Which 'Lady Gaga' hit was the UK's best selling single of 2009?
"Jonathan Ross"" for Halloween 2009. The song was also covered by British singer Mika during his visit to the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge. It was later released as a track on his single ""Rain"". The song was also featured in the ""South Park"" episode titled ""Whale Whores"", sung by series character Eric Cartman. On March 16, 2010, ""South Park""'s version of ""Poker Face"" became available as a downloadable song for the video game ""Rock Band"", in the same day a Lady Gaga track pack featuring the original song was released. On a live special ""Family Guy"" episode, the song"
"Singles Chart. In December 2009, the song reached the top spot with 72,919 copies sold, making it Gaga's third UK number-one single. She became the first female in British chart history to have three number-one singles in one year. In the first week of 2010, ""Bad Romance"" returned to the number one spot after two weeks, making her the second female artist of the 21st century to have two separate runs at the top spot. The song attained double platinum certification by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), for 1.2 million equivalent units. It has sold 1.045 million copies and has"
"reached number one in the United States, Australia, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, as well as the top five in the Czech Republic, Hungary, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Spain, and Sweden. In the United States, ""Just Dance"" was a sleeper hit, spending almost five months on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 before finally reaching the chart's summit in January 2009. The single is among the best-selling singles of all time, having sold over 10 million copies. The music video of the song portrayed Lady Gaga appearing in a party where she plays the song, prompting party-goers to start"
"history, spending over 81 weeks in the top 100. ""Just Dance"" debuted on the New Zealand charts at number 19, and reached a peak of number three. It has been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ) for shipment of 15,000 copies of the single. In the United Kingdom, ""Just Dance"" debuted at number three on the UK Singles Chart, on January 4, 2009. It rose to number one the next week with total sales of 65,764 copies, and remained at the top for three weeks. In an interview with ""Daily Mail"", Gaga explained her feelings"
"for Best Pop Vocal Album, and ""Bad Romance"" won Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Best Short Form Music Video at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards. In 2009, Gaga spent a record 150 weeks on the UK Singles Chart and became the most downloaded female act in a year in the US, with 11.1 million music downloads sold—earning an entry in the ""Guinness Book of World Records"". ""The Fame"" and ""The Fame Monster"" together have since sold more than 15 million copies worldwide. This success allowed Gaga to start her second worldwide concert tour, The Monster Ball Tour, and release"
"the chart since Shakira's ""Hips Don't Lie"" in July 2006. Their follow up single in the UK ""I Gotta Feeling"" also peaked at number one and managed the same feat of having two separate runs at number one on the UK Singles Chart. With sales of over 600,000, the single is currently the sixth best selling of 2009 in the UK. ""Boom Boom Pow"" is also the 13th best selling R&B song of the 21st century in the UK. Fergie had stated at an interview on ""The Insider"" that the music video would be shooting the week of March 8,"
"simplicity that betrays no cynicism whatsoever."" Pitchfork Media ranked ""Paparazzi"" number 83 on their list of 2009's 100 best tracks. ""NME"" ranked it at number 9 in their list of the best songs of 2009. In the United States, the song debuted on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 at number 74 on the issue dated September 12, 2009, and reached a peak of number six, becoming her fourth consecutive top-ten single on the chart. With the song, Gaga joined Christina Aguilera, Beyoncé, and Fergie as the only women this decade to collect four Hot 100 top-tens from a debut album. It"
"been streamed 7.53 million times. The release of her single ""Applause"" in August 2013 prompted an increase in sales of ""Bad Romance""; it sold one million copies in the UK, making Gaga one of 17 artists with a million-selling song in the country. On October 29, 2009, ""Bad Romance"" debuted on the Irish Singles Chart at number 20; it reached the top in its seventh week. In Sweden, the song debuted at number three and reached the top of the chart after two weeks. Across Europe, the song remained at number one in Greece for 7 weeks, and topped the"
"progression of Em/D/Am/C. ""I'm Not Alone"" debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart on 12 April 2009 ― for the week ending 18 April 2009 ― knocking Lady Gaga's ""Poker Face"" off the top of the chart. It remained at the top position for two weeks, until it was dethroned by Tinchy Stryder's ""Number 1"" featuring N-Dubz. On 3 January 2010, ""I'm Not Alone"" re-entered the chart at number ninety-nine. In the Republic of Ireland, the single debuted at number fourteen on the Irish Singles Chart on 9 April 2009, peaking at number four by its third week."
