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Katy Perry's TEENAGE DREAM Is The No. 1 Album In The U.S.; Released In Rest Of World This Week

PERRY, KATY — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 GMT

KATY PERRY’S TEENAGE DREAM IS THE NO. 1 ALBUM IN THE U.S.

POP SENSATION BREAKS RECORDS FOR MOST SINGLES SOLD PRE-STREET DATE

TEENAGE DREAM RELEASED IN REST OF THE WORLD THIS WEEK

September 1, 2010 — New York — Katy Perry has cemented her status as a best-selling pop superstar with her second studio album Teenage Dream, which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart, scanning 192,222 units in its first week of release. Katy is now one of the top 10 artists with the best-selling debuts of the year and one of only two pop artists to appear on this list. Teenage Dream is the two-time Grammy Award nominee’s highest album chart bow yet. Katy’s debut album, One of the Boys, scanned 46,767 units in its first week.

Katy has now achieved the highest pre-album street date track sales of all time, with 4.4 million digital tracks sold prior to the album’s release — setting a Nielsen Soundscan-era record. 445,746 total tracks were sold during Teenage Dream’s first week of release. In addition, with the Top 5 chart positions of the album’s first two singles, the six-week No. 1 “California Gurls” and “Teenage Dream,” Katy has become one of only ten female artists in history to have two songs in the Top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time. Currently Katy has 12 songs charting on the Soundscan Current Digital Tracks chart simultaneously including Teenage Dream album tracks “Firework”, “Peacock” and “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F)”.

Katy is a pioneer in the new world order of pop superstardom, where success is measured not just by album sales, but also by sales of digital singles, ringtones, and music videos (clips for both “Teenage Dream” and “California Gurls” have remained in the iTunes Top 10 Music Videos chart for weeks). Measured in “TEA”’s (industry parlance for “track equivalent albums,” in which the sale of 10 digital singles is counted as the sale of one album), Teenage Dream, plus individual tracks sold, totals the equivalent of nearly 720,000 albums sold by the end of Katy’s first week. This follows on the heels of One of the Boys, which has sold five million copies worldwide.

Teenage Dream has easily averted the sophomore slump, with MTV.com opining that it is “the best second effort in pop music history.” USA Today raves that “the ambitious brunette serves up percolating confections laced with saucy humor and disarming earnestness,” while Rolling Stone has called Teenage Dream a “pool-party pop gem.” The New York Post declares Teenage Dream “a total success” that “may have the juice to topple Michael Jackson’s Bad as the U.S. record holder for most singles released from one album.”

Katy co-wrote each of Teenage Dream’s 12 songs, collaborating with a red-hot production team that includes Max Martin, Dr. Luke, Tricky Stewart, Benny Blanco, Greg Wells, and Stargate. Released in May, “California Gurls” spent six weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100, shattered BDS and Mediabase weekly airplay spin records, and became the definitive anthem of Summer 2010.

The Santa Barbara, CA-born Katy performed on The Late Show With David Letterman and The Today Show’s Summer Concert Series during Teenage Dream’s release week and recently co-hosted the 2010 Teen Choice Awards with the male cast of Glee. She has appeared on the covers of dozens of publications, including recent issues of Rolling Stone, Seventeen, Q, Billboard, the New York Times’ Arts & Leisure section, and USAToday’s Life section. Katy has been nominated for two 2010 MTV Video Music Awards for “California Gurls” (“Best Female Video” and “Best Pop Video”) and became a portrait subject for renowned contemporary artist Will Cotton, whose confectionary landscape painting of her graces the cover of Teenage Dream.

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Don't Miss Katy Perry Performing On The Today Show Tomorrow, August 27th

PERRY, KATY — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT

DO NOT MISS

KATY PERRY

PERFORMING ON

THE TODAY SHOW
OUTDOOR SUMMER CONCERT SERIES

TOMORROW AUGUST 27, 2010!

GET THERE EARLY!
THERE'S ALREADY FANS CAMPED OUT AT THE PLAZA TO SEE KATY TOMORROW!

COME JOIN THEM! SURPRISES IN STORE FOR THOSE WHO DO!

Even if you can't make it to NYC tomorrow morning, you can be part of the action!
Find out here:

http://KatyPerry.todayshow.com/

http://www.katyperry.com

Katy Perry Joins An Elite Group With Two BILLBOARD HOT 100 Songs In Top 5

PERRY, KATY — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT

HUGE Congrats to Katy Perry!

