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The following four singles failed to crack the top 40, two of them not making it onto the Hot 100 at all. “Chained to the Rhythm,” the album’s lead, debuted and peaked at number four on the US Hot 100. Since Katy is known as a “singles artist” rather than an “album artist,” the failure of Witness to spawn any chart-topping tracks revealed her true fall from glory. Like her two albums preceding, it debuted at number one on Billboard charts, but today, Prism has sold more than four times as many copies worldwide. Witness was the first in Katy’s discography to be considered a true flop. Two of Prism’s singles reached number one on the US Hot 100, a slight disappointment from Teenage Dream’s record-breaking triumph, but the album marked the last time a Katy Perry track would reach chart-topping status when “Dark Horse” hit number one in early 2014. Prism, the album which preceded the Superbowl, had a weaker commercial performance than Teenage Dream despite its first week sales being her greatest to date. all aimed to be cartoonish and playful, taking the pop theatrics of acts like Lady Gaga and Madonna but replacing their iconoclastic provocations with a reverence for childlike nostalgia.īy 2015, Katy broke records again when she performed at the Superbowl XLIX halftime show, earning critical acclaim for her set while pulling in over 4-million more viewers than the game itself and becoming the most-watched halftime show in the network’s history. Her clothes, hair, music videos, stage shows, etc. With a Candy Land themed music video, cotton-candy clouds on the album’s cover, and scratch-and-sniff cotton-candy stickers on limited-release records, Katy secured her status as the most bubblegum of popstars. The Teenage Dream roll-out fittingly centered around a concept both pop critics and fans often deem the genre’s nutritional equivalent: candy. Katy’s debut follow-up album, 2010’s Teenage Dream, broke records when five of its singles reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, an accomplishment only shared by Michael Jackson’s iconic album, Bad. The track and its corresponding album, One of the Boys, cemented the persona of Katy Perry as they introduced her, with visual references portraying Katy as a pin-up girl of the late 2000s–a modernized, live-action Betty Boop who’s provocative only as much as she embodies an ironic caricature of female pop-stardom. Her debut single, “I Kissed a Girl,” in 2008 hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 just weeks after its release.

As a result, she retired her long, dark hair for a short pixie cut, and adopted her natural blonde hair color.With her last two albums’ ( Witness as well as 2020’s Smile) underperformance, it’d be easy to forget how dominantly Katy Perry reigned over pop music of the early-to-mid 2010s.

Perry decided to shed her on-stage persona and embrace her self-proclaimed authentic self as Katheryn Hudson, her real name. After releasing Prism (2013) and touring in 2014–2015, Perry went on hiatus to protect her mental health and to return afresh. Prior to the release of the album, Perry had not released new material in four years, with the exception of the 2016 Summer Olympics anthem, ' Rise'. To promote the album, Perry embarked on her fourth concert tour, Witness: The Tour.

The album also topped the charts in Canada and Spain, while reaching number two in Australia, South Korea, Mexico, and New Zealand and the top five region in nine other territories. Moving 180,000 album equivalent units in its first-week, Witness debuted atop the US Billboard 200 chart, becoming Perry's third chart-topping album in the country. Some criticized the production and lyricism, while others welcomed the album's personal nature and singled out certain tracks for praise. Upon release, critics were divided towards the album. To support the album's release, Perry broadcast herself on a four-day YouTube live-stream, titled Katy Perry Live: Witness World Wide. ' Save as Draft' and ' Hey Hey Hey' were released as subsequent singles on Jand January 12, 2018, respectively, with 'Hey Hey Hey' receiving a music video. ' Bon Appétit' featuring Migos peaked at number 59, while ' Swish Swish' featuring Nicki Minaj reached number 46. Five singles aided Witness, out of which, three were released before the album and one reached the top-ten of the Billboard Hot 100 chart: the lead single, ' Chained to the Rhythm' featuring Skip Marley, peaked at number four on the Hot 100.

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