The Born This Way Ball Tour in Vancouver (Jan 11)

Hello
Nice to meet you.
You are very cute.
Rubber man.

I cant help my self
I'm in love,
And when i get back from out of space
I'm gonna punch him in his face

If he's the moon
Then I'm eclipsed
I'm so lunar yeah when I get to him
I'll run him over with my rocket ship.

My eyeliner runs in constellations
For you dear
If only i could reboot my mechanical heart
I'd think clear

Baby I'm feeling so out of this world,
Baby with your I'm a different girl
Ohhh, ohhh you're my future love.

Baby could we make a home in the stars
Baby somewhere in a galaxy far
Ohh, ohh you're my future love

Ohhhh, I want...

Well, the final numbers have been crunched and the end result is something we pretty much suspected all along: 2009 was a very big year for Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga and the late, great King of Pop, Michael Jackson.

On Wednesday (January 6), Nielsen SoundScan released their sales figures for 2009, and while some of the data is downright depressing — total album sales (including digital) dropped more than 12 percent — we prefer to focus on the positive: Swift, Gaga and Jackson (not to mention Susan Boyle, the Black Eyed Peas and the Kings of Leon) moved a whole lot of units over the past 12...

Article by
Michael Cooper
LA Pop Music Examiner



Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" was supposed to be the biggest album of the year. It was supposed to be the "voice of our generation," as the pop star herself proclaimed. Now, only eight months after its release, the album's fifth single, "Marry the Night," peaked at a disappointing number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, breaking Lady Gaga's streak of 11 consecutive top 10 hits.

At the same time, one of the other biggest pop stars around right now, Katy Perry, tied Michael Jackson's record of 5 number one singles from an album, while her sixth single,...