In the best piece of news to happen to Pop music since Heidi Montag announced her sophomore album, producer Fernando Garibay has revealed that he’ll be executive producing Lady GaGa’s upcoming third album, along with the Lady herself.

Garibay worked with GaGa on her last album The Fame Monster, producing the self-conscious sex anthem “Dance in the Dark”, which was released as a single in Australia in July.

Seriously, could this get any better? Not only does it confirm that Satan RedOne isn’t exec-producing, but it also guarantees that there will be some killer tunes on GaGa’s third record. Garibay is one of the best and most overlooked contemporary pop producers in the industry today, so pairing him with the world’s biggest pop star can only mean good, non-generic, non-RedOne things.

Some of Gabiray’s most fabulous classics include Jordan Knight’s “Give It To You”, Enrique’s “Rhythm Divine”, Ashlee Simpson’s “La La”, Paris Hilton’s “Stars Are Blind”, Britney Spears’ “Amnesia” and the best unreleased pop song of 2010, “Down” by the Paradiso Girls.

GaGa’s new album is due out first quarter next year.

Fans attending Lady GaGa’s Monster Ball in Minnesota last night were in for a treat when the Lady herself decided to perform a brand new song, “Living on the Radio”. The piano-led ballad plays out like a personal pep talk, with the superstar telling herself that even when all her friends are gone, she’ll still be OK because she’s got fame and fans, and has accomplished her dreams of success by getting her songs “on the radio”.

“Baby, you must be free / Keep living on the radio / That’s your dream / Baby, you’ve got a friend / And so many little monsters / Keep living on the radio / And when there’s nowhere to go / And all your friends are gone / And you’ve only got your daddy to call / You’re gonna be alright, honey / Because your songs are on the radio”

I’m not exactly sure whether she’s being tongue-in-cheek or dead serious. With GaGa it’s hard to tell. Either way, the song rocks.

It’s unknown yet whether or not “…Radio” and GaGa’s other new song, “You & I”, will make the final cut for her third album, but if they do, then her next record could mark some real growth for the Lady. Musically, lyrically and vocally, GaGa really shines when she’s baring her soul on the rock & roll piano tunes that were her original passion before she discovered that she needed to wear a blonde wig and sing catchy pop songs to become a star. It’ll be interesting to see how much of it ends up on her next record.

Lady GaGa, or the “Twitter Queen” as she is now referring to herself as, has posted a new YouTube video to celebrate her reign as the Queen of the social networking website. Bitch should’ve uploaded a Twitvid instead!

In the video, GaGa emulates Glinda the good witch from the Wizard of Oz, and vows to “always tweet” and “never partake in online celebrity shenanigans”. Yes, because we all know that GaGa is too artistic to be considered a celebrity.

Check out the Queen of Twitter enjoying her reign below.

We all knew it was coming, and now the day has finally arrived: Lady GaGa has replaced Britney Spears as the most followed person on Twitter.

GaGa’s follow count has been on a rapid rise for a while now, but the sudden surge that took her to the top spot seemed to come after she sent out this Twitpic of herself in the recording studio. As of right now, GaGa’s followers stand at 5,678,787, while Britney is a few thousand behind on 5,672,214.

GaGa’s Twitter achievement is just another jewel in her crown as the new Queen of Social Media, after last month she became the most liked person on Facebook and the first living person on the site to have over 10 million fans, surpassing even President Obama.

Another social network that she’s dominating is the wildly popular music site Last.fm. She’s currently the leader of the pack when it comes to her pop competition, with a whopping 81 million ‘scrobbles’ (number of times a song has been played), trumping her contemporaries like Britney Spears (74 million); Madonna (60 million);  Avril Lavigne (50 million); Rihanna (43 million); Beyonce (38 million); Christina Aguilera (34 million); and Katy Perry (25 million).

You could probably say by now that Lady GaGa is the most popular person on the internet. Don’t you think?

