“I said Let’s meet at the mall but I was with my sister. So it wasn’t really a date,” said Cody Simpson. The entertainer explained there were already photographers waiting for him but he didn’t understand why. “I don’t love her.”

What the young entertainer discussed was the presumption that the world thinks that the two celebrities were seen together and now are part of a bigger picture. With his sister along during the time at the mall, it makes it pretty obvious it wasn’t a date but just a chance to hang out and enjoy the afternoon on a day off.

Cody Simpson performed for the fans in Arizona just for their special concert put on by the radio station. Making the best of the evening, the entertainer shared his music live on stage.

The eyes have it: Simpson has a look that could have come straight from the teen-idol catalog: He’s 5-foot-8, with feathered blond hair and eyes that are “like an aqua-hazel color — it changes with the kind of shirt I wear.” He cut his teeth on surfing singer/songwriters Jack Johnson and Donavon Frankenreiter but since moving to the USA last year also has developed a taste for R&B acts like Drake and Chris Brown.

The very beginning: Simpson began playing guitar at 7 and first performed publicly when he was 11, singing Jason Mraz’s I’m Yours with a friend of his sister’s at a school talent show — a performance that promptly got uploaded to YouTube. “I was, like, ‘Maybe I should wait until I’ve improved a little more?’ And they’re like, ‘No, do it now!’” He soon started posting videos of himself playing guitar and singing songs by Justin Timberlake, The Script, Bon Jovi and the Jackson 5. “I was very excited when I hit 100 and 200 views,” he says. Now, he has more than 78 million.

Meanwhile, back in the States: One early YouTube viewer was producer/songwriter Shawn Campbell, whose credits include Missy Elliott, Chris Brown and Jay-Z. But when Campbell contacted Cody in 2009 through the youngster’s MySpace page, Simpson’s parents got nervous. “He kept sending us e-mails, and we didn’t reply,” Cody says. Once Campbell convinced the Simpsons of his legitimacy, they set up a Skype session so Cody could play his original songs. After that, Cody says, “he wanted to fly me over to the U.S. to start recording with him.” Less than a year after posting his first video online, Cody was at work in Campbell’s Maryland studio.

Choosing a career path: Parents Brad Simpson and Angie Greenwood Simpson were both Australian national-champion swimmers during the ’80s. Young Simpson also was a medal winner with Olympic aspirations. “I wanted to be the next Michael Phelps,” says Simpson, who was once nicknamed Cod-fish, “but the music thing was becoming a bigger part of my life.”

Cody-mania: Last summer, Simpson introduced himself to potential fans with a tour of summer camps. After touring with fellow Internet sensation Greyson Chance earlier this year, he’s now drawing thousands to a series of mall shows through Sept. 18. Things got a bit out of hand during a May appearance in Sydney, when Simpson got egged three songs into his set and mall security canceled a post-show autograph session. “I love it when that stuff happens, but there’s definitely a point where you’ve got to keep everybody safe,” he says. “Like the barricades were falling over, and the security guys were freaking out. They were like, ‘Shut down this show; get out of the mall, please.’”

The change’ll do him good: Perhaps the most significant thing that happened to Simpson between the recording of his 2010′s 4U and Coast to Coast: His voice changed. “I’m very lucky to have had my voice break without having any trouble with it,” he says. “I have much more voice control than I had on the first EP.” And, for now, he’s OK when people refer to him as “the next Justin Bieber”: “It can be very flattering, and, because he has been so successful, it’s a good thing. At the same time, I want to be my own artist and my own person, too.” (from USAToday)

Cody revealed what it was like to appear on So Random and how much he’s changed since then.

Plus he confirmed that his album will be coming out in September — and we can’t wait!

So sit back, relax, and check out exactly what Cody Simpson had to say – and stay tuned for all his music videos straight after the interview!

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE THING ABOUT CODY SIMPSON?

Is it…

His Looks

His Songs

His Personality

His Music Videos

His Music Stlye

His Dancing

His Lyrics

Etc… you decide or come up with your own ideas why you love Cody Simpson so much!

And not everyone signs a recording contract with Atlantic Records by age 14, either. However, that’s the story of Cody Simpson’s life.

The Australian singer left his home country for the United States a year ago this month after music producer Shawn Campbell stumbled upon a random video of Cody on YouTube. And shortly thereafter, another star was born thanks to the World Wide Web.

Cody was attending normal school with normal friends as a normal kid, but a taped school talent show revealed enough talent to Campbell that he flew Cody and his family out to Maryland to record a few songs.

After Cody decided to jump out of the water (he was a championship swimmer for his age group in Queensland) and into the music realm, he relocated to the United States and began working as a full-time musician.

Being a young, pop-singing blonde with flippable hair, Cody’s comparisons to Justin Bieber are obvious, but he’ll be the first to tell you the two are quite different — at least in the musical directions they wish to pursue.

