Not even a week into 2013, and Lady Gaga’s upcoming studio release, ARTPOP, is topping multiple anticipated albums lists.

The “Cake Like Lady Gaga” songstress appears on lists made by MTV, Yahoo Music, and even Billboard’s editorial director has named Gaga as one of the artists who will rule the charts in 2013; along side new releases by Britney Spears, Beyoncé, and Justin Timberlake.

After months of speculating whether or not the new Robert Rodriguez film, and Lady Gaga’s first feature film debut, Machete Kills, would even see the light of day, the film now has the US release date of July 21, 2013. No info on the film has been released, but you’ll find it here first as soon as it hits! Check out the worldwide dates below:

April 25, 2013 — Russia
June 21, 2013 — Brazil
August 14, 2013 — Switzerland
August 22, 2013 — Argentina
November 7, 2013 — Denmark
November 21, 2013 — Germany

So last night I got the chance to meet Gaga backstage again after two years of not seeing her… We waited for an hour before me and 6 other people could enter her dressing room. Once we were inside her dressing room there was Versace Home everywhere. Gaga was laying on her sofa with her Versace blanket and wearing a white weed shirt on. Tara and her mother were in the back.

So we chilled with Gaga talking about ARTPOP, the new record. She told us that like most of the new album is pretty much done, the music for the songs has been finished, the vocals and stuff still has to been finalized she said. She said ARTPOP or the new single won’t be released before Christmas 2012, because she feels like it doesn’t feel fresh if it’s not coming in a fresh new year.

So than we spoke about her shaving her head, and the new tattoo. She said it was fucking cool to do her first REAL ART piece in a ARTmuseum. About shaving her head she was like, Lady Gaga can be who she wants to be, she doesn’t have to be blonde or brunette and she was like fuck it all, I’m gonna shave my head for Terry’s mother. And than we took two group photos and 1-by-1 we had to leave.

So when everybody left me and my friend stayed there for 5 more minutes and one her team said ‘Gaga this is Alex from Propagaga.com’ And she recognized me from Lady-Gaga.net, so I told her about the domain name that got stolen and she was in shock, so she offered me for a position on LittleMonsters.com and than she saw my ARTPOP tattoo wich she LOVED. So I showed off my other Gaga tattoo on my back and the unicorn ink and she was like NOO WAYY that’s so sweet, that’s amazing. After that she signed my tour program and Terry Richardson book and we said goodbye.

It was a blessing to meet her again in her dressingroom, thank you again to her management for making this possible!!

Lady Gaga has paid tribute to her friend and frequent collaborator Terry Richardson in light of his mother’s recent death.

Richardson, a photographer who captures Gaga behind the scenes so often that the pair released a coffee table book of candid images, announced Tuesday that his mother, Annie Lomax, had passed away.

“I did it for u Terry. I’m sorry about ure mommy. She has princess die, but were all princess high”

FAME The Worldwide Fragrance Campaign Film by the amazing STEVEN KLEIN will be shown + released on SEPT 13th at the GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM!