Carly Rae Jepsen

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SoundScan's 2012 Mid-Year Report: 5 Signs of Retromania

July 9, 2012 – Past continues to be prologue for pop music in 2012. In SPIN's March/April Now Issue, Retromania author Simon Reynolds delved into the various ways artists are copping from the now-constantly-present past as they map out our musical future. Industry data tracker Nielsen SoundScan has unveiled its 2012 mid-year report, and while the headline stats are pretty bland — Music sales are up modestly! Album sales are almost flat! …
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Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Call Me Maybe': The 9 Greatest Versions

July 6, 2012 – Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" recently chalked up another long-overdue week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, but that hardly captures the extent of the song's ubiquity. In January, Justin Bieber first tweeted about the song. …
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Hearing 'Call Me Maybe' For the First Time: A Live Blog

June 22, 2012 – According to YouTube, Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" video has over 121 million views. None of them are mine. For whatever reason — maybe it's because I can't get the FM pop station frequencies in my apartment, or because I don't watch Glee, or because I just turned 30 — I have not heard what many label as the song of summer 2012. …
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Katy Perry, 'Call Me Maybe' Win Big at MuchMusic Video Awards

June 18, 2012 – Mere hours after Radiohead's stage at Toronto's Downsview Park collapsed, killing one of the band's drum technicians, the annual MuchMusic Video Awards soldiered on a few miles south at the music television network's headquarters. …
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Who Charted? Neil Young and Beach Boys' Collective Nostalgia Can't Beat Adele

June 13, 2012 – First! As is the natural order of things, Adele is back at the top of Billboard 200 for the 24th week overall, after her NBC special "Adele Live in London" aired last Sunday and boosted sales of 21 by 30 percent. The album sold 72,000 copies, presumably all to one super-fan because there can't possibly be anyone in the country who hasn't bought this record yet. …
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Who Charted? Adam Lambert Breaks Records, Beach House Storm Top 10

May 23, 2012 – First! Adam Lambert's Trespassing tops this week's Billboard 200 albums chart with just a 77,000-copy debut, making the album not only the first No. 1 for Lambert (his major-label debut For Your Entertainment only got to No. 3, beat by Susan Boyle and Andrea Bocelli), but also the first solo album by an openly gay artist to top the ranking. It's also the lowest-selling No. …
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