After Katy Perry’s fun and colorful performance of “California Gurls” at this past Sunday’s 2010 MTV Movie Awards, more good comes for the single as it rises to the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 after charting for 4 weeks:
The song makes the quickest sprint to the summit by a Capitol single since Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billie Joe” likewise reached the top spot in four weeks on the chart dated Aug. 26, 1967. Five months before Gentry, the Beatles’ “Penny Lane” had also zipped to No. 1 in four frames.
Perry’s hit crowns the chart thanks in part to its selling 318,000 downloads (up 18%) in the chart’s tracking week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The cut leads Digital Songs for a third week. On Radio Songs, “California Gurls” jumps 10-6 (89.2 million in audience, up 25%, according to Nielsen BDS).
“California Gurls” is Perry’s second Hot 100 No. 1. “I Kissed a Girl” led for seven weeks beginning in July 2008. Snoop Dogg collects his third leader on the list, following his own “Drop It Like It’s Hot” in 2004 and Akon’s “I Wanna Love You,” on which he guested, in 2006. [SOURCE]
Congratulations to Katy Perry! The song is still not the proper anthem she described it to be but it is IS A SUMMER SMASH. She’s off to a poppin’ start and we can now uncross our fingers that she is not suffering the dreaded sophomore slump.
