Lady Gaga knocks Eminem from UK No.1 with ARTPOP album

Star scores third UK album chart topper

Michael Baggs
08:41 18th November 2013

Lady Gaga has scored her third UK album No.1, after her hugely-hyped ARTPOP album hit the top spot this weekend.

The new chart topper follows previous releases Fame and Born This Way to the UK top spot, ahead of other new releases from the likes of Celine Dion, Little Mix and The Killers. Gaga topples Eminem from the top spot, as the controversial rapper slips to No.2 on the UK album charts. Celine Dion enters at No.3 with her new release, Loved Me Back To Life, buoyed by a recent performance on the X Factor.

2011 talent show champions Little Mix debut at No.4 with their second release, Salute, while The Killers greatest hits collection, Direct Hits (which they recently revealed they never wanted to release), enters at No.6. Cliff Richard makes his annual chart return, this time with The Fabulous Rock 'n' Roll Songbook, while housewives' favourite Alfie Boe enters at No.8 with Trust. Keane's Best Of is new at No.10.

Elsewhere, The Beatles On Air - Live At The BBC - Vol 2 enters at No.12 while their are also Top 20 entries from seasonal chancers Daniel O'Donnell and Russell Watson.

Meanwhile on the singles charts, Martin Garrix debuts at the top spot with his single 'Animals', while Lily Allen's cover of Keane's 'Somewhere Only We Know' for the Christmas John Lewis advert is at No.2.

Other new entries come from Lady Gaga and R.Kelly (No.9), Robbie Williams (No.10), The Poppy Girls (No.13), The Killers (No.23) and Justin Bieber (No.34).

Below: the most bizarre and pretentious things Lady Gaga has said about ARTPOP

"I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of of all the colours on the palette at every time."
"Make sure when writing about my new album ARTPOP that you CAPITALIZE the title! It's all in the details."
On how she relaxes - "A lot of meditation. I went out into the woods for a few days. I just disconnected myself from everything and allowed myself to be free and be human."
"ArtRave is November 10th, New York. 1800 people will be allowed in. The final retrogade phase of Mercury will occur, transitioning communication. It will reveal the miscommunications in our lives. We will no longer be able to side-step the consequences of what we choose to say."
"To make ARTPOP there must be an exchange between two auras: one from the sphere of ART, and the other from the sphere of POP."
"I wrote 4 hooks in 'Venus'. The snippet is of the first two before the true chorus. The rise before the orgasm."
On the release of ARTPOP - "A quick ejaculation"
"All of these outfits and all of these wigs that I've been changing in over the years - this is my way of assimilating, and this is my way of surviving. This is my way of getting to Oz, to have all my dreams come true...Dorothy was able to transform in order to survive."
"FUN FACT about ARTPOP: I sang the songs over and over until they were a part of me. Then we pressed record."

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