Katy Perry’s album sales may be lacking, but when it come to singles success the Cali girl is giving Hot 100 queen Rihanna a run for her money. This week Perry scores the third No. 1 single of her career as “Teenage Dream” moves from 2-1, selling 221k to bring it’s total to 1,287,000.

Along with Eminem, Katy is the only artist to score two consecutive number one singles in 2010, and the first female artist to post consecutive No. 1s since Lady GaGa topped the charts in 2009 with “Just Dance” and “Poker Face”.

Katy’s climb to the top ends Eminem and Rihanna’s seven-week run at the top with “Love the Way You Lie”. However, this week the song topped the 3 million sales mark, making Rihanna the first artist in history to amass five 3-million-selling digital hits. Rihanna’s four previous 3-million-sellers are: “Umbrella”, “Don’t Stop The Music,” “Disturbia” and T.I.’s “Live Your Life.” [Via]

After initially losing steam following a strong opening week, Taylor Swift’s “Mine” shows that it has staying power by rising from 9-7. Meanwhile, Ke$ha continues to excel by climbing 10-8 with her fourth single “Take it Off”, and Bruno Mars cracks the top five as “Just the Way You Are” reaches No. 4.

Somebody else who will be pretty happy with this week’s chart is rapper Nelly, who makes his official comeback as latest single “Just a Dream” cracks the top ten by reaching No. 9 in it’s third week on the Hot 100. This is the rapper’s first top ten hit since topping the charts back in 2005 with his hit “Grillz”. Another person on the comeback trail is Chris Brown, who scores his highest charting Hot 100 hit in over two years as “Deuces” moves 24-19, while remaining at No. 1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop chart.

Country act Sugarland are having huge crossover success with their reggae-influenced new single “Stuck Like Glue”, which this week reaches a new peak of No. 24. It’s now the second highest charting Hot 100 single of their career, after the platinum-certified “All I Want to Do” hit the top twenty back in 2008. Meanwhile Miranda Lambert’s fourth Revolution single “Only Prettier” makes it’s debut at No. 98, seemingly fueled by her recent record breaking CMA nominations.

Two other interesting moves on this week’s chart are Cee-Lo and Jazmine Sullivan. Cee-Lo’s latest single “Fuck You” makes a huge jump from 96-33, while Jazmine’s “Holding You Down” climbs ten places to No. 88 in it’s second week, and reaches a new peak of No. 15 on the R&B chart.

Until next week…

Spurred on by the release of her sophomore album Teenage Dream, Katy Perry’s latest single, also titled “Teenage Dream”, received a surge in downloads this week, topping the digital songs chart with 259k copies, enough to certify it Platinum for total sales of over 1 million. However, Katy’s strong digital showing wasn’t enough to knock Eminem & Rihanna off the top of the Hot 100, who log in their seventh consecutive week at No. 1 with their airplay ruler “Love the Way You Lie”, leaving “Teenage Dream” settle for for No. 2.

The next most notable move on the Hot 100 comes from everybody’s favorite party girl Ke$ha, who cracks the top ten with her latest single “Take It Off”, moving 16-10 in it’s seventh week. This gives Ke$ha four consecutive top ten hits from her chart topping debut album Animal – five overall when including her feature on 3OH!3′s “My First Kiss”. This now means that every single Ke$ha has released or appeared on has gone top ten. We’ll see if she can continue her winning streak when her collaboration with Taio Cruz, “Dirty Picture”, goes to mainstream radio later this month.

Also making a splash is Kid Cudi, who debuts at an impressive No. 22 with his Kanye West-assisted single, “Erase Me”. The song has been at radio for nearly three weeks, but it’s debut was mainly due to a strong opening week on iTunes, with 99k copies sold. The No. 22 debut makes “Erase Me” Cudi’s second highest-charting single ever — featured or solo — since his 2008 debut, “Day ‘n’ Nite”.

Another interesting move on this week’s Billboard charts belongs to Chris Brown, who seems to be staging somewhat of a comeback with his new mixtape single, “Deuces”. The song reaches a new peak of No. 24 on the Hot 100, and comes in at an impressive No. 1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop singles chart — his first R&B chart topper since 2007′s “Kiss Kiss”. He also topped the box office on the weekend with his new movie, Takers. He’s now planning to capitalize off his current popularity with a brand new Polow Da Don-produced single titled “Calypso”, which is rumored to be coming out soon.

