Katy Perry Net Worth 2026: The $400M Catalog Fortune

Last updated: November 13, 2026 · By Nathan Cole

Katy Perry’s net worth in 2026 is estimated at $340 million to $400 million, anchored at $400 million. Celebrity Net Worth prints $400 million as of a November 5, 2026 snapshot, Parade also prints $400 million after an update on September 28, 2026, and Forbes puts the figure lower, at $340 million in 2026. The gap between the two ends is not a mistake. It is a disagreement about method: how much of the reported $225 million catalog sale to count, how to value private investments that never appear in a filing, and how to treat a year of touring income that was still being counted when the estimates were made.

Perry turned 42 on October 25, 2026, and she is still earning at a scale most pop stars never reach. The Lifetimes Tour, which ran from April to December 2025, grossed more than $134 million across 91 shows in 23 countries, according to Billboard reporting from January 7, 2026. That made it the second-highest-grossing tour of her career. A concert film from the tour, “Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour — Live from Paris”, reached cinemas in 70 countries on September 2, 2026, after a Tribeca Festival premiere in June. The money story in 2026 is a catalog sale, a seven-season television contract, a Las Vegas residency, and a touring machine that has now been running for well over a decade.

This profile settles the number first, then traces every stream that built it: the $225 million catalog deal, the reported $25 million a season from American Idol, the $168 million Las Vegas residency, the tours, the business ventures, and the 2025–2026 headlines — the Blue Origin flight, the split from Orlando Bloom, the new relationship with Justin Trudeau, and the Montecito court fight. Every figure is tied to the outlet that reported it. Where the outlets disagree, this profile prints the range and says why.

The 0M–0M Range: Why the Outlets Disagree

Three named estimators published Katy Perry net worth figures in 2026, and they do not agree. Celebrity Net Worth prints $400 million in a snapshot dated November 5, 2026. Parade prints $400 million, updated September 28, 2026. Forbes prints $340 million in 2026. The $60 million gap between Forbes and the other two is the story of this section, because it tells the reader how celebrity wealth estimates are actually built — and where they can go wrong.

Forbes applies the strictest method of the three. Its reporters count only assets they can document or value with confidence: recorded music income, touring grosses, television contracts, and real estate with a public price. Private business stakes get a discount or get left out entirely when no valuation exists. Perry’s co-founded drinks brand De Soi, launched in 2022, is a private company. No public filing values it. Forbes has to guess low or leave it out. Celebrity Net Worth and Parade are more willing to credit the full reported value of the catalog sale and to count the business holdings at a fuller figure. That is most of the $60 million.

The catalog sale is the second source of the gap. In September 2023, Perry sold her music catalog and publishing rights to Litmus Music for a reported $225 million. The sale covered five Capitol albums from 2008 to 2020 — the run that includes “I Kissed a Girl”, “Teenage Dream”, “Roar”, “Firework”, and “Dark Horse”. But $225 million was the price of the catalog, not the cash that reached Perry’s account. Taxes, legal fees, management commissions, and any partners who held a share of the rights all came out of it. The estimators have to guess how much came out, and they guess differently. A $225 million gross can become $150 million of net proceeds or $180 million, depending on the assumptions. That $30 million swing sits inside the range.

The third source is timing. Perry’s Lifetimes Tour ran from April to December 2025 and grossed more than $134 million, per Billboard’s January 7, 2026 report. The concert film followed in September 2026. An estimate published in early 2026 catches the tour money. An estimate published in late 2025 misses some of it. The Forbes figure and the Celebrity Net Worth figure were not necessarily built from the same pile of income. The range is the honest answer: $340 million at the cautious end, $400 million at the fuller end, with $400 million as the anchor because two of the three estimators land there.

One more point matters. A net worth estimate is not a bank balance. It counts the value of assets — catalog rights she still holds, property, business stakes — alongside cash. Perry sold the catalog rights to five albums, but she still owns the rights to her later work, including the 2024 album 143. She still owns property. The number on the page is a snapshot of everything she holds, minus debts, valued on a given date. It moves when a tour ends, when a court awards fees, or when a new estimate lands. The range tells the reader that.

