Lady Gaga’s new single, Born This Way, released Feb. 11 has made its way to the Billboards number one spot making it officially the one-thousandth song to reach the Billboards charts in history.
The Billboards bases and ranks its hits on the songs selling’s, the amount of airwave playtime and streaming activity data.
Despite the criticism of the song and comparing it to Madonna’s Express Yourself, it is number one on iTunes and is being played over airwaves continuously across the world.
“A lot of people say that it sounds a lot like Madonna’s song, Express Yourself, but I think being inspired by different artists helps Lady Gaga develop her music and the different sounds, and I love Gaga so I love it,” Adriana Contreras, senior international business major said.
The song, Born This Way, talks about being born the way God intended. Gaga mentions different groups that might feel pressure from society and she tells them in her song, “No matter gay, straight, or bi, lesbian, transgendered life. I’m on the right track baby I was born to survive. No matter black, white or beige chola orient made, I’m on the right track, baby I was born to be brave.”
Some fans think that Gaga’s succes is impacted by the timeline she uses to release new music.
“I think she is genius because she’ll hold her new songs until just the right moment until they should be released,” Sheryl Proctor, sophomore broadcasting major, said. “People are so ready for her songs to come out, it’s not surprising she has another number one song.”
In addition to Lady Gaga making her mark on the music industry, FOX’s own Glee has made history beating Elvis Presley’s number one spot as artist with the most songs on the charts Hot 100. This week, the cast of Glee surpasses everyone on that list with the most songs on the Billboards in history with 113 songs.
Some music listeners feel T.V. shows should not earn a place in the Billboards.
“I think that the musicians and performers should be on the Billboards and the T.V. shows like Glee should be somewhere else,” Jessica Wyers, senior broadcasting major, said. “They don’t do any original music and they are beating artists who paved the road and now Glee is beating them.”
Other groups and artists the cast of Glee has beaten on the Billboard charts include Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin, The Beatles, James Brown and Ray Charles.
“It would be really cool if they made their own songs instead of using other people’s songs,” Chris Brigham, junior music performance major, said. “The fact that they put their personal spin into the songs makes up for it, taking oldies and making them for our generation.”
So far the show has not had any original songs performed by the cast, however a little hint that all that might change was noted in the last episode.
