“Teenage Dream” is arguably Katy Perry‘s signature song. One of the writers did not want to hand the track over to the “Dark Horse” singer, but she had to because she was in a desperate situation. The ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. A little more than a decade and a half ago, Katy Perry changed what ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In "Teenage Dream," Olivia is basically saying "I'm sorry that I couldn't always be your teenage dream," potentially reflecting on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With Max Martin, Dr. Luke, Stargate, and a still-rising young gun named Benny Blanco in her corner, Perry constructed a ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: ...

With ‘Teenage Dream,’ Katy Perry became the first artist since Michael Jackson to have an album with five no. 1 singles. Nora and Nathan talk about the massive highs on this album, including “Last ...

Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" becomes just the third album in the 18-year history of Billboard's Mainstream Top 40 chart to yield a quartet of No. 1s, as "E.T.," featuring Kanye West tops this week's… ...

Katy Perry‘s Teenage Dream (2010) was omnipresent for several years, yielding five No. 1 singles to tie Michael Jackson‘s record of No. 1 tracks from a single album (for Bad). Of course, that includes ...

Summer 2010 may have been a few years before Lorde's rise to fame, but we now know exactly what she was doing anyways: blasting Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" nonstop (just like the rest of us). Lorde ...