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Lady GaGa ascends 2-1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week with "Just Dance," which sold 279,000 downloads in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. At 22 weeks, the song makes the longest trip to the top since Creed's "With Arms Wide Open" (27 weeks) in November 2000.

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For the first time since Jan. 17, 1998, the Hot 100 does not have a debut; the only additions to the list this week are re-entries. Last week's No. 1, Beyonce's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)," drops to No. 2, while T.I.'s "Live Your Life" featuring Rihanna holds at No. 3.

Kanye West's "Heartless" drops 4-5, Katy Perry's "Hot N Cold" remains No. 6 and Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours" rises 12-7. Britney Spears' "Womanizer" is down 7-8, Kevin Rufolf's "Let It Rock" featuring Lil Wayne climbs 12-9 and another West song, "Love Lockdown," slides 6-10.

On Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, "Single Ladies" is No. 1 for an eighth week, while Sugarland assumes control on Hot Country Songs with "Already Gone," which flip-flops 2-1 with Rascal Flatts' "Here."

There's no change on Billboard's rock charts, with Kings Of Leon's "Sex on Fire" starting a fifth week atop Modern Rock and Shinedown leading Mainstream Rock for a fourth with "Second Chance."

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Emerging dance-pop superstar Lady GaGa will perform at a Surrey nightclub Monday (August 18), a day before her debut album is released.

Her catchy, synth-fueled "Just Dance" single is a smash hit -- tops among this week's most-downloaded songs at iTunes.

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It's a "retro-sexual" sound she describes, in male-equivalent terms, as "Elton John, Freddy Mercury, Boy George and John Lennon in wig and fishnets at Studio 54," the famous New York disco.

GaGa's debut album, The Fame, is due out Tuesday on the Interscope/Universal record label.

Here on Monday night, she will perform and, reportedly, sign autographs at The Mirage nightclub in Guildford. Tickets are $25 for the general-admission show.

It's her only appearance in the Metro Vancouver area on this tour, according to her Myspace webpage.

GaGa, 22, is known for her racy live shows, which have been described as a form of shock art.

This from the website andpop.com: "During performances, Lady GaGa will strip down to a pair of personally-designed and manufactured hot pants and bikini top, light cans of hairspray on fire and strike a pose below a disco ball to the orchestral sounds of A Clockwork Orange -- bearing no resemblance to a typical pop-tart concert."

She's always done her shows that way, GaGa recently told the website.

"I like to be provocative. I want my live shows to be important because it's different."

GaGa, born Stefani Germanotta and private-schooled in New York City, learned piano by ear at age four. As a teen she performed at open-mic nights before writing songs for the likes of the Pussycat Dolls and New Kids on the Block.

In July, she performed "Just Dance" live on the results show of the TV show So You Think You Can Dance. Also this summer, in an interview with HX magazine, she declared her bisexuality.

She got her name from the old Queen song, "Radio Gaga," according to andpop.com, and she defends pop music and major record labels in a way that many other artists avoid.

"The whole myth that pop albums do not make good albums is totally neglected by the impact that they have on the world," she told the website.