Ke$ha Breaks Thru to the Big-Time
September 1st, 2010Ke$ha is, with no question, one of the largest breakout stars of 2010. A slurring, whisking, hard-partying pop oddity ( who can also be a genius ) with an one album and a shipload of hit singles to her name, not to mention more than a couple of enemies. She even has under her star-spangled belt, her own, extraordinarily public WTF cock up as a slightly, uh, divisive “Saturday Night Live” performance. Ever since Ke$ha came stumbling into our lives last year with “Tik Tok” ( we named it one of the finest Songs of 2009, incidentally ), she has been nothing if not habitually entertaining, if a little confounding.
She’s always coming back with another huge single or eye-popping video, always asserting or wearing something ghastly. In the midst, she is made an indelible effect on popular culture and, earlier in the month, MTV showed its recognition of that fact, rewarding her with multiple Video Music Award proposals, including nods for Best Female Video and Best New Artist. But how did she go from unknown pop curio to one of the fastest-rising starlets in the world? Here is a look back : In Jan 2010, “Tik Tok” rose to one on the Poster advertisement hot hundred, setting a record for digital downloads in the procedure.
That very same month, she was named one of three female Artists to look at, as a part of MTV Reports ‘ Pop Week 2010. Buoyed by the successfulness of “Tik Tok,” Ke$ha’s first album, Animal, opened at one on the Poster advertisement albums chart, selling more than 152,000 copies and terminating “Britain’s Got Talent” phenom Susan Boyle’s six-week run at one. Ke$h would hark back to Boyle straight after, declaring to MTV Stories the cat-loving vocalist “knows how to party”.