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WASHINGTON (AFP) US celebrities are rallying their fans to raise money for survivors of the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan, with Lady Gaga guiding the dictate and raising $250,000 in 48 hours.

The larger-than-life pop icon announced her blueprint Monday to raise money for Japan by selling ruddy and white wristbands bearing the message "We Pray for Japan" for $5 a piece through her online merchandise website.

Forty-eight hours afterward, Gaga posted a new tweet praising her fans for ordering 50,000 of the wristbands.

"Monsters: in just 48 hrs you’ve raised a quarter of a million greenbacks for Japan Relief,Cheap Nike Polos," Gaga said Wednesday on Twitter .

On the same daytime that Gaga fired her wristwear, rock band Linkin Park began taking arrays on its website for T-shirts to raise money for Japan, where 13,000 people are dead or lacking behind a 9.0-magnitude quake and tsunami.

Both the shirts were devised along band member Mike Shinoda, whose dad namely Japanese-American. One featured one origami butterfly against a black background and the other has the words "Not Alone," the name of a song by Linkin Park.

The T-shirts price $25 every and 100 percent of proceeds from sales will be donated to Music for Relief, a group of talents, manufacture professionals and music fans that works to assist disaster relief, Shinoda said on Twitter.

Shinoda tweeted that he is also working on a single to raise money for Japan.

Popstar Katy Perry connected several celebrities who have tweeted to their followers to both pray, shop or donate money for relief exertions in Japan.

Perry tweeted to fans in Germany along of a concert there aboard Tuesday, urging them to buy a light-up wand at the show’s goods stand.

"All income ambition go to #Japanredcross. And when I play Firework, let’s kindle the light because them tonight," she wrote.

Canadian teen idol Justin Bieber tweeted within hours of the quiver on Friday: "Japan is one of my favorite places on globe…it’s an amazing culture with surprising people. My prayers go out to them. We always absence to help."

The TV and cinema worlds are also mobilizing for Japan, with Warner Brothers pledging portion of proceeds of DVD sales of its movie "Hereafter" to relief asset for Japan, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The movie starring Matt Damon and Cecile de France was plucked from cinemas in Japan after Friday’s quake for it opens with scenes of death and devastation occasioned by a tsunami.

Other films have also been deemed inappropriate for screening in Japan in the wake of the disaster namely has buffet the nation, including one cried "Aftershock," directed by Xiaogang Feng and originally deserving to be loosened afterward week.

The movie is almost the 7.8-magnitude quake that struck the city of Tangshan, China in 1976, killing a 15 min of a million people and reducing maximum of the metropolis to rubble.

Meanwhile, hip-hop stars the Black Eyed Peas have appended a message to the end of their current melody video, urging fans to donate to the Red Cross to assist victims of the mishap in Japan, according to US media reports.

The video for the Black Eyed Peas’ song "Just Can’t Get Enough" was shot in Japan a week before Friday’s heavy quake.

"Our center goes out to all of the Japanese people who have been affected by this natural disaster," Black Eyed Peas’ Fergie was quoted for acquainting the Entertainment Tonight television show, which will wind the new video on Thursday.

Celebrities have the latent to raise millions to help the victims of the quake and tsunami in Japan by harnessing their fan bases.

If every one of Lady Gaga’s 8 million-plus Twitter followers were to buy one of her wristbands and whether every Linkin Park follower bought one of Shinoda’s T-shirts, $47 million would be raised for Japan.