KATY PERRY

PRISM - 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 June 2008 release of her second album, One of the Boys, which produced the singles “I Kissed a Girl”, “Hot n Cold”, “Thinking of You”, and “Waking Up in Vegas”. The project was further promoted through the Hello Katy Tour. Perry’s third record, Teenage Dream, was released in August 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 1987 album Bad.