Paula Deanda's Hit Single 'Walk Away' Certified Gold

LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts/ Arista Records) - Paula DeAnda's hit single "Walk Away" was just certified Gold by the RIAA. "Walk Away" continues to be in solid rotation on pop and rhythm stations and has enjoyed a massive audience of over 50 million. The new infectious single from her self-debut, "Easy" featuring Bow Wow, goes for adds at'Rhythm and'Top 40'radio'formats on'May 21st.

DeAnda, a 17 year old musical artist whose ubiquitous debut single "Doing Too Much" introduced the world to her musical talent, will be performing a live concert in the Second Life online world on May 22nd. An avatar or "animated character" has been designed in Paula's likeness for the event where Paula will perform a live set of her chart-topping hits to a virtual audience and chat with fans at 8 pm EST. Second Life is a 3-D interactive world entirely built and owned by its residents and is inhabited by over 5 million people from across the globe. Anyone can create a free basic membership at www.secondlife.com and attend the show.

In the meantime, fans can visit www.PaulaDeanda.com, her newly revamped 2.0 site, where they can create their own profile (like Myspace.com), message with other fans, add other Paula fans to their page, share photos, videos, album and tour reviews. The new site also features a contest where fans can help Paula by creating their own music video for her single "When It Was Me." Paula will pick the ten best video submissions, and the winner will have their video posted on'www.pauladeanda.com and will be able to meet Paula in person.

Signed on the spot at her audition with Clive Davis last year at the young age of 16, DeAnda's self-titled Arista debut has sold over 1.7 digital singles and ringtones, and over 214,000 scanned physical albums. A huge MySpacer herself, Paula has over 311,000 friends at MySpace, and is the No 2 Most Searched Latin artist on the site above Shakira, RBD and Frankie J. The breakthrough video for "Walk Away" debuted in the Top 10 on MTV's Total Request Live and remained in the Top 20 at Yahoo! Music for over 3 months after its worldwide debut there in December.