The 5M Catalog Sale: The Deal That Reshaped Her Fortune

September 2023 was the single biggest payday of Katy Perry’s career, and it did not come from a stage. Litmus Music, a music-rights company, bought her catalog and publishing rights for a reported $225 million. The deal covered five Capitol albums released between 2008 and 2020 — the core of her commercial peak. “I Kissed a Girl”, “Teenage Dream”, “Roar”, “Firework”, “Dark Horse”: the songs that defined pop radio for a decade changed hands in one transaction.

Catalog sales became the defining music-business deal of the early 2020s, and Perry’s was one of the largest. The logic is simple. A buyer pays a large sum now for the right to collect the royalties later. The seller gets a lump sum, pays tax on it, and gives up the future stream. For an artist at Perry’s stage — 15 years into a career, with a catalog that had already earned for a decade and a half — the trade made sense. The songs had already done their biggest work. The buyer was betting they would keep earning steadily for decades, from streaming, sync licensing, and radio. Perry was betting that $225 million in hand was worth more than the same songs’ future royalties trickling in year by year.

The sale also changed how her fortune should be read. Before September 2023, her wealth was mostly a future stream: royalties, touring, television. After the sale, a large part of it became a single lump sum. That is why the estimates jumped. It is also why the estimates disagree, as the previous section explains: the gross price is public, the net proceeds are not. What is certain is the scale. A $225 million catalog deal is the kind of transaction that separates the top tier of pop wealth from the rest. It is the single largest documented inflow of her career, larger than any one tour and larger than her entire American Idol run.

What she kept matters too. The sale covered the five Capitol albums from 2008 to 2020. Her seventh album, 143, released in September 2024, sits outside the deal. Any new music she records from here on is hers to sell, license, or keep. The catalog sale did not end her music income. It converted the old income into cash and left the new income untouched.

American Idol: M a Season for Seven Seasons

From 2018 to 2024, Katy Perry sat at the judges’ table on American Idol for seven seasons, and the reported pay was $25 million per season. Across seven seasons, that adds up to roughly $175 million in reported television salary — the single largest steady income stream of her career, and the highest Idol judge salary ever reported, according to reporting cited by Page Six and TV Insider in competitor coverage.

The number deserves a closer look, because $25 million a season is not a salary in the ordinary sense. It is a fee for a few months of filming, plus the promotional work around the show. Perry was not recording an album or touring for much of that time. The Idol contract paid her to show up, judge, and be Katy Perry on television — and it paid her at a rate that few television personalities ever reach. The figure was reported so widely, and repeated so often, that it became one of the best-documented numbers in her whole money story. Competitor outlets treat it as the firmest single figure in the profile, and this profile does the same.

The Idol years also did something the money alone does not capture. They kept her on American television every week for seven years, in front of an audience that included people who had never bought a Katy Perry album. That visibility fed the rest of the business: the residency, the tour, the brand deals. A singer who disappears between albums fades. A singer who judges a hit show every spring does not. The $25 million a season was the direct pay. The exposure was the second payment, and it was worth plenty too.

She left the show after the 2024 season, and the timing lines up with the rest of her 2024–2025 calendar: the 143 album in September 2024, the Lifetimes Tour in 2025. The Idol contract ended, and the touring income replaced it. The seven seasons still stand as the steadiest money she ever made — $175 million over seven years, reported, with no tour buses and no ticket sales required.

The Tours: Prismatic, Witness, and the 4M Lifetimes Run

Touring built Katy Perry’s fortune before the catalog sale and the television contract, and it is still building it. The Prismatic World Tour of 2014–15 grossed more than $204 million, and Forbes recorded her peak earnings at $135 million in the June 2014 to June 2015 period — the year the Prismatic tour and its surrounding income made her the highest-paid female musician in the world at the time. Those are the numbers that turned a pop star into a nine-figure fortune.

