• Kid Cudi To Exit Lady Gaga’s ‘Monster Ball’ Tour

Kid Cudi is leaving Lady Gaga’s “Monster Ball” tour to focus on recording new material and “acting commitments,” according to a statement released by his representatives on Wednesday (Dec. 16).

“Kid Cudi has decided to take an early leave of absence from Lady Gaga’s Monster Ball tour, in order to balance his schedule surrounding the recording of his next album and acting commitments,” reads the statement. “Cudi does not want to disappoint his fans and will move forward with his individual show dates in December and throughout the month of January.”

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• Lady Gaga Explains Real Meaning Of ‘Dance In The Dark’

“Baby does her dance in the dark,” Lady Gaga sings, ” ’cause when he’s looking she falls apart.”

If you thought the pop superstar was referring to something as simple as a night out at the club in “Dance in the Dark,” from The Fame Monster, you don’t know Gaga very well — and you’re flat-out wrong. As she explained to The Los Angeles Times, the tune is about a rather more intimate experience — one that takes place not within the bass-blaring confines of a nightclub but between two people alone in a bedroom.

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• Lady Gaga Says Her Dad Thought She Was ‘Mentally Unstable’

Lady Gaga has certainly made her mark over the past year, not just with hit singles like “Paparazzi” and “Bad Romance” but also with the level of performance art she brings to their live and television renditions, which include her “dying” at the VMAs and performing with her piano on fire at the American Music Awards.

And if music lovers were surprised by Gaga’s performances at the beginning of her career, imagine how her father felt. When she sat down with Barbara Walters on her “10 Most Fascinating People of 2009″ special, which aired Wednesday night, she explained that it took a while for her dad to get comfortable with her act.

Read more: mtv.com

• Italian Designer Turns Down Lady Gaga

Everyone is dying to work with Lady Gaga right now! Everyone that is, except Italian designer Antonio Berardi. According to Sawf News, Lady Gaga approached Berardi to collaborate with her. He’s worked with numerous celebrities before, including Victoria Beckham, Megan Fox, Amber Rose, Eva Mendes and Gwyneth Paltrow. But he’s not interested in making Gaga a client.

Read more: hollyscoop.com

• Lady Gaga under fire for smoking on stage

London (ANI): Lady Gaga has incurred the wrath of Canadian authorities after defying the country’s no-smoking rules and smoking a cigarette on stage during a concert. The 23-year-old singer took to the stage in Vancouver as part of The Monster Ball Tour, reports the Daily Star.

The Poker Face hitmaker left officials fuming after lighting up a cigarette and puffing deeply on it at the end of her set. The star could be slapped with a fine under British Columbia”s strict anti-smoking regulations, which prohibits smoking in indoor public areas.

Source: entertainment.oneindia.in

• Lady Gaga most listened to online

Lady Gaga is the year’s biggest artist for online listening, according to a leading music site Last.fm.
Tracks from her album The Fame were played more than 18.5 million times by the site’s 35 million-strong community.
The singer – known for her wacky outfits – had her songs played six million times more than her nearest rivals The Killers

Source: The Press Association

• Lady GaGa: ‘I’m a bit of a feminist’

Lady GaGa has claimed that she wants her music to help women.

The ‘Bad Romance’ singer described herself as a “little bit of a feminist” and explained that she wants women to be happy with themselves.

Read more: digitalspy.co.uk

On The Billboard 200 albums chart, “The Fame” has a 19,000 copies sold increase from last week, but drops #5-#6, selling 102,863 this week, The Fame knows approaches to 2 million copies sold (aprox. 4,000 copies to reach 2x Platinum). “The Fame Monster” EP also falls 1 spots on the 200 chart, appearing this week at #14 with sales of 72,675 bringing it to a total of 311,556 copies sold in the U.S.A.

On The Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, “Bad Romance” slips to #3 after 3 consecutive weeks at #2, She misses the #2 spot to Ke$ha “Tik Tok” while Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys “Empire State Of Mind” spend a fifth week at the top of the chart.

“Bad Romance” spends it’s fourth consecutive at the top of The Billboard Hot Digital Songs chart, the song sold 182,527 copies during the week and has know 1,178,669 paid downloads.

Check out the video of Lady GaGa performing for The Queen Of England in the Royal Variety Show on December 7. She performed “Speechless”.

The super deluxe package of “The Fame Monster” is out today at most stores for $99 — Amazon.com and it’s 2-day Christmas offer lowered the price to only $78.18. The super package includes: The Fame and The Fame Monster cds, The Book Of Gaga (A highly stylized art table book housed in a custom slipcase documenting Gaga’s journey into pop superstardom) and pictorials, puzzle, a behind the scenes look at Gaga’s creative process, 3D glasses, a lock of Gaga’s hair, themed fanzine, paper doll collection all with personal notes from Gaga herself.

Amazon.com has a limited number of 6 Super Deluxe package ready to be shipped — two of the packages will be sold for $78.18, the third for $79.69, then $86.99 and $90.99 and shipping. Remember that retail is pricing this package at $99 +. So run to pick up your copy at Amazon.com — CLICK HERE TO GET TO THE PAGE WITH DISCOUNT!

Lady GaGa and tour sponsor Virgin Mobile want your help to combat Youth Homelessness. You can see at Ladyvirgin.com what you can do to help!

On it’s 7th in the UK singles chart, “Bad Romance” finally reaches the top spot. This is GaGa’s third #1 single in the UK singles chart.

Check out a sneak peek from the photoshoot Lady GaGa did with Cyndi Lauper for the 2010 Spring Glam campaign of MAC Viva courtesy of Trendland.net

Lady GaGa is ranking in many charts of The Billboard 2009 Year-End charts. She tops The U.S. Hot 100 Artists, Hot Pop Artists, Top Electronic Albums, U.S. Digital Songs Artists, Canadian Hot 100, The European Hot 100 Songs and European Top 100 Albums. She also appears on The 100 Artists Of The Decade at #73. You can check all the Billboard year-end charts here, and the decade-end charts here. Check GaGa’s chart positions:

On The Billboard 200 albums chart, GaGa’s “Fame Monster” drops from #5-#13, selling 65,000 copies this week, the EP has now a total of 238,000 copies sold in the U.S.A. Meanwhile, her album “The Fame” goes up this week, on it’s 58th week charting, it sold 84,000 copies going from #6-#5 this week.

On The Billboard Hot Digital Songs, “Bad Romance” tops the chart for the 3rd. consecutive week, selling 179,181 copies this week, the song has now a total of 996,142 digital copies sold and is probably reaching Platinum next.

Topping the digital chart wasn’t enough to bring “Bad Romance” to #1 on The Billboard Hot 100, However, it spends it’s third consecutive week at #2.

Check out some pictures of GaGa performing “Speechless” on the VEVO website launch party yesterday (December 8th) in New York City.