Updated: 28 March 2020
Katy Perry smashed over 15 World Records through her career
The famous singer who kissed a girl, Katy Perry, has smashed over fifteen Guinness World Records throughout her 18-years career.
Katy Perry broke 5 Guinness World Records on Twitter.
Katy Perry joined Twitter back in February 2009, and by mid-2012, her account reached 50 million followers. In ten years, Perry sent out 10, 025 tweets, that’s about a thousand each year.-
Most Followers on Twitter. Since 2014, Katy Hudson is the holder of a major Guinness world record title. Perry is The Most Followed User Ever on Twitter, with over 107.8 million followers as of August 2019.
The second most-followed Twitter user is Barack Obama with 107.7M, and next in line is Justin Bieber with 106.2M followers.
This also makes her: - Katy Perry ranks as The most followed female on Twitter.
- Perry is also the most Followed female pop star on Twitter. Next in line is Rihanna, Taylor Swift, and Lady Gaga, and the most followed male pop singer is Justin Bieber.
First Female to have Five No. 1 Singles from one Album (US).
Katy Perry broke a major Guinness World Record after the release of her third studio album “Teenage Dream” in August 2011.- “Teenage Dream” is the 2nd album in the 61-year history of Billboard Hot 100 to produce five No.1 singles, after Michael Jackson’s 1987 album “Bad.”
- Thereby, Katy Hudson became the 2nd singer ever and the first woman to smash this record.
Katy Perry scored the Best Start by a Female Singer on the US Digital Chart.
In 2010, the Guinness World Records recognized Katy Hudson as the only female artist to have sold over 3 million US copies of her first two releases, “Hot N Cold” and “I Kissed A Girl.” In a span of five years, from 2008 to 2013, eight songs from Perry’s 2nd album “One of the Boys” shipped each over 4 million copies in the US, including the early mentioned, plus “California Gurls”, “Teenage Dream,” “Roar,” “Dark Horse,””Firework,” and “E.T.”Katy Perry set 2 Guinness World Records for the Highest Annual Earnings by a Female Musician (In 2015 and 2018).
In 2015 with earnings of 135$ million, Forbes ranked Katy Perry at No.1 on their “World’s Highest-Paid Musicians” list and as well as the “Best-Earning Female In Music.”- Katheryn Perry was also the 2015 biggest-earning female, ranking at No.3 on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list, behind Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao.
- Perry was also ranked as the 4th highest-paid female celebrity of 2018, after Ellen DeGeneres, Judy Sheindlin, and Kylie Jenner.
- The only highest-paid musicians above Pery were U2 ($118 million), Coldplay ($115.5 million), Ed Sheeran ($110 million), and Bruno Mars ($100 million).
Perry was ranked as the Best-Selling Digital Artist (US)
According to RIAA, on 26 June 2014, Katy Perry became the biggest-selling digital artist in the US, with total sales of over 72 million digital single units.- Perry is the first artist to hit the 70 million digital award threshold – 20 million ahead of Rihanna.
- Katy Perry is also the first artist in RIAA’s history to earn three Diamond Song Awards for “Dark Horse,” “Firework,” and “Roar.”
Katy Perry ranks as the first artist to have multiple videos surpass 1 billion views
and she held the record for the Most-Watched Music Channel on Youtube (female).
KatyPerryVEVO held the world record for most-viewed music channel on Youtube by a female, with 18,390,137,522 video views as of 21 August 2019. Perry was followed by TaylorSwiftVevo on #2 with 17.6B views, and Shakira on #3 with 16.6B views.- Currently, with a total of 18.9B views, Katy PerryVEVO ranks on #2 after was surpassed by TaylorSwiftVevo, which gathered 19B views, and on #3 ranks Shakira with 17.9B views.
- Katy Perry’s youtube channel ranks at No.20 on the overall list of Most Viewed Youtube Channels and Justin Bieber ranks at No.17.
- Bieber is the owner of The Most Viewed Music Channel On Youtube by a male with 19,6B views.
- Katy Perry joined the platform on Jun 1, 2008, since then she uploaded 228 videos and attracted 34.7 million subscribers.
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Katy Perry scored the Largest TV Audience for a Super Bowl half-time performance.
In 2015, Perry’s halftime performance at The Super Bowl XLIX was seen by 118.5 million people, attracting a larger audience than the game itself. The 2015 game ranks as the most-watched program in American TV history with an average audience of 114.4 million viewers.- Perry’s 13-minute performance currently holds the world record for the most-watched halftime show in Super Bowl history after surpassing Bruno Mars’ performance by 3.2 million viewers.
- The Mars show from 2014 was the previous record-holder with 115.3 million viewers.
Her show included seven songs: “Roar,” “Dark Horse,” “Teenage Dream,” “California Gurls,” “Firework,” “I Kissed a Girl,” (ft. Lenny Kravitz) and “Work It/Get UR Freak On/Lose Control”(ft. Missy Elliott). The NFC game was held on 1 February 2015, between New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks, at the University of Phoenix Stadium. The Patriots defeated Seahawks with 28 points to 24.
Katy Perry had the Most Just Dance Appearances by one artist.
Katy Perry is the most prolific artist in the Just Dance series game. As of 13 February 2015, Katy Hudson has eleven songs featured across the famous boogie-game franchise:“Hot N’ Cold” (Just Dance)
“Firework” (Just Dance 2 DLC)
“California Girls,” “ET” & “Teenage” Dream (Just Dance 3)
“Part Of Me” (Just Dance 4 DLC)
“I Kissed A Girl” & “Waking Up In Vegas” (Just Dance 2014)
“Roar” (Just Dance 2014 DLC)
“Birthday”, “Dark Horse” (Just Dance 2015)
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