Two Billboard HOT 100 Songs are officially in the Top 5, with "Teenage Dream" and "California Gurls"!
Only 9 female artists have done this before, and Katy is now the 10th!

read more about it on Billboard.com: http://www.billboard.com/#/column/chartbeat/chart-beat-thursday-eminem-katy-perry-billy-1004110369.story

Teenage Dream, the brand new album from Katy Perry, is being released in the U.S. on Tuesday, August 24th and on August 30th everywhere else!

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Artist Will Cotton Takes The Wraps Off A Katy Perry Portrait

PERRY, KATY — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Artist Will Cotton Takes The Wraps Off A Katy Perry Portrait

New York, NY - On Wednesday, July 21st, renowned contemporary artist Will Cotton unveiled his recently completed portrait of chart-topping recording artist, Katy Perry. Katy was present for the unveiling in the artist’s Lower East Side, Manhattan studio. The painting will also be featured as the cover of Katy’s new album, Teenage Dream, scheduled for US release on August 24th.

The recording artist first contacted the painter five months ago to share her enthusiasm for his work. It was kismet or destiny as Cotton, a confirmed Katy fan, had long considered making her the subject of one of his confectionary landscape paintings. The resulting portrait was chosen by Katy to grace the cover of her newest release and it is recreated in live action as one of the scenes in her current video for “California Gurls”, which has been #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the last six weeks. Cotton’s work serves as the inspiration for the visuals in the hit music clip-- with his trademark cotton candy clouds, candy stick forests, and gingerbread cabins prominent features of the fantasy scenery.

Teenage Dream is Katy’s much awaited follow-up to her 2008 multi-platinum release One Of The Boys which featured the hit singles “Hot N Cold”, “Waking Up In Vegas” and “I Kissed A Girl”. After her experience collaborating with the artist on her portrait, the singer-songwriter was enthusiastic to use more of his imagery as a visual component of her newest project. "California Gurls" video director Matthew Cullen and Motion Theory embraced the idea, enlisting Cotton as Artistic Director on the project, to recreate the artist’s images for the popular clip. Cotton recreated some of the work personally, including creating the board game played by Snoop Dogg in the video, and worked with set designer Teri Whittaker to create scenery based on his artwork. The video is so popular it has received over 18 million views in four weeks on YouTube.

While he does not consider himself a portrait artist, Cotton has depicted a few notable figures in his paintings, such as Tom Ford and Marie-Chantal of Greece. The Katy portrait and the resulting video has focused considerable public attention on an artist long recognized by art world cognoscenti and featured in important private and public collections across the globe. Said Cotton, “My collaboration with Katy started out as a mutual admiration society. I'm delighted that my paintings are the inspiration for this video. My work is about creating a utopia where all desire is fulfilled all the time, but where pleasure and delight can turn dark and dystopic. Katy embodies the archetypes that I look for in a subject. It was thrilling to work with her and to see her inhabit my landscapes.”

“The day I found Will Cotton, I knew I wanted to live in his cinematic cotton candy world. A fantastically art-directed music video and one piece of timeless album artwork later, I can proudly say I am more than a fan. Will has been a sweetheart every step of the way and always open to collaborative ideas. I'm so happy to have discovered his candy-land, and so excited about our creative future together” states Katy.

Find out more about Katy Perry and her new album Teenage Dream, available in the U.S. on 8/24 and everywhere else 8/30, at KatyPerry.com

"Teenage Dream" Album Cover Revealed

PERRY, KATY — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Katy Perry's Summer Smash Breaks Record For Number Of Spins In One Week

PERRY, KATY — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT

KATY PERRY’S SUMMER SMASH “CALIFORNIA GURLS” BREAKS RECORD FOR NUMBER OF SPINS IN ONE WEEK AT BDS AND MEDIABASE TOP 40 AIRPLAY CHART

“CALIFORNIA GURLS” BECOMES ALL-TIME MEDIABASE TOP 40 AIRPLAY RECORD HOLDER WITH MORE THAN 13,000 SPINS IN ONE WEEK

New York, NY — After becoming the fastest-rising single at pop radio in more than four years, Katy Perry’s “California Gurls” has shattered another record by scoring more than 13,000 spins in one week for the second consecutive week on both the BDS and Mediabase charts. “California Gurls” has become the all-time Mediabase Top 40 airplay record holder with 13,167 spins in one week — an average of 92 spins per week at a pace exceeding 13 times per day.

“Katy has set records and turned radio upside down,” says Greg Thompson, executive vice-president for promotion at Capitol Records. “This track has broken all-time spins records, and achieved massive Hot 100 audience numbers of historic proportion."