"leader (her first since 2010's ""Telephone"") and Cooper's first. The same week, ""A Star Is Born"" also returned to the top of the UK Albums Chart, giving Gaga and Cooper an Official UK Chart double, this being Gaga's third. ""Shallow"" sold 47,610 units (including 34,406 from sales-equivalent streams), replacing ""Promises"" by Calvin Harris and Sam Smith, which sold 1,200 fewer units sold. It was on the top for a second week and subsequently replaced by Ariana Grande's ""Thank U, Next"". Elsewhere, ""Shallow"" topped the charts in Ireland, Gaga's sixth number-one and Cooper's first. The song continued to top the charts"
"2009 in British music charts This is a summary of the year 2009 in British music. 31 singles have occupied the number-one spot including 15 new entries. Due to the increase in downloads over physical sales, singles now tend to enter the chart at a lower position, before climbing to the top a few weeks later: a trend which was previously rarely seen in the later half of the 1990s and most of the 2000s. Alexandra Burke's ""Hallelujah"", the Christmas number-one single of 2008, remained at the top of the Singles Chart for a third week on 4 January. One"
"were sold. 2009 in British music charts This is a summary of the year 2009 in British music. 31 singles have occupied the number-one spot including 15 new entries. Due to the increase in downloads over physical sales, singles now tend to enter the chart at a lower position, before climbing to the top a few weeks later: a trend which was previously rarely seen in the later half of the 1990s and most of the 2000s. Alexandra Burke's ""Hallelujah"", the Christmas number-one single of 2008, remained at the top of the Singles Chart for a third week on 4"
"outsold the rest of the top forty combined to claim the top spot. U2 kept the top spot the next week whilst Kelly Clarkson's album ""All I Ever Wanted"" went straight in at number four and Annie Lennox got to number two with ""The Annie Lennox Collection"". On Mother's Day week Ronan Keating topped the albums chart with ""Songs for My Mother"", while Annie Lennox stayed at number two. On the first chart of April, Lady Gaga stayed at number one on the singles chart with ""Poker Face"" which went on to become the UK's biggest-selling single of 2009.Metro Station's"
"It was certified Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and sold a total of 585,000 copies according to the Official Charts Company. ""Paparazzi"" debuted at number 38 on the Irish Singles Chart and peaked at number four. ""Paparazzi"" reached number one in Germany, making it her second chart-topper there. The song also debuted on the Dutch Top 40 at number 27 on the issue dated July 18, 2009. It peaked at number four on its sixth week on the chart. In Italy, the song debuted at number 19 and then climbed to number three, becoming Gaga's second top three"
"Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2009 ""Billboard"" magazine each year releases a Top Hot 100 songs of the year, counted from the first week of November to the final week in October. The 2009 list was dominated by The Black Eyed Peas and Lady Gaga, who shared the top four spots. On 27 December, DJ Earworm released a mashup video to YouTube entitled ""Blame It On The Pop"", featuring the top twenty-five songs from the list, as he had also done the previous two years. The video quickly went viral, and received four million views in little over a"
"Song Sales. On the Canadian Hot 100, ""Bad Romance"" debuted at number 58, and reached number one the following week, making it Gaga's third chart-topper in the country. After being replaced by Kesha's ""Tik Tok"" for two weeks, ""Bad Romance"" returned to the top spot on the chart. Music Canada certified ""Bad Romance"" septuple platinum, denoting shipments of 560,000 copies. The song sold 9.7 million copies worldwide in 2010, and 12 million in total, thus becoming one of the best-selling singles of all time. After its release in the United Kingdom, ""Bad Romance"" debuted at number 14 on the UK"
"with new vocals by Cire. The song reached #16 on the Norwegian singles chart. Replay - Promo CD The song debuted in the UK at number one on 10 January 2010, selling over 106,000 copies in its first week, the highest sale for any new year release since Michelle McManus sold 118,000 copies of ""All This Time"" in the equivalent week in January 2004. It is also the first number-one single of the 2010s (not counting Lady Gaga's ""Bad Romance"" which also reached number-one in 2009). After two weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart and six weeks"
