It's official: Cheek to Cheek is number one

It looks like the deep discount and constant promotion of Cheek to Cheek really helped its sales for its opening week, because it (un)offically hit the coveted number one spot on the Billboard top 200, according to Hits Daily Double.

Kenny Chesney and Barbra Streisand were close behind - and it's a good thing for Gaga that Streisand didn't release her album a week later than she did, because Streisand almost took the number one spot again in her second week!

I guess when you have a devoted small army working for you (for free) doing more than some actual paid promoters do, you have a huge advantage over your competition! Check out the task list she gave to her fans!

How nice, Gaga only says she loves them in the postscript and doesn't even thank them for helping her out! Remind me never to help Gaga move!

Would Cheek to Cheek have made it to number one without the discount, the legion of fans working for free, and literal shit-ton of promotion? Who knows! Either way, Cheek to Cheek seems to be doing remarkably well worldwide, despite the mediocre reviews:

Billboard - 3/5 Stars
Allmusic - 3/5 Stars
The Daily Telegraph - 3/5 Stars
Rolling Stone - 3/5 Stars
Slant Magazine - 2/5 Stars
LA Times - 1/4 Stars

And by the way, Gaga's still trying to play up the whole 'I don't care about the numbers' thing. I guess it's easy to say that the charts don't mean anything when you've got a number one album, but of course her twitter is telling a different story... with promo tweet, after promo tweet, after promo tweet...

Does this look like the tweet of someone that doesn't care about chart positions, numbers, or sales?

Later today, Billboard should update and officially show Cheek to Cheek as number one. When the album drops down into oblivion in the coming weeks, at least Gaga will sleep better knowing she managed to squeak past her competition into the number one spot.