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A Wednesday news release from Live Nation Global Touring says Lady Gaga has a tear in her right hip that will require surgery to repair, followed by a recovery period.

Looks like Lady Gaga is tearing another page out of the Madonna platinum-blond, pop-superstar playbook.

Apparently Lady Gaga will not be outdone by Justin Bieber. She vomited onstage during a concert over the weekend in Barcelona, one week after Bieber did the same thing when his tour opened in Phoenix. Unlike the Biebs, Gaga booted and rallied during “Edge of Glory” without leaving the stage even once. She also tweeted the YouTube video of the incident, and referred to herself as Lady PukeGA. Note to Rihanna and/or Taylor Swift: it’s up to you now to do this a third time and make it a legitimate trend.

Lady Gaga has been struck on the head by a pole while performing a concert in New Zealand.

The American pop export known as Lady Gaga keeps running into trouble as she tours Asia. First, she was pegged as a "devil" by Islamic hardliners in Indonesia, where protests and security concerns forced the cancellation of a June 3 concert. Now, the 26-year-old pop star is causing a ruckus for tweeting that she was going to use her time in Thailand to buy a "fake Rolex."

"American Idol" viewers apparently weren't caught in a romance with Colton Dixon. The 20-year-old alt-rocker was revealed Thursday to have received the fewest viewer votes on the Fox talent competition. Dixon was surprisingly eliminated from "Idol" after delivering lukewarm renditions of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" and Earth Wind and Fire's "September" on Wednesday's evening of old and new tunes. It was his first time in the show's bottom three.

U2 raked in $156 million from 25 shows in 21 North American cities in 2011, making the band the highest-grossing touring act of the year, according to Pollstar. Worldwide, the group pulled in $231.9 million for the year. Taylor Swift just missed the $100 million mark in North America, earning $97.7 million over 80 dates in 59 cities on her "Speak Now" tour. Other top-grossing acts were Kenny Chesney ($84.6 million), Lady Gaga ($63.7 million) and Bon Jovi ($57.1 million), who were the biggest earners of 2010.

Albums by Radiohead, Lady Gaga and Wild Flag were among those near the top of Rolling Stone's year-end list of the 50 Best Albums of 2011. Which records beat them out? Find out by reading our complete list.

Pop and music acts, including Lady Gaga and Coldplay, will be performing in Belfast later as the MTV Europe Music Awards take place in the city.

Summer 2011 has given us many things, some of them good. Three months ago, only the earliest adopters had heard of Kreayshawn, the Weeknd, Fall Creek Boys Choir, or countless other current iPod staples. Foster the People are famous now. So are LMFAO (like we said, it’s not all good).