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Katy Perry f/ T.I. - "Hummingbird Heartbeat"
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Capitol Records & Katy Perry to end the era with T.I.-assisted “Hummingbird Heartbeat”
As Katy’s latest single, “Wide Awake,” is currently on track to reach the Hot 100 summit soon (bulleting at No. 3 with gains in airplay and OnDemand streams), Capitol Records has officially announced that the “Dream” will finally come to an end with “Hummingbird Heartbeat.”
“We are ready to finally end the ‘Teenage Dream’ era for Katy and wrap it up with one last single,” Capitol’s Greg Thompson announced in a press release. It plans to solicit the rock-driven “Heartbeat” to contemporary hit, adult pop, and rhythmic radios in mid-September.
When asked if this was an attempt to break Michael Jackson’s “Bad” record for Hot 100 No. 1’s, Thompson replied,
“It would be an honor to have Katy’s name stand alone in the Billboard record books, but our focus is mainly to increase album and single sales for ‘Dream’ leading into the busiest musical shopping time of the year.”
Should “Heartbeat” reach No. 1 on the Hot 100, Perry will become the first artist in Billboard history to generate six chart toppers from an album.
To further the song’s potential popularity, Christopher “Tricky” Stewart has been working on a remixed version of the production of the song to include additional lyrics from T.I. to be serviced to retail simultaneously with radio. His new single, “Go Get It,” is expected to debut on the Hot 100 later this week.
“Heartbeat,” officially, would be the seventh single from the parent “Teenage Dream” album and the ninth overall single from the “Dream” era, following the top-5 hits California Gurls (featuring Snoop Dogg), the title cut, Firework, E.T. (featuring Kanye West), Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.), The One That Got Away, Part of Me, and Wide Awake, where the latter two are featured on Perry re-release “The Complete Confection.”
Thealbum track has already received gains at retail since the release of her concert-documentary, “Katy Perry: Part of Me 3D,” as it features a performance of “Heartbeat.”
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Earlier this year, T.I. had expressed interest in working with Katy on his upcoming album, so maybe Capitol wants to get a head start on collaborating 
well? 
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