Happy Birthday Born This Way! (May 23, 2011 - 2012)
“Born This Way is my answer to many questions over the years: Who are you? What are you about?…The most paramount theme on the record is me struggling to understand how I can exist as myself as someone who lives halfway between fantasy and reality all the time.”
It’s already been a year since the release of Gaga’s 3d studio album, “Born this Way”, which debuted at No.1 with more than 1,108,000 copies sold in its first week of release - the largest first week album sales in five years. Gaga became the fifth woman to sell one million copies in a week after Whitney Houston in 1992. Rolling Stone magazine ranked the album 6th in their list of “50 Best Albums of 2011” stating that “none of Gaga’s previous exercises in musical plussizing prepared us for this kind of anything-goes extravagance”. MTV described it as the “first multi-national, multi-hyphenate, multi-sexual pop album of our time” and “her grandest mission statement to date”. So let’s take a look back at what “Born this Way” achieved during this past year.
NOMINATIONS
- American Music Awards - Favorite Pop/Rock Album
- Billboard Music Awards - Top Billboard 200 Album
- Billboard Music Awards - Top Pop Album
- Grammy Awards - Album of the Year
- Grammy Awards - Best Pop Vocal Album
- JUNO Awards - International Album of the Year
- Oye Awards - Album of the Year
AWARDS
- Billboard Year-End Chart Awards - Top Electronic/Dance Album
- Billboard Music Awards - Top Electronic/Dance Album
- Billboard Japan Music Awards - Billboard Japan Adult Contemporary of the Year
- Billboard Japan Music Awards - Billboard Japan Digital and Overseas Airplay of the Year
- Japan Gold Disc Awards - Album of the Year
- Japan Gold Disc Awards - Western Album of the Year
- People’s Choice Awards - Favorite Album of the Year
- Virgin Media Music Awards - Best Album
INTERNATIONAL ALBUM CHARTS - Peak Positions
- #1: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Scotland, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, US Billboard 200, US Dance/Electronic Albums
- #2: Finland, Spain
- #3: Poland
- #5: Netherlands
CERTIFICATIONS
- 4x Platinum: Portugal, Russia
- 3x Platinum: Japan, Canada
- 2x Platinum: Australia, France, Brazil, Ireland, United States
- Platinum: New Zealand, Mexico, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, United Kingdom
- Gold: Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Spain
“Born this Way” is also Gaga’s first number one album!
Happy Birthday “Born this Way”! :)
fucking poland
