Lady GaGa cavorts to the top and is now #1!

Lady GaGa has come a long way from the seedy Lower East Side days when she was trying to do anything to get noticed. The dance diva busted her way to the top of the 100 odd Billboard Hot singles Thursday with ‘Just Dance.’ Running 22 weeks, this Grammy song brought her within kissing distance of the record set by Creed’s ‘With Arms wide open’ that ran for 27 weeks.

Come February 8, Joanne Stefani Germanotta, better known as Lady GaGa will brace up for the Grammy award for the most outstanding song recording. On the way she pulled down Beyonce Knowles form the coveted No.1 position. Cruising past the likes of Britney Spears and Kanye West, Lady GaGa seemed to be on an overdrive on the road to Grammy.

She works according to a well thought out plan. When she found herself doing the same thing the others were doing, she hit on the idea of some really raunchy rock ‘n’ roll. Rob Fusari was roped in with whom she had worked with to belt out earlier hits like Dirty Ice Cream and Disco Heaven. Taking a cue from rock group Queen and their song Radio Gaga, she decided to take on the name. But the Lady bit was brought in to lend a feminine touch to her shows and numbers.

And oh yeah, she whizzed past the rest in no time. It took a few demos for Akon to realize her full potential after Interscope cut a deal with her to write the songs. She was soon partnered into a Kon Live deal. It was during her work on the demo tracks for Tami Chynn, artiste for Konvick, that Akon gave the diva the break she needed and deserved to make it to the top. Akon was a conduit to top drawer producers in the business.

Moving to LA, Lady GaGa brought out her debut album, ‘The Fame’ that got released all over quickly moving up the charts in Australia and Canada. Sales touched 24000 in the first week of its release in the US in October 2008. New York Times, US magazine and Billboard magazine went gaga over Lady GaGa as the song peaked to number one on debut at Billboard top Electronic Albums chart while Poker Face too climbed up to number one in Canada and far off places like Australia and New Zealand. CD sales have already topped the charts in Canada for ‘The Fame’.

Critics may cavil about her tendency to imitate Christina Aguilera and deck up with weird things like Amy Winehouse but Lady GaGa is proving to be someone who knows how to get her fans all worked up during shows. But that’s not all about Lady GaGa as she has got rhythm releases waiting for early 2009.

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