Lady Gaga Sells 1.1M In First Week

The first week of sales for Lady Gaga's Born This Way are the highest for any release in the last six years.

Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" album debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 1,108,000 copies sold in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It's only the 17th album to sell a million in a week since SoundScan began tracking sales data in 1991, and the highest sales week since 2005. "Born This Way" also marks Gaga's first No. 1 album -- "The Fame" debut peaked at No. 2, while "The Fame Monster" EP reached No. 5 and dance effort "The Remix" hit No. 6. "Born This Way's" bow reaps the largest sales week of any album since 50 Cent's "The Massacre" did 1,141,000 in its first week, in March of 2005. The last time we had a million-plus frame was when Taylor Swift's "Speak Now" premiered at No. 1 with 1,047,000 in November of 2010. The SoundScan-era record week is held by NSYNC's "No Strings Attached," when it debuted at No. 1 with 2,416,000 in 2000.

Quote Of The Day - Tim Winter

"I cannot imagine what would possibly lead the ABC television network to air a profanity-laced, S&M sex show on primetime broadcast television. The overtly sexualized performance by Rihanna and Britney Spears was no accident or mishap, but a deliberate effort to target teens with images and lyrics that that glamorize whips, chains and other sexual fetishes." - Parents Television Council head Tim Winter, who's really upset that Britney and Rihanna kissed during their performance on the Billboard Awards. Lesbianism, the OTHER sexual fetish!

Remixer & Blowoff DJ Rich Morel Scores 20th Billboard #1 Dance Hit

Blowoff DJ Rich Morel has scored his 20th number one remix on Billboard's dance chart with his latest work for 78 year-old Yoko Ono. Along with numerous hits with Ono, Morel has notched chart topping remixes for Depeche Mode, New Order, The Killers, Pet Shop Boys, Cyndi Lauper and many others. Rolling Stone reports on Yoko's streak:

Yoko Ono has overcome the likes of Rihanna, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry to score her sixth consecutive Number One on the Billboard Hot Dance Club chart with "Move On Fast." The song is her eighth Number One dance hit overall, and the latest in Ono's series of remix singles. The original version of "Move On Fast" was issued as the B-Side to her folky 1972 single "Now or Never."

JMG EXCLUSIVE: Here's a free download of Cascade, Rich Morel's latest remix for the white-hot UK dance band Deluka. If you've been to Blowoff recently, you'll recognize this as one of the peak songs of the night. Hit the down arrow to grab it.

Billboard Issues 2010 Year-End Charts

Billboard Magazine has issued its annual rankings of the biggest hits of the year. Here's the 2010 pop Top Ten.

1. Tik-Tok - Kesha
2. Need You Now - Lady Antebellum
3. Hey Soul Sister - Train
4. California Gurls - Katy Perry
5. OMG - Usher
6. Airplanes - B.O.B.
7. Love The Way You Lie - Eminem/Rihanna
8. Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
9. Dynamite - Taio Cruz
10. Break Your Heart - Taio Cruz

Other list toppers: Artist Of The Year: Lady Gaga. Album Of The Year - Susan Boyle, I Dreamed A Dream, Dance Single Of The Year - Goldfrapp, Rocket.

Glee Cast's Gay Cover Of Teenage Dream Debuts At #1 Digital, #8 Billboard Pop

The Glee cast's cover of Katy Perry's Teenage Dream, sung memorably on last week's episode from one boy to another, has debuted at #8 on Billboard's top ten, becoming the highest debuting single of the show to date. The single has also bowed at #1 on the Digital Sales chart with 214,000 downloads in one week, become the show's first chart topper ever. Again, a love song sung from one gay boy to another is number freakin' ONE in the country.

Remixer & Blowoff DJ Rich Morel Scores 15th Billboard #1 Dance Hit

Remix artist Rich Morel, also one-half of the Blowoff DJ team, notches his 15th Billboard dance chart topper this week with his reworking of Yoko Ono's Wouldnit (I'm A Star). Morel has previously reached the dance summit with remixes for Pet Shop Boys, Seal, Cyndi Lauper, Depeche Mode, New Order, Vivian Green, and t.A.T.u. Morel is currently writing songs with Cyndi Lauper for a Broadway adaptation of the hit movie Kinky Boots.

RELATED: This is Yoko Ono's fifth #1 Billboard dance hit and her third with Rich Morel. At age 77, she is by far the oldest person to reach the top of the dance chart.

Glee Cast Joins Pop Chart Royalty

In less than one year, the cast of Glee has scored 43 (mostly minor) hit singles on Billboard's Hot 100, placing them among the top ten most charting non-solo acts of all time. Here's the current ranking of group acts by number of charting Hot 100 singles: Beatles (71), Rolling Stones (57), Beach Boys (55), Temptations (53), Chicago (46), Miracles (46), Four Tops (45), Supremes (45), Bee Gees (43), Glee cast (43).

As a vivid example of the disposability of today's pop music, Billboard notes that the 43 Glee singles have only spent a combined 57 weeks on the chart, with only eight of the singles surviving longer than one week. By comparison, singles by the Beatles spent a combined 617 weeks on the Hot 100.