Lady Gaga and Rihanna top selling newsstand cover girls

Lady Gaga was the hottest cover girl in 2010.

The singer with the wild fashion style was a runaway hit for both monthly and biweekly magazines sold on the newsstand, according to WWD.com.

Cosmopolitan magazine’s April issue with Gaga on the cover sold 1.7 million copies. Her gun-totin’ July 8 Rolling Stone cover translated into newsstand sales of 245,000 copies, nearly three times better than the year’s average.

Gaga’s Vanity Fair cover in September sold 450,000 copies, the magazine’s second-best seller of the year.

Rihanna was another one of last year’s cover queens.

Her January GQ cover, on which she posed topless, was th magazine’s second-best seller of the year through November. The Barbadian beauty’s August Seventeen cover was the mag’s top-selling issue through the end of October.

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