Katy Perry Goes No. 1 (Top Story)

12/28/2010
. Katy Perry Goes No. 1 was a top story in September. Here it is again as we recap 2010: Katy Perry has made a big splash as the summer winds down as her new album Teenage Dream debuts at No. 1 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart, scanning 192,222 units in its first week of release.

Katy is now one of the top 10 artists with the best-selling debuts of the year and one of only two pop artists to appear on this list. Teenage Dream is the two-time Grammy Award nominee's highest album chart bow yet. Katy's debut album, One of the Boys, scanned 46,767 units in its first week.

Katy has now achieved the highest pre-album street date track sales of all time, with 4.4 million digital tracks sold prior to the album's release � setting a Nielsen Soundscan-era record. 445,746 total tracks were sold during Teenage Dream's first week of release. - more on this story

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