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Katy Perry Closing In on Michael Jackson Chart Record *Update- Perry Matches MJ's Record*

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I didn't know her ET song was remixed. I think there is too much remixing and such going on. I find it confusing. I agree that there are a lot of great songs by Michael and others that didn't go #1 but are classics. Smooth Criminal is one of my favorites.
 
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To me Katy Perry is nothing like the newest queen of min-stream radio preorid! I don't like as fan of her music but mostely her one of songs thats out right about now!
 
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love is magical said:
I honestly don't think she releases a remix for the purpose of tieing Michael's record.
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I think she does. Someone posted that tweet earlier in this thread from that porn start who is apparently friends with Katy Perry, telling her own fans (the porn star's) to buy, buy, buy the single to help Katy achieve the record. So yeah, I do think all these gimmicks are deliberate attempts to achieve the record.
 
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love is magical said:
She's not cheating. Cutting prices on new releases happen everyday. There were big discounts on new albums of Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga. When Born This Way was first released, Amazon sold the album at only $0.99 for a day. Amazon absorbed all the losses. Many people said the album would not have sold over one million copies the first week, if Amazon didn't offer such price cut. But, it's not Lady Gaga's who was cheating. It's Amazon's decision to promote its music sharing service by cutting the price of Lady Gaga's album.

Is iTune the only retailer that cuts the price of Katy Perry's in half? How about Amazon? If only iTune offers the discount, it's most likely iTune's decision to promote the single, not Katy's record label's decision to slash price.

And, I don't understand why releasing a remix is considered a desparate attempt. She's just doing whatever she can to promote her single and album. What's wrong with that? She didn't stab anybody's back in doing so. Let's say the Throwback mix of Hollywood Tonight gets to #1 of Billboard 100, or whatever chart they are talking about, and some people said the song does not deserve to be #1 because it's not the original album version and the song is a remix, what would you think?

I'm not a Katy Perry fan whatsoever. I don't understand why she's so popular. I just think the criticism towards her here is not fair.
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Remixing a song like HT for DJs & club goers is not the same thing as Katy Perry's been doing. Her new "remix" is not even a true remix it's the same boring song with a rap from Missy Elliott added. The rap is great..but that hot mess song...is still a hot mess.

She is trying to get urban radio to play the song, but I am not sure many will fall for it. At the core, it remains a very pop song with a rap bridge.

You don't need a doctorate to understand the remix is to get urban spins, and help tie MJ. Even Entertainment Weekly noted the desperation in this move...
 
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respect77 said:
I think she does. Someone posted that tweet earlier in this thread from that porn start who is apparently friends with Katy Perry, telling her own fans (the porn star's) to buy, buy, buy the single to help Katy achieve the record. So yeah, I do think all these gimmicks are deliberate attempts to achieve the record.
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Yes she does. Even her fans said that. The board discussing western music in my country,everyone is saying she really wants to get this record. Some wish her good luck but also some think it's like cheating just like gaga's 0.99 dollars thing. Someone even joke about couple days ago that she might cut down the price to get it. Then, she did.lol
 
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Shame. Because of the remix (only $ 0.69! Half price!) the song is # 2 on iTunes (original + remix). If It do not fall, will be # 1 next week.

I do not give a damn about the remix. It is a ridiculous strategy. But I do not give a damn.

The problem is to be the only song with half of the price.

Shame is the press to do a party because of it, the same press that has always ignored the record.
 
Katy Perry needs these gimmicks because this song is the worst she has ever released. I heard it on the radio just the other day and the lyrics are so immature. TGIF? I mean, really?! Getting sh*tfaced, stinking like a minibar, waking up next to strangers and a ménage à trois (I wonder if she knows how to spell that - sorry KP fans, couldn't resist)... uhm, yeah, sounds very inspiring and super classy.
I have nothing against her, if she wants to be trashy that's her choice. This stuff sells. What annoys me is the press and how desperate they are to diminish Michael's achievements. I have never seen them cheering on MJ when he was about to break records. When he eventually did then it was downplayed or conveniently overlooked.

