Katy Perry, Carly Rae Jepsen get Billboard honours
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Woman of the Year honoree Katy Perry (left), and Rising Star honoree Carly Rae Jepsen (right), pose with Billboard editorial director Bill Werde at Billboard's Women in Music 2012 luncheon at Capitale on Friday, Nov 30, 2012 in New York. -- PHOTO: INVISION
NEW YORK (AP) - Billboard named Katy Perry its woman of the year, but the pop star thought her year was 2011.
"I felt like my year was last year...I thought my moment had passed," Perry said in an interview with Jon Stewart at Billboard's Women in Music event Friday in New York City.
Perry released Teenage Dream in 2010, and the double platinum album sparked five No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart that spilled over to 2011. She tied the record Michael Jackson set with Thriller for most hits from a single album.
She re-released the album this year, which launched two more hits and a top-grossing 3-D film.
