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Katy Perry
Solo artist Santa Barbara United States
Katy Perry is an artist from Santa Barbara. Katy Perry has 12 chart appearances on 10 radio countdowns from 6 stations on RockLists, spanning 2008–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “I Kissed A Girl”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #18. The station that charted Katy Perry most often is 103.1 The River (Kalispell-Flathead Valley, MT), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2008.
Katy Perry came out of Santa Barbara as Katheryn Hudson, and her first shot at music was a gospel album, Katy Hudson, released at 16 in 2001 on Red Hill Records. It went nowhere. She moved to Los Angeles, signed with Capitol Records, and in 2008 came back as a pop-rock provocateur with One of the Boys, whose lead single "I Kissed a Girl" was a sly, glitter-coated dare that shot to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 and even snuck onto rock stations.
What came next was a sugar rush. Teenage Dream, in 2010, went disco-bright and set a record no other woman has matched: five U.S. number-one singles from one album, among them "California Gurls", "Firework" and the title track. Prism, in 2013, went dance-floor and delivered "Roar" and "Dark Horse". Witness, Smile and 143 followed to mixed notices, but by then she was one of the best-selling artists of all time, a pop star who never met a bit of camp she didn't like.
The trophy shelf includes a BRIT Award, a Juno Award, and Billboard Music Awards and American Music Awards alike. Outside music she voiced Smurfette, sat on the American Idol judging panel from 2018 to 2024, and in 2025 flew into space aboard Blue Origin NS-31.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Katy Perry on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I Kissed A Girl | 5 | #18 | – | 2008 | |
| 2 | Teenage Dream | 2 | #8 | – | 2010 | |
| 3 | California Gurls | 1 | #31 | – | 2010 | |
| 4 | E.T. | 1 | #35 | – | 2011 | |
| 5 | Last Friday Night | 1 | #47 | – | 2011 | |
| 6 | Hot and Cold | 1 | #59 | – | 2009 | |
| 7 | Roar | 1 | #167 | – | 2013 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 829 | Teenage Dream | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) |
| 2013 | 167 | Roar | WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2013 |
| 2011 | 35 | E.T. | 103.1 The River Top 103 of 2011 |
| 2011 | 47 | Last Friday Night | 103.1 The River Top 103 of 2011 |
| 2010 | 8 | Teenage Dream | 103.1 The River Top 103 of 2010 |
| 2010 | 31 | California Gurls | 103.1 The River Top 103 of 2010 |
| 2009 | 59 | Hot and Cold | 103.1 The River Top 103 of 2009 |
| 2008 | 31 | I Kissed A Girl | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2008 |
| 2008 | 18 | I Kissed A Girl | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2008 |
| 2008 | 41 | I Kissed A Girl | KWOD Top 106 Songs of 2008 |
| 2008 | 69 | I Kissed A Girl | KSLG Top 94 of 2008 |
| 2008 | 75 | I Kissed A Girl | 103.1 The River Top 103 of 2008 |
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