The Lifetimes Tour, which ran from April to December 2025, grossed more than $134 million across 91 shows, according to Billboard’s January 7, 2026 report. The tour sold 1.05 million tickets in 23 countries. Billboard called it the second-highest-grossing tour of her career, behind the Prismatic run. A decade after her commercial peak, Perry was still filling arenas on five continents and grossing nine figures on the road. That is a rarer achievement than the number suggests. Most pop stars of her generation cannot tour at that scale in 2025. She can.

The economics of a tour at this scale are worth spelling out, because the gross is not the profit. A $134 million gross pays for the staging, the crew, the travel, the venues, and the promoters before Perry sees her share. The Lifetimes Tour was a large production — the staging, the costumes, the flying rigs that became a signature of her shows. Even so, a tour grossing $134 million leaves a large artist fee. The exact split is not public, and this profile does not invent one. What is public is the gross, the ticket count, and the ranking: second-best tour of her career, a decade after the best.

The tour also produced a second product. “Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour — Live from Paris”, a concert film, premiered at the Tribeca Festival in June 2026 and reached cinemas in 70 countries on September 2, 2026, with US IMAX screenings. A concert film turns one night of a tour into a product that sells tickets in cinemas around the world. It also keeps the tour alive after the last show. Perry played a show at Cardiff Castle on June 30, 2026, part of the same extended 2026 live calendar. The touring story in 2026 is not a single tour. It is a tour, a film, and a run of live dates, all feeding the same income line.

Las Vegas residency PLAY: a reported $168M.

Between the touring years, Perry held a Las Vegas residency. PLAY, her residency show, is reported to have grossed $168 million. A residency pays differently from a tour. There is no travel, no new venue every night, no shipping a stage across continents. The artist lives in one city, plays the same room, and the show gets sharper every week. For an established star, it is the most efficient way to earn from live performance: the same production, the same room, night after night, with the costs spread across the whole run.

The $168 million figure is a reported gross, and the same caution applies as with the tour numbers: the gross is not the artist’s take-home. The venue, the promoter, and the production all take their share. But the scale is what matters. A $168 million residency sits between her two biggest tours in size, and it arrived in the years when she was not touring heavily. It filled the gap. Between the Idol salary, the residency gross, and the catalog sale, Perry’s income in the early 2020s came from three directions at once — television, live performance, and the sale of old work. That is the shape of a fortune that was built deliberately, not by one lucky year.

The residency also kept her live brand warm. When the Lifetimes Tour launched in 2025, the audience had not forgotten her stage show. They had seen it in Las Vegas, or seen the clips, or heard the reports. A residency is a shop window for a tour. Perry used it that way.

Early Life: Dropped by Three Labels Before Capitol

Katy Perry was born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson on October 25, 1984, in Santa Barbara, California. She grew up in a religious household — both parents were pastors — and her first music was gospel. She sang in church before she sang anywhere else, and the voice that later filled arenas was trained on hymns. That background matters to the career story, because it explains the first decade of it: a gospel singer trying to break into pop, and failing, three times.

Before Capitol Records, three labels dropped her. Red Hill Records, Island Def Jam, and Columbia all signed her and all let her go. Three rejections is enough to end most careers. Perry kept going. She moved to Los Angeles, wrote songs, worked as a backing vocalist, and kept looking for the label that would let her make the record she wanted. The story is often told as a footnote. It should be told as the spine of the fortune: the $400 million estimate exists because she did not stop after the third rejection.

Capitol was the fourth label, and “I Kissed a Girl” was the breakthrough, in 2008. The single went to No. 1, the album One of the Boys followed, and a singer who had been dropped three times became a pop star in a single summer. The money followed the same curve. The first three labels earned nothing from her. The fourth earned a fortune, and so did she. The catalog that Litmus Music later bought for $225 million started with the Capitol years — the work she made after the rejections.

