Teenage Dream

album by Perry

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Teenage Dream is a 2010 album by American pop singer Katy Perry. It was her second album released with Capitol Records and achieved significant commercial success. The album is notable for tying Michael Jackson's record of five number-one songs from a single album on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with hits like "California Gurls," "Firework," and "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)". The album showcased Perry's full-throated voice and featured a broader range of songs compared to her previous work. Critics recognized its success, with Teenage Dream receiving an album of the year nomination at the Grammy Awards.12

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The resulting release, Teenage Dream (2010), which provided a broader showcase for her full-throated voice, was even more commercially successful than One of the Boys, spawning such hits as the warm-weather frivolity “California Gurls” (featuring rapper Snoop Dogg) and the inspirational “Firework.” When “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” reached…
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The resulting release, Teenage Dream (2010), which provided a broader showcase for her full-throated voice, was even more commercially successful than One of the Boys, spawning such hits as the warm-weather frivolity “California Gurls” (featuring rapper Snoop Dogg) and the inspirational “Firework.” When “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” reached…
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