Lady Gaga makes Billboard Chart History
July 13, 2009 by MusicThread
Filed under Featured, Stories, Top 40/Adult Contemporary
Lady GaGa continues to maintain Billboard chart dominance by having three No. 1 songs from a debut album. “LoveGame” (Interscope) rose from the number 2 spot to the number 1 spot, marking Lady GaGa’s third No. 1 single, following “Just Dance” which held the number 1 spot for 2 weeks and “Poker Face” which held the number 1 spot for an astonishing 5 weeks. This milestone made Lady Gaga the third artist in the 16-year history of the Mainstream Top 40 airplay to have 3 No. 1 songs on one album. The three songs appear on her top five Billboard 200 album, “The Fame” which has sold 1,162,000 copies to date, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Singer-songwriter Lady Gaga aka Stefani Germanotta joins the company of two prior artists in accomplishing the triumphant triple play.
Ace Of Base reigned consecutively on the 1993-94 Mainstream Top 40 billboard chart with three cuts from its debut set “The Sign”: “All That She Wants,” the title cut which held the No. 1 for a chart-record 14 weeks straight, and “Don’t Turn Around.”
In 2002-03, Avril Lavigne dominated the charts with her own trio of tracks from her debut release “Let Go”: “Complicated” (eight weeks), “Sk8er Boi” (one week) and “I’m With You” (four weeks).
On the Billboard Hot 100, “Just Dance” held three weeks at No. 1, and “Poker Face” led for one frame. As of last week, “LoveGame” was bulleted at No. 5 on the Hot 100, its highest ranking to date.
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