Katy Perry

Katy Perry's latest and fourth album, Prism, was just released on October 22nd via Capitol Records. The album's composition was largely inspired by Swedish dance music artists such as Robyn. In order to create her desired sound, Perry worked heavily with Swedish producer Max Martin, while also enlisting past collaborators Dr. Luke, Cirkut, Greg Wells, Benny Blanco, and StarGate. The lead single, "Roar" was released on August 10th to and it has since topped the US Billboard Hot 100, while peaking at the top 10 of twenty-five countries. "Dark Horse" featuring rapper Juicy J was released on September 17th on iTunes as the album's first promotional single. "Unconditionally" was released as the album's second single on October 16th.

In 2007, Perry signed a recording contract with Capitol Records and adopted her current stage name. The following year, she came to prominence with the 2008 release of her second album, One of the Boys, which produced the singles "I Kissed a Girl", "Hot n Cold" and more. Perry's third record, Teenage Dream, was released in 2010 and spawned the Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping singles "California Gurls", "Teenage Dream", "Firework", "E.T.", and "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)". In doing so, it became the first album recorded by a female artist in history to produce five number-one hits, and the second album overall after Michael Jackson's August 1987 album Bad.

Perry has received numerous awards and nominations, including nine Grammy nominations and Billboard dubbed her as 2012's Woman of the Year. She remains the only artist to spend 69 consecutive weeks in the top ten of the Hot 100. Perry was ranked at number fourteen on Billboard's list of top moneymakers of 2011, grossing more than $11 million.

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