NORTHERN 'CALIFORNIA': Katy Perry's "California Gurls," featuring Snoop Dogg, registers the Pop Songs chart's greatest gain in airplay in more than five years, blasting from No. 23 to 12. (All charts will be refreshed tomorrow on billboard.com).
The track, being played on all but one of the chart's 133 reporting mainstream top 40 radio stations, improves by 2,167 plays to 4,777 in the list's tracking week (May 17-23), an 83% gain, according to Nielsen BDS. The song's airplay amounts to an average of 36 plays per station in just its second week on the survey.
The song's gain is the format's largest since Eminem's "Just Lose It" logged a 2,740-play rise on the chart dated Oct. 16, 2004. That week, the song soared 33-10 as the introduction to the rapper's fifth studio album, "Encore."
Having debuted last week with 2,160 detections, "California Gurls" is the only song since the start of the last decade to notch consecutive weeks of gains of more than 2,000 plays.
Since 2000, "California Gurls" holds two of the five greatest week-to-week gains on Pop Songs, a list led by an aptly titled track by 'N Sync:
Gain, Title, Artist, Chart Move, Date
2,769, "Pop," 'N Sync, debut No. 21, June 2, 2001
2,740, "Just Lose It," Eminem, 33-10, Oct. 16, 2004
2,353, "All for You," Janet, debut No. 25, March 17, 2001
2,167, "California Gurls," Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg, 23-12, June 5, 2010
2,160, "California Gurls," debut No. 23, May 29, 2010
Perry's new single introduces her album "Teenage Dream," due Aug. 24.
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Good achievement for Katy!!
