Katy Perry Goes No. 1 was a top 10 story this week . Here is the recap: 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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