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Travis - I don't think the decision to NOT count new singles off perry's re-release as coming from teenage dream was clear cut at the beginning. I think it was entirely likely that perry and her label were gunning to get the most singles from an album by re-releasing teenage dream with extra tracks, so giving them 3 chances tobreak the record. Apparently Rhianna's releases from her good girl album and it's re-release reloaded, were counted together to give her a total of 5. However the importance of the record (it's not just mj fans being precious about it) made billboard look again at their policy on re-releases and have decided in this instance that it wouldn't be fair for perry to claim her new releases come from the original album. You can bet perry and her team are disappointed.

Discussed here on billboard -
www.billboard.com/#/column-chartbeat/ask-billboard-can-katy-perry-top-michael-1006185152.story


Edit - Ha,ha. Moonwalker fan - just saw your post.
 
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Perry's fans can defend her all they want, but I think it was a very pathetic campaign by her team. Someone should tell her this "record" won't make her significant on the long term. :smilerolleyes:
 
I don't care very much about the record, but I do think Billboard's policy regarding this re-release is good. I mean, Katy's latest single is selling incredibly well on iTunes, of course it is, since it's not on the TD album her fans don't have it yet. It's a totally different situation from a regular 7th single, because normally by then lots of people would have bought the album already and would not need to buy the single again. I don't think it would be fair to count this single as a single from the TD album.

I kind of wonder if Katy and her team knew about the Billboard policy when they decided to re-release the album. Probably they knew, but they've also done everything they could to break the record. How they handled TOTGA was pretty desperate, imo, and it did not make Katy look good. I don't even understand why they think the record is so important. Sure it would get Katy a lot of attention for a short while, but in the long run it's pretty meaningless. I mean, I don't think people knew about Michael having this record before this whole "omg Katy's gonna break MJ's record!!" thing started. Michael is a legend, but it's not because he happened to hold this particular record. I think even if Katy had 10 number 1 singles from one album, she still wouldn't be anything more than she is now - a cute, fun pop star who makes catchy songs, but is not particularly talented or likely to have a very long career.
 
Sunwalker7 said:
I don't care very much about the record, but I do think Billboard's policy regarding this re-release is good. I mean, Katy's latest single is selling incredibly well on iTunes, of course it is, since it's not on the TD album her fans don't have it yet. It's a totally different situation from a regular 7th single, because normally by then lots of people would have bought the album already and would not need to buy the single again. I don't think it would be fair to count this single as a single from the TD album.

I kind of wonder if Katy and her team knew about the Billboard policy when they decided to re-release the album. Probably they knew, but they've also done everything they could to break the record. How they handled TOTGA was pretty desperate, imo, and it did not make Katy look good. I don't even understand why they think the record is so important. Sure it would get Katy a lot of attention for a short while, but in the long run it's pretty meaningless. I mean, I don't think people knew about Michael having this record before this whole "omg Katy's gonna break MJ's record!!" thing started. Michael is a legend, but it's not because he happened to hold this particular record. I think even if Katy had 10 number 1 singles from one album, she still wouldn't be anything more than she is now - a cute, fun pop star who makes catchy songs, but is not particularly talented or likely to have a very long career.
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It's hard to believe that Katy has been out since 2008, before Gaga came out on the scene.
 
[h=1]Katy Perry's 'Part of Me' debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100[/h]
[h=1]Katy Perry's 'Part Of Me' Makes History With #1 Debut[/h] [h=2]Song's #1 bow is just the 20th in the 53-year history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[/h]http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1679744/katy-perry-breaks-billboard-record-part-of-me-teenage-dream.jhtml

http://www.billboard.com/news/katy-perry-s-part-of-me-debuts-atop-hot-1006251352.story

Katy Perry is back in a familiar place with her brand-new single: the top of the Billboard charts.
After performing "Part of Me" — the first single off the deluxe reissue of her Teenage Dream album — at the 54th Grammy Awards, Perry sat back and watched as the song debuted at #1 on Billboard's Hot 100, making it just the 20th track in the chart's 53-year history to bow in the top slot.



According to Billboard, Perry joins a list of stars that includes Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Britney Spears and Eminem (not to mention a host of former "American Idol" champions) who have all accomplished the feat — the last was Lady Gaga, whose "Born This Way" opened at #1 nearly one year ago. In the process, Perry has notched her seventh career Hot 100 #1.


"Part of Me" also rocketed to #1 on the Digital Songs chart, racking up more than 411,000 downloads, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That's a career-best week for Perry, and is the highest opening number for any artist since Gaga sold more than 448,000 downloads of "Born This Way" last year.


Perry wasn't the only artist to benefit from the post-Grammy bounce; Adele, who, as you might have heard, did pretty well at the show, not only sold an astonishing (and record-setting) 730,000 copies of her 21 album last week, but becomes the first female artist in Hot 100 history to have three solo titles in the Top 10: "Set Fire to the Rain" at #2, "Rolling in the Deep" at #5 and "Someone Like You" at #7.
Nicki Minaj and Chris Brown, who both received, uh, mixed reviews for their Grammy-night performances, also found their way into the Top 10: Minaj's "Starships" is in at #9, followed by Brown's "Turn up the Music," which lands at #10.
 
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