Lady Gaga sold more than one million copies of her Born This Way album last week, fuelled by an estimated 450,000 sales through Amazon’s 99-cent promotion of the album. The figures emerged as Nielsen SoundScan
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Lady Gaga heading for 1m first-week sales as Amazon repeats 99c promo
Lady Gaga’s Born This Way could sell one million copies in the US alone this week, according to The Hollywood Reporter. That’s made more likely by Amazon’s decision yesterday to repeat its 99-cent promotion for the album, which had led to the company’s servers struggling on Monday
UMG launches official Monster In You Lady Gaga app
There are plenty of unlicensed Lady Gaga apps for iPhone, but now there’s an official one published by Universal Music Group…
Lady Gaga’s manager praises Amazon’s 99-cent offer
Amazon took a fair amount of flak earlier this week when its servers slowed to a crawl under demand for its $0.99 deal on the new Lady Gaga album. We wondered at the time what Gaga’s label would think…
Lady Gaga gets new Tap Rap Revenge game, Chrome ad and Rdio contest
You can’t escape Lady Gaga this week, as the promotional juggernaut around her Born This Way album continues to roll. Mobile developer Tapulous has created a new …
Amazon sells new Lady Gaga album for $0.99 but servers struggle to cope
Amazon has launched the costcutting promotion to end all costcutting promotions, selling Lady Gaga’s new Born This Way album for a mere 99 cents in the US. For that price, fans get…
10 million Twitter followers for Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga has become the first Twitter user to reach 10 million followers, beating Justin Bieber to the milestone, despite Bieber having been first to reach nine million.
YouTube launches YouTube 100 music video chart
While Google continues to publicly row with labels over its cloud music service, the company has launched a new music videos chart on YouTube, designed to rank “official music videos…
Zynga to launch GagaVille promotion in FarmVille social game
The rumours were correct: Lady Gaga is becoming the first big music artist to run a promotion within Zynga’s social games. On 17 May, a new farm called GagaVille will open up within the FarmVille game on Facebook
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Rogue Lady Gaga virus on Twitter fools… Lady Gaga?
Plenty of Lady Gaga fans were blithely retweeting a link to a video of ‘banned’ scenes from her videos over the weekend, which turned out to be a spam attack aiming to access their Twitter accounts.
Lady Gaga triumphs in MTV’s first O Music Awards
MTV held its new digital music awards earlier this week, with Lady Gaga predictably snagging two of the big prizes. The O Music Awards saw Gaga walk off with…