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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Beyonce logged a fourth week atop the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart Friday, while near-record digital sales drove dance-pop singer Lady GaGa to the No. 2 slot.
Beyonce’s “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It),” a track from her chart-topping album “I Am … Sasha Fierce,” sold a massive 382,000 downloads last week according to Nielsen SoundScan, a 157% increase.
But Lady GaGa’s Grammy-nominated “Just Dance” featuring Colby O’Donis sold 419,000 downloads, the second biggest single-week sum of all time behind Flo Rida’s 467,000 from the same week last year. It rose one spot from the previous week, swapping places with T.I.’s “Live Your Life” featuring Rihanna.
Kanye West’s “Heartless” held at No. 4, and Taylor Swift’s “Love Story” rose two to No. 5. Katy Perry’s “Hot N Cold” remained at No. 6, and Britney Spears’ “Womanizer” fell two to No. 7.
Rounding out the top portion of the Hot 100, West’s “Love Lockdown,” T.I.’s “Whatever You Like” and Beyonce’s “If I Were a Boy” were are unchanged at Nos. 8-10.
Nickelodeon star Miranda Cosgrove’s cover of Sugababes’ “About You Now” was the top debut at No. 51. The song was released last June on the “iCarly” soundtrack but is now doing strong digital business after a performance on Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade; it sold 74,000 copies last week.
Catch Di Riddim
by Kevin Jackson Observer Writer
Friday, January 02, 2009
Lady Gaga finds success with Just Dance
American singer/songwriter and electronica musician Stefani Joanne Germanotta, better known as Lady Gaga, has scored a crossover hit with the track Just Dance.
The recording, which scaled the Billboard Dance Music Club Play chart months ago, is currently the number two song on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. It is also number one on three Billboard charts, namely the Billboard Pop 100, Hot Digital Tracks and Hot Digital Songs charts. The track features Colby O’Donis. Read the rest of this entry »
Akon weighs in on the Lady GaGa vs. Christina Aguilera comparisons. “I definitely feel that Christina Aguilera is very inspired by Lady GaGa. It’s almost identical,” he tells Rap-Up TV about Christina’s uncanny resemblance to his Konlive artist, who currently has a top 5 hit with “Just Dance.” “She was never doing that before Lady GaGa came out.”
Plus, he gives us the scoop on signing TLC’s Chilli to his label and the possibility of a Grammy for his camp.
From The Sunday Times
December 14, 2008 Lady GaGa: The future of pop? Ask New York who will be big in 2009 and you’ll only get one answer http://entertainment.timesonline…
Even in the OTT insanity that is Las Vegas, Lady GaGa stands out a mile. Dressed in a Thierry Mugler-inspired black rubber dress adorned with gold origami pyramids, stupendously long false eyelashes, crystal-encrusted sunglasses and impossibly high heels, she cuts quite a figure as she wanders past the agog gamblers. “This is just how I am all the time,” she shrugs, oblivious to the attention as she prepares to perform at the wonderfully ostentatious Mirage hotel. “You’ll never see me in flip-flops and a T-shirt.” Read the rest of this entry »
Verse 1:
Get back, bunny
It’s getting cold in here little honey
We got a show to put on your dress
Take a minute for us and relax, relax
Cupid’s got me, oh with his bow and arrow, baby
He’ll hit you in the pants, hot pants
Get the people to dance and relax, relax Read the rest of this entry »
—Lady GaGa holds Oz No.1 for third week
Monday, December 1 2008, 10:33 GMT
By Alex Fletcher, Entertainment Reporter http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/…
The first time I met Lady GaGa was in her dressing room at the MTV TRL studios on Times Square back in May. I was briefly introduced to the singer by her PR handler while she was getting ready for her performance on the MTV Logo NewNowNext Awards. I nominated the singer for the MTV Logo Brink of Fame Award, which led to MTV’s invite to perform the show’s big finale. Read the rest of this entry »
—T-Pain “Thr33 Ringz” - Village Voice Review
Back to the Strip Club With T-Pain
Another enchanted evening with r&b’s Mr. Roboto
By Ben Detrick
Despite his robotic voice, T-Pain is more human than most of his chiseled, bland, and utterly interchangeable peers in modern r&b. The former rapper from Florida has a mess of black/blond dreads, omnipresent shades, a taste for top hats and gobs of jewelry, and an uncanny knack for making proletariat anthems devoted to the easy escapism of drunkenness, sex, and strip clubs. The ability to repeatedly conjure up such brainless merriment has made him the undeniable king of urban pop radio. Through its title, the intro, and several skits, T-Pain’s third album, Thr33 Ringz, is vaguely built around a circus motif, and its star attraction is a showman who abides by one golden rule: Give the audience what they came to see. Read the rest of this entry »
—CD Review: T-Pain, ‘Thr33 Ringz’ - Expressnightout.com
Written by Roxana Hadadi
VIRTUALLY ALL SUCCESSFUL rappers have some kind of shtick. Jay-Z banks on the reliability of retirement; Kanye West is a pretentious, pastel-loving elitist perfect for college-age hipsters; and Lil Wayne milks his Promethazine-addicted, drug-addled image to his advantage.
Even for all that, though, you can’t deny their prowess — Jay-Z may be getting too safe in his old age, Kanye may use ghostwriters and Weezy may miss more concerts than he actually ends up performing at, but their appeal is grounded in some fundamental skill-set. Their images, as outlandish as they may be, are only the icing on their already talented cake. Read the rest of this entry »