There is a business lesson in the three dropped deals, and it is worth stating plainly. A record deal is not a fortune. It is an option on one. Perry’s first three options expired worthless. The fourth paid. The difference was not the label. It was the timing, the songs, and the fact that she was still standing when the right deal arrived.

Teenage Dream: Five Consecutive No. 1 Singles

Teenage Dream, released in 2010, is the album that made Katy Perry a permanent figure in pop history. It produced five consecutive No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 — “California Gurls”, “Teenage Dream”, “Firework”, “E.T.”, and “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” — a record for a single album. No artist before her had done it. The album sold in the millions, the singles dominated radio for two years, and the songs became the core of the catalog that Litmus Music bought in 2023.

“Roar” and “Dark Horse”, from the follow-up album Prism (2013), extended the run. “Roar” became an anthem in the literal sense — played at sporting events, graduations, and political rallies. “Dark Horse” became one of the most-streamed songs of its era. Together with “Firework”, they are the three songs that earn the most from the catalog today: the ones that still play on radio, still stream in the hundreds of millions, and still get licensed for film, television, and advertising. The $225 million catalog price was, in large part, the price of those songs.

The scale of her record sales puts the catalog in context. Perry has sold more than 150 million records worldwide. That is the figure that separates her from the pop stars who had one big album. She had three — One of the Boys, Teenage Dream, and Prism — each with multiple hit singles, each still earning. A catalog with that many durable hits is worth nine figures. The Litmus deal proved it.

Business Ventures: De Soi, Fragrances, and Footwear

Music and television are the visible income. The business ventures are the quieter part of the fortune, and the hardest to value — which is one reason the estimates disagree. In 2022, Perry co-founded De Soi, a brand of non-alcoholic apéritifs. The drinks market for alcohol-free spirits was growing fast when she entered it, and De Soi positioned itself at the premium end: aperitifs designed to be drunk like cocktails, without the alcohol. Perry is not a silent partner. She is a co-founder, and the brand carries her name and her public support.

De Soi has no public valuation. That is the whole problem for the estimators. A private drinks brand with a celebrity co-founder could be worth a few million or a great deal more, depending on sales, distribution, and the next funding round. Forbes, with its stricter method, counts it low or not at all. Celebrity Net Worth and Parade credit it more fully. The $60 million gap between the Forbes figure and the $400 million anchor is, in part, the De Soi gap. Until the company raises money at a public valuation or gets sold, nobody outside it knows the number. This profile says so rather than inventing one.

The older ventures are easier to count. Perry has released fragrance lines through her career — perfumes that sold in department stores and online, the kind of celebrity product that earns steadily rather than spectacularly. Katy Perry Collections, her footwear line, sells shoes under her own name. Neither business has a public revenue figure attached to it, and neither is large enough to move the net worth estimate on its own. Together, they are the pattern: Perry has spent her career turning the name into products, and the products into income lines that keep paying when she is not on stage.

The business income matters for a second reason. A fortune built only on touring and television ends when the touring and television end. A fortune with business stakes in it keeps earning. The catalog sale converted old music into cash. De Soi and the product lines are the bet that the next decade of income will come from businesses she owns a piece of, not just from work she does in person.

Blue Origin NS-31: The Spaceflight and the Backlash

On April 14, 2025, Katy Perry flew to space aboard Blue Origin’s NS-31 mission — an all-female flight with Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez, Amanda Nguyen, Aisha Bowe, and Kerianne Flynn. It was the first all-female spaceflight since 1963. The flight lasted about 11 minutes, crossed the Kármán line, and put Perry in the headlines around the world. It also drew heavy public backlash.

The criticism came fast and from several directions. Some of it was about the cost and the symbolism: a short, expensive flight for celebrities while ordinary people struggled with prices at home. Some of it was about the marketing — the flight was presented as a feminist milestone, and plenty of commentators thought a 11-minute suborbital hop did not earn that label. Perry’s own comments after landing, including a kiss of the ground on her return, were mocked widely online. The backlash was strong enough that it became part of the story of her 2025, alongside the tour and the album.

