Gearing up to take on the national spotlight, Katy Perry was spotted leaving a studio in New York City on Thursday afternoon (August 26).

Toting a bottle of Dasani water while looking a bit more serious than usual, the “California Gurls” cutie is prepping to take the stage on Friday morning (today) for the “Today Show” summer concert series.

Katy Perry is the new face of German TV channel ProSieben’s ‘Star Force’ campaign! She has done a 90-seconds commercial with a futuristic theme, she looks so weird (and beautiful).

The comercial will premiere on September 1, so meanwhile enjoy these promotional pictures:

Katy Perry was spotted leaving her hotel in New York City on August 25. She was wearing some interesting clothes while she posed for the paparazzi. Go check out the HQ pictures:

The summer may be nearing an end, but Katy Perry’s still in her Daisy Dukes and bikini top, straddling the chart universe.

That’s the news from one-day sales reports sent to us by those retailers who haven’t permanently deleted us from their e-mail base.

Coming on the heels of two straight smash singles, including “California Gurls” and the title track, Perry’s sophomore Capitol Records album, Teenage Dream, finds her in the clouds, set to debut at #1 with a total of around 200k. And while the first-week sales are slightly below expectations, if the steady stream of hit singles keep coming, it could eventually approach a similar performer, Black Eyed Peas’ E.N.D., which is up to 2.7m and still selling 12-15k a week more than a year after its release.

Source: HitsDailyDouble.com

Here are pictures of Katy Perry arriving at Midtown Hotel with her fiancé Russell Brand and some other pictures of Katy performing on the “Late Show with David Letterman” on August 24. There’s also a video that you can watch below of her performing “Peacock“, it’s awesome!

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08.24 Arriving at Midtown Hotel in NY
08.24 Performance on “Late Show with David Letterman”

Making her promotional rounds, Katy Perry was spotted out and about in New York City on Tuesday afternoon (August 24) .

After running errands in a black and white dress with pink cardigan earlier in the day, the “Hot n Cold” singer later stepped out clad in a tight, sexy red number with heels as she visited the Ed Sullivan Theatre for a “Late Show with David Letterman” appearance.

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08.24 Out in New York city
08.24 At the “Late Show with David Letterman”

Pop music is a fickle mistress, and even though she can show an artist all sorts of devotion the first time around, she can just as easily shun that same artist the second time around. In the music business, the second album is always the hardest one to pull off, as the expectations tend to be high, the time constraints are usually even tighter and the audience tends to move on pretty quickly. But it seems like these rules do not apply to Katy Perry, who drops her sophomore release Teenage Dream today. In the wake of the success of her smash debut One of the Boys, Perry came back fighting with the chart-topping “California Gurls” and the rapidly-rising “Teenage Dream,” and the rest of the album is similarly incredible.

The thing that really puts Teenage Dream over the top is its consistency. There are no real weak tracks to be found (though if you don’t think Perry is much of a balladeer, you’ll probably take issue with two or three of these), and it’s a good mix of over-the-top tracks (like the sex-crazed “Peacock“), party tunes (”Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)”), kiss-offs (”Circle the Drain“) and sweet old-school pop creations (”E.T.“). In fact, it’s quite possible that Teenage Dream is the best second effort in pop music history. Continue Reading »

I’ve updated the photoshoot that Katy Perry did for her Hello Katy Tour last year, she looks so gorgeous! These pictures are taken by photographer Jake Bailey, enjoy!

Katy Perry rose to the top of the charts with songs about kissing girls, Vegas vacations gone awry and how awesome “California Gurls” are. So, when fans pop Teenage Dream into their boom boxes, they might be surprised to hear Perry show her vulnerable side on the song “Pearl.” The ballad is about an outgoing, strong young woman who lets a guy “keep her in the dark.” The catch, at the end, is that Perry is actually singing about herself.

The singer admitted that by the time she started working on “Pearl,” her album was nearly complete. But, it was missing something. So she headed back into the studio to work on the track. And she thinks it finishes her record in just the right way. Continue Reading »