HomeMusicNewsNews CARLY RAE JEPSEN’S “CALL ME MAYBE” HITS NO. 1 ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100 CHART!
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“Call Me Maybe” — the ubiquitous debut U.S. single from Schoolboy Records/Interscope recording artist Carly Rae Jepsen — has hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The platinum-certified track, which Jepsen co-wrote, is also No. 1 on the Billboard
Pop chart this week. Jepsen is the first female artist to top the chart
with a debut single since Ke$ha’s "TiK ToK" in January 2010. “Call Me
Maybe” has sold over 3.2 million singles and spent four consecutive
weeks atop the Billboard Digital Songs chart. Certified
quintuple-platinum in Jepsen’s native Canada (where it hit No. 1), the
track is also an international sensation, climbing to No. 1 in the
iTunes Singles charts in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, New Zealand,
Norway and more.
The
irresistibly catchy song’s ascent is fueled in part by its videos. The
official video has racked up more than 105 million views on VEVO, while
an unofficial clip — which Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Ashley Tisdale
and other young stars filmed of themselves lip-synching and dancing to
the song and posted on Big Time Rush actor and singer Carlos
Pena’s YouTube Channel — has attracted more than 42 million views and
has inspired other stars get in on the action. Katy Perry, actor James
Franco, the Harvard Baseball team, SMU Women’s Rowing team and more have
all posted their own versions of “Call Me Maybe.”
"Wow.
I feel so blessed. Thank- you to everyone who made this happen. Life
keeps surprising me lately and it's a wonderful feeling" says Carly.
Music
executive Scooter Braun says, “To see Carly hit #1 is an amazing
achievement...but what is even better is seeing it happen to someone as
kind and as warm a person as Carly Rae Jepsen. No one is more deserving
and I know from hearing her music this is just the beginning for her."
Since the rise of “Call Me Maybe,” Jepsen has appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Ellen DeGeneres Show (introduced by Bieber), Good Morning America, The View,
performed the National Anthem at a sold-out Dodgers game, and drawn
thousands of fans to her first U.S. show headlining the “Music
Spotlight" series at 5 Towers concert venue on Universal CityWalk.
Jepsen also appeared at both the Billboard Music Awards, KIIS FM’s Wango
Tango concert in Los Angeles and the Capital FM Summertime Ball at
London’s Wembley Stadium.
This
fall, Jepsen will hit the road with Justin Bieber as a very special
guest on the multi-platinum Pop/R&B sensation’s 2012 headlining tour
of North America. Sure to be the hottest ticket of the fall, The
"Believe" Tour, presented by AEG Live, will kick off on September 29th in Glendale, AZ, and blaze a trail through more than 45 cities before wrapping up in Miami on January 26th, 2013. For details, please visit www.carlyraemusic.com.
Jepsen
may be a newcomer in the U.S., but the Mission, British Columbia,
native is an established artist in Canada where she placed third on the
fifth season of Canadian Idol and landed a deal with
Fontana/Maple Music. She has scored two previous gold singles and
received numerous awards and accolades, including 2010 Juno Award
nominations for “Songwriter of the Year” and “Best New Artist” as well
as a 2010 MuchMusic Video Award nomination for “UR Fave New Artist.” She
has sold more than 400,000 singles in her home country and is signed to
604 Records in Canada
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