Lady Gaga today proved she is Londons Queen of Pop by announcing a second show at Twickenham Stadium leaving Madonna trailing in her wake.
The Standard has learned that the Material Girl has yet to sell out her summer Hyde Park concert, despite tickets being on sale for more than two months.
But US star Gaga, 26, sold out her concert last week in 10 minutes, and announced a second show at the venue this morning. If this sells out, she will have sold 110,000 tickets for the September concerts.
Madonnas gig at Hyde Park on July 17, the only English date of her world tour, has a capacity of 55,000, although this can be increased to 80,000.
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Holy shit. If the BTW Ball outgrosses or even comes neck to neck with the MDNA tour :O
http://entertainment.time.com/2012/04/17/pop-prediction-the-next-big-girl-group/If North American pop charts are destined for the Shirelles to One Directions Drifters, the Destinys Child to their Backstreet Boys who will it be?
I thought Hyde Park was GIGANTIC? THE SIZE OF BUCKINGHAM PALACE?
It only fits 55k with a potential increase to 80k?
And there is space for a third Twickenham date. Better pray the second one doesn't sell out in less than 10 minutes too, because you know what that means.
Rip-off as £80 Lady Gaga tickets go for £1,100
Brit fans fury at Ticketmaster site
FURIOUS fans hunting tickets for Lady Gaga’s sold-out UK dates face paying nearly 14 TIMES the original value — on a website the official seller owns.
Within 60 seconds of sales opening on Thursday, every ticket for the star’s two Born This Way gigs had been sold on Ticketmaster.
Fans were directed to the firm’s sister company — secondary ticket site Get Me In! — where tickets costing £80 on Ticketmaster were on offer at £1,100.
Customers angrily condemned the scandal, with ticket organisers poised to profit twice.
Darren Marsden, 44, logged on to Ticketmaster at the exact time sales began to buy tickets for his wife Michelle’s birthday.
But it quickly became clear they were sold out and he was directed to the firm’s sister site.
Company director Darren, of Bolton, said: “Ticketmaster having such a strong hold on event tickets is bordering on a monopoly. The governing bodies should look into how it is allowed to distribute tickets so unfairly.”
Well, that seems more like typical shady Ticketmaster, not Lady GaGa's doing.
Truth booze here:
This is happening everywhere. Tickets are not sold out. They've just been transfered to scalping agencies. Lady ScamScam hard at work.
"THIS DOESN'T MAKE ME A SCAM ARTIST, IT JUST BEANS I'M FUCKING SMART"
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Spilling the truth tea, as per.Well, that seems more like typical shady Ticketmaster, not Lady GaGa's doing.
Well, that seems more like typical shady Ticketmaster, not Lady GaGa's doing.
Spilling the truth tea, as per.
Only the Blessed have the FORESIGHT to know the truth.
Lady Gaga still got her money, those tickets are sold as far as she is concerned
she is also playing another arena in the UK so that makes 3 dates, 2 which have already been sold out
6 millon-album selling "artist" sells out shows. News at 11.
Can't wait for RIHANNA to tour.
To RIHESTABLISH her place in ticket sales and attendance records?
I knew stanning for Rihanna would only lead to tragedy.
Lady Gaga is under a bad star
The wacky Poker Face singer, 26, is concerned that the planet Mercury is going retrograde, which star-gazers believe causes bad luck.
A source said: “Gaga is worried as she wants the stars to be aligned when she hits the road. She follows her horoscopes closely and has been looking ahead for when she’s away.”
Astrologers say Mercury in retrograde — where it seems to be travelling backwards through the sky — happens around three times a year.
It will occur from July 15 to August 8 — in the middle of Gaga’s huge Born This Way Ball world tour, which starts this month in Seoul.
The source said: “She’s a typical Aries — outgoing with a sense of adventure.
“But when she found out Mercury is likely to go retrograde, she wasn’t happy and has been talking it through with her spiritual team.”
This weekend Gaga’s two UK dates — at Twickenham in London on September 8 and Manchester Arena on September 11 — sold out in a MINUTE on Ticketmaster.
Fans are fuming after £80 tickets were hiked to £1,100 on sister site Get Me In!
Gaga was slammed last week for tweeting about her gruelling fitness regime ahead of the shows — despite urging girls not to diet. The source said: “She’s feeling the pressure of wanting to deliver something amazing again.”
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Lady Gaga may be a force when it comes to fighting for gay and LGBT rights, encouraging self-acceptance and pride, but it seems she is struggling to adopt such philosophies in her own life and potentially promoting dangerous behavior to millions of fans along the way.
The 25-year-old pop star, who has almost 23 million Twitter followers and knocked Oprah Winfrey from the top spot to be named TIMEs Most Influential Person, sparked controversy last week when she tweeted Just killed back to back spin classes. Eating a salad dreaming of a cheeseburger, followed by hashtag #PopSingersDontEat #IwasBornThisWay.
According to human behavior expert Patrick Wanis, Gagas actions reveal that shes not only hypocritical, but also disingenuous.
Lady Gaga has often spoken out about hot topics such as bullying, same-sex marriages and body image issues, but her tweets reveal that she is possibly insincere and will simply do anything to get attention, Wanis told FOX411s Pop Tarts column. She cannot accept the way she was born and still wants to hide behind the mask, hiding her fear of rejection and longing for everyone to see her as physically perfect.
Gagas inflammatory tweet also comes on the heels of her confession that she struggled with bulimia as a teenager in the quest to be ballerina skinny, and even called on girls to stop the dieting. But clearly, the songstress, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, has changed her tune.
She needs to grow up and assume responsibility for her tweets because of her vast influence. Shes helping to create self-image problems among young people, people who admire her and look up to her many of whom are already having issues with their own self-image, explained Los Angeles-based Dr. Carson Liu. This type of a behavior from a top influencer is all the more scary.
i'm doneWanis told FOX411s Pop Tarts column