Remember when “Call Me Maybe” was the song you couldn’t get out of your head? With one of the catchiest hooks in pop music history, Carly Rae Jepsen’s debut single shot straight to the top of the Hot 100.

Now, PSY’s “Gangnam Style” is following a similar chart trajectory — and Jepsen, 26, couldn’t be happier for the South Korean artist, who just so happens to also be her label mate on Scooter Braun’s Schoolboy Records.

“I’m so excited [for him],” Jepsen told Celebuzz on the red carpet for Comedy Central’s Night of Too Many Stars Saturday night. “I want to learn the dance from him. Scooter [Braun] has promised me that I’m going to learn from the pro himself!”

What else did Jepsen dish?

The  singer, who is currently touring with her mentor Justin Bieber on the North American leg of his Believe tour, says she’s excited to finally sing some of her other songs live.

The 26-year-old pop star recently dropped her debut album Kiss, and she can’t wait to release her second single, “This Kiss.” You can watch the music video teaser for the track here. But what track does Jepsen hope to make her third single?

“There’s a song called ‘Tonight I’m Getting Over You’ — that’s a really special one,” she says.

With lyrics like, “We’re not lovers, but more than friends/ Put our flame to every single word you ever said/ No more crying, to get me through/ I keep dancing til the morning with somebody new,” it looks like Jepsen’s favorite track could replace Taylor Swift‘s “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” as 2012′s biggest breakup anthem.

Head on over to DirectLyrics for all of your Carly Rae Jepsen karaoke needs. Night of Too Many Stars, hosted by Jon Stewart, will air Oct. 21 on Comedy Central.

It was the tweet heard ’round the world.

No big deal, just Justin Bieber telling his fans last December that a song he’d heard on the radio while visiting his native Canada – Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” — was “possibly the catchiest song I’ve ever heard.” And that Twitter blast, just 84 characters long, was enough to make Jepsen famous. Well, that and a funny video that lent itself to countless imitations and parodies, along with that initial catchy tune, eventually the anthem of the summer of 2012.

And then there was Psy, the other seemingly out-of-nowhere sensation, whose tune “Gangnam Style” also had an eye-grabbing video, featuring funny scenes and you-can-do-this-too dance moves. In the space of a few weeks, the South Korean rapper has gone from zero to nearly 300 million “likes,” making his clip the most popular YouTube video of all time.

Is there a formula for using viral video and social media to become a pop star? Not necessarily; as Psy’s oddball, largely Korean-language clip proves, there’s no telling what the public will embrace. Still, there are a few concrete steps you can take. As Psy, Jepsen, and other viral stars have discovered, one of those steps is befriending Justin Bieber.

What else does it take to become a social media singing star? Here are some of the steps.

1. Be original. “There’s no formula,” Hollywood Reporter Music Editor Shirley Halperin told Celebuzz. “Once it’s been done, there’s a challenge to find the next cool thing.” Of “Gangnam Style,” she noted, “The foreignness makes it really attractive because it’s a culture with which we’re not really familiar.” The novelty factor has been turning YouTube stars into viral hitmakers at least since OK Go’s treadmill dance on 2006′s “Here It Goes Again,” Halperin said. It worked for Jepsen, too, with “Call Me Maybe”‘s narrative clip about an endearingly awkward girl (Jepsen) trying to catch a guy’s attention, only to have him give his number to one of her male bandmates.

2. But not too original. Pop duo Karmin rose to fame on the strength of its videos of cover versions of current hits. With an eye toward what was trending in Google searches, the band’s carefully tagged videos became hits among viewers looking for familiar songs. “We were uploading originals at first,” Karmin’s Nick Noonan told Forbes. “No one was watching them.”

3. Have a Danceable Beat. Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” seems custom-built for dancefloor fun, from its almost percussive string hook to its chorus about a gal giving a guy she just met her phone number. Same with “Gangnam Style,” featuring the kind of moves that could launch a new dance craze. “When it first came out, I think the big discussion among insiders was, is it the dance or the song? The video or the music? The consensus was that it was the dance, the look, the visuals, that made it just so much fun to watch,” Halperin said. “The other thing is that it reminded me right away of MC Hammer’s ‘U Can’t Touch This.’ We forget how huge that was. The album sold 18 million copies. That and the Macarena are big records because people can dance to them. So ['Gangnam Style'] is the digital version of ‘U Can’t Touch This.’ I’ve heard a lot of dance DJs incorporate this into their mixes in cool ways. It doesn’t sound as hokey mixed with a cool beat.”

4. Get Bieber on Board. Bieber, of course, may be YouTube’s biggest musical success story. It helps that he’s had savvy management, in the form of Scooter Braun. It also helps that he’s willing to leverage his own social-media popularity to help artists he likes. For Jepsen, there was not only his epic tweet, but also an ad hoc video Bieber made of himself and girlfriend Selena Gomez lip-synching “Call Me Maybe.” And he also signed her to his Schoolboy label, run by Braun. Braun was quick to sign Psy, too, when he started breaking stateside this summer. Even Karmin got some advice from Braun, who’s been able to convince the industry that there are more Biebers out there on YouTube, waiting to be turned into lucrative hitmakers. “We got a chance to talk to Scooter Braun, Justin Bieber’s manager, and he was saying he had a hard time getting Justin Bieber signed because a lot of labels didn’t believe in views translating into sales,” Karmin manager Nils Gums told Forbes. “Now, that has actually been a proven model.” Said Halperin, “Scooter Braun, hats off to that guy for making the most of the moment. He’s like Simon Cowell.”

