Lady Gaga’s The Fame rebounds from #12 to #6 in its 83rd week on the Billboard 200 in the wake of a Glee episode which featured two of her songs (“Bad Romance” and “Poker Face”). The Fame has sold 3,398,000 copies, more than any other album in this week’s top 30. (This tally for The Fame doesn’t count The Fame Monster EP, which has sold 1,100,000 copies).
This week, The Fame tops the 1 million mark in 2010 sales. It’s the first album that was released prior to 2010 to sell 1 million copies in 2010. The album was released in October 2008. You might think that an album this successful would have to have debuted at #1, or very close to it. Actually, it entered the chart at #17 (for the week ending Nov. 2, 2008). It was that week’s ninth highest new entry.
This is the 45th week in the top 10 for The Fame, which peaked at #2. Since 1963, only four other albums that failed to reach #1 have logged as many as 45 weeks in the top 10. Shania Twain’s Come On Over is the leader with 53 weeks, followed by Wilson Phillips’ Wilson Phillips (52 weeks), Iron Butterfly’s In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (49 weeks) and Backstreet Boys’ Backstreet Boys (also 45 weeks).
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