As most know, Lady Gaga has finished her New Zealand leg of her tour with 2 concerts in Auckland. Here are acouple of vids, Take a listen below plus a search link to NZ vids posted!

Search results: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lady+gaga+in+new+zealand+2010&search_type=&aq=f

ALSO: Also Gaga landed in Australia this morning (9am AEST) to start her australian leg of the tour! She starts in Sydney on the 17th! Also I (Mel) will be at her 1st Brisbane concert on the 26th! CANT WAIT! If tix are still available I might just go to her 2nd Brisbane concert . Magazine and newspaper scans about her concert and new video for “Telephone” will be up soon =]

“Telephone” rises #5-#3 on The U.S. Billboard Pop Songs chart, scoring Lady GaGa her 6th Top 3 on the chart that rank songs based on spins received from radio stations that fit the pop genre format according to Nielsen BDS tracking system, which is similar to Mediabase Top 40.

Lady GaGa just becomes the third artist in the history of the Billboard pop chart to have 2 entries in the Top 3 of the chart simultaneously, as she joins two other singers who managed to do the same, Ashanti in 2002 with “Foolish” and “What’s Luv?” and Mariah Carey in 1995 with “One Sweet Day” and “Fantasy” curiously all the three had featuring songs as they did the feat, Ashanti feat. Fat Joe for “What’s Luv?” and Mariah with Boyz II Men for “One Sweet Day”.

“Telephone” with Beyoncé comes in at #3 with “Bad Romance” right above it at #2. If the song manages to rise to #1, It will be Lady GaGa’s 6th single in a row to top the chart, tying Mariah Carey for the most #1s on the Pop chart in it’s history, not only her, Beyoncé will also be tied, since she also have 5 #1s on the chart. Other artists also with 5 include Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Avril Lavigne.

Billboard.com: Another week, another milestone chart achievement for Lady Gaga!

The singer’s “Bad Romance” sets the record for most weekly plays registered in the 17-year history of Billboard’s Pop Songs radio airplay tally, as the cut logged 10,859 plays in the tracking week of January 11-17.

Airing on all 130 reporters monitored for the chart, “Bad Romance” received an average of 84 plays per station last week, or one spin every two hours on each panelist. “Bad Romance” reigns for a third week on Pop Songs, which, along with all Billboard charts, will be refreshed Thursday.

Lady Gaga’s smash passes the sum of 10,665 plays totaled by Leona Lewis’ “Bleeding Love” on the chart dated May 17, 2008. Here is a look at the titles that have notched the highest weekly plays totals on Pop Songs, a list that includes two tracks by Gaga:

Lady Gaga – Bad Romance (10,859)
Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love (10,665)
Pink – So What (10,495)
Timbaland feat. OneRepublic – Apologize (10,394)
Lady Gaga – Poker Face (10,379)

Two weeks ago, Lady Gaga became the first artist to send her first five singles to the Pop Songs summit when “Bad Romance” ascended to No. 1.

Billboard announced today that “Bad Romance” just reached the top of The U.S. Billboard Pop Songs chart, giving Lady GaGa her fifth consecutive #1 single on the U.S. pop radios.

She’s now one #1 to tie with Mariah Carey, who has the most #1s on the pop chart history with 6 #1s. Also with 5 #1s we have Britney Spears, Pink, Beyonce and Avril Lavigne.

And GaGa has tweeted (@ladygaga) about it:

On the 5th day of the new decade, Bad Romance became my fifth US #1 record! Little monsters free yourselves and celebrate! I love u baby

Mediatraffic has released the year-end songs & albums charts. Mediabase compiles album sales and songs sales/airplay worldwide to deliver the most popular songs in the world in the best-selling albums in a world level. “The Fame” ends the year as the 2nd. best-selling album worldwide, with a total of 5,8 million copies sold behind Susan Boyle’s “I Dreamed A Dream” that sold 6,2 million copies (in only 1 month of 2009). Black Eyed Peas’ “The E.N.D.”, Taylor Swift “Fearless” and Michael Jackson’s “Thriller Celebrative Edition” ended up as #3, #4 and #5 respectively.

On the worldwide songs chart, “Poker Face” became the #1 song of the year, with an acumulative of 9,13 million points (these points are from sales, digital and physical, and airplay worldwide), while “Just Dance” appears at #5 with 4,9 million points, GaGa has also other 3 songs in the chart: “Paparazzi”, “Bad Romance” and “LoveGame” at #12, #27 and #37 respectively. Black Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling” and “Boom Boom Pow” and Flo Rida’s “Right Round” charted at #2, #3 and #4 respectively on the year-end songs chart.

Check here the Top 40 songs worldwide 2009 chart and here for the Top 40 worldwide best selling albums of 2009.

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.

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.

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.

Lady GaGa’s second studio album, “The Fame Monster” opens at #5 on The U.S. Billboard Hot 200 albums chart having sold 173,515 copies on the first week of release. Right at #6, “The Fame” appears with sales of 151,393, keep in mind that the Deluxe version of “The Fame Monster” (the one that included “The Fame”) count towards “The Fame” sales, justifying the #6, in sum, she sold 324,908 album copies this week! Congrats GaGa!

The top 10 of this week Billboard 200 goes as:
This Week Chart Positions | Artist | “Album Title” | Copies sold during the week
1 Susan Boyle “I Dreamed A Dream” 700,779
2 Andrea Bocelli “My Christmas” 217,569
3 Adam Lambert “For Your Entertainment” 198,466
4 Rihanna “Rated R” 180,890
5 Lady Gaga ”The Fame Monster” 173,515
6 Lady Gaga “The Fame” 151,393
7 Miley Cyrus “Time Of Our Lives” (EP) 149,663
8 Taylor Swift “Fearless” 124,601
9 Carrie Underwood ”Play On” 123,870
10 Norah Jones “Fall” 110,150