Here is a list of records/achievements:
- Earns 3rd #1 on the Hot 100 with Born This Way
- Earns 8th consecutive top 10 with Born This Way
- Earns 9th consecutive top 10 with Judas
- Earns 10th consecutive top 10 with The Edge of Glory
- Earns 11th consecutive top 10 with You and I
- Born This Way breaks radio record by debuting at #6 on Radio Songs with the largest first-week audience of 78.5 million.
- Born This Way has second highest debut on Pop Songs at #14
- Born This Way has first week sales of 448,000 - the largest debut by a female, and 3rd largest overall.
- Born This Way is the 19th song to debut at #1 on the Hot 100
- The song held the number one spot for six weeks making it the only song to debut at number one and stay there for over a month since Elton John’s "Candle in the Wind 1997"
- Born This Way is the fastest selling single on iTunes, reaching #1 in the US in only 3 hours
- Lady Gaga is the first artist to hit #1 on every country's iTunes chart
- Born This Way is the 1,000th #1 on the Hot 100
- Earns 8th consecutive #1 on the Dance/Club Play Songs with Born This Way
- Earns 9th consecutive #1 on the Dance/Club Play Songs with Judas
- Earns 10th consecutive #1 on the Dance/Club Play Songs with The Edge of Glory
- Earns 11th consecutive #1 on the Dance/Club Play Songs with You and I
- Breaks record of most consecutive #1s on the Dance/Club Play songs, previously held by Kristine W (with 9).
- Fastest to 10 #1s on the Dance/Club Play Songs chart, breaking Rihanna's record.
- Born This Way certified 3x platinum
- Judas sells over 800k
- The Edge of Glory certified 2x platinum
- You and I certified platinum
TV RATINGS:
Directed “A Very Gaga Thanksgiving” : - Gives ABC a 23% boost over the previous year, when Beyonce's special premiered. The special averaged 5.4 million viewers.
Saturday Night Live season finale with Justin Timberlake and Lady Gaga is the higest rated in 7 years, drawing a 7.0 rating and.
The 2011 MTV VMAs which featured opening act Lady Gaga is the highest rated MTV telecast ever.
ALBUM
- Born This Way debuts at #1 in the United States with 1.1 million copies sold.
- Born This Way is the 17th album to sell a million copies in one week
- Born This Way has the largest sales week of any album since 50 Cent's "The Massacre".
- 5th woman to notch 1 million copies in the first week.
- Breaks digital record by selling 662,000 copies from digital retailers, with Born This Way
- Born This Way certified 2x platinum in the United States
- Lady Gaga has album sales of over 8 million in the United States overall.
Performances/Duets:
- Duet with Tony Bennett on The Lady Is A Tramp
- Performed for Bill Clinton at Foundation Concert
- Established the Born This Way Foundation
- Duet with Cher on The Greatest Thing [impending]
- Performed with Sting
- Performed with Sugarland
-Performed with Brian May at the VMAs, he played guitar on You and I
-Performed with Clarence Clemons at American Idol and TEOG video. He performed sax on TEOG and Hair.
- GMA Summer Concert Series
- Headline the KIIS FM and z100 Jingle Ball’s
- Headlined the iHeart Radio Music Festival
Misc.
- #1 on Forbes Celeb 100 with $90 million. Highest grossing female musician for 2011.
- Appeared in Google Chrome commercial
- Partnered with Barneys New York to create “Gaga’s Workshop”.
- Released a book Terry Richardson X Lady Gaga
- Declared this generation’s “Queen of Pop” by Rolling Stone
- Partnered with Zynga to create “GagaVille” to promote Born This Way
- Highest grossing tour by a debut headlining artist. The Monster Ball grossed a total of $227.4 million from 200 reported shows. - Billboard
- Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden aired on HBO and was later released as Blu-ray/DVD
- Highest opening sales in Japan this year for international artists
- Best selling solo album in Japan this year
- Highest worldwide opening this year with Born This Way
- Highest opening sales in the UK this year by an international female artists
- Most points in one week on UWC with the song Born This Way
- Met with President Barack Obama to discuss bullying.