The flight had no direct effect on her net worth — Blue Origin did not pay her, and she did not pay for a ticket in any reported sense — but it had an indirect one. A pop star’s fortune depends on public goodwill, and the NS-31 backlash dented hers for a time. The Lifetimes Tour still grossed $134 million in the same year, which suggests the damage was limited. Audiences kept buying tickets. But the episode is part of the 2025–2026 record, and a profile that skipped it would be hiding the year as it actually happened. Perry went to space, the public argued about it, and the tour went on anyway.

Personal Life: Russell Brand, Orlando Bloom, and Justin Trudeau

Katy Perry’s personal life has been public for her whole career, and the 2025–2026 chapter is the one readers ask about most. She was married to comedian Russell Brand from 2010 to 2012. The marriage ended in divorce after 14 months. She met actor Orlando Bloom at a Golden Globes party in January 2016. They got engaged in February 2019, and their daughter, Daisy Dove Bloom, was born in August 2020. The split from Bloom was announced in June 2025, after nearly a decade together.

Since July 2025, Perry has been dating former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau. The relationship went Instagram-official in December 2025 with a Japan trip, and the couple made their red-carpet debut in June 2026 at the Tribeca Festival — the same festival where her concert film premiered. In September 2026, she called him the love of her life, according to IANS reporting. The relationship is the most-searched part of her current personal life, and the facts above are the reported record: dating since July 2025, public since December, red carpet in June 2026.

The money angle is a comparison readers keep making. Trudeau’s net worth is about $10 million, per Celebrity Net Worth, as cited in Parade’s comparison. Perry’s $400 million anchor is roughly forty times that figure. The gap says nothing about the relationship and a great deal about the two careers: one built a fortune in pop music, television, and a catalog sale; the other spent a decade in public office. The comparison belongs in this profile because readers ask for it, and the figure is attributed to its source rather than stated as a fact of its own.

Daisy Dove Bloom, born in August 2020, is the centre of Perry’s family life in 2026. Perry has kept her daughter largely out of the public eye, and this profile follows that line: the birth date is public record, and the details of a child’s life are not the story here. The family facts that matter to the fortune are the ones with money attached — the divorce, the shared years with Bloom, and the new relationship — and those are the ones printed above.

The Montecito Mansion Fight: Court Awards in 2025–2026

For five years, Katy Perry was locked in a legal fight over a Montecito mansion, and the courts kept ruling her way. The dispute began with the 2020 purchase of a Montecito property from Carl Westcott, a veteran who later argued he had not been mentally competent to sell. Perry bought the house for a reported $15 million. Westcott sued to undo the sale. The case dragged through the courts for years, and the rulings in 2025 and 2026 finally settled the money.

In November 2025, a court awarded Perry’s side $1.8 million after offsets, per Celebrity Net Worth’s reporting on the case. In May 2026, the court awarded more than $3 million in attorney fees plus $345,000 in costs. The awards are not a windfall in the ordinary sense — they repay legal costs and damages from a fight that consumed years and a large legal bill — but they are real money, and they are part of the 2026 financial picture. A fortune is not only what comes in from work. It is also what the courts award and what the lawyers cost.

The Montecito house itself is part of the property picture. Perry owns real estate in California, and the Montecito property is the best-known piece of it. Property values feed the net worth estimate, and a house bought for $15 million in 2020 is worth more in 2026. The exact current value is not public, and this profile does not guess it. What is public is the court record: the sale stood, the awards went Perry’s way, and the five-year fight ended with her side ahead by millions.

2026: Album 143, “bandaids”, and the Concert Film

Perry’s seventh album, 143, was released in September 2024. It was her first studio album in four years, and it arrived in the same season as the American Idol exit — a deliberate reset from television back to music. The album did not repeat the chart performance of Teenage Dream or Prism, and the honest profile says so. It debuted lower, the singles did not reach No. 1, and the critical reception was mixed. But it did its job: it gave her new material for the Lifetimes Tour, and it gave the tour a reason to exist beyond nostalgia.

