Lady Gaga `honoured that Amazon sold her album for 99 cents`

The 25-year-old Poker Face singer said the promotional offer helped make sure that all her fans could listen to her Born This Way LP, regardless of how much money they have.

Amazon.com crashed due to demand for the download on May 23, so website bosses extended the deal for a second day, helping Gaga smash US digital album sales records by scoring first-week figures of 662,000, boosting her total sales to 1.1 million.

Asked by the Wall Street Journal if she minded her album being sold for so little as part of Amazon's promotion for its Cloud Drive download service, she said, 'No. I absolutely do not, especially for Mp3s and digital music. It's invisible. It's in space. If anything, I applaud a company like Amazon for equating the value of digital versus the physical copy, and giving the opportunity to everyone to buy music.

'It also wasn't really 99 cents, because Amazon paid the difference on all of those purchases as part of their promotional campaign for one of their new services. I think it's amazing and it was a really nice surprise and I felt honoured that they chose my record to be part of it.'