Lady GaGa Rules Albums Chart With 1.1 Million In First Week

The official numbers are in, Lady GaGa's Born This Way reigns atop the albums chart with over a million copies sold in its first week, becoming the biggest debut since 2005.

The pop powerhouse's third albums enters at No.1 on the Billboards 200 with 1,108,000 units, according to Billboard. It also marks GaGa's first #1 album. Her debut The Fame debut at #2 and her follow up The Fame Monster reached #5.


Born This Way is the 17th album to sell over a million in a week since Nielson Soundscan began tracking sales in 1991. It outperformed Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III (1,005,000) and Taylor Swift's Speak Now (1,047,000), boasting the largest sales week of any album since 50 Cent's The Massacre moved 1,141,000 copies in March 2005.

GaGa is the 5th woman to sell one million copies in one week following Britney Spears' Oops I Did It Again (1,319,000), The Bodyguard Soundtrack featuring Whitney Houston ( 1,061,000) and Norah Jones' Feel Like Home (1,022,000) and Swift.

Born This Way benefited $0.99 pricing on Amazon.com, which accounted for an estimated 440,000 copies. The promotion was not organized by GaGa's label Interscope Records, and cost the online retailers a reported 3.2 million over 2 days, according to Billboard's estimate.