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Katy Perry continues to quietly but powerfully reshape the legacy phase of her career, and the last few days have been all about the numbers. Crypto and entertainment outlet MEXC News reports that her new compilation The Ones That Got the Plays has just debuted in the U.K. Top 10 on the Official Albums Streaming Chart, opening at number 7. That chart tracks the 100 most played releases across platforms like Spotify and Apple Music, which means this is not a nostalgia trophy; it is real-time listener demand. MEXC notes this is only her second career Top 10 on that specific streaming albums ranking, giving the project outsized biographical weight as proof that Perry’s back catalog is aging into classic-pop territory rather than fading out.
The compilation is loaded with nearly two dozen hits, but the current engine is The One That Got Away. According to the same MEXC report, the single has surged to a new peak of number 55 on the U.K. Official Streaming Chart, more than a decade after its original release. In parallel, her 2010 juggernaut Teenage Dream is quietly climbing again: MEXC says it has reached a new high of number 27 on the streaming-only albums tally and risen three spots to number 36 on the main U.K. albums chart. These moves matter biographically because they reinforce what Encyclopaedia Britannica already frames as her core story: an artist whose anthemic, often playfully suggestive hits like I Kissed a Girl, Last Friday Night, Roar, and Rise have lodged themselves firmly in pop culture.
In terms of public appearances, major headlines, and on-the-record business moves in just the past few days, reliable outlets have been relatively quiet, with no confirmed new tours, album announcements, or high-profile events breaking through the news cycle. Any chatter about upcoming studio eras, television projects, or personal-life developments beyond her previously documented relationships, such as her marriage to Russell Brand noted by Britannica, remains speculative unless and until confirmed by primary sources or top-tier media.
For now, the real story of this week is catalog dominance: Katy Perry’s existing work is surging on streaming charts in ways that will shape how future biographies describe her staying power in the digital era.
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