What a positive week on the charts for everybody. Until next time, folks.

Late last month, HitsDoubleDaily were speculating whether or not Katy Perry’s sophomore album, Teenage Dream, would be able to match the first-week sales of Eminem’s mammoth seller Recovery (754k). As it turns out, the HDD couldn’t have been more wrong, because according to their official predictions today, based off first-day sales, Katy’s Dream is set to only shift around 200k — just enough to land at #1.

It’s a disappointing number for the singer, who recently just came off the back of a triple-Platinum hit in “California Gurls”, which topped the charts for six-consecutive weeks. The single is still No. 3 on the Hot 100, while her follow-up and title track “Teenage Dream” is No. 5, giving her two top five hits during her album release week.

Behind Katy is the controversial Fantasia, who has been predicted to sell anywhere between 120-130k (via HDD) to 150-175k (via Billboard) of her third studio album, Back to Me. It’s a nice figure for the former American Idol star, who barely scraped into the top twenty with her self-titled sophomore album back in 2006, and currently only has a top ten R&B hit (#79 Hot 100) with “Bittersweet” going into the sales week.

Hopefully Katy can follow in the footsteps of her friend and fellow singles Queen Rihanna, who initially under-performed with her third album, Good Girl Gone Bad, but eventually came out of the era as one of the most successful pop albums of the past few years due to a string of massive hits which kept it flying off shelves for over two years.

If you thought that Katy Perry couldn’t get anymore bloody promo and hype for her sophomore album Teenage Dream, then you’re completely, utterly, 100% wrong. Partnering with CBS, Katy will perform a mini-concert of her biggest and hits and tracks from Teenage Dream, which will then be broadcast live across multiple media formats.

The “Live On Letterman” webcast concert will have Katy performing live from the Ed Sullivan theater today at 8pm. The concert will be broadcast live on the official Letterman Late Show website, and will air later tonight on CBS radio across the country. Besides the Late Show website, the concert will also be available on CBS-owned sites, TV.com, ETonline.com and theinsider.com.

In addition to the CBS owned websites and radio station, the concert will also be webcast live on VEVO.com and the VEVO channel on YouTube.

If you’re away from the computer and radio all day, then you can catch Katy live on the Late Show with David Letterman later that night, which will feature an interview and most likely excerpts from the concert. {source}

If I don’t get the official sales predictions for this album soon, I’m gonna explode. Anyone want to do some last minute sales predictions in the comments, since the album is out as of today?

Last week, Katy Perry dropped the third and final of her Teenage Dream promotional singles on iTunes, “E.T.”. To promote the Dr. Luke/Max Martin-produced song, Katy has posted a new video of herself on YouTube talking about the intergalactic inspiration behind the single, which you can watch below.

In other news, Katy’s stranglehold on the Hot 100 got even stronger late last week when her former-chart topper “California Gurls” rebounded from 4-3, and her current smash “Teenage Dream” shot into the top five at #5. This makes Katy the 10th solo female in the Hot 100′s 52-year history to concurrently place two titles in the top five as a lead artist. Not only that, but her iTunes promo single “Circle the Drain” also debuted at #58 due to digital sales alone.

This is huge news for Katy, which means that she’ll have two singles in the top five when her Teenage Dream album arrives in stores on August 24. Katy’s first week album sales are going to be a huge testament to her power as a pop artist. Can she turn her singles success into album sales like Britney and Beyonce, or is she going to go the way of Ke$ha and Rihanna?

With Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream album only one week away from release, more leaks were bound to surface, and now the two most anticipated tunes from the set have made their way online — “Firework” and “Peacock”.

The Stargate-produced “Firework” will serve as the official third single from the album, and after hearing, it’s easy to see why. The chorus is absolutely massive. Huge. Insane. It’s the ultimate uplifting, anthemic, fist-pumping moment of the year, and could end up being one of Katy’s biggest hits — which is saying something considering her slew of multi-platinum hits.

