Happy 42nd Birthday to the gorgeous, massively talented, chart-topping, history-making Singer, Songwriter, Actress, TV Host, Pop Legend and Global Icon, the One & Only Katy Perry!👏🎂🎉🌟🐐👑🤍 #KatyPerry is One of the Best-selling Music Artists of All Time, having sold over 150 Million records Worldwide! She is one of the defining pure-pop commercial forces of the Era, ranked 4th on Billboard's "Greatest of All Time Pop Songs Artists" list, 5th on its 2025 "Top 100 Women Artists of the 21st Century" list and 25th on its 2024 "Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century" list! Katy has 6 RIAA Diamond-certified singles (Roar, Firework, Dark Horse, California Gurls, Teenage Dream, and E.T.), the 2nd-most in history among female artists! She's the 13th top digital singles artist in the U.S. with 121.5 million certified song units and 19 million certified album units, totalling 140.5 million certified units in the U.S. Katy is the only female artist to have 5 Hot 100 No. 1 hits from one album (Teenage Dream)! 8 of her singles have sold over 4M units in the US alone! She has had 9 No.1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, and holds the record for having 18 consecutive No. 1 songs on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart, from “Waking Up in Vegas” in 2009 through “Swish Swish” in 2017! She has 19 total Dance Club No. 1s! Katy was the 1st Artist ever to have multiple videos reaching 1 Billion views on both YouTube & Vevo with "Roar" and "Dark Horse"! Billboard also named 'Teenage Dream' and 'Prism' on its "Greatest of All Time Billboard 200 Albums by Women" list! Katy is one of the Most Awarded Artists of All time, having received over 500 Awards, including 5 American Music Awards, 5 Billboard Music Awards and a Billboard Spotlight Award and Billboard Woman of the Year Award, 20 Guinness World Records, 7 MTV VMAs including the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, 6 MTV Europe Music Awards, 4 NRJ Awards, 14 People's Choice Awards, a World Music Award, an iHeartRadio Music Award, a British Music Award, and a Juno Award among others! She has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards! Forbes ranked her as the world's highest-paid female musician in 2015 and 2018. In June 2025, Forbes included her on the magazine's 2025 list of "America's Richest Women Celebrities" with a net worth of $360 Million! Katy exploded on the international music scene after the success of her 2nd studio album, 'One Of The Boys' which spawned the smash hits "I kissed a Girl", her debut single, and its follow up, "Hot n Cold"! "I kissed A Girl", topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 7 consecutive weeks, becoming the 2nd longest-running No. 1 of 2008 in the US, after Flo Rida's "Low", and went to #1 in 20 countries! It has sold over 6 million units in the US alone, and almost 2 Million units in the UK, and has been certified multi-platinum in Australia, Canada, Denmark, the U.K, and sextuple Platinum in the US. "Hot n Cold" hit #3 on the US hot 100 and went to #1 in over 20 countries internationally! Her 3rd studio album, 'Teenage Dream', was released in 2010, and debuted atop the US Billboard 200, selling 192,000 copies in its first week. It was the first album by a female artist and 2nd overall after Michael Jackson's 'Bad' to produce 5 number-one Billboard Hot 100 singles, including "California Gurls", "Teenage Dream", "Firework", "E.T.", and "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)", all massive global hits. The Album was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of over 10M units! The album's reissue, 'Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection' released in 2012, produced the U.S. No. 1 single "Part of Me". 'Teenage Dream' and its singles earned Katy 7 Grammy Award nominations including Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, and Record of the Year! Katy released her empowerment-themed album 'Prism' in 2013. The album debuted atop the US Billboard 200 with 286,000 copies sold, becoming Katy's best opening week ever, and spawned the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s and global smash hits "Roar" and "Dark Horse". Both songs reached a Billion views with Katy becoming the 1st Artist ever to have multiple MVs hitting the 1B mark on both Vevo and YouTube! Katy's 5th studio album 'Witness' was released in 2017, and debuted at #1 on the US Billboard 200, becoming her 3rd chart-topping album in the country! It was also a huge international success, reaching the Top 10 in most countries and spawned the global hits "Chained to the Rhythm" ft Skip Marley, which hit #4 on the Hot 100, "Bon Appétit" ft. Migos & "Swish Swish" ft. Nicki Minaj! Katy's 6th studio album 'Smile' (2020) was a Top 5 hit in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK & the US and spawned the hits "Daisy" & "Smile"! Katy then embarked on her hugely successful Las Vegas concert residency 'Play' (2021–2023). Her 7th studio album, '143' was released in September 2024, and hit #1 on Worldwide iTunes and after reaching #1 in 37+ countries! It debuted at #6 in the Billboard 200, marking Perry's 7th top 10 album, and spawned the global hit singles "Woman's World" "Lifetimes" and "I'm His, He's Mine" ft. Doechii! A deluxe edition titled '1432', released on December 20, 2024 containing four additional tracks as "an early holiday gift" for her fans! In November 2025, Katy released the heartbreak single “Bandaids”, followed by her first official greatest-hits compilation 'The Ones That Got the Plays' in May 2026. Katy released the pop rock single “Watch It Burn” in June 2026 which hit #1 on the Worldwide iTunes song chart, topping iTunes in 30+ countries! Katy Perry is a certified touring powerhouse whose live shows have consistently drawn massive global crowds. Her 'Prismatic World Tour' (2014–15) remains her biggest to date, grossing over $204 million from 151 shows with 2 million attendees, while her 'California Dreams' Tour sold more than 1 million tickets! 'Witness: The Tour' moved roughly 1.1–1.2 million. Her 91-date 'the Lifetimes Tour' supporting '143' (2025) grossed $134 million from 1.05 million tickets across 23 countries, her second-highest-grossing trek ever, with multiple sell-outs including six shows in China that sold out in one minute. She has also packed her long Las Vegas residency 'Play' every night, and continues to headline festivals, cementing her status as one of the most reliable big-ticket live draws in pop today! Aside from music, Katy has released an autobiographical documentary titled 'Katy Perry: Part of Me' in 2012. She has voiced Smurfette in 'The Smurfs film series'. She's also a fashion Icon and launched her own shoe line 'Katy Perry Collections' in 2017. She is also the most famous and popular judge on American Idol on which she starred from 2018 to 2024. On April 14, 2025, Katy became the first female singer ever to fly into space with Amanda Nguyen, Aisha Bowe, Kerianne Flynn, Gayle King, and Lauren Sánchez. She also became the first pop star to sing in space, performing Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World." Katy Perry is an active philanthropist with a strong focus on children. Appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 2013 after supporting education and nutrition programs in Madagascar and later Vietnam, she donated a portion of Prismatic World Tour proceeds to the organization and received its Audrey Hepburn Humanitarian Award in 2016. In 2014 she partnered with Staples on “Make Roar Happen,” which directed $1 million to DonorsChoose to fund classroom resources for teachers. She has also supported musicians in need through MusiCares, raised over $175,000 for children’s health, clean water, and animal causes during the California Dreams Tour, performed at the One Love Manchester benefit, and hosted the 2018 “Witness: Coming Home” concert to aid California wildfire and mudslide recovery efforts in her hometown. Katy Perry is one of the defining pop stars of the digital era, a best-selling artist with over 150 million records sold, 9 Hot 100 No. 1s, 6 Diamond singles, and a string of global smash albums that turned candy-coated anthems into cultural fixtures. She’s one of world's wealthiest musicians, the most popular American Idol judge ever, a hugely successful fashion entrepreneur, a devoted UNICEF Ambassador, the first pop star to sing in space and a touring powerhouse, still enthralling fans worldwide on her Lifetimes Tour!