LOS ANGELES - highly publicized new album Lady Gaga "Born This Way" made his way to the Internet, on Wednesday, five days before its official release on May 23.
All fourteen songs from the album were initially streamed in Europe on a special website for readers of the London-based free newspaper Metro, which Gaga guest-published Monday in a promotional blitz for the new album.
They were also released Wednesday to subscribers premium in Sweden, Norway, Spain, the Netherlands and Finland of streaming service Spotify music.
But all the tracks soon make it to the Internet, giving U.S. fans and reviewers a chance at the beginning to weigh on the third album by the pop-dance New York performance artist.
Four of the singles were already released by Gaga including the song-title sold a million copies in five days in February, which became the fastest selling single in the history of iTunes.
But Rolling Stone magazine stated in a review of the track by track Gaga Wednesday "always managed to pack in a few surprises".
Entertainment Weekly called it "an inconsistent mix of hit empowerment and greeting card ice which is a triumph of production that songwriting."
Dan Martin with the British music website NME.com described the album as "a relentless heavy metal pop rave torrent". Martin added that "Born This Way" is "an exercise in pushing at its ultimate degree." "" "And for all blacks, whites and silver, it passes the test in high colors."
U.S. Wednesday fans were divided between illegal download of the album or in waiting until its official next week.
"Stupid enough preview and do not like an album very awaited leaks." "She should have waited just released his album when it was supposed to be released,", commented a writer called Carrie on the website of the magazine Entertainment Weekly.
Interscope Records of Gaga, part of Universal Music Group did not return calls for comment.
Gaga, 25, is appointed by the magazine Forbes Wednesday most powerful celebrity in the world, in part because of its dominant position of social media, where it has 32 million Facebook fans.
"It can use Twitter and Facebook to work"little monsters"in a frenzy that leads to the attention of the media and sales of records." It is the best example of how celebrities need to manage their careers in the years to come, "said Forbes editor Dorothy Pomerantz.
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