Lady Gaga’s Applause goes straight in at Number 5

Lady Gaga scores this week's second highest new entry with Applause, while Bad Romance finally breaks though the million copies sales barrier.
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Lady Gaga scores this week's second highest new entry with Applause, while Bad Romance finally breaks though the million copies sales barrier.

Lady Gaga’s new single Applause has gone straight into the Official Singles Chart Top 5.

The US star was forced to rush release the first single from her hotly anticipated third album, Artpop, on Tuesday afternoon (August 13), after it leaked online last weekend. Gaga declared having to issue Applause almost a week ahead of  its intended release date a “pop music emergency” on her official Twitter account.

Despite going on sale two and a half days later than the rest of this week’s new singles, Applause is the second highest new entry on today’s Official Singles Chart. Up to midnight last night, it has sold over 38,000 copies, and has beaten new releases from the likes of Arctic Monkeys and The Wanted.

The added media attention surrounding Applause’s release has also helped Lady Gaga’s 2009 Number 1 hit Bad Romance finally nudge over the million copies sales barrier.

Bad Romance is just one of 138 singles to sell over a million copies in British history, and Lady Gaga is just one of 16 artists to achieve more than one million selling single (her 2009 hit, Poker Face, is also a million seller).

You can see the full list of the UK’s biggest selling singles of all-time, here.

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