Katy Perry is back in a familiar place with her brand-new single: the top of the Billboard charts.

After performing “Part of Me” — the first single off the deluxe reissue of herTeenage Dream album — at the 54th Grammy Awards, Perry sat back and watched as the song debuted at #1 on Billboard‘s Hot 100, making it just the 20th track in the chart’s 53-year history to bow in the top slot.

“Part of Me” also rocketed to #1 on the Digital Songs chart, racking up more than 411,000 downloads, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That’s a career-best week for Perry, and is the highest opening number for any artist since Gaga sold more than 448,000 downloads of “Born This Way” last year.

Katy Perry’s ”Part Of Me” enters Hot Digital Songs at #1. It sold 411K copies this week. Will “Part Of Me” also enter the Hot 100 at #1? We’ll find out later today, when they publish the official top 10!

If “Part Of Me” enters the Hot 100 at #1 it will be Katy’s 7th #1 single out of the 11 she’s released from One Of The Boys, Teenage Dream and Tenage Dream: The Complete Confection.

Fingers crossed!

The first No. 1 from Part Of Me in any Official Charts came from New Zealand! The single gave another record for Katy: now she’s tied with Mariah Carey with most number one songs in the country for a female artist. This is Katy’s seventh single to reach the top of the singles chart.

Only The Beatles (with 15 songs) Michael Jackson (with 10 songs) and U2 (with 8 songs) are in front of them! These are the Katy’s songs that reached the top in the country:

#1 I Kissed a Girl
#1 If We Ever Meet Again
#1 California Gurls
#1 Teenage Dream
#1 Firework
#1 E.T. (Original Version)
#1 Part Of Me

Hot N Cold, Last Friday Night, and Waking Up In Vegas also reached the Top 10. Katy is also expected to debut at #1 in Canada and  in the United States! #PowerOfMe

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Chart Highlights offers a sneak peek at a select group of Billboard charts every Monday. Find out the top songs, Greatest Gainers and debuts on the surveys listed below. All the charts are refreshed on billboard.com every Thursday.

• Debut/Greatest Gainer No. 21 “Part Of Me” by Katy Perry

Katy Perry’s “Part of Me,” the lead single from her “Teenage Dream” deluxe edition, “The Complete Confection” (due March 27), bounds onto the Nielsen BDS-based Pop Songs radio airplay chart at No. 21, marking her highest debut and the chart’s best bow since Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” launched at No. 14 a year ago this month. Having arrived at radio and retail last Monday (Feb. 13), “Part” debuts with 3,373 plays on 135 of the chart’s 141 reporters. (It also enters Adult Pop Songs at a lofty No. 28). 

Early estimates peg “Part” as selling north of 400,000 downloads in its first full week of availability, setting up a potential No. 1 debut on this week’s Billboard Hot 100. The song’s official weekly Nielsen SoundScan sales figures and Hot 100 rank will be revealed Wednesday (Feb. 22). 

Debut No. 28 “Feel So Close” Calvin Harris 
Debut No. 31 “Starships” Nicki Minaj
Debut No. 33 “Wild Ones” Flo Rida Featuring Sia 
Debut No. 39 “Breathing” Jason Derulo 

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Katy Perry’s “The One That Got Away” rises 5-3 on the Hot 100 and is just two notches from making parent album “Teenage Dream” the first set to generate six No. 1s in the survey’s history. The track bounds 6-2 on Digital Songs (297,000, up 157%) and lifts 5-4 on Radio Songs (99 million, down 1%). In its first week of availability, the B.o.B-assisted remix of “One” accounted for 26% (76,000) of the title’s overall digital sales in the chart’s tracking period.

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Up 15-10, ‘The One That Got Away’ makes the album just the seventh ever to generate that many top 10 hits.

Katy Perry squeezes in yet another impressive achievement for which to be thankful this year.

Her “Teenage Dream” album becomes just the seventh album in the 53-year history of the Billboard Hot 100 to generate at least six top 10s, as “The One That Got Away” leaps 15-10.

The song joins the set’s first five singles, all of which reached No. 1: “California Gurls,” featuring Snoop Dogg; the title cut, “Firework”; “E.T.,” featuring Kanye West; and, “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)”

A more mammoth milestone could still lie ahead for Perry: with one more No.1 from the set, “Teenage Dream” would pass Michael Jackson’s “Bad” to become the first album to generate six Hot 100 No. 1s.

Now in its 65th week on the Billboard 200, “Teenage Dream” has sold 1.9 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Upon Perry’s latest feat, here is a look at the select seven albums, by five artists, to spawn as many as six Hot 100 top 10s, an achievement last managed by Janet Jackson’s “janet.” in 1993-94:

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Debut No. 31 “The One That Got Away” – Katy Perry.

After scoring a record-establishing five Pop Songs No. 1s from one album – “Teenage Dream” – Katy Perry looks to add to her milestone with “The One That Got Away,” a debut at No. 31 on the Nielsen BDS-based mainstream top 40 radio airplay chart.

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Katy Perry remains atop the Billboard Hot 100 for a second week with “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.),” her historic fifth No. 1 from her album “Teenage Dream,” while Lil Wayne leaps onto the survey at No. 3 with the latest single from his forthcoming album “Tha Carter IV.”

“Friday” registers a second week at the Hot 100′s apex despite dips in airplay and sales. The song slips 1-2 on Radio Songs with 140 million all-format audience impressions (down 6%), according to Nielsen BDS. It holds at No. 4 on Digital Songs with 154,000 downloads sold (down 1%), according to Nielsen SoundScan.

With the song’s ascension to No. 1 last week, Perry became the first woman, and second artist overall, following Michael Jackson (“Bad,” 1987-88), in the Hot 100′s 53-year history to send five songs from an album to the top spot.

“Friday” holds off LMFAO’s former six-week Hot 100 No. 1 “Party Rock Anthem,” featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock, which remains at No. 2. Rebounding 2-1 on Radio Songs (141 million, down 1%) for a second frame in charge, “Anthem” is the first since Jennifer Lopez’s “I’m Real,” featuring Ja Rule, in October 2001 to drop from and reclaim the Radio Songs chart’s top rank. On Digital Songs, “Anthem” descends 2-5 (148,000, down 8%).

(…) All charts, including the Hot 100, Digital Songs and Radio Songs will be refreshed tomorrow (Aug. 25) on Billboard.com.

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It isn’t every day a recording artist scores their fifth No. 1 single off an album, and with “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.),” Katy Perry knows she’s made a “small piece of history.” In an exclusive statement to Billboard, Perry stands in awe of her fans for helping her match Michael Jackson’s record and become the first woman to hit this Hot 100 milestone.

“Hitting No. 1 is always a great moment, but when it turns into a small piece of history, you’re reminded of how many millions of people are connected to each other by even one tiny event,” she says. “Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen. Ever since I was 9 years old, singing into my hairbrush, I’ve dreamed very big dreams, but today is bigger than my dreams. What a nice first birthday present for ‘Teenage Dream’!”

The hit parade that is “Teenage Dream” was released Aug. 24 of last year and “Friday’”s Hot 100 coronation follows No. 1s for “California Gurls,” the title track, “Firework” and “E.T.”

Only Michael Jackson’s “Bad” produced as many chart leaders, putting Perry into royal company in the annals of the 53-year-old Hot 100 chart.

Get the full rundown on Perry’s road to Hot 100 history here.

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