Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' to Remain At No. 1 Next Week

by Keith Caulfield, L.A.  |   June 02, 2011 6:30 EDT

After Lady Gaga's historic start atop the Billboard 200 chart with 1.11 million sold of her "Born This Way" album, according to Nielsen SoundScan, the diva will most certainly spend a second frame at No. 1 next week.

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While it's too early to gauge exactly how many copies "Born This Way" will move in week number two, estimates suggest it could do around 200,000 by week's end on Sunday, June 5. While that would represent a staggering drop from her No. 1 debut, it's not unusual to see albums that are heavily front-loaded in terms of first-week sales fall off a cliff in their second week.

The top debut next week will come from Death Cab For Cutie's "Codes and Keys," which could shift perhaps 90,000 while Eddie Vedder's "Ukulele Songs" may start with 60,000. Both sets are aiming for a launch in the top five of the Billboard 200.

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Also driving towards the top 10 are My Morning Jacket's "Circuital" and Flogging Molly's "Speed of Darkness." 

Eddie Vedder 'Ukelele Songs': Track-by-Track Review

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Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' Blasts Onto U.K. Chart

by Paul Sexton, London  |   May 30, 2011 12:15 EDT

Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" album made its expected powerful arrival to the U.K. chart Sunday (May 29), with the biggest first-week sale of the year here of 215,000 units, more than the rest of the top ten titles combined. "Give Me Everything" by Pitbull featuring Nayer, Afrojack and Ne-Yo, meanwhile, starts a second week atop the singles chart.

Lady Gaga's opening U.K. sales narrowly beat Adele's first-week tally of 208,000 for "21" in late January. "Born This Way" is joined in the top ten by its predecessor "The Fame," which rises 11-7 and now has U.K. sales of more than 2.5 million copies, according to the Official Charts Company. Gaga also has three singles in the top 20, with "Judas" falling 8-9, the "Born This Way" title track 16-17 and "The Edge of Glory" 6-18. "Hair" fell 13-68.

Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' Projected to Sell 1 Million in U.S.

"21," which had spent 16 of the previous 17 weeks at No. 1, dips to No. 2, but Adele's previous album "19" holds steady at No. 3. The first single from the current album "Rolling In The Deep" moves back 34-26, as the "Glee" cast version of the track debuts at No. 49.

The new album chart also sees Bruno Mars climb back 5-4 with "Doo-Wops & Hooligans" and the Prodigy posting a No. 5 debut with the live CD and DVD "World's On Fire." Jessie J's "Who You Are" rises 8-6.

There's a No. 12 debut for Rhino/Warner Music's Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons collection "Working My Way Back To You" and a 17-13 climb for Noah & the Whale's "Last Night On Earth." U.S. soul singer Aloe Blacc continues his U.K. progress, as the album "Good Things" jumps 26-14 and the single "I Need A Dollar" 4-3. For the seventh straight week, "Now That's What I Call Music! 78" (EMI Virgin/UMTV) tops the compilation chart.

Pitbull's "Give Me Everything" keeps its singles chart crown as its predecessor at No. 1, Bruno Mars' "The Lazy Song," holds tough in runner-up spot. Romanian singer Alexandra Stan rises 14-5 with "Mr. Saxobeat," which has already been a substantial hit across much of Europe and beyond.

Snoop Dogg's "Sweat," which reached No. 4 in April, spends an eighth consecutive week in the top ten by rising 9-7, and Swedish House Mafia's "Save The World" climbs 11-10. Three major American female stars enjoy top 20 climbers: "I'm Into You" by Jennifer Lopez featuring Lil Wayne improves 21-13, Nicole Scherzinger's "Right There" 27-15 and Rihanna's "California King Bed" 36-20.

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Will Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" Sell 1 Million Copies?

by Keith Caulfield, L.A.  |   May 26, 2011 6:09 EDT

One thing is nearly certain: we're going to have a new No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart next week, and it will be Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" with likely 1 million sold in its first week.

Industry prognosticators suggest the set, the diva's third, will hit the 1 million threshold by week's end on Sunday, May 29.

If "Born" hits the magic 1 million mark, it will be the 17th album to sell a million copies in one week, and the first to do so since Taylor Swift's "Speak Now" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated Nov. 13, 2010 with 1.05 million

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No stone was left unturned by the folks at Gaga's label and distribution company -- Interscope and Universal Music Group, respectively -- when it came to finding opportunities to promote the album and to sell it in unconventional ways and locations. "Born" is stocked everywhere from Starbucks and CVS Pharmacies to Whole Foods and Walgreens.

The one unconventional promotion that Gaga's record company wasn't affiliated with was Amazon MP3's amazingly low 99-cent one-day discount on the set on Monday, May 23. Lady Gaga's label and management have stated that they were not alerted to or involved in Amazon's promotion. Sources indicate the stunt may have brought in more than 300,000 downloads of the album alone. ( Amazon MP3's second round of 99-cent discount pricing on the set, on May 26, will obviously further drive sales of the set -- easily securing a 1 million first week for "Born.")

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Considering it was only two weeks ago when industry folks were projecting that "Born" was "only" going to do around 500,000, having it approach 1 million (even with Amazon MP3's goofy 99-cent stunt sales goosing the first week) is mighty impressive.

With all this talk about Gaga, you've got to feel a little bad for country superstar Brad Paisley, whose "This Is Country Music" album will likely debut in the runner-up slot next week with maybe 150,000 copies sold. Paisley has yet to earn a No. 1 album -- after six top 10s (two of which hit No. 2. (Had his new album come a week earlier, perhaps he could have secured his first No. 1.)

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Other albums aiming for a top 10 arrival next week include "Glee, the Music: Season Two: Volume 6" (with perhaps an 80,000 start), the Rick Ross-led hip-hop compilation "Maybach Music Group Presents: Self Made, Vol. 1" (around 50,000) and the New Kids On the Block/Backstreet Boys collaboration/greatest hits album "NKOTBSB" with maybe 35,000.

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