What does a No.1 mean nowadays anyway? People use twitter and facebook to push singles and manipulate chart positions. An appearance on glee or xfactor also guarantees the No.1 spot. And maybe the tweets of porn stars such as Jenna Jameson will help Katy. God knows that her live singing won't. If she ties with MJ, good for her after all the effort she has put in. Again, the press will overlook all the desperate gimmicks (doing remixes, pleading to her fans on twitter, slashing the price for the single, getting help from the media and porn stars) and just pretend that she's the greatest artist, simply because they want to put Michael down. I know, of course, that one day someone will break some of MJ's records and I can live with that because I know that Michael will always be the King of Pop and a legend. However, the fact that some have falsely reported that she has already broken MJ's record just shows that this has nothing to do with Perry, it's just a jab at Michael.
 
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missred07 said:
Yes she does. Even her fans said that. The board discussing western music in my country,everyone is saying she really wants to get this record. Some wish her good luck but also some think it's like cheating just like gaga's 0.99 dollars thing. Someone even joke about couple days ago that she might cut down the price to get it. Then, she did.lol
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It's kind of pathetic, if you ask me. (I thought the same of Gaga's 0.99 dollars gimmick.)

Like I said, it won't make her Michael Jackson. She'll remain the same flash in the pan artists she was before of whom noone will remember in 10 years.
 
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respect77 said:
It's kind of pathetic, if you ask me. (I thought the same of Gaga's 0.99 dollars gimmick.)

Like I said, it won't make her Michael Jackson. She'll remain the same flash in the pan artists she was before of whom noone will remember in 10 years.
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Yes, I won't mind if she get the number 1 with the original song. However, with so many strategies now they used to force this thing to happen make me really against it. I am now hoping that they will never make it and they will stop to use all these strategies to disturb the chart. Same with Gaga, the 0.99 thing is really sucks, it almost like she just give the album out free. I don't buy the story that it's only amazon participate in this.
 
Snow White 1937;3454371 said:
Katy Perry needs these gimmicks because this song is the worst she has ever released. I heard it on the radio just the other day and the lyrics are so immature. TGIF? I mean, really?! Getting sh*tfaced, stinking like a minibar, waking up next to strangers and a ménage à trois (I wonder if she knows how to spell that - sorry KP fans, couldn't resist)... uhm, yeah, sounds very inspiring and super classy.
I have nothing against her, if she wants to be trashy that's her choice. This stuff sells. What annoys me is the press and how desperate they are to diminish Michael's achievements. I have never seen them cheering on MJ when he was about to break records. When he eventually did then it was downplayed or conveniently overlooked.

What does a No.1 mean nowadays anyway? People use twitter and facebook to push singles and manipulate chart positions. An appearance on glee or xfactor also guarantees the No.1 spot. And maybe the tweets of porn stars such as Jenna Jameson will help Katy. God knows that her live singing won't. If she ties with MJ, good for her after all the effort she has put in. Again, the press will overlook all the desperate gimmicks (doing remixes, pleading to her fans on twitter, slashing the price for the single, getting help from the media and porn stars) and just pretend that she's the greatest artist, simply because they want to put Michael down. I know, of course, that one day someone will break some of MJ's records and I can live with that because I know that Michael will always be the King of Pop and a legend.... that she has already broken MJ's record just shows that this has nothing to do with Perry, it's just a jab at Michael.
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Where's the glory in all of this even if it does get to #1. It's like using steroids to win the race. Michael didn't need all this half-price slashing and other gimmicks to push sales. Hell! Walter Yekinoff (sp) nearly pulled the plug on MTV back then, cos they weren't prepared to showcase black artist on TV. Michael came out on top with 5 #1's purely on good ole fashion sales at the ORIGINAL price, with the intended profit margins intact! That's the real victory and the real power of a legend that he is and no one can take that from him. Enuf said.
 
