Born This Way is the second studio album by American singer Lady Gaga, released worldwide on May 23, 2011 by the label Interscope Records (get more information about Born This Way Sheet Music). The album title was announced by the singer himself after accepting the award for Video of the Year for “Bad Romance” at the MTV Video Music Awards 2010.Lady Gaga served as producer of all the songs, in addition to composing. Born This Way worked on producing and Fernando Garibay, RedOne, DJ White Shadow, DJ Snake, Jeppe Laursen and Robert Lange. In addition, two known musicians collaborated on the implementation of different songs: Brian May worked with the guitar on “You and I” and Clarence Clemons on saxophone with two songs, “Hair” and “The Edge of Glory.” Musically, defined Gaga “Born This Way” as “the marriage of electronic music with epic melodies.” The album includes genres like electronic, dance, pop and rock. Considered one of the most anticipated albums of 2011, Born This Way was a resounding success since its launch, selling over 2 million worldwide copies in just its first week. Also debuted and reached No. 1 in 23 countries including the United States, where it sold 1,108,000 copies in its first week, of which 440,000 were distributed by Amazon.com ninety-nine cents, Australia, UK, Canada, Germany, Japan, France, Ireland, among others. On the other hand, the album was well received by contemporary music critics, who praised the singer and offered comments as “there is not a single moment of the disk where the music is not full of emotional detail,” ” is a huge album “and” the album was given a “pass with flying colors” to expand the musical boundaries to the utmost. ” In sum, for the July 14, 2011 were distributed and sold to wholesale customers 5,000,000 copies of Born This Way. In turn, visitors to the websites of Billboard and MTV, called him the second favorite album of the first half of 2011, after Femme Fatale Britney Spears. To promote the album was released three singles so far. The first, “Born This Way” was well received business: he sold in just five days more than a million copies, crowned as the song faster you get in the history of iTunes. Also reached number 1 in the charts in countries like the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. The second single, “Judas,” entered the repertoire of the top ten in over 19 countries. “The Edge of Glory” was chosen as the third single from the album, after being released as first single from the album in the “countdown to Born This Way” and reap great success in digital sales. He achieved a great success, debuting at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States and achieve No. 1 in Brazil and South Korea. On the other hand, “Hair” was launched on May 16, 2011 as a promotional single.