Kiss/Timeline

* **February 21st:** Jepsen records Beautiful in a studio session with Justin Bieber

#### **March 2012**

* **March 9th - 13th:**
	+ Jepsen works on new music with Josh Ramsay in Canada
	+ Most likely records Guitar String / Wedding Ring
* **Unknown:** Jepsen records her vocals for Good Time in Ontario, Canada

#### **April 2012**

* **April 21st:** Kiss album cover photoshoot is shot by Damien Fry

#### **May 2012**

* **May 15th:**
	+ Jepsen has another studio session with Josh Ramsay in Canada
	+ Most likely records Guitar String / Wedding Ring
* **May 28th:** Jepsen flies to Atlanta to work on new music with Dallas Austin and Cory Enemy

#### **June 2012**

* **June 1st:**
	+ Jepsen's last day in Atlanta
	+ Recorded Tiny Little Bows, Curiosity, and Drive with Dallas Austin and Cory Enemy
* **June 5th:** The Good Time single cover is completed
* **June 19th - 20th:** Jepsen writes Your Heart Is a Muscle in Los Angeles
* **June 24th:**
	+ Jepsen has a writing session with American pop rock band Fun in Los Angeles
	+ This is most likely when Jepsen and band-member Jack Antonoff wrote Sweetie
* **June 25th:**
	+ Studio session with Tavish Crowe, David Listenbee, Francesca Richard, and Dre Kroon
	+ Jepsen records Wrong Feels So Right
* **June 26th:**
	+ Jepsen works on Your Heart Is a Muscle with Toby Gad in Los Angeles
	+ Good Time is released an official single
* **Unknown:** Jepsen writes This Kiss over the phone with Redfoo & introduced to Matthew Koma

#### **July 2012**

* **July 3rd:** Kiss album photoshoot is shot by Reid Rolls
* **July 8th:** Jepsen flies back to Los Angeles to finish up some songs
* **July 16th:** Jepsen works on music with Dallas Austin - Tiny Little Bows, Curiosity, and/or Drive
* **July 17th:** Jepsen names the album
* **July 20th:** Jepsen records Turn Me Up with Bonnie McKee, Cory Enemy, Josh Abraham and Oliver Goldstein
* **July 25th - 29th:** Jepsen visits Sweden to work on new music
	+ Records Tonight I'm Getting Over You and works on I Didn't Just Come Here to Dance with Max Martin
	+ Records Sweetie with Klas Åhlund
* **Unknown:** Jepsen records More Than a Memory, Hurt So Good, I Know You Have a Girlfriend, Almost Said It, and Melt With You with Matthew Koma
* **End of July:** Deadline for work on Kiss, the album was due-in by Jepsen's label around this time

#### **August 2012**

* **August 8th:**
	+ The Kiss album cover is completed
	+ Kiss is officially announced by Jepsen via Twitter
* **August 15th:** The album cover for Kiss is officially unveiled via Twitter

#### **September 2012**

* **September 1st:** The Kiss track listing is announced by Jepsen via Twitter
* **September 10th:** This Kiss is released an official single
* **September 14th:** Kiss is released in Australia and Germany
* **September 17th:** Kiss is released in the United Kingdom and France
* **September 18th:** Kiss is released in the United States and Canada
* **September 19th:** Kiss is released in Japan

#### **December 2012**

* **December 1st:** The Almost Said It single cover is completed

## **2013**

#### **January 2013**

* **January 20th:** Kiss Tour Edition is released in Japan
* **January 21st:** Tonight I'm Getting Over You is released as the album's final single

#### **April 2013**

* **April 26th:** The Tonight I'm Getting Over You (Remix) single cover is completed

#### **May 2013**

* **May 6th:** Tonight I'm Getting Over You (feat. Nicki Minaj) is released

## **References**

1. ↑ Interscope Records Carly Rae Jepsen Signs to Schoolboy Records/Interscope Cision PR Newswire, February 29th 2012. Retrieved March 20th 2022.
2. ↑ Lipshutz, Jason 'Call Me Maybe' Tops the Hot 100 Billboard, June 22nd 2012. Retrieved March 20th 2022.
3. ↑ @carlyraejepsen "I finally got to say thank you in person. Ps @kukharrell @justinbieber and I may have worked on a little song tonight." February 22nd 2012
4. ↑ @tavishcrowe “@GoonRock: In the studio with @carlyraejepsen @tavishcrowe @franccipenz @DREKROON #makinhits !!”' June 25th 2012 - via Twitter