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Originally Posted by Zippy

The Fame Monster is the third extended play (EP) and second major release by American recording artist Lady Gaga. The album's eight songs were initially intended to be part of a re-release of Gaga's debut album The Fame. However, Gaga announced that the new songs would be available as a standalone album, as she thought the re-release was too expensive and that, as the piece represents a separate conceptual and musical body of work, it does not need the songs of The Fame to support it.

It was released as a separate album and should count as such.

It was released as a separate album in the US alone, everywhere else (apart from Australia I think) It was released as the deluxe album

Either way she's #1