50 facts about Carly Rae Jepsen: placed third in Canadian Idol season five's competition

Her song "Call me maybe" earned the title "Song of the Summer" from Billboard magazine.

1. She released album Kiss in 2012.

2. The release Kiss featured the Grammy Award-nominated, multi-platinum-selling breakout hit "Call Me Maybe".

3. Her next album was called Emotions.

4. The result of years of experimentation and creative soul-searching, E·MO·TION includes lead single "I Really Like You," a Billboard Top 40 hit praised as "pop perfection" by BuzzFeed and "mind-blowing, fantastic, catchy-as-hell pop" by Idolator.

5. Though Jepsen first sketched out many of the album's tracks on the back of her tour bus while traveling the world in support of Kiss, she also teamed up with songwriters like Sia, Devonté Hynes (aka Blood Orange), and Ariel Rechtshaid (Haim, Madonna, Vampire Weekend) in bringing E·MO·TION to life.

6. When it came time to record, Jepsen journeyed from New York to L.A. to London to Stockholm to join forces with such producers as Mattman & Robin (Tove Lo, Taylor Swift), Greg Kurstin (Charli XCX, Katy Perry), and Carl Falk and Rami Yacoub (Ariana Grande, One Direction).

7. Along with "Call Me Maybe"-which climbed to #1 on the iTunes Singles charts in more than 47 countries, sold over 17 million singles worldwide, and earned Jepsen 2012 Grammy Award nominations for Best Pop Solo Performance and Song of the Year-Kiss featured follow-up hit "Good Time," a duet with Owl City.

8. The song with Owl city "Good Time" was a hit and is now been certified double-platinum.

9. Carly Rae Jepsen is a Canadian.

10. She is currently based in Vancouver.

11. In 2007, she placed third in Canadian Idol season five's competition.

12. Jepsen independently released her debut album, Tug of War, in 2008.

13. Her song "Call Me Maybe" reached number one in 18 countries during 2012.

14. "Call Me Maybe" was the year's best-selling single worldwide.

15. Her album, Emotion, was released in 2015 and is influenced by songs from the 1980s. It produced the hit single "I Really Like You".

16. Jepsen has received multiple awards and nominations, including three Juno Awards, two Grammy Award nominations, a Billboard Music Award, and an Allan Slaight Award.

17. Jepsen was born in Mission, British Columbia, the daughter of Alexandra and Larry Jepsen.

18. Her stepfather is Ron Lanzarotta.

19. She attended Heritage Park Secondary School in Mission, where she pursued her early passion for musical theatre.

20. While student, she appeared in student productions of Annie, Grease, and The Wiz.

21. She studied musical theatre at the Canadian College of Performing Arts in Victoria, British Columbia.

22. Took barista, bartender and other minimum wage work after graduation.

23. Jepsen honed her songwriting skills with a guitar her parents gave her and, in 2007, decided to pursue her burgeoning interest in music by auditioning for the fifth season of the reality television competition Canadian Idol.

24. She placed third in Canadian Idol and was part of the Canadian Idol Top 3 concert tour.

25. After the conclusion of the tour, Jepsen returned to British Columbia to focus on writing, recording and completing her band.

26. Her demo recording attracted the attention of music manager Jonathan Simkin, who signed Jepsen to a management deal.

27. In June 2008, Jepsen released her debut single and another single, a cover of John Denver's song "Sunshine on My Shoulders".

28. The title track "Tug of War" was released the same month as the album and received radio airplay in Canada, followed by the singles "Bucket" and "Sour Candy", a duet with Josh Ramsay of Marianas Trench. The former two singles reached the top 40 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart.

29. In early 2009, Jepsen toured western Canada with Marianas Trench and Shiloh.

30. She then went on a cross-Canada tour with Marianas Trench, The New Cities and Mission District.

31. Jepsen began recording material for her second album in 2011 with Josh Ramsay, Ryan Stewart, and Tavish Crowe, with whom she co-wrote the single "Call Me Maybe", released in Canada in September 2011.

32. In January 2012, fellow Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber tweeted about the song to his millions of Twitter followers.

33. The following month the song was featured in a viral video in which Bieber, Selena Gomez, and Ashley Tisdale lip-synced and danced to the track.

34. Bieber's manager, Scooter Braun, signed Jepsen to a joint worldwide record deal with his own label, Schoolboy Records, and the major label Interscope Records; she remained signed to 604 Records in Canada and retained Jonathan Simkin as her manager.

35. "Call Me Maybe" peaked at number one on the Canadian Hot 100, making Jepsen the fourth Canadian artist to top the chart.

36. In the United States, the single spent nine weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, earning the title of "Song of the Summer" from Billboard magazine.

37. "Call Me Maybe" topped the charts in 18 countries, including the United Kingdom, where it was the year's second best-selling single. It was the best-selling single of 2012 worldwide, according to the IFPI.

38. Jepsen recorded a duet with Owl City, "Good Time", which was released as a single in June 2012.

39. The song with Owl City, "Good Time" peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 and preceded Jepsen's second album, Kiss, which was released in September 2012 and reached top ten chart positions in Australia, the UK, and the US.

40. Kiss features songwriting and production contributions from mainstream pop artists including Toby Gad, Matthew Koma, Bonnie McKee, Max Martin, Sara Quin (of Tegan and Sara), and LMFAO's Redfoo.

41. The album was certified gold by Music Canada and has sold 289,000 copies in the US; its failure to match the success of "Call Me Maybe" lead MTV Hive to write that "Kiss is the best pop album of the year, and nobody is listening".

42. During late 2012, Jepsen appeared on the fifth season premiere episode of The CW primetime soap opera 90210 and became a spokesperson for clothing retailer Wet Seal.

43. Jepsen received the Rising Star Award at the 2012 Billboard Music Awards.

44. At the 2013 Juno Awards, Kiss won the awards for Album of the Year and Pop Album of the Year and "Call Me Maybe" won in the Single of the Year category.

45. The single received nominations for Record of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards.

46. In 2013, Jepsen became a spokesperson for clothing/footwear brand Candie's.

47. Jepsen said that she shares her parents' interest in folk music as a result of her upbringing, naming artists such as Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, and Van Morrison as inspirations for her debut album, Tug of War (2008).

48. During the recording of her EP Curiosity and her second album, Kiss (both 2012), Jepsen said that she became increasingly influenced by pop and dance music, in particular the works of Dragonette, Kimbra, La Roux, and Robyn.

49. Her third album, Emotion (2015), drew from her love of pop music from the 1980s and the "old-school" albums of Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, and Prince.

50. Jepsen has also expressed admiration for Cat Power, Tegan and Sara, Bleachers, Bob Dylan, Sky Ferreira, Dev Hynes, Solange Knowles, Joni Mitchell, Sinead O'Connor, Spice Girls, and Hank Williams.

Source: carlyraemusic.com, Wikipedia.org