5. Hit the road, and hit iTunes. Granted, having 300,000,000 likes on YouTube doesn’t necessarily earn you a penny. What makes money is touring and digital downloads. Karmin used YouTube to develop an e-mail list of potential customers for iTunes singles. Psy, too, has been able to translate YouTube fame into iTunes sales. And touring, as always, is where musicians make real money, without having to give the lion’s share back to their labels. Plus, it’s where they prove to fans that they’re not just manufactured video stars. Another revenue stream likely to earn big bucks for the likes of Psy and Jepsen: licensing, as advertisers, movies, and shows like Glee seek to borrow some cool points by using their hot-right-now tunes.

6. Be good. Remember the cautionary tale of Rebecca Black. She became a viral sensation out of novelty — because no one could get over how uniquely awful the song “Friday” and its clip were. To be fair, she was a 13-year-old girl, and no one expected her to have the depth and refined talent necessary for long-term staying power. We’ll see if 26-year-old Jepsen and 34-year-old Psy have more than one hit apiece in them, depending on whether they can write more songs as good as their initial hits. It’s not even necessary to have enough good songs for a whole album, just a handful that can be released over time. Of Psy, Halperin said, “Will the guy be able to sell albums because of this fluke hit? There’s no guarantee. But it’s a singles market these days. You sell the song while it’s hot.”

Move over Carly Rae Jepsen. There’s a new viral sensation ready to knock you off your high horse — with a silly horse dance, no less.

Forget swag, swaggie and #YOLO, it’s all about “Gangnam Style” now. The international hit, from South Korean rapper PSY, is now making waves in the U.S. — the toughest market to crack for any foreign artist. As of Wednesday afternoon, the wacky video has over 152 million views on YouTube. Just don’t forget to recycle all of your old Call Me Maybe business cards.

Is “Gangnam Style” the new “Call Me Maybe?” Looks like it — so read on to find out everything you need to know about the trend. 

1. Psy didn’t need Justin Bieber to find internet stardom.

The success of “Call Me Maybe” can be traced back to Bieber. In January 2012, the Biebs and his girlfriend Selena Gomez were in Canada and heard the track on the radio. After they tweeted about it — and recorded a video of themselves and their famous friends lip synching along to the track — Jepsen instantly gained international attention.

But PSY didn’t have any outside help. Instead, he relied on his silly horse dance and wacky video concept to grab people’s attention. Within days of its release in Korea, the video received intensive coverage from various blogs and K-POP news sites, before getting picked up by viral trackers Buzzfeed and Gawker.

PSY even appeared at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards in September, showing off his “Gangnam Style” on the VMA stage. Not to mention that this past week on Good Morning America, Times Square was filled with a flash mob learning the video’s  horse dance. On Friday, PSY is expected to make his Today show debut.

2. Even celebrities are embracing their inner “Gangnam Style.” 

British pop singer Robbie Williams, rapper T-Pain and singer Josh Groban have all tweeted about their love of PSY’s video. Then, superstar Britney Spears got a lesson on how to do PSY’s signature “Gangnam Style” dance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Tuesday.

Spears tweeted a link to the video, thanking PSY for the lesson. “LOL, thank u @psy_oppa for the surprise dance lesson yesterday http://youtu.be/QZmkU5Pg1sw  @TheEllenShow was going off Gangnam Style!”

3. Viral video parodies of the song are already flooding the web.

They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so PSY must be feeling the love after dozens of music video parodies of “Gangnam Style” hit the web. From Korean parodies like “Daegu Style” and “Hongdae Style” to lip-synched tributes created by K-POP fans across the world, “Gangnam Style” has even managed to transcend the pesky language barrier.

San Francisco newlyweds Stephani Nguyen and Jeremy Ueno paid homage the K-POP hit with their own hilarious video, which featured the couple — and their wedding party — mimicking PSY’s catchy choreography.

4. PSY signed to Scooter Braun’s record label, Schoolboy Records.

In September, Braun announced (via video) that he had signed PSY to his label, hoping to make the rapper “the first Korean artist to break a big record in the United States.” With PSY at his side, the two toasted, “to Psy, to Korea, to breaking down barriers, to the future.”

Did we mention that his fellow labelmates include Bieber and Jepsen? Could there be a possible collaboration in the works? Perhaps it’s Braun who’s trying to take over the internet.

Carly Rae Jepsen doesn’t need to worry if a guy is going to call her maybe, because she’s already got a boyfriend on speed dial.

The singer told People that her new beau, singer-songwriter Matthew Koma, is a ”really great guy and really talented.” And the 26-year-old says that when it comes to men, she really prefers those with a bit of certainty.

“I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence,” she said. “Guys with the right type of confidence are really sexy.”

What’s Jepsen’s idea of the perfect date? 

“I love to go on spontaneous dates and do things that we’ve never tried before, or stay at home and make a homemade dinner,” said the  singer. “I really like to cook. One of my favorite things to make is homemade sushi.”

Jepsen began dating Koma, 25, in August, and it’s pretty safe to say that the couple’s relationship didn’t start with the words, “Call me maybe.”

In a July interview with the Associated Press, Jepsen admitted that she had never given a guy her number. “I’ve done brave things for love before or for the possibility of the idea of love, but I’ve never quite done that,” she said. “And I’m pretty sure now that I never can because that would be really, really awkward.”

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