Interscope Geffen A&M are on fire as they lock up #1, #2 and #3 on this week’s Mediabase Top 40 Chart. Lady Gaga moves to #1 with "Telephone" featuring Beyoncé, while the Black Eyed Peas moves up to #2 with "Imma Be" and Orianthi holds at #3 with "According to You." It’s déjà vu all over again because Interscope has owned the top three Top 40 spots once before. On June 16, 2002, Vanessa Carlton’s "A Thousand Miles," Eminem’s "Without Me" and No Doubt’s "Hella Good" were #1, #2 and #3 for the label. Interscope actually occupies five of this week’s Top 10 spots with Gaga's "Bad Romance" at #7 and "Carry Out" by Timbaland featuring Justin Timberlake at #9. Congrats to the entire Interscope promotion team on this monumental achievement.
"Telephone" also becomes Gaga's sixth straight #1 single, an incredible feat. She also has announced new dates for her revamped Monster's Ball 2010 tour, which will come to North American arenas throughout the summer. The new round of touring begins in Montreal on June 28 and wraps up in Raleigh, NC on September 19.
"It's still called Monster Ball, but it's more of a musical and less of a concert," Lady Gaga said in a February interview with Ryan Seacrest on KIIS/Los Angeles. "It has a New York theme, it's a story, and the story is that me and my friends are in New York and we're going to the Monster Ball, and we get lost."
Monster's Ball North American tour dates:
June 28 Montreal
July 1 Boston
July 4 Atlantic City
July 6 New York City
July 11 Toronto
July 14 Cleveland
July 15 Indianapolis
July 17 St. Louis
July 20 Oklahoma City
July 22 Dallas
July 25 Houston
July 28 Denver
July 31 Phoenix
August 3 Kansas City
August 11 Los Angeles
August 13 Las Vegas
August 16 San Jose
August 19 Portland
August 21 Tacoma, WA
August 23 Vancouver
August 26 Edmonton, AB
August 30 St. Paul, MN
Sept. 1 Milwaukee
Sept. 4 Detroit
Sept. 5 Pittsburgh
Sept. 7 Washington, D.C.
Sept. 8 Charlottesville, VA
Sept. 14 Philadelphia
Sept. 16 Hartford, CT
Sept. 18 Charlotte
Sept. 19 Raleigh, NC