“Teenage Dream” continues to be racking up the streams. The title monitor from Katy Perry’s world-conquering 2010 sophomore album has surpassed one billion streams on Spotify, becoming a member of the platform’s vaunted Billions Membership.
That is Perry’s tenth music to tally greater than a billion streams on the platform. Beforehand, she reached the milestone with “Dark Horse,” the Calvin Harris collab “Feels,” “Roar,” “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.),” “Firework,” “The One That Got Away,” “Hot N Cold,” “I Kissed A Girl,” and the Snoop Dogg-featuring “California Gurls.”
Teenage Dream was one of the crucial profitable albums in well-liked music historical past. It spun off 5 No. 1 hits on the Billboard Scorching 100, then added a sixth with “Part Of Me” upon the discharge of the deluxe version. Two extra singles, “The One That Got Away” and “Wide Awake,” reached the Prime 3. The album itself debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 192,000 in first-week gross sales and went on to Diamond certification from the Recording Business Affiliation of America, signifying 10 million items shipped in the USA—and that’s not together with its multi-Platinum standing in lots of different international locations all over the world.
Of the various hits from the album, “Teenage Dream” was arguably probably the most acclaimed. On the time, the glowing specimen of a music—written by Perry with Bonnie McKee, Dr. Luke, Max Martin, and Benny Blanco—was obtained as a mature replace to the playful pop Perry made her identify on. Years later, in a Stereogum retrospective, critic Tom Breihan graded “Teenage Dream” a ten/10, praising it as “a magical lightning bolt of a track” and “the absolute pinnacle of that moment of gleaming, hyper-processed big-money pop music.” And in a glance again on the monitor for its tenth anniversary in 2020, the UK outlet Metro declared that “Teenage Dream” is “still the perfect pop song.”
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