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Lady Gagas Born This Way has become the fastest-selling album of the year around the world with 288,000 copies sold

Lady Gagas Born This Way has become the fastest-selling album of the year around the world with 288,000 copies sold on the very first day (May 23) and 1,108,000 in its first week in the U.S. Born This Way (Streamline/Interscope/KonLive) has debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart,the first Lady Gaga album to debut at the top spot.

The album has also sold more than 1,000,000 copies outside the U.S. It debuted at #1 in the U.K.,where first-week sales were greater than the rest of the Top 10 combined,making this the best debut week by a solo American female artiste since 2005. Born This Way has also debuted at the top spot in Australia,Austria,Brazil,Denmark,France,Germany,India,Japan,New Zealand,South Korea,Sweden,Switzerland and Taiwan.

Earlier this year,the title-track became the fastest single in history to reach sales of 1,000,000 copies worldwide by breaking that mark in only five days. Born this way became the first song to debut at #1 on the Hot 100 and remain at the top for more than a month the first since Elton Johns 1997 version of Candle in the wind.

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In the last week,two other singles from this album have also reached the U.S. Top 10 Judas and The edge of glory. In addition,Judas has cracked the Top 10 in Australia,Austria,Canada,Denmark,Finland,France,Hungary,Ireland,Italy,Japan,Norway,Switzerland,the U.K. and elsewhere.

A five-time Grammy winner,Lady Gaga has also won prestigious awards in the U.K.,Mexico,Canada,Japan,Hungary,Poland,Germany,Thailand and elsewhere in Europe,Asia and Latin America.

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