Pop artist tries to one-up hackers, drops first single one week earlier

Aug 14, 2013 12:22 GMT  ·  By

Lady Gaga isn’t having too much luck with keeping her new music under wraps, until it’s released officially. After hackers leaked her first single off the “ARTPOP” album, “Applause,” she’s decided to release it in full.

The original release date was August 19 but, since most of her fans had already heard the unfinished version because of the leak, she and her camp decided there was little use to waiting until then to drop the final song.

You can now listen to “Applause” below.

On her Twitter feed, Gaga hinted that she had people looking into the leak, hoping to find the culprits.

“Lord, in HEAVEN WHY. YOU JUST COULDNT WAIT THIS IS TOO MUCH FOR ONE SATURDAY. Don't worry. THE HAUS BUREAU is on the case,” she wrote shortly after the song emerged online, as we also reported.