"Which artiste had the best-selling single of 2009, with ""Poker Face""?"
"2009 BET Awards. The video has also received many nominations: Best Video in the 2009 Popjustice Readers Polls (placed 4th); nine (including the three that it won) in the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards; Best International Artist Video at the 2009 MuchMusic Video Awards (losing to Lady Gaga's ""Poker Face""); Outstanding Music Video at the 2009 NAACP Image Awards; and two at the 2009 MTV Australia Awards for Best Video and Best Moves. The video was ranked at number four on BET's ""Notarized: Top 100 Videos of 2008"" countdown, and at number three on VH1's Top 40 Videos of 2009."
"song's robotic hook and chorus. The song attained worldwide success, topping the charts in 20 countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many European countries. ""Poker Face"" is the best-selling single of 2009 worldwide, with over 9.5 million in sales that year. It is one of the best-selling singles of all time, having sold over 14 million copies. The accompanying music video for the song portrays Gaga singing it in various costumes and playing strip poker in a getaway villa. Gaga performed the song on the eighth season of the television show ""American Idol"""
"song became the country's biggest-selling single of 2009, and was awarded The Record of the Year. As of January 2017, it has sold 1.18 million copies and has been streamed 8.27 million times according to the Official Charts Company, receiving a double platinum certification from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). In Italy the song debuted at number 19 and peaked at number two. The song has also reached the peak in a number of European countries including Austria, Belgium (Flanders and Wallonia), Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland. In Germany ""Poker Face"" became the most"
"successful download single of all time and the first one to sell more than 500,000 downloads. The song also spent 16 non-consecutive weeks atop the ""Billboard"" European Hot 100 Singles chart. Worldwide, the song had sold 9.8 million copies by November 2009 according to IFPI. It has since gone on to sell over 13.4 million copies as of September 2013, making it one of the best-selling singles of all time. The music video for ""Poker Face"", directed by Ray Kay and aided by Anthony Mandler, was filmed at the luxury villa on bwin PokerIsland. bwin also provided the poker equipment"
"video won the Best International Artist Video at the 2009 MuchMusic Video Awards. The video received four nominations at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, in the categories of Video of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Female Video and Best Pop Video. Along with five other nominations for ""Paparazzi"", Gaga was tied with Beyoncé for most nominations each for that year. In June 2010, Gaga held a reverse auction for one of the necklaces worn in the music video, designed by Brian Lichtenberg. All the proceeds from the auction went to the Lupus Foundation of America. ""Poker Face"" has"
"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"
"Poker Face (Ayumi Hamasaki song) ""Poker Face"" (stylized as ""poker face"") is Ayumi Hamasaki's debut single under Avex Trax. It was released on 8 April 1998. Poker Face entered at #20 on the charts with 11,520 units sold in its opening week and charted for six weeks. The single sold a total of 43,140 copies. The single is currently certified Gold by the RIAJ. The music video for ""poker face"" was directed by Takeishi Wataru. The video focuses around Hamasaki standing in front for a large tree filled with television monitors that show her in various locations. It also shows"
"Face"" received critical acclaim. Priya Elan from ""The Times"", in a review for ""The Fame"", said that ""Poker Face"" was one of the finest moments of the album with its ""love-as-card-game cheek"". BBC Music reviewed the ""strut-tastic"" single as ""expressing her overwhelming desire for celebrity and fortune."" Bill Lamb of About.com said, ""'Poker Face' works well on pop radio, but with slight mixing alterations it would be equally at home in a dark, sweaty, late night party atmosphere. She has refreshed the pop world in the US and UK at one of the slowest times of the year. 'Poker Face'"