The second of the two leaks is another Stargate-production, “Peacock”, which has already garnered a lot early buzz online thanks to it’s raunchy lyrical content. “Peacock” takes a page out of school-yard stompers like “Hollaback Girl” and “Micky”, with a chanty hook about a man’s most important asset over a clappy, cheerleading beat. It’s another bloody hit for Katy, so you may as well already slot this in as single number four or five, because “Peacock” is headed straight to the top ten.

The song’s only downfall –and it is a major flaw– is the lyrical content. “Peacock” is supposed to be filled with sexual innuendo, but there’s absolutely no innuendo to be found. This isn’t Prince’s “Little Red Corvette”, The Mary Jane Girls’ “In My House” or even Britney’s “If U Seek Amy” — it’s just the word ‘cock’ with ‘pea’ in front of it. It’s not clever, it’s not subtle, and there’s no double meaning. It’s a song about cock, plain and simple. The most idiotic part is that it doesn’t even make sense. Luckily, the production is so infectious that it doesn’t exactly matter too much, but still, shame on Katy for not trying to think of something a little more inventive than “I wanna see your peacock”.

Check out both songs below, and brace yourself for Teenage Dream. I don’t think there’s been an album this full of hits since Rihanna’s 8-single opus, Good Girl Gone Bad.

Katy Perry continued to work herself to death this morning when she appeared on Australian morning television show Sunrise to perform a mini-concert for her Aussie fans.

Her recent Teen Choice Awards performance may have been kind of horrific, but the blue-haired hottie has learned from her mistakes and managed to deliver some great vocals during renditions of her hits “Teenage Dream”, “California Gurls” and “Hot ‘n’ Cold”.

Besides some great performances, Katy sat down for a chat with the two douche bags that host Sunrise to talk about the writing process behind her album, and how she fits into those vinyl dresses that she’s always parading around in. She also spoke about her music videos, and said that her “next” video would “probably be a little more serious, and hopefully moving”. We already know that her third single is “Firework”, so there’s a little bit of a hint of what we can expect from that clip.

Not too long now until the Teenage Dream album hits stores. Ugh, I want it like, right now.

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I swear that this isn’t a Katy Perry fansite.

Anyway, while it seemed like the crude “Peacock” was set to be Katy Perry’s third Teenage Dream single, Billboard have now confirmed that it will in fact be the Stargate-produced “Firework”.

To promote the single, Katy has teamed up with Europe’s biggest telecommunications group Deutsche Telekom for a massive cross promotional campaign. The campaign will see Deutsche Telekom holding activities and competitions across Europe in which fans will be recruited to appear in the song’s official music video – which will begin filming in late September.

If you’re concerned that Katy’s next clip is going to resemble a cellphone commercial rather than a music video then you need not worry, because Telekom have shockingly assured us that there will be absolutely no product placement in the video. No seriously, there won’t be!

“For this win-win relationship to work, it was important for us to have the full participation of the label, the artist and her management [Los Angeles-based Direct Management] in the video. The video is also not branded; there is no product placement.”

Thank God for that, and thank God again that the new single isn’t “Peacock”.

Even at this early stage, it’s safe to say that “Firework” is another sure-fire smash. If you need proof, just check out the official preview clip of the song below.

Pop tart Katy Perry was kind enough to premiere her new music video “Teenage Dream” on VH1 and MTV earlier today where nobody outside of the bloody United States could watch it, but luckily the clip has since been ripped and uploaded onto Youtube, so here it is in all of it’s MQ glory.

Katy has taken a much different approach for the “Teenage Dream” video than she did in the over the top candy fantasy land of “California Gurls”, and has just focused primarily on bringing the core message of the song to life. Instead of fending off gummi bears and spraying whipped cream from her breasts, Katy is simply on a road trip with her new boyfriend and experiencing all the good things that come with the early stages of being in love. The sex scene maybe goes a little too far, but the rest of the clip comes across as incredibly sincere, and really brings out the meaning of the song perfectly.

Ugh, this stupid video just reminds me that I’m single!

Yay, two Katy Perry posts in a row.