"at number 6, giving Morrison his fourth top ten hit. The following week the song rose to a new high, rising to number 4 on the 2008 Christmas chart. This makes Broken Strings Morrison's most successful single by peak position to date in the UK as, on 11 January 2009 it climbed to number two, being held off the top spot by Just Dance, the debut single from Lady Gaga. The song's highest entry was in Germany's Single Top 100 where it entered the chart at the top spot. Following the success of Broken Strings, the album which had been"
"""Artpop"", ""Do What U Want"" debuted at number nine on the UK charts with sales of 29,657 copies becoming her 11th top-ten single there. It also entered the Scottish Singles Chart at the same position. ""Do What U Want"" became Gaga's 11th best selling single in the United Kingdom with sales of 248,000 copies by January 2017, and was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for 400,000 copies of streaming equivalent units. It has been streamed 8.5 million times, becoming Gaga's highest streamed song in the country. Gaga performed the song live along with ""Venus"" on the tenth"
"on reaching number-one in the United Kingdom saying, ""It's been a long running dream to have a big hit in the UK – my fans there are so sexy and the people are so innovative and free in how they think about pop culture and music. I was in my apartment in Los Angeles getting ready to go to dance rehearsal when they called and told me, and I just cried."" According to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) the song was certified platinum, and in July 2016 it became Gaga's third song to pass one million combined sales in the"
"the United States. The album spawned three more singles: ""Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)"", ""LoveGame"" and ""Paparazzi"". The latter reached the top ten in many countries worldwide, and number one in Germany. Gaga later released ""The Fame Monster"" in November 2009, as a deluxe edition or reissue of ""The Fame"", which was ultimately released also as a standalone EP. It reached number one in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, as well as number five in the United States, where it was certified Platinum. Its lead single, ""Bad Romance"", became an international hit and reached number one"
"due to download sales alone. ""Run"" remained on the top position the four weeks in total. On 7 December 2008, it entered the UK Singles Chart at number one, also on downloads alone, making it her 3rd number one. It had become the fastest-selling UK download ever after it sold 69,244 in just two days, a record it held until December 2009. By the end of the first week, download sales had reached 131,593, some 8,000 below the first week sales of ""A Moment Like This"". The single spent a second week at number one in the United Kingdom, before"
"multiple television appearances, and was reissued as a deluxe edition with ""The Fame Monster"" on November 18, 2009. The album received generally favorable reviews from critics, who commended its lyrical content and Gaga's musicianship and vocal ability. It was a commercial success, topping the charts in several countries including the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Poland, and Switzerland. In the United States, it peaked at number two on the ""Billboard"" 200, and also topped the Dance/Electronic Albums chart for 107 non-consecutive weeks. ""The Fame"" became the fifth best-selling album of 2009, and has sold over 4.79 million copies in the"
"single achieved greater success than ""Just Dance"" by topping the charts in almost all the countries it was released to. ""Poker Face"" became Gaga's second consecutive number one on the Hot 100. On December 2, 2009, ""Poker Face"" received three Grammy nominations in the categories of Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and won for Best Dance Recording. ""Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)"" was the album's third single in Australia, New Zealand, Sweden and Denmark and fourth in France. The song received mixed reviews. Some critics compared it to nineties Europop while the others criticized it"
"While traveling the globe, she wrote eight songs for ""The Fame Monster"", a reissue of ""The Fame"". Those new songs were also released as a standalone EP on November 18, 2009. Its first single, ""Bad Romance"", was released one month earlier and went number one in Canada and the UK, while reaching number two in the US, Australia, and New Zealand. ""Telephone"", with Beyoncé, followed as the second single from the EP and became Gaga's fourth UK number one. Its third single was ""Alejandro"", which reached number one in Finland and attracted controversy when its music video was deemed blasphemous"