"so with ""Genie in a Bottle"" and ""What a Girl Wants"" in 1999–2000. The song spent one week at the summit of the chart, 9 weeks at number two, 18 weeks in the top ten and stayed on the Hot 100 for a total of 40 weeks. ""Poker Face"" also peaked on both the Hot Dance Airplay and Hot Dance Club Play charts. It became the first single since Madonna's 2006 single ""Sorry"", to top all the three dance charts in a single week including the Hot Dance Singles Sales chart. The song has been certified Diamond by the Recording"
"of the song while at a radio station in Germany. In 2009, a single by rapper Kid Cudi featuring Kanye West and Common titled ""Make Her Say"" was released; it contains a vocal sample of the acoustic version of ""Poker Face"" from ""The Cherrytree Sessions"" EP. The song was originally entitled ""I Poke Her Face"" but was changed to make it more acceptable for radio. It features Kanye West, who also produced the track, and Common, as well as scratches from DJ A-Trak. Actor Christopher Walken performed a special a capella rendition of ""Poker Face"" on BBC1's ""Friday Night with"
"Past 15 Years"". In the United States, the song entered the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 at 92 and reached number six on the issue dated March 7, 2009. The next week the song climbed another three places to reach a peak of three and stayed there for two additional weeks. On the ""Billboard"" issue dated April 11, 2009, the song topped the chart. ""Poker Face"" became Gaga's second consecutive number one song on the Hot 100, marking the first time a new artist has had their first two charting singles hit number one on the Hot 100 since Christina Aguilera did"
"September 2009, British singer Skyla released a cover version of the song. Earlier in 2009, Katerine Avgoustakis also made a cover of the song which became her first international single and underwent great success. It was number one for one week in Poland on the country's Official Airplay Chart, ranked by Nielsen SoundScan. Rockabilly band The Baseballs include ""Ayo Technology"" as part of a medley including covers of ""Poker Face"" and ""Jungle Drum"" whilst on tour. British duo Jaqobi also recorded their own version of the song for their 2010 EP ""Two Brothers, A Guitar & A Bar"". British recording"
"Industry Association of America (RIAA), and sold 7.5 million paid digital downloads in the United States as of February 2018, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Gaga is the first artist in digital history to top the six and seven million mark in paid downloads with two songs, the first being ""Just Dance"". ""Poker Face"" is Gaga's most digitally-sold track in the United States. In Canada, the song debuted at number 41 on the Canadian Hot 100. On the chart dated December 13, 2008, ""Poker Face"" ascended to the number one spot and then spent nine non-consecutive weeks at the top. The"
"it peaked on the chart spending 10 consecutive weeks at number one. ""Poker Face"" was certified two times platinum after 27 weeks on the chart, selling over 30,000 copies, according to the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ). In the United Kingdom, ""Poker Face"" debuted at number 30 on the UK Singles Chart. After three weeks, it climbed to number one, thus giving Gaga her second consecutive British number one single. It was the biggest selling digital single in the United Kingdom, before being overtaken by ""I Gotta Feeling"" by The Black Eyed Peas in June 2010. However, the"
"che... il Calcio"". She also performed ""Poker Face"" in the United Kingdom on ""The Paul O'Grady Show"". First she played an acoustic version first before going on to the normal version, and a rock version on ""Friday Night with Jonathan Ross"". On May 12, 2009, Gaga performed ""Poker Face"" on ""The Ellen DeGeneres Show"" while wearing a gyroscope on her head, designed by theatrical hat designer Nasir Mazhar and playing the piano while standing on the stool. Gaga referred to the gyroscope as her ""Gaga barrier"". It prevented Ellen DeGeneres from greeting her because of the size of the gear."
"""The Fame"", and to set up her own creative team called the Haus of Gaga, modeled on Andy Warhol's Factory. ""The Fame"" was released on August 19, 2008, reaching number one in Austria, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, and the UK and appearing in the top five in Australia and the US. Its first two singles, ""Just Dance"" and ""Poker Face"", reached number one in the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The latter was also the world's best-selling single of 2009—with 9.8 million copies sold that year—and spent a record 83 weeks on ""Billboard"" magazine's Digital Songs chart."
