On Wednesday (June 8), Billboard announced that Perrys California Gurls will be #1 on the Hot 100 chart following her performance of the song at the MTV Movie Awards Sunday night making it all the way to the top spot in just four short weeks and, in the process, making a little history too.
Gurls becomes the fastest-rising single released by an artist signed to Capitol Records in more than 40 years, tying a mark set way back in 1967 by Ode to Billie Joe, a song released by Capitol artist Bobbie Gentry. Five months before that, Penny Lane, the iconic single by the Beatles also made it to #1 in four weeks.
Perrys hit made it to the top of the Hot 100 (which is based on radio plays and sales) thanks in part to its massive digital sales. The song tallied more than 318,000 downloads this week alone up 18 percent from the previous week, according to Nielsen SoundScan and it will top the Digital Songs chart for a third straight week. Gurls also jumped from #10 to #6 on the Radio Songs chart.
The song is Perrys second Hot 100 #1, following her breakout single I Kissed a Girl, which topped the chart for seven weeks beginning in July 2008. It also gave Snoop Dogg who guests on the track his third Hot 100 #1, after 2004s Drop It Like Its Hot and Akons I Wanna Love You, on which he guested, in 2006.