KATY PERRY'S 'TEENAGE DREAM' DEBUTS AT NUMBER ONE

Thursday, September 02 2010 04:13

Katy Perry's Teenage Dream album debuted at Number One this week, moving more than 192,000 copies. She tweeted about the good news, writing, "Before I purr off to dreamland I want to say THANK YOU! Thank you so much for my FIRST #1 RECORD DEBUT! I couldn't have done it without YOU." She then tweeted a photo of cupcakes and noted, "YAY CUPCAKES FOR EVERYONEEEEEEEEEE!"

Perry says she put in a lot of time and effort before becoming a success: "I always use these kind of examples. I was in the dugout for five years. But I knew one day I was going to have the opportunity to step up to the plate and if it were up to me, I was going to try my best -- just my hardest -- to hit a home run. And I did. And I'm very happy about that of course."

Fantasia took second place this week with her album, Back To Me, which had sales of more than 122,000.