"playing time ( Hours, minutes, seconds ), beating Donkeyboy ""Ambitions"", 122:02:18, Beyoncé Knowles ""Halo"", 118:03:28, Taylor Swift ""Love Story"", 115:23:19, Röyksopp ""The Girl And The Robot"", 113:26:57, The Killers ""Human"", 112:45:13, Katy Perry ""Hot 'n' Cold"", 111:32:53, Eric Hutchinson ""Rock & Roll"", 110:12:42, Paperboys ""Lonesome Traveller"", 109:48:39 and Lady Gaga ""Poker Face"", 109:27:11. First time a Norwegian artist has been on top of the list. The music video for the track, co-directed by Olaf Heine and Mik Rahner, was shot in Berlin, Hamburg and along the Baltic coast of Pomerania. The video concentrates on singer Morten Harket with only small"
"""Tubridy Tonight"". Three songs from ""The Fame"" were used in the second season of The CW's series ""Gossip Girl"": ""Paparazzi"" in the episode ""Summer, Kind of Wonderful"", ""Poker Face"" in ""The Serena Also Rises"", and ""Money Honey"" in ""Remains of the J"". Gaga also performed ""Poker Face"" on ""American Idol"" on April 1, 2009. To celebrate the launch of the show ""Dirty Sexy Money"", ABC created a music video of Gaga's song ""Beautiful, Dirty, Rich"", directed by Melina Matsoukas. It was initially announced as Gaga's second single, but ""Poker Face"" was chosen instead. There were two videos released for the"
"total of 61 million equivalent units certified according to Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). She became the first woman to receive the Digital Diamond Award certification from RIAA, is one of three artists with at least two Diamond certified songs (""Bad Romance"" and ""Poker Face""), and is the first and only artist to have two songs pass 7 million downloads (""Poker Face"" and ""Just Dance""). Lady Gaga Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She is known for her unconventionality and provocative work, as well as"
"Angelina Germanotta."" The paparazzi theme of the video was compared to Britney Spears's 2004 music video, ""Everytime"". MTV News called the video a ""1940s romantic-epic-style video"" that ""proves once and for all that Gaga is a true original with a unique vision."" The video was nominated for five VMAs at the 2009 awards in the categories of Best Direction, Best Editing, Best Special Effects, Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction. Along with four other nominations for ""Poker Face"", she and Beyoncé were tied for most nominations that year. The video won the award for Best Art Direction and Best Special"
"her playing with animals. The song was used as the opening theme of a Japanese TV show called ""Count Down TV"". This single was re-released on February 28, 2001, featuring four new songs. Poker Face (Ayumi Hamasaki song) ""Poker Face"" (stylized as ""poker face"") is Ayumi Hamasaki's debut single under Avex Trax. It was released on 8 April 1998. Poker Face entered at #20 on the charts with 11,520 units sold in its opening week and charted for six weeks. The single sold a total of 43,140 copies. The single is currently certified Gold by the RIAJ. The music video"
"Three other singles, ""Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)"", ""LoveGame"", and ""Paparazzi"", were released from the album; the last one reaching number one in Germany. Remixed versions of the singles from ""The Fame"" except ""Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)"" were included in ""Hitmixes"" in August 2009. At the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, ""The Fame"" and ""Poker Face"" won Best Dance/Electronica Album and Best Dance Recording, respectively. Following her opening act on The Pussycat Dolls' 2009 Doll Domination Tour in Europe and Oceania, Gaga headlined her worldwide The Fame Ball Tour, which ran from March to September 2009."