The single “bandaids” followed in November 2025, keeping new music in the stream while the tour was still running. The pattern is the one legacy pop stars follow: the album is no longer the main moneymaker, the tour is. The album exists to justify the tour, and the tour exists to sell the tickets. Perry’s 2025–2026 calendar runs on that logic, and it works: $134 million in tour grosses is the proof.

The concert film closed the loop. “Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour — Live from Paris” premiered at the Tribeca Festival in June 2026 and opened in cinemas in 70 countries on September 2, 2026, with US IMAX screenings. A film of a tour is a second sale of the same show: the fans who saw it live buy a ticket to see it again, and the fans who missed it buy a ticket to see what they missed. The Cardiff Castle show on June 30, 2026 was part of the same live calendar — a headline date in a historic venue, in the middle of a year that also included a film premiere and a red-carpet debut. At 42, Perry’s 2026 is not a wind-down. It is a tour, a film, a new single, and a new relationship, all in the same twelve months.

Peer Comparison: Perry Next to the Pop Billionaires

Katy Perry’s $400 million anchor looks different when it sits next to her peers. The pop stars of her generation split into two groups: the ones who built nine-figure fortunes from music, television, and touring, and the ones who crossed a billion. Perry is at the top of the first group. The table below uses the figures printed on the linked Guide Net Worth profiles and the named estimators.

Taylor Swift’s net worth, at about $1.8 billion per Parade, is the figure that frames the whole comparison. Swift crossed a billion because she owns her re-recorded catalog outright, toured the Eras Tour to record grosses, and kept the songwriting royalties that Perry sold. The difference between $400 million and $1.8 billion is, in large part, the difference between selling a catalog and keeping one. Perry sold five albums for $225 million. Swift re-recorded hers and kept the income. Both decisions were rational at the time. Only one of them compounds.

Selena Gomez’s net worth, at about $1.3 billion per the Guide Net Worth live post, crossed a billion on a different path: Rare Beauty, her cosmetics company, did the work that a catalog sale did for Perry. Gomez’s music income is smaller than Perry’s, but the beauty brand is larger than Perry’s business holdings. The comparison shows the two routes to a billion in modern pop: own the catalog, or own a brand that sells to your audience every day.

Lady Gaga’s net worth and Ariana Grande’s net worth sit in the same tier as Perry’s — nine figures built from music, film, and beauty brands. Gaga’s Haus Labs and her film career, including her acting roles, give her a different mix. Grande’s r.e.m. beauty line and her acting work do the same. The full figures are in their Guide Net Worth profiles. Sabrina Carpenter’s net worth is the younger generation’s version of the same story: a pop star building wealth from music, touring, and acting, a decade behind Perry on the same road.

The honest reading of the table is that Perry is rich by any measure, and not the richest of her peers. The $400 million anchor puts her ahead of most working pop stars and behind the two who crossed a billion. The catalog sale got her most of the way there. A beauty brand on the scale of Rare Beauty, or a catalog she had kept, would have closed the gap. She chose the lump sum in 2023. The comparison is the price of that choice, stated plainly.

Where the Money Comes From: The Income Breakdown

The table below pulls the documented figures from this profile into one place. It is not a balance sheet. It is the set of reported inflows that the $340 million to $400 million estimate is built on, with the source of each figure named. The catalog sale and the Idol contract dominate, which is the point: Perry’s fortune rests on two large, documented deals and a decade of touring, not on a hundred small ones.

Read the table with the same caution the article applies everywhere else. Tour and residency figures are grosses, not take-home pay. The catalog price is a gross sale price, not net proceeds. The Idol figure is a reported per-season fee multiplied across seven seasons. The court awards are real, but they repay costs as much as they add wealth. The table’s value is not precision. It is proportion: the reader can see at a glance that two deals — the catalog and Idol — account for roughly $400 million in reported inflows, and that the estimate of $340 million to $400 million sits inside that frame once taxes, fees, spending, and the value of the remaining assets are counted.

