Katy Perry Breaks Digital Sales Record with ‘E.T.’
Katy Perry’s hit single ‘E.T.’ featuring Kanye West has passed the 4 million unit mark in digital sales, making Katy the only artist in digital sales history to have five songs surpass the 4-million-units-sold milestone.
Perry’s supernatural single ‘E.T’ became her fifth song to pass the 4M mark, following ‘Hot N Cold,’ ‘California Gurls’ feat. Snoop Dogg, ‘Firework,’ and ‘I Kissed a Girl.’
In addition to Kanye’s rhymes, Katy had the help of a superstar production team including Dr. Luke, Ammo and Max Martin on the hit record, which grabbed the No 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100. ‘E.T.’ made Katy’s album ‘Teenage Dream’ the ninth album in history to yield four number one singles.
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Katy Perry New “Rolling Stone” Magazine Cover Behind The Scenes Captures
I’ve added new screen captures of Katy Perry did for “Rolling Stone” magazine behind the scenes cover shoot to the gallery.
Katy Perry’s “ET” Passes 4 million Downloads
To say that Katy Perry has been on a roll lately would be a grand understatement. But now, the star is nearing a feat only previously achieved by the King of Pop, Michael Jackson.
On the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, Perry’s latest single from her “Teenage Dream” album, “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.),” flies 31-4. As Gary Trust notes in today’s Chart Beat column, if it hits No. 1 on the Hot 100, Perry will become just the second act — and first woman — to score five No. 1s from one album in the chart’ 52-year history, as “California Gurls,” the title cut, “Firework” and “E.T.” all previously reigned.
Katy Perry’s ‘Friday’ Flies Up Hot 100, Adele Still No. 1
Only Michael Jackson, with his 1987 set “Bad,” has so far collected five Hot 100 No. 1s from one album release. “Bad” spawned the No. 1s “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You,” the title track, “The Way You Make Me Feel,” “Man in the Mirror” and “Dirty Diana.”
Check Billboard.com next Wednesday (June 29) for highlights of next week’s Hot 100, to be released in full in the Billboard.com charts menu the following day.
In other impressive and unprecedented Perry chart news, she was already the only artist with four 4-million-selling downloads, according to Nielsen SoundScan. As of this week, Perry pulls further ahead of the pack as the only artist with a whopping five.
“E.T.,” which topped the Hot 100 for five weeks beginning April 9, surpasses the 4-million mark in download sales, according to SoundScan (4.06 million). Perry is now the only act to have five songs sell more than 4-million each. (Lady Gaga is next with three 4-million-sellers).
She previously hit the 4-million mark with “Hot N Cold” (4.91 million), “Firework” (4.53 million), “I Kissed a Girl” (4.07 million) and “California Gurls” (4.88 million).
More evidence of Perry’s power? Adding to the pileup of her staggering sales and chart statistics, “E.T.” became the top-selling download of 2011 as of the week ending May 1, when it overtook Cee Lo Green’s “Forget You (F**k You).”
Source: Billboard
Katy Perry Out In Miami on 06/21 Candids Photos
I’ve added new high quality candids of Katy Perry having fun by the pool in Miami on June 21, 2011.
Katy Perry to launch ‘Purr’ in Toronto
Katy Perry will make an appearance connected to the launch of her fragrance during the Canadian leg of her current concert tour.
On June 30, the pop star is scheduled to visit Sears at the Toronto Eaton Centre. The scent, called Purr, is carried exclusively by the retailer on this side of the border.
“I’m absolutely thrilled to finally introduce me in a bottle,” she said in a release. “There is a wonderful world of fragrances out there, but like with my music, I believe there is room for me and my own unique twist on it.”
Fans of the singer known for hits like “I Kissed A Girl,” “California Girls” and “Firework,” will have a chance to meet Perry during an autograph signing by participating in an online contest. For more information, visit sears.ca/katyperry
Source: Metro News
Katy Perry On Rolling Stone Magazine Scan Cover, Outtakes & Highlights
In the new issue of Rolling Stone, on stands and in the digital archive on June 24th, Katy Perry takes contributing editor Erik Hedegaard backstage at the kick-off of her California Dreams Tour. Between the elaborate rehearsals and three-hour make-up sessions, Perry reveals that she’s recently undergone a political awakening. “It just feels like the thing running our country is a bank, money,” she says. “I know it sounds like an intense viewpoint, but I’m only slowly but surely getting the wool taken off my eyes. When I was a kid, I asked questions about my faith. Now I’m asking questions about the world.”
She continues: “I think we are largely in desperate need of revolutionary change in the way our mindset is. Our priority is fame, and people’s wellness is way low. I saw this knowing full well that I’m a part of the problem. I’m playing the game, though I am trying to reroute. Anyway, not to get all politically divulging and introspective, but the fact that America doesn’t have free health care drives me fucking absolutely crazy, and is so wrong.”
• It took Perry a while to learn to embrace her body. “I started praying for [breasts] when I was, like, 11,” she says. “And God answered that prayer above and beyond, by, like, 100 times, until I was like, ‘Please, stop, God. I can’t see my feet anymore. Please stop!’ I was a lot more rectangular then. I didn’t understand my body. Someone in sixth grade called me ‘Over-the-shoulder boulder holder.’ I didn’t know I could use them. So, what I did was, I started taping them down. How long did I tape them down for? Probably until I was about 19. And, no, I don’t have any psychological pain because of it.”
