US charts: Gaga unable to match Perry and Cyrus's numbers

Paul Williams

Lady Gaga's Artpop sits at No 1 in the US this week but with fewer opening sales than Katy Perry and Miley Cyrus's latest albums managed.

Her third album sold 258,000 copies last week, according to Nielsen SoundScan, to start in first place on the Billboard 200, but its tally compares unfavourably to the introductory tallies of Katy Perry's Prism (286,000 sales week one) and Miley Cyrus's Bangerz (270,000). Artpop's initial total is also sharply down on what its predecessor Born This ...

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