The estimate also counts things the table does not list. Property, including the Montecito house. The De Soi stake. Fragrance and footwear income. Royalties from 143 and from any music recorded after the catalog sale. Those are the assets that push the total toward $400 million, and the reason the estimators who count them fully land higher than Forbes. The range is the sum of the documented inflows, minus the costs nobody can see, plus the private assets nobody can value. That is why it is a range.

The Career Timeline: From Gospel Singer to 0M

Perry’s career is a long one — 25 years from her first record deal to 2026 — and the dates are the story. She was dropped three times before she broke through, peaked with Teenage Dream, sold her catalog, judged television for seven seasons, and toured at nine-figure scale twice. The table below is that story in order.

Read the table from top to bottom and the pattern is plain: the first decade was rejection, the second was the peak, and the third was the conversion of fame into money — a catalog sale, a television contract, a residency, and a tour that grossed $134 million a decade after the peak. The fortune was not made in one year. It was made in three acts, and the third act is still running.

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Sources and Reporting

This profile was reported from the sources named in the text in November 2026. The net worth range comes from Celebrity Net Worth ($400 million, snapshot November 5, 2026), Parade ($400 million, updated September 28, 2026), and Forbes ($340 million, 2026). The catalog sale — a reported $225 million to Litmus Music in September 2023, covering five Capitol albums from 2008 to 2020 — comes from the deal reporting cited in competitor coverage. The American Idol salary of a reported $25 million per season across seven seasons (2018–2024), about $175 million in total, and the claim that it was the highest Idol judge salary ever reported, come from reporting cited by Page Six and TV Insider. The Las Vegas residency PLAY gross of a reported $168 million comes from residency reporting. The Prismatic World Tour gross of more than $204 million and the Forbes peak earnings figure of $135 million for June 2014 to June 2015 come from tour and earnings reporting. The Lifetimes Tour figures — more than $134 million gross, 91 shows, 1.05 million tickets, 23 countries, second-highest-grossing tour of her career — come from Billboard’s January 7, 2026 report. The concert film “Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour — Live from Paris”, its Tribeca Festival premiere in June 2026, and its cinema release on September 2, 2026 in 70 countries with US IMAX screenings come from film and festival reporting. The Blue Origin NS-31 flight of April 14, 2025, the all-female crew of Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez, Amanda Nguyen, Aisha Bowe, and Kerianne Flynn, and the first all-female spaceflight since 1963 come from spaceflight reporting. The career record — three labels dropping her (Red Hill Records, Island Def Jam, Columbia) before Capitol, “I Kissed a Girl” in 2008, Teenage Dream in 2010 with five consecutive No. 1 singles, more than 150 million records sold worldwide, the 143 album in September 2024, the “bandaids” single in November 2025, and the Cardiff Castle show on June 30, 2026 — comes from the career record and contemporary reporting. The De Soi co-founding in 2022, the fragrance lines, and Katy Perry Collections footwear come from business reporting. The personal record — marriage to Russell Brand 2010–2012, meeting Orlando Bloom at a Golden Globes party in January 2016, engagement in February 2019, daughter Daisy Dove Bloom born in August 2020, split announced June 2025, dating Justin Trudeau since July 2025, Instagram-official December 2025, red-carpet debut June 2026 at Tribeca, and the September 2026 “love of her life” comment per IANS — comes from public reporting. Trudeau’s net worth of about $10 million comes from Celebrity Net Worth, as cited in Parade’s comparison. The Montecito court awards — $1.8 million after offsets in November 2025, more than $3 million in attorney fees and $345,000 in costs in May 2026 — come from Celebrity Net Worth’s reporting on the case. The peer figures — Taylor Swift at about $1.8 billion per Parade and Selena Gomez at about $1.3 billion per the Guide Net Worth live post — come from the linked Guide Net Worth profiles, verified live in November 2026. Reporting window: November 2026. Figures are estimates where labelled as such.

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