Katy Perry’s ’Dark Horse’ reaches Vevo milestone

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Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse” music video has delivered more than one billion views, officially making it 10XCertified. The hashtag #DarkHorse10xCertified became a worldwide trending topic, pushing the video past the 1 billion mark. “Dark Horse” is now the second most-watched video on Vevo after Justin Bieber’s “Baby.”

Not far behind “Dark Horse,” the songstress’ video for “Roar” is also trending to cross the milestone view count with over 970 million views to date.

Along with “Dark Horse” and “Roar,” 10 other Katy videos including "Firework," "Last Friday Night T.G.I.F.," "Wide Awake," "This Is How We Do," "Part of Me," "The One That Got Away," “Hot N Cold,” “Unconditionally,” “California Girls,” and “Teenage Dream” are all VevoCertifiedwith over 100 million views.

Katy Perry made her Capitol Records debut with 2008’sOne of the Boysand cemented her status as a global superstar with the follow-up album,Teenage Dream, which spent over two years on the Billboard 200. She became the only female artist to have five No. 1 singles from one album on the Billboard Hot 100.PRISM, her latest album, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, hit No. 1 on iTunes in more than 100 countries and has been certified quadruple Platinum in the U.S. with more than 75 million certifications in the RIAA’s Gold & Platinum Digital Program, Katy is the Top Certified Digital Artist Ever.