Lady Gaga earns fourth No. 1 album with 'Joanne,' scores massive record for the decade

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It's not unusual or even unexpected for a Lady Gaga album to break records, but this weekend she became the first female artist with four No. 1 albums this decade.

Joanne was the second-largest album debut for a woman this year, according to Billboard, a title Gaga lost to Beyoncé (they round out the top four albums of 2016 with Drake and Frank Ocean). Though Gaga now has the most No. 1 albums of the Billboard Top 200 in the 2010s, it's also because she's released the most -- both Queen Bey and Taylor Swift are trailing at three albums each.

Though solidified in the Top 200, Joanne's 201,000 units sold this week are still far behind the top three albums of the year, with Blonde at 276,000, Lemonade at 653,000 and Views at 1.04 million.


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Proma Khosla is a Senior Entertainment Reporter writing about all things TV, from ranking Bridgerton crushes to composer interviews and leading Mashable's stateside coverage of Bollywood and South Asian representation. You might also catch her hosting video explainers or on Mashable's TikTok and Reels, or tweeting silly thoughts from @promawhatup.

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