‘Yoü And I’ Becomes Lady Gaga’s 11th Top Ten Hit

 

Just weeks after Gaga’s smash hit single “The Edge of Glory” ended its 3-month run in the top 10 of Billboard’s Hot 100, the singer is back in the top tier as her latest release “Yoü And I” jumps 16-6 on this week’s chart. Thanks to Gaga’s show-stopping performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, the track is one of the top gainers with a 61% increase in sales (175,000 copies) and 32% in airplay.

The Mutt Lange-produced “Yoü And I” becomes Lady Gaga’s eleventh consecutive top ten hit in the United States, putting her in fourth place among solo artists with the most top top tens in a row, only behind Janet Jackson, Madonna and Whitney Houston.

Since the release of “Just Dance” back in 2008, Gaga sold more than 35 million digital tracks in the U.S. alone, among which are “Poker Face,” the most downloaded song by a female artist of all time, and “Paparazzi,” which was the singer’s only number one on Billboard’s Radio Songs until “Born This Way” stormed the chart earlier this year.

Worldwide, her international hits such as “Bad Romance,” “Alejandro” and “Judas” as well as albums, including the hot-selling Born This Way, have moved an impressive 90 million copies, which already makes Gaga one of the best-selling musicians of all time. 

Lady Gaga Covers New Issue of Harper’s Bazaar

Lady Gaga graces the cover of the October issue of Harper’s Bazaar magazine, on newsstands later this month. The picture, taken by Dutch photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin on the set of Gaga’s music video for “Yoü And I,” is the fashion magazine’s first black-and-white cover in over twenty years.

“I don’t really view it as ‘natural,’” the singer said of the cover shoot. “I think that artifice is the new reality. It’s more about just being honest and sincere to the core of what you do. Whether I’m wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I’m always the same person inside.”

“Don’t you think that what’s on the cover of a magazine is quite artificial?” she continued. “There’s this idea that it’s all natural, but everything’s been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It’s just that my inventions are different. I often get asked about my artifice, but isn’t fashion based on the idea that we can create a fantasy?”

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Lady Gaga Makes Vanity Fair’s Influential Business People List

 

ady Gaga, Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z are the only musicians to make Vanity Fair magazine’s new list, which ranks the most influential business people in the world who are “an innovative new breed of buccaneering visionaries, engineering prodigies and entrepreneurs, who quite often sport hoodies, floppy hair and backpacksGaga came in at No. 9 and is the highest-ranking woman and entertainer, as well as the youngest person on the “New Establishment” list. Check out the top 15 below:

1. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
2. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google
3. Jeff Bezos, Amazon
4. Tim Cook and Jonathan Ive, Apple
5. Jack Dorsey, Square, Twitter
6. Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz
7. Reed Hastings, Netflix
8. John Lasseter, Pixar, Walt Disney Animation Studios
9. Lady Gaga, singer
10. Dan Doctoroff, Bloomberg L.P.
11. Dick Costolo, Twitter
12. Mark Pincus, Zynga
13. Jim Breyer, Accel Partners
14. Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, and Graham King, Movies
15. Michael Moritz, Sequoia Capital 

Lady Gaga to Perform at Sting Anniversary Concert

 

Lady Gaga will share the stage with legendary performers such as Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder and Billy Joel at a special concert in New York City to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Sting’s career on the eve of his 60th birthday.

The concert event is set to take place at the Beacon Theater on October 1st and will benefit the Robin Hood Foundation, which fights poverty in New York City by funding the best and most effective non-profits that invest in schools, homeless shelters, job training programs and more.

Other guest performers include Mary J. Blige, Herbie Hancock, Robert Downey Jr., Branford Marsalis, Vince Gill, Will.i.am, Rufus Wainwright and Chris Botti. Visit Sting.com for more information about the event and details on how to get tickets. 

Lady Gaga Presents Britney Spears with MTV award

Following her show-stopping performance of “Yoü And I,” Lady Gaga returned to the stage to honor pop singer Britney Spears with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. Still dressed as her male alter ego, Gaga said: “When I used to perform open mic nights for free. One of my biggest inspirations was Britney Spears. Britney taught me how to be fearless, she taught us all how to be fearless.”Gaga left the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards with two awards: Best Female Video and Best Video With a Message for the Nick Knight-directed “Born THis Way.” In just three years, she earned 13 moonmen, becoming the award show’s second biggest-winning artist of all time, only behind Madonna.

Lady Gaga Opens 2011 MTV Video Music Awards

Lady Gaga opened the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards with a jaw-dropping performance live from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. Gaga wowed the audience as she made a speech dressed as Jo Calderone and later brought Brian May of Queen on stage to perform their latest smash single “Yoü And I” for the first time together. At the show, Gaga’s up for four moonmen, including Best Female Video and Best Video With a Message for “Born This Way” as well as Best Art Direction and Best Choreography for “Judas.