7)/San Francisco played "Paparazzi" the most times - 131 - of all Pop Songs reporters in the current chart's tracking week (Oct. 26-Nov. 1), according to Nielsen BDS. "Lady Gaga has come on to our station like a tornado," says Movin' Program Director Michael Martin. "When you make hit records, the audience responds, and we would be foolish not to give them what they want."
Check tomorrow's edition of Chart Beat for more details on Lady Gaga's history-making week.
Source: http://www.billboard.com/#/news/lady...04032526.story
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Awesome.
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Originally posted by GreenRocks1
Lady Gaga Sets Latest Billboard Chart Record
by Gary Trust, N.Y. | November 02, 2009 5:46 EST
Lady Gaga becomes the first artist in the 17-year history of Billboard's Pop Songs chart to notch four No. 1s from a debut album, as "Paparazzi" rises 3-1.
The singer - recently honored as Billboard's Rising Star - previously led Pop Songs with "Just Dance," "Poker Face" and "LoveGame" from her debut release, "The Fame." The set has sold 1.56 million copies to date, according to Nielsen SoundScan, The album will be re-released in expanded form as "The Fame Monster" Nov. 23.
Since the Pop Songs chart debuted in October 1992, two artists prior to Lady Gaga had plated three No. 1s from their first albums: Ace of Base and Avril Lavigne. (Alanis Morissette also enjoyed a trio of leaders from her first U.S. album, "Jagged Little Pill").
KMVQ (Movin' 99.7)/San Francisco played "Paparazzi" the most times - 131 - of all Pop Songs reporters in the current chart's tracking week (Oct. 26-Nov. 1), according to Nielsen BDS. "Lady Gaga has come on to our station like a tornado," says Movin' Program Director Michael Martin. "When you make hit records, the audience responds, and we would be foolish not to give them what they want."
Check tomorrow's edition of Chart Beat for more details on Lady Gaga's history-making week.
Source: http://www.billboard.com/#/news/lady...04032526.story
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Originally posted by GreenRocks1
Lady Gaga Sets Latest Billboard Chart Record
by Gary Trust, N.Y. | November 02, 2009 5:46 EST
Lady Gaga becomes the first artist in the 17-year history of Billboard's Pop Songs chart to notch four No. 1s from a debut album, as "Paparazzi" rises 3-1.
The singer - recently honored as Billboard's Rising Star - previously led Pop Songs with "Just Dance," "Poker Face" and "LoveGame" from her debut release, "The Fame." The set has sold 1.56 million copies to date, according to Nielsen SoundScan, The album will be re-released in expanded form as "The Fame Monster" Nov. 23.
Since the Pop Songs chart debuted in October 1992, two artists prior to Lady Gaga had plated three No. 1s from their first albums: Ace of Base and Avril Lavigne. (Alanis Morissette also enjoyed a trio of leaders from her first U.S. album, "Jagged Little Pill").
KMVQ (Movin' 99.7)/San Francisco played "Paparazzi" the most times - 131 - of all Pop Songs reporters in the current chart's tracking week (Oct. 26-Nov. 1), according to Nielsen BDS. "Lady Gaga has come on to our station like a tornado," says Movin' Program Director Michael Martin. "When you make hit records, the audience responds, and we would be foolish not to give them what they want."
Check tomorrow's edition of Chart Beat for more details on Lady Gaga's history-making week.
Source: http://www.billboard.com/#/news/lady...04032526.story
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Congrats to her, but it's funny how she hasn't even sold 2 million records and she's like breaking these kinds of records on radio. People don't think her music is all that special, so why is radio playing her so much? My goodness.
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Originally posted by starstruck52
Congrats to her, but it's funny how she hasn't even sold 2 million records and she's like breaking these kinds of records on radio. People don't think her music is all that special, so why is radio playing her so much? My goodness.
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Well her singles have sold over 10 million, plus the 1.5 of the album. It's expressive enough, LOL.
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Originally posted by starstruck52
Congrats to her, but it's funny how she hasn't even sold 2 million records and she's like breaking these kinds of records on radio. People don't think her music is all that special, so why is radio playing her so much? My goodness.
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Incase you didn't know radio stations cater to their audience. If people don't like her music as you say then the radio station would get the message from lack of requests/listeners going down/negative comments on the songs etc.
People want GaGa.
And you're just mad about it.
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Well her singles have sold over 10 million, plus the 1.5 of the album. It's expressive enough, LOL.
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I guess... but we could attribute that to overexposure on the radio, couldn't we? "Just Dance" was in a huge rut for months and out of the blue it starts racing up the charts, makes you wonder. IDK.
Ace of Base and Avril Lavigne were selling boo-koo amounts of albums when they broke their records. Just sayin'.
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Originally posted by Bibliotheque
Incase you didn't know radio stations cater to their audience. If people don't like her music as you say then the radio station would get the message from lack of requests/listeners going down/negative comments on the songs etc.
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http://tinyurl.com/yhnotk2
If a station plays a song over and over again, long enough, people will start to "like" it. It gets drilled into the audience's heads, they start singing the lyrics, they give into the hype, etc etc.
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People want GaGa.
And you're just mad about it.
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Cute.
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Originally posted by starstruck52
I guess... but we could attribute that to overexposure on the radio, couldn't we? "Just Dance" was in a huge rut for months and out of the blue it starts racing up the charts, makes you wonder. IDK.
Ace of Base and Avril Lavigne were selling boo-koo amounts of albums when they broke their records. Just sayin'.
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What year did they get their records in again?
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Originally posted by Bibliotheque
What year did they get their records in again?
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I'm not expecting identical numbers from GaGa, but they should definitely be higher than they are.
1.5 million doesn't live up to her hype, any fool can see that.
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Originally posted by starstruck52
I'm not expecting identical numbers from GaGa, but they should definitely be higher than they are.
1.5 million doesn't live up to her hype, any fool can see that.
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It's the WW #1 album during 2009.
It's hardly GaGa's fault that album sales are the pits atm.
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Originally posted by Bibliotheque
It's the WW #1 album during 2009.
It's hardly GaGa's fault that album sales are the pits atm.
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Fergie, for example, sold 4 million in the US alone. And she didn't have 4 #1 hits...
Whatever, I was just throwing it out there. GaGa's airplay is shady imo.
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Originally posted by starstruck52
Fergie, for example, sold 4 million in the US alone. And she didn't have 4 #1 hits...
Whatever, I was just throwing it out there. GaGa's airplay is shady imo.
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Do you think Interscope bought all those downloads too?
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Originally posted by Bibliotheque
Do you think Interscope bought all those downloads too?
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Haha let's just drop it.
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I'm tellin' ya, you gotta just block that hoe because he likes to try and get under GaGa's fan's skin on purpose. He refuses to give her any kind of credit for her success whatsoever.
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starstruck52 you really need to stfu. People are really tired of hearing you bitch everytime GaGa is brought up. Don't even consider yourself a fan because YOU ARE NOT. If you have nothing nice to say, say NOTHING at all!
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Starstruck, the negative comments on a couple of artists but especially GaGa are getting ridiculously irritating and immature. I think that all of ATRL knows that you will have nothing positive to say about her, so why do you even bother writing these posts?
Congrats to GaGa.
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Congarats GaGa
WTF???Alanis had 3 pop #1's with JLP?? And she's more rock than pop
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Originally posted by Bibliotheque
Do you think Interscope bought all those downloads too?
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Are record companies so stupid to buy their own productions? OMG! People buy it, not record companies! Do some research, and leave such stupid assumption(obviously without facts or evidence) at the dump site.
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