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Lady Gaga Also Topping the Charts in Magazine Cover Sales

By DNAinfo Staff on January 3, 2011 3:14pm

Lady Gaga's beret was made of flank steak, one butcher said.
Lady Gaga's beret was made of flank steak, one butcher said.
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By Gabriela Resto-Montero

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

MANHATTAN — Lady Gaga's not just selling out albums these days.

The Upper East Side native was the top-selling magazine cover girl for 2010, Women's Wear Daily reported.

Gaga's guns-a-blazing July cover for Rolling Stone magazine, where she appeared wearing an M-16 rifle bra and leather thong, sold three times as many copies as the magazine's average the year before, WWD reported.

A more subdued April cover for Cosmopolitan, featuring the singer in retro lingerie, was also a blockbuster, moving 1.7 million copies and making the issue a top-seller through October, according to the magazine.

Subsequent covers for Vanity Fair and Elle also sold well, according to WMD.

At the opposite end of the spectrum from Gaga's over-the-top persona, country sweetheart Taylor Swift ranked lowest on the celebrity cover-girl hit list, appearing in 2010's worst-selling issues of Elle, Marie Claire and Glamour.

Lady Gaga's title as Ladymag queen will be tested when she appears in the holy grail of women's fashion magazines — Vogue — this March.