Lady Gaga’s album tops US chart

Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga’s third studio album, ‘ARTPOP,’ debuted at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday after three months of steady promotion behind singles ‘Applause’ and ‘Do What U Want.’
The album sold 258,000 copies in its first week of release, according to figures compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. Fifty-seven percent of those sales were digital downloads, Billboard said.
It is the 27-year-old pop singer’s second No. 1 album on the weekly U.S. chart. ‘Born This Way’ debuted in the top spot in 2011, selling 1.1 million copies in its opening week, helped by a 99-cent promotion on online retailer Amazon.
Lady Gaga, one of the world’s most recognizable singers, was unable to match this year’s top-selling debut, Justin Timberlake’s ‘The 20/20 Experience,’ which sold 968,000 copies in its opening week in March.
Rapper Eminem’s ‘The Marshall Mathers LP 2,’ last week’s top album, was No. 2 with 210,000 copies in sales.
Pop hits compilation ‘Now 48’ entered the chart at No. 3 with 114,000 in sales, while ‘Duck the Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas,’ a holiday album by the cast of reality TV series ‘Duck Dynasty’ dropped a spot to No. 4 with 66,000.
Pop singer Katy Perry’s ‘PRISM’ fell a spot to No. 5 with 46,000 in sales.