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^^ I totally agree with you, christy!
However, the press will not see it that way. A record is a record, regardless how she achieved it. That's the sad thing. No one will mention all her desperate efforts, what counts is the outcome. The press loves doing that to MJ. They would never say "MJ broke records purely because of his talent whereas KP had to beg her fans to buy her rubbish single, remix the song with other guest stars, get help from the media and porn stars, reduce the price drastically to make the No.1 spot". No, all they would say is "KP beats MJ's record" or "KP dethrones MJ". That's what annoys me.
 
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What did Entertainment weekly say? The price has been cut too. I am sorry but it's obvious she wants to tie the record and then try to beat it. If there was no record than nobody would be suspicious.
 
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Well, she fails this week. Now, billboard said she can make it next week because the effects the new remix will start to affect the chart next week. um~~~~~~~I am now really hoping that LMFAO will hold on and stay on number 1. They really want to make TGIF number one~~lol
 
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love is magical said:
I honestly don't think she releases a remix for the purpose of tieing Michael's record.
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Yes she is. Her original song has stalled at #2 and so if they didn't do anything it was gonna fall next week. So they quickly created this remix (Dr. Luke tweeted a few days ago that he was working on it) released it this week on iTunes, so they can get some additional sales, add them to the sales of the original and push it to the #1 spot next week. It doesn't even has to sell a lot, just enough to beat LMFAO's single.

Clearly this is a quickie remix, released with the sole purpose of getting that #1 position and that record. It's gonna be good publicity for her. The media has already been reporting for weeks how close she is to tying MJ and when that didn't happen her label pushed that remix out to help the song and slashed the price in half. It's not promotion, it's manipulating the charts.
 
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qbee said:
Michael had 5 # Ones when ther were no internet promotions or downloads and people had to
go out and physically buy the Album and singles. I wish her well but even with 5 #Ones she isnt
going to Top the BAD Album or Michael's talent .. She will never go down in History as an Icon
or the GREATEST
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I AGREE ! Without iTunes this probably would not happen. So what If she does break this record. Mj has broken wayy more records than her ! Good luck trying to beat Thriller the biggest selling album of all time since 1982 !
 
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Lmfao Still Ruining Perry's Pop Party

Lmfao have ruined Katy Perry's summer party for another week by keeping the pop star from joining Michael Jackson in the one-album high five club.
The dance music duo have landed a sixth week at the top of the Hot 100, keeping Perry's Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) at number two for a third week.
Should Perry ever get to the top she'll become only the second artist in history to score five number one singles on the Hot 100 from the same album.
Meanwhile, Nicki Minaj remains at three on the new countdown with Super Bass and Pitbull's former number one, Give Me Everything, is at four. Bad Meets Evil's Lighters rounds out the new top five at five.
The countdown's top debut is Five Finger Death Punch's Under and Over It, which enters the chart at 77.


http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/lmfao-still-ruining-perrys-pop-party_1239175
 
I have no idea who she is, but I guess she´s not important
 
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Yay for LMFAO!
 
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So this is it?Or next week we have to buy LMFAO track again?
 
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^Yes, if anyone wants to help, you have to buy LMFAO's song this week (we have 4 days left) to give them a little push. I will definitely be buying it.

Right now the estimated numbers in both sales and airplay for Katy Perry and LMFAO seem to be about equal. Let's hope LMFAO will be able to outsell her and keep their #1 position.

BTW, a little tidbit for those who didn't know -- LMFAO's members are Barry Gordy's son and grandson. :)
 
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Barry Gordy? Who's he ?! LMFAO indeed
 
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I didn't know they are related to Berry Gordy. That's interesting.
 
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serendipity said:
I hope you're joking. Hard to believe there can be an MJ fan who doesn't know who Barry Gordy is.
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He was joking because there is no Barry Gordy, It's Berry.
 
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^Oh ok. I'm relieved that they were joking. For a minute I got worried there.

Back to Katy Perry -- her remix seems to be falling already on the iTunes chart. It peaked at around 26 and it's currently sitting at 41. Should be interesting to see what happens next.
 
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the remix SUCKS. so desperate of her. mj and bee gees rule- 4 self-composed number ones from one album (sorry george michael- i only know 'faith')
 
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ew! People buy anything nowadays! She can't compare to Michael :D
 
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