Katy Perry
American singer · United States · On the map · Musicians · Born 1984 · age 42
She turned a kiss into a cultural flashpoint, then built a machine: five number-ones off one album, a feat no other woman has matched. The camp aesthetic, the tiger-riding videos, the 151 million records sold - Perry turned sugar-shock pop into a Billboard dynasty.
Attention is rising
Read more often than usual, most of all on 5 November.
3.8 times the usual readers on 5 November.
34,982 readers on 5 November, against about 9,230 a day before the rise.
A life in dates
143Album, 20242020
SmileAlbum2017
WitnessAlbum2014American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Female ArtistAwardAmerican Music Award for Single of the YearAwardBillboard Music Award for Top Female ArtistAwardFavorite Adult Contemporary New ArtisteAwardMTV Video Music Award for Best Female VideoAward
PRISM (Acoustic Sessions)Album, 20142013Named UNICEF Goodwill AmbassadorOffice3 December 2013PRISMAlbum, 20132012American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Female ArtistAwardMTV Video Music Award for Best Art DirectionAward2011Billboard Music Award for Top Hot 100 ArtistAwardJuno Award for International Album of the YearAwardMTV Video Music Award for Best CollaborationAwardMTV Video Music Award for Video of the YearAwardSpecial Achievement AwardAward2010
Teenage DreamAlbum2009BRIT Award for International Female Solo ArtistAward2008
One of the BoysAlbum2001Katy HudsonAlbum1984Born25 October 1984People around Katy
Max Martin Produced Teenage Dream and California Gurls
Dr. Luke Produced Teenage Dream and I Kissed a Girl
Bonnie McKee Wrote California Gurls and Teenage Dream
Cirkut Produced Prism, Roar and 143
Greg Wells Produced Teenage Dream and One of the Boys
Benny Blanco Produced Teenage Dream and One of the Boys
Zedd Produced Smile and Never Really Over
Raja Gosnell Directed The Smurfs and The Smurfs 2
Nicki Minaj Duets: Swish Swish (2017)
Pharrell Williams Duets: Feels and One Love Manchester
Tricky Stewart Produced Teenage Dream (2010)
Charlie Puth Produced Smile and Harleys in Hawaii
Butch Walker Produced Thinking of You and One of the Boys- Jordan Kerner Produced The Smurfs and The Smurfs 2
Oscar Holter Produced Smile and Cry About It Later
Klas Åhlund Produced Prism (2013)
Kanye West Duets: E.T. (2011)
Snoop Dogg Duets: California Gurls (2010)
Jayma Mays Also in The Smurfs 2 and The Smurfs in film
George Lopez Also in The Smurfs 2 and The Smurfs in film
Sandy Vee Produced Teenage Dream (2010)
Katy PerryPartners
Brothers and sisters
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Albums 9
PSPRISM (Acoustic Sessions)
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47.5M subscribersPhotos 12
Perry performing at Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre during the Warped Tour in August 2008
Perry attending the Sydney premiere for her 2012 documentary Katy Perry: Part of Me, which grossed $32.7 million
Katy Perry performing "Dark Horse" during the Prismatic World Tour in September 2014.
Perry performing during Witness: The Tour in October 2017
Perry performing on her Play residency in 2022
Perry performing at Methodist Central Hall, Westminster in 2024
In their own words 4
, I tend to be mostly a futurist but it would be negligent of me to not acknowledge the incredible impact this last year has had on me.
Today’s answer is yes. I am proud of where and how I have landed in this moment. Proud of myself, proud of my fans and proud that I keep on swinging.
My best friend once gave me a framed 19th century book called What Katy Did Next. I’ve never read it, but the title has always stuck with me.
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About this person
Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson started at 16 with a failed gospel album under her birth name, then moved to Los Angeles and signed to Capitol Records. One of the Boys (2008) and its lead single "I Kissed a Girl" broke her through, but Teenage Dream (2010) rewrote the rules - the only album by a woman to spin five U.S. number-ones, from "California Gurls" to "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)". Prism (2013) added "Roar" and "Dark Horse" to the tally. The albums that followed - Witness, Smile, 143 - came with dimmer returns. She spent seven seasons judging American Idol, voiced Smurfette, launched a shoe line, and in 2025 flew to space aboard Blue Origin. Seven diamond certifications and 20 Guinness World Records later, she sits on a $360 million fortune and a catalogue that made her the first artist with multiple billion-view videos on YouTube.
