Lady Gaga's meteoric rise to Stardom, and her prophet-like appeal among the 'little monsters' she calls her fans, is displayed here with the increase in Facebook status' that mentioned her name. The Facebook data team describe it as follows:

Lady Gaga was the biggest new performer of 2009. She was virtually unmentioned until November of 2008. The big spike in mentions of her name in September of 2009 corresponds to the MTV Video Music Awards in September, where she did well. At the end of September, Christopher Walken's performance of the song "Poker Face" caused a spike in that term, which didn't really impact occurrences of "Lady Gaga." Note that the two curves are on different scales, as "Lady Gaga" is mentioned much more frequently than her hit song "Poker Face".

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