Lady Gaga's Official biggest studio albums in the UK

As if Bruno Mars team-up Die With A Smile and Joker: Folie à Deux companion album Harlequin wasn't enough to be getting on with (never enough, tbf), Lady Gaga serves up another new single, Disease, this week.

The first track lifted from her upcoming seventh studio album, known affectionately as LG7, is released Friday October 25 and, to celebrate, we've been delving back into Gaga's 16-year-strong discography.

From the hedonistic heights of 2008 debut The Fame to our trip to Chromatica, Joanne juxtaposed with ARTPOP's affronting themes and everything in between, we thought it about time we revealed Gaga's Official biggest albums in the UK to date.

But, before we get into the full list, let's zone in on the Top 3.

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3. ARTPOP

Released: 2013
Official Albums Chart peak: Number 1
Total UK chart units: 280,000

Her ARTPOP could mean anything! Gaga's ambitions caught up with her on her third studio album which is - depending on who you ask on what day of the week - either a lesson in hubris, or the sound of someone fighting against the constraints of their pop stardom and searching for musical freedom, consequences be damned.

And make no doubt about it - ARTPOP (and its reception) did fundamentally alter Gaga's career. Its more tame commercial reception (in comparison to her first two LPs, at least) set her on the path of something of a reset, pivoting to jazz with Tony Bennet and then into acting with A Star Is Born, and although she has returned to pop since with Chromatica and the forthcoming LG7, her focus has never been so unbridled and eclectic as it has here.

Make no mistake about it, ARTPOP has both its defectors and defenders. It's the most divisive album of Gaga's entire career, but its in its own chaotic single-mindedness that its brilliance lies. It's a forward-thinking pop record, foretelling much of the rise of hyper-pop and EDM before its wave had crested. 

2. Born This Way

Released: 2011
Official Albums Chart peak: Number 1
Total UK chart units: 1.2 million

With Born This Way, Gaga had one goal in mind; to heal the world with love. 

Her second full-length studio album is the most ambitious of her career, trying to be everything to everyone and mostly succeeding in those aims. It was a big gamble. And it paid off. 

Indebted as much to Bruce Springsteen as it is to, say, Madonna, Born This Way is never content to stay in one lane; switching from elegant stadium rock (Marry The Night), to chaotic German bath-house synths (Schieße) and wistful electronic ballads (Edge Of Glory). 

1. The Fame

Released: 2008
Official Albums Chart peak: Number 1
Total UK chart units: 3.4 million

Fame is what she wanted, and fame is what she got. 

It takes a certain kind of artist to become a superstar on their first go. On The Fame (and sister record, The Fame Monster, which was released in tandem with the first record in the UK, so its chart units are combined here) Lady Gaga proves herself to be both educated on pop's past and engaged with its future.

It's true that, at the time of its release, electronic dance music was not at the centre of the commercial pop universe, but in many ways, Just Dance and Poker Face were the starting gun for the emergence of EDM and the return of 80s-influenced synth-pop into the mainstream pop culture conversation. 

Things got weirder on The Fame Monster, Bad Romance is, still, a work of pop art come to life; a bourgeois injection of gothic horror laced with all the symphony and grace of ABBA at their best. 

Every great artist needs a statement of intent, and no-one's intent was more clear than Gaga's upon the release of The Fame. She wanted to be the biggest and best pop star in the world. She got her wish!

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