Lady Gaga Born This Way album 'outsells all of UK top 10 charts'
Lady Gaga's new album has recorded a meteroic rise to the top of the charts this week, with Born This Way selling more copies than the rest of the top 10 combined, figures show.
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The singer paid tribute to her British fans. Photo: REX FEATURES
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Lady Gaga's latest album Born This Way
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Lady Gaga arrives on stage in a coffin at Radio 1's Big Weekend recently. Photo: GETTY IMAGES
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Too modest: Lady Gaga in black PVC at Radio 1's Big Weekend Photo: GETTY
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Lady Gaga performing at Annabel's nightclub Photo: REX FEATURES
7:00AM BST 30 May 2011
The album has achieved the biggest first week sales for an album so far this year, selling more than 215,000 copies, according to the Official Charts Company.
After being informed of the disclosrures the pop star, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, paid tribute to her British fans, thanking them for "believing in me".
The 25 year-old said it was a great honour, disclosing she wrote one of its singles in Manchester.
''I feel so honoured to have the highest first week sales in the UK this year," said the singer, who is famed for her outlandish outfits.
"I wrote the album's first single Born This Way in Manchester because I was so inspired by the confidence and bravery characteristic of my fans: Little Monsters.
''To the United Kingdom, thank you for believing in me.''
Lady Gaga's debut album The Fame joined her latest offering in the top 10 this week, climbing to number seven from last week's position of 11.
The Fame, which previously reached number one and has sold more than 2.5 million copies in the UK, has spent a total of 72 weeks in the Official Albums Chart Top 10 since its release in January 2009.
Official Charts Company managing director Martin Talbot said: ''Congratulations to Lady Gaga - she just keeps delivering the hits.''
Lady Gaga's new entry Born This Way knocks former queen of the charts Adele off the top spot.
The star, who has spent 16 of the last 21 weeks at the top of the Official Albums Chart, occupies the next two slots with albums 21 at number two and 19 at number three.
Lady Gaga also fared well in the Official Singles Chart, with three tracks in the Top 20, including Judas at number nine, Born This Way at 17 and The Edge of Glory at 18.
Rapper Pitbull held on to the top spot with his debut single Give Me Everything featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack and Nayer.
The track reached number one last week, two weeks after entering the charts at number 12.
Pitbull also features on another track in the top 20, Jennifer Lopez's single On The Floor which slipped from number 10 to number 12.
The singles chart sees three new entries this week, with Romanian singer Alexandra Stan at number five with Mr Saxobeat, girl group The Saturdays at number eight with Notorious and Swedish House Mafia at number 10 with Save The World.
In the albums chart, Prodigy claim their seventh top 10 album, with new entry World's On Fire at number five.
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