“A s we got into 2009, the marketplace started shifting a bit more rhythmic,” says Chris Anokute, the then-senior A&R director at Capitol, who originally helped bring Perry to the label. Perry and her team also took note of the evolving musical landscape around them - which, thanks to the rising impact of dance music and the always-expanding influence of hip-hop, had moved top 40 away from the rock-based pop music that had defined the pop star’s first mainstream go-round. “ none of this, ‘Well it’s my birthday, I don’t really wanna do that…’ It was like, ‘No, this is what we need to do.’” “I might have made her fly from Japan to Charlotte, North Carolina, to do a Halloween show on her birthday,” Thompson says, chuckling. She saw the ability to make an even better record, and I think a record that she could have her fingerprints all over every single track.” Her drive at the time was particularly relentless. “Katy clearly saw that she had the ability to do more. “ She’d had some really big success, but she was nowhere near comfortable riding on that,” Greg Thompson, then-evp of promotion and marketing at Perry’s Capitol label says. But her continued dominance was no guarantee, especially entering into an era that would prove among the most loaded for female pop stars in top 40 history: Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Kesha, Britney Spears, P!nk, Nicki Minaj, Taylor Swift, Kelly Clarkson and soon enough, Adele.īut Perry, by then established as a star in her own right, saw an opportunity to step things up on her second album, both commercially and artistically.
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Stomping breakout single “I Kissed a Girl” had taken her to the top spot in July 2008, and subsequent top 10 hits “Hot n Cold” and “Waking Up in Vegas” - all off 2008’s One of the Boys, her first full LP since rebranding from Katy Hudson - proved it wasn’t a fluke. Jackson was already the unquestioned King of Pop by the time of Bad, having made myriad other forms of chart history a half-decade earlier with his industry-shifting Thriller, but Perry just had one charted album (and one Hot 100 No. It’s safe to say that Teenage Dream was a less-probable candidate for five Hot 100-toppers than Bad had been 23 years earlier. This Week in Billboard Chart History: In 2011, Katy Perry Made History With a Fifth No. And the set that did it was one of the defining LPs from a new golden age in mega-pop: Katy Perry‘s Teenage Dream. It wasn’t until 10 years ago this week in 2011 that an album would finally tie Michael Jackson’s hallowed Hot 100 record for No. 1-stacked blockbuster LPs - Usher’s Confessions made a run in 2004, also getting to four Hot 100-toppers and tapping out just short of the fifth. And finally, decades later - after the 1991 introduction of SoundScan and BDSRadio technology (now MRC Data) to Billboard’s chart methodology made for more accurate tracking, resulting in longer average runs at No. Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 set a Hot 100 record with seven top five hits, but again, only four No. 1s, after which Abdul would not release another single until she’d already moved on to her next album. Paula Abdul’s Forever Your Girl notched four No. 1s, but failing to land that historic fifth chart-topper. George Michael’s Faith came one spot away, scoring a No.
Over the next few years, the record was approached several times.
1 hit was the fifth straight off Jackson’s 1987 album Bad , breaking a tie with the Bee Gees-led Saturday Night Fever soundtrack from 1977 and Whitney Houston’s own ’87 album Whitney - making the global superstar the first artist with five Hot 100-topping singles on the same LP. On July 2, 1988, Michael Jackson’s “Dirty Diana” reached the top spot of the Billboard Hot 100, creating chart history in the process.
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