The Official New Zealand Top 40

Wednesday, 8 October 2008, 7:45 pm Press Release: Official New Zealand Music Chart The Official New Zealand Top 40 premieres Friday nights at 7:30pm on C4 by Paul Kennedy Gone Gaga Stefania Gabriella Germanotta, better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, makes a double impact on this week's charts. New in at #6 on the Albums Chart is her debut album The Fame, and on the Singles Chart Poker Face reaches #21, the follow-up to the breakthrough Just Dance. The New York-born 22-year-old is a multimedia kind of gal, the pop star persona extending well beyond writing and performing songs. There's also the tech (see her iPod sunglasses on the cover of her album, or her weekly 'Transmission Gaga-Vision' webcasts) and the fashion (under a catch-all theme she refers to as 'Haus of Gaga'). Originally employed by Interscope Records to... [read full story]