On June 8, 2022, Perry was awarded with the Key to Las Vegas, the same day it was marked as Katy Perry day. Perry started writing songs for her new album in June 2016, and recorded an anthem for NBC Sports’s coverage of the 2016 Summer Olympics titled “Rise”, which was released the following month. Perry chose to release it as a standalone track rather than save it for her album “because now more than ever, there is a need for our world to unite”. NBC also felt its message spoke “to the spirit of the Olympics and its athletes” for its inspirational themes. The song reached number one in Australia and number eleven in the United States.
Musical style and themes
Within days, a Canadian social source told PEOPLE that Trudeau was enjoying his time with Perry after a challenging split from his wife, Sophie Grégoire, in 2023 and his resignation as Canada’s prime minister. The same source told PEOPLE on Wednesday, Nov. 19 that the couple are spending time together “when they can.” “She’s a single mom now and a lot of that is going to come into focus next year,” says the source.
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On July 22, 2009, Perry recorded a live album titled MTV Unplugged, which featured acoustic performances of five tracks from One of the Boys as well as one new song, “Brick by Brick”, and a cover of Fountains of Wayne’s “Hackensack”. Perry also appeared on two singles with other artists; she was featured on a remix of Colorado-based band 3OH! 3’s song “Starstrukk” in September 2009, and on a duet with Timbaland entitled “If We Ever Meet Again”, from his album Shock Value II, three months later. The Guinness World Records recognized her in its 2010 edition as the “Best Start on the U.S. Digital Chart by a Female Artist”, for digital single sales of over two million copies. One of the songs she had recorded for her album with Ballard, “Simple”, was featured on the soundtrack to the 2005 film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Perry provided backing vocals on Mick Jagger’s song “Old Habits Die Hard”, which was included on the soundtrack to the 2004 film Alfie.
Life and career
She recorded background vocals on P.O.D.’s single “Goodbye for Now”, was featured at the end of its music video in 2006, and performed it with them on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. That year, Perry also appeared in the music video for “Learn to Fly” by Carbon Leaf, and she played the love interest of her then-boyfriend, Gym Class Heroes lead singer Travie McCoy, in the band’s music video for “Cupid’s Chokehold”. Throughout her career, Perry has won five American Music Awards, 14 People’s Choice Awards, 19 Guinness World Records, a Brit Award, and a Juno Award. From May 2010 to September 2011, the singer spent a record-breaking 69 consecutive weeks in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100. Teenage Dream became the first album by a female artist to produce five number-one Billboard Hot 100 singles, and the second album overall after Michael Jackson’s Bad. In the United States, she has accumulated nine number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100, her most recent being “Dark Horse”, and holds the record for having 18 consecutive number-one songs on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart.
2006: Career beginnings, Katy Hudson, and Fingerprints
- Perry also hosted the 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards that November, becoming the first person to host two consecutive ceremonies of the European awards.
- That December, Perry followed this with “When I’m Gone”, a collaboration with Swedish DJ Alesso that made her the third person to reach number one on Croatia’s ARC 100 list across three different decades following Lady Gaga and Coldplay.
- Perry lists Gwen Stefani, Shirley Manson, Chloë Sevigny, Daphne Guinness, Natalie Portman, and the fictional character Lolita as her style icons.
Billboard Hot 100 on July 5, 2008, and remained number one for seven consecutive weeks. The former criticized its homosexual theme, while the latter accused her of using bi-curiosity to sell records. In response to speculation that her parents opposed her music and career, Perry told MTV News that they had no problems with her success. In 2004, she signed to Ballard’s label, Java Records, which was then affiliated with The Island Def Jam Music Group. Perry began work on a solo record due for release in March 2005, but the record was shelved after Java was dropped.
2012: Teenage Dream and marriage
Perry subsequently was placed at number four on the 2019 “Highest-Paid Women in Music” listings, with $57.5 million. Later that year, with earnings of $530 million throughout the 2010s, the magazine also ranked her as the ninth-highest-earning musician of the decade. Perry is among the wealthiest musical artists; during September 2023, Forbes surmised her net worth was $340 million. This increased to $360 million by June 2025, where she was included on the magazine’s 2025 list of “America’s Richest Women Celebrities”. Through Twitter and by performing at rallies, Perry supported President Barack Obama in his run for re-election and praised his support for same-sex marriage and LGBT equality.
Another source agreed, declaring Perry as the best match for Trudeau at the perfect time in his life. They explained that the Canadian’s inner circle always suspected that he would date a celebrity after politics, citing his father, Pierre Trudeau, who dated many famous women such as Barbra Streisand and Kim Cattrall. Additionally, the source claimed Perry “has a lot of fun with him” and labeled Trudeau “exactly what she needs right now.” A different source echoed similar sentiments about Perry’s effect on Trudeau, declaring the politician’s stress melted away in her presence.
Released on August 24, 2010, Teenage Dream debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, and received mixed reviews from music critics. It has since sold over 12 million copies worldwide, being her highest-selling album to date. Teenage Dream would go on to win the 2011 Juno Award for International Album of the Year. It became the album’s third consecutive number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on December 8, 2010. One of the Boys, released on June 17, 2008, garnered mixed critical reviews and reached number nine on the U.S.