“California Gurls,” the first single from the two-time Grammy-nominated pop sensation’s upcoming album Teenage Dream, has indisputably become the summer anthem of 2010. An irresistible, hook-filled clarion call to throw on Daisy Dukes and a bikini top, the track has spent 3 weeks at No. 1 at pop radio (setting the record for the quickest ascent to the top spot since Gwen Stefani’s “Hollaback Girl” in May 2005) and made the biggest leap to No. 1 since Mariah Carey’s “Shake It Off” in September 2005. It has also spent 8 weeks at No. 1 on the iTunes Singles chart. “California Gurls,” which features Snoop Dogg, has also set records for Perry’s label Capitol Records, enjoying the fastest ascension to No. 1 at Hot AC ever for a Capitol artist and the quickest rise to No. 1 for one of the label’s artists’ tracks since Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billie Joe” in 1967. Last week, “California Gurls” reached an audience of 140 million, also the largest ever for a Capitol artist. It is expected to reach an audience of 150 million Hot 100 listeners this week.

“California Gurls” is just a taste of what’s to come when Perry unleashes Teenage Dream, which will be released by Capitol Records on August 24th in the U.S. and Canada; and August 30th in the rest of the world. The album is the follow-up to Perry’s blockbuster debut One of the Boys, which has been certified platinum in the U.S. and has sold five million copies worldwide. The album spawned four smash singles, including the Grammy-nominated back-to-back No. 1’s “I Kissed A Girl” and “Hot N Cold” (both selling more than a combined eight million copies in the U.S.), “Thinking of You” (No. 1 Airplay in five countries), and “Waking Up in Vegas” (2.3 million sold in the U.S. and No. 1 Airplay in five countries). Perry has sold more than 22 million singles, digital tracks, and mobile products worldwide.

The Santa Barbara, CA-born Perry has appeared on the covers of dozens of publications, including Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, and Glamour. She also served as a guest judge at the auditions on the most recent season of American Idol. Perry was voted Best New Artist in 2008 by readers of Rolling Stone and Best New Act at the 2008 Europe Music Awards. More recently, she was named one of People’s “Most Beautiful People,” one of Entertainment Weekly’s “Entertainers of the Year,” one of Esquire’s “Women We Love,” and No. 1 on Maxim’s 2010 “Hot 100” list.

For more about pop’s multi-dimensional, multi-colored girl on the move, visit:
www.katyperry.com
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Katy Perry To Host And Perform On Teen Choice 2010 On FOX

PERRY, KATY — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 04:00:00 GMT

CHOICE “CALIFORNIA GURL” KATY PERRY
TO HOST AND PERFORM ON “TEEN CHOICE 2010”
MONDAY, AUGUST 9, ON FOX

Pop sensation and multi-platinum recording artist Katy Perry is set to host TEEN CHOICE 2010 airing Monday, Aug. 9 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. The Grammy-nominated artist will also perform during the 12th annual special that celebrates the year’s hottest teen icons in film, television, music, sports and fashion.

TEEN CHOICE 2010 will award the coveted Teen Choice Surfboard awards to the year’s coolest stars in categories such as Choice TV Villain, Choice Scene Stealer and the newest entry, Choice Country Music Artist. A co-host, nominees, presenters and additional performers will be announced soon.

Singer-songwriter Katy Perry has gone from internet music sensation to bona fide international star in just two years. Her multi-platinum debut album, “One of the Boys,” generated four hit singles: “I Kissed A Girl,” “Hot N Cold,” “Thinking Of You” and “Waking Up In Vegas.” This August, the Grammy-nominated artist will release her next album, “Teenage Dream,” which features “California Gurls,” the fastest-rising single to Top 10 radio in more than four years.

For current news on Katy, please visit KatyPerry.com

In addition to selling five million albums worldwide, the Santa Barbara, CA-born Perry has appeared on the covers of dozens of publications, including Seventeen, Cosmopolitan and Glamour. She also served as a guest judge at the auditions on the most recent season of AMERICAN IDOL. Perry was voted Best New Artist in 2008 by readers of Rolling Stone and Best New Act at the 2008 Europe Music Awards. More recently, she was named one of People’s “Most Beautiful People,” one of Entertainment Weekly’s “Entertainers of the Year,” one of Esquire’s “Women We Love,” and No. 1 on Maxim’s 2010 “Hot 100” list.

TEEN CHOICE 2010 is executive-produced by Bob Bain (“Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards”) and Michael Burg. Paul Flattery serves as producer, Kelly Brock is co-producer and Greg Sills serves as supervising producer.

Katy Perry Says 'Summer Starts Now'!

PERRY, KATY — Wed, 12 May 2010 04:00:00 GMT

KATY PERRY SAYS ‘SUMMER STARTS NOW’!