Just when you thought that Lady GaGa couldn’t get anymore successful, Billboard go and officially predict that by the end of it’s April 2011 run, her Monster Ball tour will have grossed around $200 million. She’s not selling out stadiums yet like her contemporary Pink, but it’s quite the accomplishment for an artist with only two studio albums to their name.

The Monster Ball first began back in November 2009, and by May, it had grown so popular that promoter Live Nation had to add an extra North American leg to the tour, extending it into 2011. It’s currently scheduled to wrap up in Atlanta on April 18, 2011, but additional dates are expected to be announced, which could either see GaGa fill her days off with extra shows, extend the tour past April, or do both.

A total gross of $200 million would probably make the Monster Ball one of the most successful female tours in history, by the time it wraps up. Of course, she’ll be dead by then from severe-exhaustion, but at least she’ll always be remembered as she is now — rich and thin.

Unless you’re living under a frickin’ rock, then you know that Lady GaGa’s third (yes, third — Monster was not an EP) studio album is due out early next year. The star herself has had no problems hyping up the project (“It’s my greatest work yet”; “an anthem for the new decade”), and now her partner-in-crime, RedOne, is doing a little hyping of his own.

“It’s going to be shocking, shocking, shocking!” RedOne tells Billboard.

The producer –who has helmed just two tracks from the new album– has promised that he and GaGa won’t be straying too far from their winning formula (ugh), but will still be trying to show growth and an evolution in their sound (yay).

“You never want to go too far from your brand — people love you for a reason. But we still want to give them something with a kick, something that makes them say, ‘Oh my God! We didn’t expect this!’

“When you heard ‘Bad Romance’ after ‘Poker Face,’ it was like the best thing you’ve ever heard,” he continues. “We want that type of reaction. I think that’s part of my job and her job — to keep her evolving. “

An interesting sentiment, but also a worrying one. “Bad Romance” can be best described as “Poker Face” on steroids, but do we really need yet another re-hash of “Poker Face”? RedOne’s current frame of mind does not seem to be a good one. Further on in the Billboard interview, he admits that it was he who advised GaGa to make her music more “mainstream” sounding back when they were recording The Fame.

“It was really good musically but it was a bit too left. I asked her if we could take it more to the middle, and she said, ‘I’m open. Let’s do it,’” recalled RedOne of their early Fame sessions.

Another worrying sign of RedOne’s love of all things formulaic are comments that he recently made to BBC News.

“When you see everyone singing along to something – that’s the goal. You know that the song is good. Especially in countries that don’t speak English.”

BBC: Is that why so many of your songs use nonsense words – like the “ra, ra, ra” refrain in Bad Romance?

“Of course. It’s the same with “ma ma ma ma” in Poker Face. Everything is a hook.”

Luckily, there’s some light at the end of the tunnel. According to RedOne, he’s encouraged GaGa to work with other producers for her third album. The reason seems to be that he feels other producers have taken his trademark sound (he refuses to name who exactly), and he wants GaGa to stay ahead of the pack, sonically speaking.

“We try to take the sound and make it bigger and more interesting every time,” he says. “And every time and era has its sound; you always want to be the first to jump on it.”

Thank God he’s only got two tracks on the new disc. RedOne has crafted some definite pop classics for GaGa, but an artist of her caliber needs to grow and evolve, and judging by RedOne’s recent comments, her may not be the man to help her do it. Janet Jackson stuck with the same two producers, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, for five consecutive albums, but unlike RedOne, Jam & Lewis really evolved their sound over the years. RedOne has yet to prove whether he can do that or not, especially with his love of all things mainstream and radio-friendly.

GaGa, it’s time to spread your wings.

The divine Ms Janet Jackson may be taking time out of her pop career to pursue acting, but in a new interview with the UK’s Metro, Janhova has expressed interest in working with Lady GaGa.

Telephone, who?

“What I love about Gaga is her story, where she came from” revealed the 44-year-old, who is now saying ‘I told you so’ by claiming she was the first to tip her for big things.