Contributing to more than a few songs on his upcoming September release, including the Disney Radio hit “All Day,” Cody will provide the teenage gusto at KISS-FM 95.9’s Summer Slam at Chickenfest on Saturday night after Laze & Royal and i SQUARE warm up the stage.

How does it feel to be in the position you’re in at 14 years old when some musicians have been trying their whole lives to “make it”?

I feel super grateful and blessed with what I’ve been given. … Like you said, there are so many artists that have been trying their whole lives to break into the industry, and I feel blessed that I’ve had the opportunity for it to happen in such a short amount of time. A little over a year ago, I was still on the other side of the world swimming and going to regular school.

Tell me how you went from YouTube to being signed by a major recording label?

I’ll break down the story for you. The first video I posted I performed at a school talent show with my sister’s friend. I wasn’t going to perform at it, but she asked me to join her and make it a duet. So we did that, posted it online, made a YouTube account just for fun, and then all of the sudden there’d be 100 views. Then there’d be 1,000 views. Then 10,000 views. Then it’d get like 100,000 views, and then all of the sudden this music producer Shawn Campbell found me online. It was only like a few months after we posted the videos and like I said before, it happened super fast. He flew us over to Maryland where he was living with his family, and we stayed there for two weeks and recorded a few songs. He took me to New York and introduced me to a bunch of great people at Atlantic Records, and we signed a month or two later with Atlantic and got going.

So when you posted those videos on YouTube, you weren’t trying to get noticed?

No, it just kind of happened. The way he found me was almost an accident. … He went to look at a different video and my video came up in the side bar. Like you said, I didn’t really expect or try to make it happen. I just did it because I love to sing and he found it by accident.

Your rise to fame is becoming meteoric. Do you ever feel like life is moving too fast?

I guess there’s a certain sacrifice that comes with signing a deal with a major label. That is what I chose to do and I don’t regret it at all. You do sacrifice being able to hang out with friends at school every day and everything, but there’s so much more that comes along with it, and I’m definitely able to see friends every time I visit Australia. It’s not like I’m totally missing out on everything.

I’ve heard you’ve been called Justin Bieber 2.0. There are obvious comparisons, but tell me how you two are different?

When I first started posting videos, I had no idea who Justin Bieber was. People just started talking about this kid. I try my best to stay away from everything that he does. I’m a big fan of his and it’s not like we haven’t met or spoken before. We’ve met many times and he’s very supportive of what I do and I’m a big fan of his, but there are things that differentiate us I think. I’m from Australia, grew up near the beach and everything, and as I grow up, I’d love to go more with the guitar kind of base — Bruno Mars kind of music — and I’m sure Justin wants to go a little more urban being with Usher and all that. That’s kind of how we’re different.

Right now, it seems you have a tenor’s range. What’s the highest note you can comfortably hit?

I wouldn’t be able to tell you the name, but my voice has changed. My voice has definitely gotten much deeper in the last few months. If you would’ve talked to me like six months ago, I would’ve been like, “Hey, Mike! How are you?” (in high-pitched voice) It’s changed a lot, but lots of people when I was posting videos and my voice was still changing, they were like, “Oh, he’s not going to be able to sing in six months.” But it hasn’t affected my singing at all. It’s made it even stronger.

(from http://www.postcrescent.com)

Cody’s song is super catchy and we love turning on Radio Disney and hearing it – all the time! Have you been calling in to other radio stations to request “On My Mind”? Have any of them played it for you? We hope so!

The video is for his upcoming single ‘On My Mind’, which we think might just be one of Cody’s biggest songs ever.

Watch Cody Simpson’s video for ‘ALL DAY’

We can’t wait to see the finished product.

Cody is heading to Australia this month!

Cody tweeted, “wrapped up the #OnMyMind video! this is gonna be so crazy. you all are going to be surprised! pictures coming soon!”

Hailey added, “Had so much fun filming with u yesterday @Thecodysimpson the video is gonna be so good! ”

Australian pop singer Simpson is 14 years old and has drawn obvious likenesses to teen music phenom Justin Bieber.

Watch: Cody Simpson – “iYiYi” featuring Flo Rida

iSQUARE’s single “Hey Sexy Lady” has had marginal success and their forthcoming full-length album is expected to have Sean “Diddy” Combs as executive producer.

Watch: iSQUARE – “Hey Sexy Lady”

Chickenfest is also expected to add one more national act besides a special performance by the Kimberly High School glee/show choir.

For more info, visit darboychickenfest.com.

Pop teen sensation Cody Simpson has just confirmed his 2011 Australian Tour.

The iyiyi hit maker is scheduled to play Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne in June 2011.

Simpson is scheduled to rock the Hordern Pavillion in Sydney, venues for the rest of the nation have not been announced yet.

Rumour has it Cody will return to Australia early next month to promote his new EP which is expected for release later this month.

On his promo duties down under Cody will perform on Sunrise and take part in an interview with Take 40.