TWO-TIME GRAMMY-NOMINATED POP SUPERSTAR LAUNCHES
SIZZLING SUMMER ANTHEM “CALIFORNIA GURLS” AT RADIO

CAPITOL RECORDS WILL RELEASE PERRY’S NEW ALBUM, TEENAGE DREAM, ON AUGUST 24TH IN THE U.S. AND CANADA; AUGUST 30TH IN THE REST OF THE WORLD

TEENAGE DREAM IS THE FOLLOW-UP TO MULTI-PLATINUM STAR’S
SMASH DEBUT ONE OF THE BOYS

New York, NY — After scoring four smash singles off her five-million-selling 2008 debut album One of the Boys, two-time Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter Katy Perry returns to set airwaves ablaze with a scorching brand-new single “California Gurls,” which ignited radio with a surprise release on May 7. The single is now available for sale digitally worldwide.

An irresistible, hook-filled clarion call to throw on Daisy Dukes and a bikini top, “California Gurls” will “melt your popsicle,” Katy assures us in this party anthem of the summer. The sizzling track — a fresh evolution of Perry’s witty, sassy sound — is the follow-up to her back-to-back-to-back No. 1 chart-toppers “I Kissed A Girl”, “Hot N Cold”, and “Waking Up In Vegas” from One of the Boys.

The Santa Barbara-born Perry was inspired to write “California Gurls” as she watched her friends go crazy at a party listening to Jay-Z’s salute to New York, “Empire State of Mind.” “Everybody was holding their drinks in the air and dancing, and I thought, ‘We’re not in New York, we’re in Los Angeles! What about California? What about all the homies, the gin and juice, the swaying palm trees, the sun-kissed skin 24-7,’” Perry recalls. “I decided that we needed to make a response. I want people to want to book a ticket to California the first time they hear it!” And because it’s practically un-American to release a song that mentions gin and juice without Snoop Dogg, Perry recruited the rap icon to contribute his inimitable vocals to “California Gurls.” “We thought it would sound so cool and give the song another dimension,” she says. “Snoop is as West Coast as it gets.”

“California Gurls” is just a taste of what’s to come when Katy unleashes her brand-new album Teenage Dream, which will be released by Capitol Records on August 24th in the U.S. and Canada; and August 30th in the rest of the world. The album is the follow-up to Perry’s blockbuster debut One of the Boys, which has been certified platinum in the U.S. and has sold five million copies worldwide. The album spawned four smash singles, including the back-to-back No. 1, Grammy-nominated chart-toppers “I Kissed A Girl” and “Hot N Cold” (both selling more than a combined eight million copies in the US), “Thinking of You” (No. 1 Airplay in five countries), and “Waking Up in Vegas” (2.3 million sold in the US and No. 1 Airplay in five countries). Perry has sold more than 22 million singles, digital tracks, and mobile products worldwide.

Katy’s success has led her to become one of the most talked-about new artists of the past two years. Since exploding onto the scene in 2008 with “Ur So Gay,” and touring the entire run of the Vans Warped tour, she has appeared on the covers of 12 national magazines (including Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Nylon, Complex, Paper, Lucky, Out, and Billboard) and countless international publications, launched a sold-out 50-city world headlining tour, appeared on several national morning and late-night talk shows (including The Today Show, American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance?, Ellen, The CBS Early Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and Chelsea Lately in the US and Later with Jools Holland (UK), Taratata (France), the Echo Awards (Germany) and many others internationally), as well as NBC’s New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly. She has presented awards (and gotten slimed) at the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards, presented at the 2010 Grammy Awards (where “Hot N Cold” was nominated for “Best Female Pop Vocal Performance”), and performed at the Grammy Awards ceremony in 2009 when she was nominated in the same category for “I Kissed A Girl.” Most recently, Perry has appeared as a judge on the Fox juggernaut American Idol and been named one of People Magazine’s “Most Beautiful People” of 2010, one of Entertainment Weekly’s Entertainers of the Year, Esquire’s Women We Love and voted 2008 Best New Artist by readers of Rolling Stone. She has also hosted and performed – twice at the MTV EMA’s.

Stay tuned for more about “California Gurls” and Teenage Dream.
For more about pop’s multi-dimensional, multi-colored girl on the move, please visit:
www.katyperry.com
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www.facebook.com/katyperry

Download Katy Perry's new single "California Gurls" now on iTunes

PERRY, KATY — Tue, 11 May 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Katy Perry's new single "California Gurls" feat. Snoop Dogg is now available for download on iTunes - click here.

Katy Perry on the COVER of Lucky

PERRY, KATY — Tue, 04 May 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Also online at http://www.luckymag.com/blogs/luckyrightnow/2010/05/lucky-cover-girl-katy-perry-lo.html