“Before she made it, before anyone knew who she was, I knew who she was and, to see her finally make it, I was so happy,” she insisted, before adding: “If we were to work together that would be cool.”

This isn’t the first time that the Holy Queen Janhova has co-signed GaGa: Back in March, Jan praised GaGa’s work ethic and personality, but urged her to slow down a little. GaGa also happens to be a self-confessed Janatic, previously citing Janet as one of her influences and referring to her as a “legend”.

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My dream has always been a Britney and Janet collaboration (damn you, Madonna!), but I guess I could live with GaGa if it ever were to happen. I’m sure she was just thinking out loud, but I can dream.

Lady GaGa’s almighty reign shows no signs of slowing down, when yesterday at her Staples Center gig she was presented with a plaque for sales of 13 million albums and 51 million singles worldwide. Britney Spears was in the audience to lend her support to GaGa, but reportedly left early to avoid Piggy Perez Hilton who had been dissing her on Twitter.

Besides scoring this crazy plaque for her record sales, GaGa also has another reason to celebrate after her official remix album debuted at #6 on the Billboard charts — earning GaGa her third consecutive top ten album. The album has actually been out overseas since March, but has constantly had it’s tracklist revised as it’s been released in different territories.

Remix albums aren’t often big sellers, and when you take into account that Rihanna’s Rated R: Remixed LP only scraped in at #84 on the charts, then it puts into perspective just how much of a demand for Lady GaGa that there is.

I’m already dying to know what the first week sales for her third album are gonna be!

Oh my God. Amazing.

It hasn’t been made a official yet, but it looks like Lady GaGa could possibly be eying ”Speechless” as the fourth US single from her album The Fame Monster. The song has just appeared on All Access in the ‘Cool New Music’ section, which lists new singles heading to radio.

There’s no specific details surrounding the release yet, but it could serve as a US radio single in the same way that “Dance in the Dark” is with its recent release in Australia – which would mean no music video for either song.

Whatever the case is, putting out “Speechless” to radio is definitely a good move. Not releasing a video and not promoting it would mean that GaGa’s camp can test the piano-ballad on radio, without having to run the risk of having the song bomb on the charts and breaking GaGa’s winning streak. “Monster” would be the obvious choice for a potential hit, but GaGa is gearing up for the release of her third album next year, and by this stage it’s important to test how radio will react to her singing music outside of radio-friendly dance-pop.

What do you think little Monsters?

If you’re a regular reader of my blog then you’d know all about new Cherrytree Records artist Natalia Kills. The singer-songwriter has been teasing us for months now with viral videos and buzz singles, but today she finally gave the world a preview of her first real official single “Mirrors” (produced by Akon & Cherry Cherry Boom Boom; written by Natalia).

From the 1:27 preview of the song, it’s easy to see that “Mirrors” is a brilliant a mashup of number of different songs and styles. There’s a lot of Lady GaGa in there, a bit of Depeche Mode, some Eurythmics and even a splash of Fergie. It’s definitely following the dance music trend that’s ruling the charts right now, but that’s just one of the many reasons that this sounds like a total smash hit. Basically, “Mirrors” is the best thing that Lady GaGa never recorded.

Take a listen below.

A lot of little monsters were pretty disappointed when Lady GaGa decided to push back the release of her third album to early 2011 — instead of late 2010 like originally planned — but there’s no need to worry, because she’s got a good excuse.

Speaking exclusively to GaGaDaily, the Italian Stallion revealed that the 2011 is so she’ll have time for more interviews, appearances, her tour and even taking some time to rest. I don’t know how The Lady expects to rest when her current world tour doesn’t finish up until April next year, but I guess in GaGa’s world one afternoon off a month probably constitutes as ‘rest’.

As for the status of her third album, GaGa was recently spotted recording in the studio with Fernado Garibay, who produced her song “Dance in the Dark”.

Anyway, sounds like GaGa has a humongous promotional campaign in the works for her third album era. It’ll be interesting to see how she does against Amy Winehouse, and later Beyonce who will probably release something next year.