She performed at three rallies for Obama, in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Wisconsin, singing a rendition of “Let’s Stay Together” as well as a number of her songs. During her Las Vegas performance she wore a dress made to replicate a voting ballot, with Obama’s box filled in. Perry’s fashion often incorporates humor, bright colors, and food-related themes such as her characteristic spinning peppermint swirl dress. Vogue described her as “never exactly one to shy away from the outrageous or the extreme in any realm”, and called her the “Queen of Camp”, while Glamour named her the “queen of quirk”. In February 2009, Perry told Seventeen that her fashion style was “a bit of a concoction of different things” and stated she enjoyed humor in her clothing. She has also described herself as having “multipersonality disorder” for fashion.
- On social media, Perry surpassed Justin Bieber as the most followed person on Twitter in November 2013.
- After Columbia dropped Perry, Angelica Cob-Baehler, then a publicity executive at the label, brought Perry’s demos to Virgin Records chairman Jason Flom.
- She also credits the 1996 film The Craft for inspiring her song “Dark Horse”, and Eckhart Tolle’s book The Power of Now for influencing Prism.
- That September, a limited-edition Katy Perry doll was produced by Integrity Toys in response to her growing popularity.
- Perry later recalled a story about how a friend of hers played “You Oughta Know” by Alanis Morissette, which influenced her songwriting and singing.
“Hot n Cold” was released the following September and became the album’s second successful single, reaching number three on the Billboard Hot 100, while topping charts in Germany, Canada, the Netherlands, and Austria. Later singles “Thinking of You” and “Waking Up in Vegas” were released in 2009 and reached the top 30 of the Hot 100. The source explained that Perry was excited to wrap up her tour and channel all her energy into herself and her daughter’s happiness. “Without exaggeration, this year has been a whirlwind for her. She hasn’t even had time to really think about her life after the tour,” the source claimed.
Although Perry’s music incorporates elements of pop, rock, and disco, Katy Hudson contains gospel. Her subsequent releases, One of the Boys and Teenage Dream, involve themes of sex and love. One of the Boys is a pop rock record, while Teenage Dream features disco influences. Perry’s fourth album, Prism, is significantly influenced by dance and pop music. Lyrically, the album addresses relationships, self-reflection, and everyday life. Her fifth studio effort Witness is an electropop album that she described as a “360-degree liberation” record, with themes including political liberation, sexual liberation, and liberation from negativity.
It received favorable reviews from critics and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart. Four days later, Perry performed the songs from the album at the iHeartRadio Theater in Los Angeles. “Dark Horse” with Juicy J was released as the album’s third single in December, and became her ninth U.S. number-one single the following month. In 2014, “Birthday” and “This Is How We Do” respectively followed as the album’s fourth and fifth singles, and reached the top 25 on the Hot 100.
On September 7, she set a new record by becoming the first artist to spend 69 consecutive weeks in the top ten of the Hot 100. “E.T.” featuring Kanye West was released as the fourth single from Teenage Dream on February 16, 2011. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 for five non-consecutive weeks, making Teenage Dream the ninth album in history to produce four number one singles on the chart. For this record, she received an honorary American Music Award in November 2011 and another Guinness record.
She received a Guinness record for most Twitter followers, and became the first person to gain 100 million followers on the site in June 2017. Keith Caulfield of Billboard stated that Perry is “the rare celebrity who seems to have enormous popularity but genuine ground-level interaction with her adoring KatyCats”. As of September 2025, she was the second-most followed woman on the site, with over 104 million Twitter followers, and the sixth most followed musician across social media with a combined total of over 377 million followers across Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. On January 20, 2021, Perry performed “Firework” at the Celebrating America concert during the inauguration of Joe Biden. Four months later, she released a new single, “Electric”, a collaboration with Pokémon as part of its 25th anniversary.
In addition, after Devine suggested that songwriting team the Matrix become a “real group”, she recorded an pin up app album, The Matrix, with them. The Matrix was planned for release in 2004 but was shelved due to creative differences. After the label dropped her, she worked at an independent A&R company, Taxi Music. She tried to “be a bit like the typical Californian girl” while growing up, and started rollerskating, skateboarding, and surfing as a teenager.
Her shoes are available on its namesake website and at retailers such as Dillard’s and Walmart. Perry was signed for a $25-million salary to serve as a judge on the sixteenth season of American Idol, which premiered in March 2018. Perry began a relationship with actor Orlando Bloom in early 2016 before the couple separated in February 2017. On June 17, 2014, Perry announced that she had founded her own record label under Capitol Records, titled Metamorphosis Music. Ferras was the first artist to get signed to her label, and Perry served as an executive producer on his self-titled EP. On November 23, 2015, Perry starred in H&M’s holiday advertising campaign, for which she wrote and recorded a song titled “Every Day Is a Holiday”.
Perry’s 2024 project 143 underperformed dramatically, and “Bandaids” is an upbeat, catchy attempt to move on from both that chapter as well as her recent split from longtime partner Orlando Bloom. Additionally, Perry was included in Glamour’s “104 Women Who Defined the Decade in Pop Culture” list of the 2010s. It stated Perry “did more than just break chart records. She was one of the driving forces behind the sound of pop radio in the 2010s” for her tracks that were “glossy, booming, sugary-sweet, and undeniably catchy”. She has been called a “gay icon” by Taylor Henderson of Out, noting how “I Kissed a Girl” helped fans explore their sexuality and how Perry openly embraced the LGBTQ+ community.
