Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' on track to sell 1 million copies in its first week, report says

Lady Gaga's latest album "Born This Way" is on track to sell 1 million copies in its debut week, according to Billboard.com.

The album is outpacing initial projections in part, because of a special offer for Amazon.com, which sold "Born This Way" for 99 cents for two days this past week.

The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that the demand for Lady Gaga's album took a toll on Amazon's servers and some customers were unable to download the album.

Amazon's spokeswoman Sally Fouts told the wire service that Amazon experienced a high volume of traffic that caused delays for those downloading the album. "Born This Way" was only supposed to be on sale for 99 cents on the album's release date on May 23. However, because of the difficulties, Amazon made the album available for 99 cents again on May 26.

Billboard suggests that even without the Amazon offer "Born This Way" was on the way to making a big debut. First day sales for the album were estimated at 500,000 units sold.

Lady Gaga, who was born Stefani Germanotta, was recently named No. 1 on the annual Forbes Celebrity 100 list, beating out Oprah Winfrey and Justin Bieber for the honor of the most powerful celebrity.

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