"was performed by Alex Borstein who was parodying Marlee Matlin who interrupted the performance in a guest stint. Lea Michele and Idina Menzel, in character as Rachel Berry and Shelby Corcoran respectively, covered an acoustic version of ""Poker Face"" in the ""Theatricality"" episode of ""Glee"". Their version debuted at position 100 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, and moved up to a peak of 20 on the next week. It went on to become one of the show's most popular recordings; having sold 410,000 U.S. downloads, it remains the tenth best-selling song in the show's history. ""Weird Al"" Yankovic included the"
"understand what is going through her mind. ""Poker Face"" is a synth-pop and dance-pop song, and follows the footsteps of Gaga's previous single ""Just Dance"". Whereas ""Just Dance"" was predominately electropop, ""Poker Face"" carries a dark sound with clear vocals on the chorus and a pop hook while combining the synths from ""Just Dance"" and the more dance-oriented beat of the next single ""LoveGame"". According to Kerri Mason of ""Billboard"", the composition ""carr[ies] the pleather-and-sequins vibe of the downtown New York scene out of the underground and onto the FM dial without losing its smut and sass."" Poker Face is"
"Top 40 success. The song is about a girl's curiosity about kissing another girl, though she has a boyfriend. In 2008, Lady Gaga, who is openly bisexual, released her second single ""Poker Face"", which is about fantasizing about women while in bed with a man. It received both critical and commercial success as well as vast praise from the bisexual community. As of October 2009, there is a bisexual ""webisode"" series known as ""A Rose By Any Other Name"" being released on YouTube that was directed by Independent film director and bisexual rights advocate Kyle Schickner of Fencesitter Films. The"
"and fifth top twenty entry on the chart. Songz and Drake performed the song on music video show ""106 & Park"" on September 2, 2009 as a part of a medley with ""I Need a Girl"" and ""Successful."" Instead of releasing a typical video for the song, the accompanying clip features fans singing and dancing along to the clip, as well as tweeting and texting the title. The video was released online on November 25, 2009. Source LOL Smiley Face ""LOL Smiley Face"" (styled as ""LOL :-)"") is a song by American recording artist Trey Songz. It features rappers Gucci"
"song was certified eight times platinum by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) for paid digital downloads of 320,000. ""Poker Face"" entered the Australian charts at number 26, and in its seventh week peaked at number one. ""Poker Face"" has shipped over 420,000 copies in Australia, earning six-times Platinum certification by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). It held the record for the longest-charting song in ARIA Chart history of 106 weeks until this was broken in May 2015 by Vance Joy's ""Riptide"". In New Zealand, the song debuted on the official chart at number 21. In its sixth week,"
"Complete"" was the eighth best-selling album of 2008 in Japan and the third best-selling by a female artist, behind Namie Amuro's ""Best Fiction"" and Utada Hikaru's ""Heart Station"". ""A Complete"" includes all of Hamasaki's A-side single tracks since her first single ""Poker Face"" up to ""Mirrorcle World"". Many tracks on the album have been remastered such as ""M"", ""Audience"", ""Poker Face"", and ""To Be"". Shortly after the release of ""A Complete"" Hamasaki announced that the Taiwanese version will include a Chinese version of ""Who..."". The album sold 538,876 copies by the end of the first week, debuting at #1 making"
"as well as on her Fame Ball and Monster Ball concert tours. The live performances included an electronic version and an acoustic version, which she played on the piano. ""Poker Face"" was nominated for both Song of the Year and Record of the Year at the 52nd Grammy Awards, and won the Award for Best Dance Recording. ""Poker Face"" was written by Gaga and RedOne, while production was handled also by RedOne. Gaga stated in an interview that ""Poker Face"" was written by her as a pop song and was a tribute to her ""rock 'n' roll boyfriends"". She also"
"United States as of February 2018. Combined with ""The Fame Monster"", the album had sold over 15 million copies worldwide as of November 2010. Gaga promoted the album with many television performances, award shows and also in her first headlining tour, The Fame Ball Tour in 2009. The first two singles ""Just Dance"" and ""Poker Face"" gained international success, topping the charts in several countries worldwide including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. The subsequent singles ""LoveGame"" and ""Paparazzi"" were commercial successes as well, charting within the top-ten of over ten countries worldwide. ""Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I"
"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."
"Can Say)"" had a limited single release, while ""Beautiful, Dirty, Rich"" served as a promotional single. ""The Fame"" has won multiple awards since its release. In the United States, the album was nominated for a total of five Grammy Awards at the 52nd Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. It won the Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album and the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording for the single ""Poker Face"", and also won Best International Album at the 2010 Brit Awards. In 2013, ""Rolling Stone"" named ""The Fame"" as one of the ""100 Greatest"
"LOL Smiley Face ""LOL Smiley Face"" (styled as ""LOL :-)"") is a song by American recording artist Trey Songz. It features rappers Gucci Mane and Soulja Boy and serves as the second single from Songz' third studio album, ""Ready"". The artists co-wrote the song with its producers Troy Taylor and Tony Scales. ""LOL Smiley Face"" is an R&B song featuring bouncy, poppy synths, and lyrically refers to sexting and other electronic multimedia messaging. The song was released as the second single from Songz's third album ""Ready"" on August 24, 2009. The song received generally positive reviews from critics, who noted"