As part of the airtight promotional plan for her Teenage Dream album, Katy Perry has been releasing promo singles on iTunes to help drum up even more hype for her highly-anticipated sophomore effort. First, we got the gentle piano ballad “Not Like the Movie”, and now, Katy is showing the world that she’s not all smiles and sunshine with the angry “Circle the Drain”.

Produced by Tricky Stewart and penned by Katy herself, “Circle the Drain” is a no holds barred look at Katy’s relationship with Gym Class Heroes hottie Travis McCoy.

“Thought I was the exception/ I could rewrite your addiction/ You could have been the greatest/ But you’d rather get wasted/ You fall asleep during foreplay/ ‘Cause the pills you take are more your forté/ I’m not sticking around to watch you go down/ Wanna be your lover/ Not your fucking mother.”

“You’ve become what you despised / A stereotype / You think you’re so rock ‘n’ roll / But you’re really just a joke / Had the world in the palm of your hands / But you fuckin’ choked.”

Hell hath no fury like a woman’s scorn. Katy’s even referred to “Circle the Drain” as her Alanis Morisette moment. Selena Gomez-meets-Alanis would be a more accurate description, but don’t worry – I mean that in a good way. Katy is a commercial pop star of the highest degree, so while the lyrics on “Circle the Drain” may be serious and autobiographical, the song itself has been stretched and pulled into a nice, neat, easily digestible pop/rock package. If you removed the swear words then you could practically give “Circle the Drain” to Selena, Demi or Miley, but that’s really the beauty of the song. It’s is a hit. It can appeal to anybody and everybody. Every base has been covered.

Katy simply cannot lose with Teenage Dream. Absolutely everything is a hit. I hope to see “Circle the Drain” released as an official single at some point, so we can all watch it obliterate the radio and the Billboard charts just like every other thing that Katy has so much as sneezed, burped and yawned out this year.

Katy Perry was a very busy beaver at yesterday’s Teen Choice Awards, not only hosting the show, but also delivering the first major performance of her new single “Teenage Dream”.

You never really know what you’re gonna get when Katy steps out on stage to perform. Sometimes she sounds great, and other times, not so much. Unfortunately, this wasn’t one of her good days. But who can blame her, right? With the amount of promo she’s been doing lately it’s no wonder that her voice is starting to sound like a Fran Drescher fellating a chainsaw.

Besides, my biggest complaint is that she was wearing far too many clothes during this performance. If Katy insists on masquerading as a pop star, then she better start dressing like one. She can rock the jeans and vest next time she goes to the supermarket, but when she performs I wanna see her teetering on tacky 7-inch heels with her ass hanging out of some glittery hot pants and some kind of artificial, novelty fruit barely covering her humongous breasts.

Now, I’m sure you already know how well her “Teenage Dream” single is doing, but just in case you don’t I’ll give you a little update. It’s still shooting up both the airplay & digital songs chart, and after originally debuting at #20 on the Hot 100, it shot up to #7 last week. It’ll probably climb even higher when this weeks chart is revealed, but there’s not way it’s gonna hit number one anytime soon with hurricane Taylor on the loose. Oh, and I decided that I don’t really like the song much – “Milk Milk Lemonade” is way better!

Only two weeks now until Katy’s Teenage Dream album hits stores. How I long to sniff the candy scented paper…

A new, unreleased track called “Milk Milk Lemonade” from Katy Perry’s upcoming Teenage Dream album has surfaced online. The Dr Luke-produced cut won’t make the final tracklist for the album, which is probably a good thing considering the icky sexual innuendo that floods the song.

Cool as a cucumber you’re coming onto me / You say I got the ripest melons on the street / My honeydew and your banana make the treat / First come, first serve / Bottoms Up / Milk Milk Lemonade round the back where chocolate’s made / I like to double dip it in your favorite sauce / I’ll even let you eat the cherry on the top

Somehow I thought that Katy Perry singing about anal sex would be much hotter than this. Ew.

In it’s defense, the production is quite marvelous. It’s a fresher sound for Dr. Luke who most recently ripped off his own Ke$ha hit for Katy Perry, and is reminiscent of some of the sexually quirky, more experimental stuff from Prince’s back catalog.

This one is best left on the cutting room floor, but that hasn’t stopped it from being my latest guilty pleasure.