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Lady Gaga Most Shared on Facebook

CHART SPOTLIGHT. According to the new music service Viral Music List, Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” is the most shared Spotify track during the last 24hrs. Viral Music List’s search engine keeps track of which artists, albums and tracks that people are sharing on Facebook. It’s a really cool service, which is automatically updated. Veronica Maggio’s latest single “Jag kommer” actually beats Gaga in becoming the most shared track the past 7 days, but does still not appear on the time tally where Eminem and Rihanna is atop with “Love the Way You Lie.” WelcheMusic likes :).

Lady Gaga Destined for US No.1

CHART SPOTLIGHT. Lady Gaga is set to top the Hot 100 tomorrow, making it the 1,000^th No.1 single in the History of the chart. “Born This Way” is also the title off her third studio album, which is scheduled for release on May 23. Sources say that “Born This Way,” which has been compared to Madonna’s “Express Yourself,” sold more than 450,000 downloads within its first three days of release since Friday 11^th March. WelcheMusic expects the track to make a high debut on the Swedish chart later this week.

Britney Spears sold 411,000 downloads when she debuted atop the Hot 100 with “Hold It Against Me” four weeks ago. Flo Rida’s “Right Round” sold 636,000 in its first week of release; Black Eyed Peas’s “Boom Boom Pow” (465,000); and, third: Flo Rida’s “Low” (460,000) according to Billboard Biz.

Lady Gaga bowed at No.3 in the UK on Sunday, after just a few days of availability. She was beaten by Chipmunk’s “Champion” and chart-topper Jessie J.

Fingers Crossed that Love Generation Remains in the Competition

CHART REFLECTION. According to Sweden’s largest news daily Aftonbladet, pop group Love Generation might get disqualified in this year’s Melodifestivalen which leads up to the Eurovision Song Contest. Late last night, the entry “Dance Alone” leaked online. A 30 second preview was available on Amazon in the UK. The song was written by top producer RedOne of Lady Gaga fame.

The group, which consists of the four young girls Cornelia, Charly Q, Mikaela and Melanie is meant to compete on Feb.26 in Malmö. The Amazon incident might put an end to that.

At the end of November, Anders Fernette’s “Don’t Stop” was disqualified as it became available via MySpace. According to SVT’s (Swedish public service) strict rules, no entries are allowed to be played in public by no means. Fernette had to submit a new song within a few days.

This will not be the first time, Love Generation has made the headlines in the run-up to Melodifestivalen. Originally created by Korean electronics company LG Electronics, the group has been criticized for its close involvement with a company as the competition should non-commercial. Love Generaton’s eponymous debut single spent two weeks at the Swedish singles tally last June, peaking at No.45. The track was featured in the LG Viewty GT400 mobile phone commercial.

Neither Love Generation nor any representative from Melodifestivalen had commented on the story. WelcheMusic really hopes that Love Generation stays in the competition either with “Dance Alone” or another song.

Read about the launch of Love Generation in April 2010.

1.39bn Brits Listened to ‘California Gurls’

2010 CHART REWIND. Music Week and Nielsen Music recently presented stats on what songs got most airplay on UK radio last year. WelcheMusic first wrote about “California Gurls” back in July last year. Katy Perry collaborated with Snoop Dogg on the track, which topped the airplay chart for five weeks. It took a while to get there, Perry first entered the chart at No.119 and took eight weeks to reach the top. In total, “California Gurls” racked up 69,592 plays across the UK and won over Lady Gaga’s “Alejandro.” The latter has two singles inside the year-end top ten as “Bad Romance” was No.4.

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