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Call Me Maybe (Album) by Carly Rae Jepsen

Artist Biography For Carly Rae Jepsen

Carly Rae Jepsen Born November 21 1985 Is A Canadian Singer Songwriter And Musician. After Studying Musical Theatre In 2007 Jepsen Placed Third On The Fifth Season Of Canadian Idol. In 2008 Jepsen Released Her Folk Music-Influenced Debut Studio Album Tug Of War In Canada. Jepsen's Breakthrough Came In 2012 With Her Single "Call Me Maybe" The Song Was The Best-Selling Single Of That Year Selling 18 Million Copies And Reaching Number One In At Least 19 Countries. It Led To Record Deals With School Boy Records And Interscope Records. Later That Year Jepsen Released Her Second Studio Album Kiss. In 2014 She Made Her Broadway Theatre Stage Debut Playing The Titular Character In Cinderella For 12 Weeks. The Following Year She Released Her Third Studio Album Emotion Influenced By 1980s Music Dance-Pop And Synth-Pop. In 2016 Jepsen Performed In The Television Special Grease Live And Voiced The Animated Film Ballerina. Her Fourth Studio Album Dedicated Was Released In 2019 Along With A Follow-Up Titled Dedicated Side B Distributed A Year Later. Her Sixth Studio Album The Loneliest Time Was Released In October 2022 Followed By Her Seventh Studio Album The Loveliest Time Was Released July 2023. Carly Rae Jepsen Has Received Three Juno Awards A Billboard Music Award And An Allan Slaight Award In Addition To Nominations For Grammy Awards MTV Video Music Awards Polaris Music Prize And People's Choice Awards.

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"Call Me Maybe" Is A Song Recorded By Canadian Singer-Songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen For Her EP "Curiosity" And Later Appeared On Her Second Studio Album And First International Album "Kiss". The Song Was Written By Jepsen And Tavish Crowe As A Folk Song But Its Genre Was Modified To Pop Following The Production By Josh Ramsay. It Was Released As The Lead Single From The EP On September 20 2011 Through 604 Records. Jepsen Was Signed To Schoolboy Records Releasing Her Single In The United States Through The Label As The First Single From Kiss. Musically "Call Me Maybe" Is A Teen Pop Dance-Pop And Bubblegum Pop Track That Alludes To The Inconvenience That Love At First Sight Brings To A Girl Who Hopes For A Call Back From A New Crush. "Call Me Maybe" Topped The Canadian Hot 100. Outside Of Canada "Call Me Maybe" Topped The Charts In Australia The Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Hungary Luxembourg New Zealand Poland The Republic Of Ireland Slovakia Switzerland The United Kingdom And The United States And Peaked Inside The Top Five Of The Charts In Austria Belgium Flanders & Wallonia Germany Israel Japan Netherlands Norway And Sweden. After Peaking At The Top Position Of The Canadian Hot 100 Jepsen Became Only The Fifth Canadian Artist To Do So In Her Home Country Since 2007. In The United States The Track Reached Number One On The Mainstream Top 40 Chart And Is The First Number One By A Canadian Female Artist On The Billboard Hot 100 Chart Since 2007's "Girlfriend" By Avril Lavigne. An Accompanying Music Video Was Directed By Ben Knechtel. In It Jepsen Seeks The Attention Of An Attractive Boy Next Door Who Is Revealed At The Close Of The Story To Be Attracted To A Male Band Member. As Part Of The Promotion For The Song Jepsen Performed The Track On The Ellen DeGeneres Show Where She Made Her US Television Debut And At The 2012 Billboard Music Awards. "Call Me Maybe" Has Been Covered By Several Artists Including Ben Howard Big Time Rush Fun Cimorelli Lil Wayne JPEGMafia And Cody Simpson And Parodied By Cookie Monster And Some Of The News Staff Of National Public Radio. It Was Also Covered On "The New Rachel" The Season Premiere Episode Of The Fourth Season Of Glee. "Call Me Maybe" Was Nominated For Two Grammy Awards For Song Of The Year And Best Pop Solo Performance At The 55th Annual Ceremony But Lost To "We Are Young" By Fun And The Live Performance Of "Set Fire To The Rain" By Adele Respectively. On December 11 2012 "Call Me Maybe" Was Named Song Of The Year For 2012 By MTV. In Its 2012 Year-End Issue Billboard Magazine Ranked This Song #2 In The Hot 100 Songs Digital Songs And Canadian Hot 100 Charts In Each Case Behind "Somebody That I Used To Know" By Gotye Featuring Kimbra. The Song Was Also Ranked Number One By The Village Voice's Annual Pazz And Jop Poll Which Compiles The Votes Of Music Critics From All Over The United States. The Song Was The Best-Selling Single Worldwide In 2012 Selling Over 12 Million Copies In That Year Alone And The Best-Selling Single On The ITunes Store In 2012. With Worldwide Sales Of 18.5 Million Copies As Of September 2021 It Became The Best Selling Single Of The Century By A Female Artist. "Call Me Maybe" Was The Best-Selling Digital Single Of 2012 And Is The Seventh Best-Selling Digital Single Of All Time. The Song Is Ranked At #47 On Billboard's Greatest Songs Of All-Time.

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