Lady Gaga "Born This Way" 1.1 million SOLD!

The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 selling 1,108,000 copies, Gaga's first number-one album and the highest first-week total since 50 Cent's The Massacre (2005) sold 1,141,000 in its first week. It is the seventeenth album to debut at number one. Gaga is the fifth woman to sell one million copies in a week, after Britney Spears (Oops!...I Did It Again, 2000), Whitney Houston (The Bodyguard Soundtrack, 1992), Norah Jones (Feels Like Home, 2004), and Taylor Swift (Speak Now, 2010). Part of the reason why it sold one million copies was the controversial decision by Amazon to sell the album for 99 cents on Monday, May 23 and Thursday, May 26. Amazon sold 440,000 copies in its first week, which contributed to its 662,000 digital sales - the largest in SoundScan history. The digital downloads accounted for 60 percent of Born This Way's first week total.[5] Before debuting on the Billboard 200, Born This Way debuted at number ten on the Dance/Electronic Albums chart.The album debuted at number one in Ireland[ and Swede and number two in Finland. The album debuted at number one in Australia, becoming her second number-one album there after The Fame Monster. Born This Way was certified platinum in Australia in its first week, by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for shipment of 70,000 copies. In the United Kingdom, the album debuted at number one on the UK Album Charts dated May 29, 2011, selling 215,639 units, which is the highest first-week sales of the year. That week, the album outsold more than the rest of the top 10 combined and has the best first-week tally of any album by an American female solo artist since Madonna's Confessions on a Dance Floor with sales of 217,610 copies in 2005. Born This Way debuted at number one on the New Zealand Albums Chart, becoming her second album to chart there, also after The Fame Monster. The album was certified platinum in its first week of sales.