Amazon's Gamble gives Lady Gaga 1M in Album Sales
NEW YORK (AP) - Lady Gaga sold more than 1.1 million copies of her new album Born This Way and set a digital sales record last week with an assist from Amazon.com.
Billboard announced last Tuesday that Born This Way debuted at No. 1 on its Billboard 200 album chart, becoming just the 17th album to sell a million copies in its first week since SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991 and the top-selling digital debut.
The dance pop provocateur is just the fifth female with an album that sold more than a million copies in the SoundScan era.
Lady Gaga's first No. 1 album sold the most copies of any debut since March 2005 when 50 Cent's The Massacre sold 1.14 million. The last million-selling album was Taylor Swift's Speak Now in November.
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