• Perry is the first artist to ever have at least one song ranked in the top ten of the BillboardHot 100 for a full year – but she remains a polarizing figure. “Whenever people ask me about having bad reviews, I’m like, ‘Have you seen the run I’ve had? Have you see the numbers?’” she says. “Numbers do not lie!” At the same time, she recognizes the limitations of pop music. “I’m not a dummy,” she says. “I know ‘California Gurls’ isn’t going to save the world. But I got a lot of heart from my upbringing and I put a lot of heart in my songs.”
• She’s recently become obsessed with the History Channel show Ancient Aliens. “Oh my God,” she says. “When it talks about the sky people , how everyone comes from the sky and how the Pyramids were used for star observations, it’s too much for me. It all seems to connect the dots. It’s blowing my mind.”
Source: Rolling Stone
Watch Katy Perry’s Sexy, Silly ‘Rolling Stone’ Cover Shoot
Katy Perry takes 21 tour crew members to day at spa
Katy Perry treated 21 members of her tour crew to a spa visit.
The group took over the entire Remede Spa at the St. Regis Hotel in Atlanta on June 8 following her concert in the city, and the “Firework” hitmaker footed the bill for facials and treatments.
Among the treats were a 90 minute facial at $255 and aromatherapy massages at $240 for over an hour.
They were also given warm paraffin foot wraps, foot and scalp rubs and eye and lip treatments, according to US Weekly.
The 26-year-old singer — who is married to British comedian Russell Brand — recently revealed she and her tour crew like to pray before they go on stage, and always dedicate the show to someone or something.
She said: “I have this little box of prayers, but they’re very small, simple one-line prayers, and I pull them out and read them out loud, and everybody either agrees or disagrees with them, and then we put our hands in a pile and dedicate the show to something funny or stupid.”
Source: CTV
Katy Perry and Robyn take a sweet-toothed teenage dream tour to New Jersey
Katy Perry brought her sugarcoated psychedelic dreamland to New Jersey last night, using her California Dreams tour to tell the story of a young lady who follows her feline companion Kitty Purry into a circuitous Candy Land-esque setting filled with hallucination-inducing brownies, a slutty slot machine (ha?) and a cavalcade of Top 10 hits.
Say what you will about Katy Perry—sure, she has a weak singing voice and her songs are mostly devoid of substance—but as a courier of frothy delights and eye-catching effulgence, she’s become one of today’s most-satisfying pop stars.
Her stage show—which boasted airborne mimes, floating cotton candy clouds and a gingerbread man kick-line—was a visual feast that brought to mind a tweenage version of Cirque du Soleil. And make no mistake: this stage show was a dream constructed for, and occupied almost exclusively by, teens. I doubt more than ten percent of the crowd was over twenty, and most of those adults were chaperoning fist-pumping teens in blue wigs and candy-button dresses.
Nevertheless, the saccharine spectacle—not to mention the fact that Perry has 8 to 10 truly durable radio hits—was so flawlessly synchronized and aurally enveloping that everyone in the enormous Newark arena was obviously having a blast (speaking of ‘blast,’ Perry thankfully did not spray anything from her bosom). It was one of the rare concerts by a radio hitmaker that was easily worth the not-inconsiderable price tag.
The only drawback was that Lady Katy doesn’t quite have enough substantial material to fill a two-hour set (yet). Certain songs (“Not Like the Movies,” “Pearl”) are always going to sound half-baked no matter how “special” that brownie tastes. On the plus side, her oddly eclectic collection of covers—Rebecca Black, Jay-Z, Whitney Houston, Willow Smith and Rihanna—was a welcome, albeit pitchy, curiosity.
As for opening performer Robyn, Sweden’s primary dance-pop export/expert delivered an incredible and under-appreciated set. In spite of her valiant energy, charmingly retro moves and flawless singing, the teenage crowd was mostly indifferent.
But that certainly has more to do with familiarly than any value judgment: As two of few concertgoers actively dancing for Robyn, my friend and I overhead several comments to the effect of, “Hey, those guys seem to know who she is!” Well, someone in the pit had to represent for Stockholm’s indestructible Fembot.
Source: EW Review
Rocker Hanna blasts Gaga and Perry
Former Bikini Kill rocker Kathleen Hanna has taken aim at Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Jason Mraz and James Blunt in a new CNN rant.
The outspoken feminist, who is married to Beastie Boys star Adam ’Ad-Rock’ Horowitz, was promoting revived band The Julie Ruin when she was asked what she thought about Lady Gaga and Perry, prompting a rant about their modern pop feminism and sing-a-long gay rights messages.
She said, “Is it really that different when it’s a skinny white woman in a bathing suit singing these things? None of these women ever wear pants, first of all. Second of all, just because you’re wearing a goofy hat doesn’t make it performance art.
“I mean, that’s juFormer Bikini Kill rocker Kathleen Hanna has taken aim at Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Jason Mraz and James Blunt in a new CNN rant.st my feeling about it. A lot of the music just sounds like bad Euro disco… I Kissed A Girl was just straight-up offensive. The whole thing is like, ’I kissed a girl, so my boyfriend could masturbate about it later’. It’s disgusting.
“It’s exactly every male fantasy of fake lesbian porn. It’s pathetic. And she’s not a good singer.”
Hanna then turns on the boys, adding, “I think Jason Mraz is horrible… Jason Mraz and the new James Blunt song is the worst thing that has ever been created on the face of the Earth.”
Source: Toronto Sun