Carly Rae Jepsen Is Blowing Up

By Shani R. Friedman

The BC singer's very catchy song, Call Me Maybe, is arguably THE single for spring, having been platinum-certified and selling more than two million copies. The official video has been seen over 80 million times.

Jepsen is no overnight sensation. She came in third during the fifth season of Canadian Idol, signed a record deal and released two other singles that went gold.

This fall she will be joining Justin Bieber on his Believe tour throughout North America, which kicks off in September in Arizona and will make its way through 45 cities.

And of course the song has inspired a number of tributes, including an unofficial video with Bieber and some other famous faces that has wracked up an impressive 8 millions views.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZTkrP6RawQ

The Harvard Baseball team has also gotten in on the action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEWVwgDnuzE

And finally, even President Obama is crazy for Carly (sorta).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/04/barack-obama-sings-call-maybe_n_1569411.html?ref=mostpopular

Shani R. Friedman, a native of Nova Scotia, is a writer and editor living in New York who started a pop culture and news blog about Canada three years ago. Visit Shani's Blog at http://allthingscanadian.blogspot.com/.