Gaga sets digital sales record

SINGER Lady Gaga sold more than 1.1 million copies of her album Born This Way last week, and set a digital sales record.

Billboard announced that Born This Way — Lady Gaga’s second full-length album after 2008’s The Fame — has debuted at number one on its Billboard 200 US album chart, becoming just the 17th album to sell 1m copies or more in its first week since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991, and the top-selling digital debut.

The dance-pop provocateur is just the fifth female artist to have an album that sold more than 1m copies in the SoundScan era.

Lady Gaga’s first number one album sold the most copies of any debut since March 2005 when 50 Cent’s The Massacre sold 1.14m.

The last million-selling album was Taylor Swift’s Speak Now, released back in November.