"had led to speculation that either another British Invasion was underway or that there was a return to normalcy. In 2008 Leona Lewis's single ""Bleeding Love"" topped the Billboard Hot 100, and her album, ""Spirit"", also reached number 1, as Lewis became the first UK solo artist to debut at number one in the US with a debut album. The year would also be a successful one for Duffy, Adele, Estelle, and M.I.A. Led by Coldplay, British acts received a total of 16 Grammy Awards in 2009. In 2009, Jay Sean topped the Billboard Hot 100, followed by Taio Cruz"
"of the best-selling singles in the UK that have sold at least one million copies since 1952. It charted at number 76 out of a total 123, having sold 1.13 million copies. As of February 2016, the song has sold 1.39 million copies in the UK, making it Rihanna's biggest-selling single there. The song debuted at number one in Scotland on October 15, 2011. The single is the 9th best-selling song of all time by a female artist in the UK. Elsewhere in Europe, the song topped the charts in Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia,"
"song – the first was composed of clips from ""Dirty Sexy Money"", and the second was the actual music video. The song charted on the UK Singles Chart due to digital downloads and peaked at number 83. The album received further promotion from her first headlining concert tour The Fame Ball Tour, which started on March 12, 2009 in San Diego, California. It was Gaga's first concert tour with North American shows in March, followed by dates in Oceania and a solo trek through Europe. Dates in Asia soon followed, as well as two performances at England's V Festival and"
"top-ten single. It debuted on the airplay charts at number 19, with first week tallies of 564 plays and 27.10 million listeners. The song rose to the top of the chart on April 20, 2008 (for the week ending date April 26, 2008), with sales of 40,634 copies, thus giving Madonna her 13th British number-one single. It remained at the top for four weeks. According to the Official Charts Company, it was the ninth best-selling song of 2008 and has sold 597,000 copies there as of August 2018, being certified Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). ""4 Minutes"" was"
"week. Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2009 ""Billboard"" magazine each year releases a Top Hot 100 songs of the year, counted from the first week of November to the final week in October. The 2009 list was dominated by The Black Eyed Peas and Lady Gaga, who shared the top four spots. On 27 December, DJ Earworm released a mashup video to YouTube entitled ""Blame It On The Pop"", featuring the top twenty-five songs from the list, as he had also done the previous two years. The video quickly went viral, and received four million views in little over"
"lacked cohesion, that it was an amalgamation of ""Cher song"", ""faux-European accented verse"", ""power disco chorus"" and ""bland spoken-word bridge"". In the United States, ""Bad Romance"" debuted at number nine on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 on November 14, 2009, making it Gaga's highest debuting song on the chart at the time. It sold 143,000 paid digital downloads in its first week. After two weeks the song moved from number 11 to number two, which became its peak. It held the spot for seven non-consecutive weeks. The movement to the runner-up spot was first prompted by a 49% digital gain, and"
"pop singer Lady Gaga. In November and December 2012, he returned to the States to perform in 6 concerts. ""Concerto: One Night in Central Park"" entered the ""Billboard"" 200 at No. 4 with 87,000 copies sold, becoming Bocelli's sixth top 10 effort, while ""My Christmas"", his 2009 album, climbed from No. 62 to 36, with 17,000 copies sold, up 83% from the previous week. On its second week, the album fell to No. 14, with nearly 65,000 copies sold, down 25%, while ""My Christmas"" fell to No. 50, with 23,000. copies. On its third week, ""Concerto"" returned to the top"
"rapper Flo Rida. In one of the song's earliest reviews, music website Popjustice called the song ""literally amazing."" Bill Lamb of About.com has said of the single: ""big international success seems a real possibility."" ""Bad Boys"" debuted at number-one on the UK and the Irish Singles chart, becoming Burke's second consecutive chart-topper in both countries, selling over 187,000 copies to become the fastest selling single of 2009 in the United Kingdom, beaten the following week by Cheryl Cole's ""Fight for This Love"". ""Broken Heels"" is the second single from ""Overcome"", and third single overall. It was released on 18 January"