Katy Perry's TEENAGE DREAM Is The No. 1 Album In The U.S.; Released In Rest Of World This Week9/1/2010 12:00:00 AM POP SENSATION BREAKS RECORDS FOR MOST SINGLES SOLD PRE-STREET DATE TEENAGE DREAM RELEASED IN REST OF THE WORLD THIS 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. www.katyperry.com www.twitter.com/katyperry www.myspace.com/katyperry www.facebook.com/katyperry |
Cali Swag District's Kinetic Typography Video For Second Single "Where You Are"8/27/2010 12:00:00 AM Check out this awesome kinetic typography lyrics video for Cali Swag District's brand new single "Where You Are":
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V V Brown Wraps Tour With Maroon 5; Announces Fall Tour Dates8/26/2010 12:00:00 AM ANNOUNCES FALL TOUR DATES (August 26, 2010 – New York, NY) Hot off her Summer tour with Maroon 5, Kris Allen, and Owl City, one of 2010’s best new artists V V Brown announces additional headlining tour dates for the fall. V V has exploded onto the music scene this year with career-making performances on Ellen, Rachel Ray, Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and most recently, a spectacular performance of her current single ‘Shark In The Water’ on The Late Show with David Letterman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzgum5iQKCE ). Her debut album Travelling Like the Light has been reaching mass appeal in America due to the breakout hit of the lead single “Shark in the Water.” The single has broken into the Top 20 on the Hot AC charts and has become an online phenomenon with hundreds of fans covering the song. Her fresh new pop sound has caught the attention of The Recording Academy, when they recently invited her down to talk about and perform some of her songs http://www.grammy.com/news/vv-va-voom . The 25-year-old U.K star shows no sign of slowing down as ‘Shark In The Water’ was recently prominently featured in a massive TV campaign for Degrassi. Taking things one step further, V V has joined forces with the cast of Degrassi to create a new video for the song that features the cast of the hit show (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irgjA50ei6U). The song will also appear in the shows season finale August 26th. In addition, on Sept 10th- V V Brown will headline Teen Vogue and ASOS.com’s Fashion’s Night Out Block Party. The event will be held on Bleecker St (btwn Perry and W. 4th) in NYC 6-11pm. Come see what the buzz is all about during V V’s stretch of October tour dates listed below. Fall tour dates: October 21 Cincinatti, OH WKRQ Bosom Ball 22 Philadelphia, PA The Note 23 Washington, DC The Black Cat 24 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom 27 Los Angeles, CA Echo 28 San Francisco Rickshaw Stop |
Don't Miss Katy Perry Performing On The Today Show Tomorrow, August 27th8/26/2010 12:00:00 AM KATY PERRYPERFORMING ON THE TODAY SHOW
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Katy Perry Joins An Elite Group With Two BILLBOARD HOT 100 Songs In Top 58/20/2010 12:00:00 AM
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