When Katy Perry’s “Last Friday Night (TGIF)” advanced to the top of the Billboard pop chart a few weeks ago, media outlets falsely claimed that she tied Michael Jackson’s record of releasing five Hot 100 number ones from a single album.<\/p>\n
Come the release of next week’s Hot 100 chart tomorrow morning, that claim will no longer be false.<\/p>\n
Billboard reports that “Last Friday Night” will advance to number one on the Hot 100, giving her a fifth chart-topper from “Teenage Dream.” Preceded by “California Gurls,” “Teenage Dream,” “Firework” and “ET,” “Last Friday Night”‘s ascent to number one means Perry has tied the record Jackson set on his “Bad.”<\/p>\n
It also means Katy Perry is the first female artist to score five number ones from a single album.<\/p>\n
Dripping with tracks made for radio airplay, “Teenage Dream” still accomplished an essentially unheard-of feat in delivering five number ones. Helpful, of course, was great strategy behind “ET” and “Last Friday Night,” songs that as the fourth and fifth singles would have been most vulnerable to album fatigue.<\/p>\n
“ET” was released with the added artillery of guest-rapping from Kanye West, while “Last Friday Night” owes a lot of success to its summer feel (enabling it to join LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem” in providing a lighter follow-up to Adele’s darker smash “Rolling in the Deep”) and music video, which saw the attractive, often-revealingly-dressed Perry playing the nerdy “Kathy Beth Terry” character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n