Lady GaGa's lead album single Just Dance

Lady GaGa

"Just Dance" is a dance-pop song recorded by American pop singer Lady GaGa. Released as the lead single from Lady GaGa's debut album, The Fame, the song is written by Lady GaGa and features labelmate Colby O'Donis with additional vocals by Akon. The track is produced by RedOne. The song was nominated for Best Dance Recording in the 51st Grammy Awards.

The song has been a commercial success topping the charts in the United States, Australia, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, and the United Kingdom, as well as reaching the top ten in many other countries. In the U.S. "Just Dance" was a sleeper hit, spending almost five months in the Billboard Hot 100, before finally reaching the summit of the chart in January of 2009. It scored the second-biggest single-week sum of all time behind Flo Rida's 467,000 from the same week last year, selling 419,000 downloads in just one week. It also garnered biggest-week download sales and the biggest single-week tally by a female artist since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking digital downloads in 2003.

"Just Dance" was first released to radio stations in the U.S. on April 8, 2008. It was released commercially worldwide on June 17, 2008 through digital distribution. It was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland on January 5th, 2009.

Lady GaGa - Just Dance

On August 16, 2008, the song debuted at number seventy-six on the Billboard Hot 100. It also garnered the second biggest-single week sum of all time with download sales of 419,000, the biggest single-week tally by a female artist since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking digital downloads in 2003.

The track entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart at seventy-six on August 16, 2008. The single was a hit in clubs in the U.S. peaking both at #2 on the Hot Dance Airplay, and Hot Dance Club Play during the summer of 2008. The song rose to number two on the Billboard Hot 100, after selling huge downloads of 419,000, for the issue dated January 10, 2009. On the same issue, the song rose to #1 on the Billboard Pop 100 due to more radio airplay and digital downloads in the country. It has also peaked at the number one spot on the Billboard Hot Digital Tracks chart. On the issue dated January 17, 2009, the song rose to number one spot on the Hot 100 replacing "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" by Beyonce, where it stayed for three weeks before being replaced by Kelly Clarkson's "My Life Would Suck Without You" for the issue date of 7th February 2009. The single took 22 weeks to hit the top spot which is the second longest climb to number-one since Creed's "With Arms Wide Open" took 27 weeks when the single finally hit number-one in November 2009.

Lady GaGa

The video, directed by Melina Matsoukas, starts with Lady GaGa arriving with her dancers, Dina and Pepper, at a house party, which seems to have ended, and one of the dancers puts a Discolite Boombox on, starting the music. The crowd at the party appear to be sleeping in different areas, and are awoken by the music. They all start to dance, and scenes of the party are inter cut with scenes of scantily dressed Lady GaGa dancing in a poncho, with a disco ball or in a small rubber pool playing with an inflated killer whale. She wears a blue lightning shaped sticker beneath her right eye like that on the single cover. The video shows Colby O'Donis being flanked by several girls during the "When I come through on the dance floor" interlude. Cameo appearances are made by Akon and fellow label hip-hop band Flipsyde.

Source: Wikipedia