Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Cheater, Cheater, Pumpkin Eater

Katy Perry
It's official -- Katy Perry has made serious history on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. She is now the first artist to tie Michael Jackson's record of having five No. 1 songs from one album. This has been anticipated for the past week when a remix of "Last Friday Night" was released featuring Missy Elliot.

Michael Jackson's five No. 1 singles from Bad were: "I Just Can't Stop Loving You," "Bad," "The Way You Make Me Feel," "Man In The Mirror" and "Dirty Diana." Katy's No. 1s include songs from Teenage Dream: "California Gurls," "Teenage Dream," "Firework," "E.T." remix featuring Kanye West and currently the "Last Friday Night" remix featuring Missy Eliot.

How amazing, right? This record has been untouched since 1988 until now. Wrong. Try again, Katy.

Back to reality, now. Two out of the five Katy Perry songs that have "reached No. 1" are remixes and are not even on the album. The original songs "E.T." and "Last Friday Night" on Teenage Dream did not reach No. 1. Instead, both songs were released as remixes and Billboard has even added the sales from the original and remixed versions of "Last Friday Night" together to calculate these figures and therefore... cheated.

It appears that this supposed record is nonsensical, just like her songs. Katy Perry will most likely never be on Michael Jackson's level in any way, shape or form. She may hold a record "officially," but theoretically she cheated. And Billboard is her accomplice.

9 comments:

  1. An asterisk will always remain next to this record... Just like next to Mark McGuire, Barry Bonds and Teen Wolf. Bull Shit.

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  2. Thank the gods someone is finally saying this.

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  3. I am seething with anger that she is allowed to get away with it. Billboard has lost all legitimacy in my opinion and I will never look at the Hot 100 ever again!

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  4. Not a fan of this singer, but I must say that your rant is truly stupid. Evidently you don't know much about the music business. You will also need to check your facts: the remix of ET with Kanye West (which in my opinion sucks; this man is simply overrated) was not released as some last minute gimmick or add-on to push the single's sales. It was released that way from the moment that the label decided on that song as a commercial release. The remix with Missy (a rather pointless effort) is definitely another story, but certainly not the first time that it happens.

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  5. Reposting my reply, since you decided to delete it the first time around. I guess only the sheep who agree with you on every point are allowed to comment?

    Not a fan of this singer, but I must say that your rant is truly stupid. Evidently you don't know much about the music business. You will also need to check your facts: the remix of ET with Kanye West (which in my opinion sucks; this man is simply overrated) was not released as some last minute gimmick or add-on to push the single's sales. It was released that way from the moment that the label decided on that song as a commercial release. The remix with Missy (a rather pointless effort) is definitely another story, but certainly not the first time that it happens.

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  6. Rocco, your post was not deleted as I expect that not everyone thinks I'm a music Goddess and my opinion is the only one (although that does sound nice). For some reason both posts conveniently ended up in my comments' "spam" folder.

    You're correct that E.T.'s official release was the remix with Kanye West. Although the original was released as a promotional single last year and did not chart nearly as well. I can see how that minor detail was unclear in my post and I have changed the text to reflect that.

    However, as this post is intended as a humorous attempt to prove Katy Perry's record is not as credible as Michael Jackson's, I feel as though you've failed to see my point. Regardless, "E.T." was released as a remix with the aide of Kanye West. This is NOT the original recording of the song on the album. The worst part is that the original version of "Last Friday Night" was initially released and then later re-released as a remix. Sales for both versions are added together. And I believe THAT is a "last minute gimmick or add-on to push the single's sales."

    I am not necessarily disagreeing with Billboard's method or even Katy's gimmick, since this is done all the time. The point is that Katy's record does differ from Michael's record and I refuse to give her even half as much credit.

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  7. If she beats Michael Jackson's record, I'm going to puke.

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  8. This shows that a #1 on Billboard doesn't make you a legend or successful. Look at Lady Gaga's past singles, Bad Romance never went #1 and it was the song of 2010 and still is huge today. Judas never reached #1 and yet it is the most played song on Last.fm worldwide. The Edge of Glory didn't go #1 and it seems to be everywhere, it's in movie trailers (Crazy Stupid Love) and it was featured in the first VMAs promo. Just because someone gets a lot of #1s on Billboard doesn't mean they will be remembered. Lady Gaga will be remembered and go down with legends such as Michael Jackson, Madonna, Elvis etc. Katy Perry will not.

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  9. In what alternate universe was Bad Romance the song of 2010?

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