Lady Gaga-2008 present:The Fame, The Fame Monster and future work

Gaga performing at the New Kids On The Block:Live tour.

By 2008, Gaga had relocated to Los Angeles, working closely with her record label to finalize her debut album The Fame. She said that she combined a lot of different genres on the album, "from Def Leppard drums and hand claps to metal drums on urban tracks."^[ She began to work with a collective called the Haus of Gaga, who collaborate with her on her clothing, stage sets, and sounds. The Fame received mostly positive reviews from critics; according to the music review aggregation of Metacritic, it has received an average score of 71/100. It peaked at number one in Austria, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Ireland, and the top-five in Australia and the United States. The album's lead single, "Just Dance," was released on April 8, 2008, and has topped the charts in six countries – Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Gaga performed her first single in the Miss Universe contest of that year, marking her first appearance to an international audience. Just Dance was initially only played on the dance formatted radio stations. Airplay on the radio station Pulse 87 in her hometown was instrumental in exposing her music. Just Dance received a Grammy nomination for the Best Dance Recording, but lost to Daft Punk's "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger." The second single, "Poker Face", was released on September 23, 2008, and has reached number one in nearly twenty countries, including almost all major music markets in the world. Gaga went on her first concert tour with fellow Interscope pop group, the reformed New Kids on the Block. She started her stint with them in Los Angeles on October 8, 2008, and continued through the end of November. Her first headlining North American tour, The Fame Ball Tour, began on March 12, 2009. She opened for the Pussycat Dolls on the UK and Australian leg of their World Domination Tour in May. Gaga also appeared on rapper Wale's single "Chillin."