Lady Gaga Uncovered as Top-Selling Cover Girl

"Poker Face" singer's Rolling Stone, Cosmopolitan and Vanity Fair covers, among others, were a huge hit at the newsstands, while Taylor Swift's cover issues bombed

By Ella Ngo Jan 04, 2011 12:00 AMTags
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Practically everyone went gaga for Lady Gaga last year.

How do we know? Well, it's all in the magazine sales numbers.

According to Women's Wear Daily, nearly 250,000 copies of Rolling Stone's summer special featuring a gun-toting Gaga were sold. That's more than three times the mag's monthly average and by far its top seller of 2010.

The Lady's Cosmopolitan cover was the fashion glossy's best-selling issue of the year, too, while her Vanity Fair and Elle covers ranked in the top three.

So which star's newsstand numbers were the worst?

Poor Taylor Swift.

Readers just weren't that into the country cutie—her Elle cover was the worst performer of the year through October, and her Glamour and Marie Claire covers tanked, too, ranking as the second- and third-lowest-selling issues of the year, respectively.

On the bright side, at least her album sales kicked ass?

Sorry, Tay, better luck this year!