Katy Perry has been introduced because the headliner of ‘Pop Day’ on the 2026 version of Rock In Rio Lisbon Competition.
The singer will high the invoice on the Palco Mundo Stage in Parque Tejo within the Portuguese capital on June 20 subsequent yr, with the pageant operating over two consecutive weekends.
Linkin Park have already been introduced as headlining the pageant on June 21, and the occasion may also run on June 27 and 28. Tickets for Rock In Rio Lisbon 2026 will be bought right here.
In a video shared on the pageant’s Instagram, Perry, who beforehand performed on the pageant in 2018, has mentioned: “Ola Lisboa. It’s such an honour to announce that I’ll be acting at Rock In Rio Lisboa 2026. This pageant is among the most iconic on the earth and I’m so excited to affix this very unimaginable line-up. Lisbon, I’ll see you in June for a really particular present.”
Additionally on the invoice to date for ‘Pop Day’ shall be Brazilian singer and producer Pedro Sampaio and Sao Tome and Principe duo Calema, in addition to NAPA, who shall be enjoying of their dwelling nation.
Roberta Medina, government vice chairman of Rock in Rio Lisbon, has mentioned: “We’re making ready the biggest and finest version of Rock in Rio Lisbon with distinctive and memorable experiences. On this means, we place Lisbon and the pageant as world references in leisure tourism. We wish Rock in Rio Lisbon to proceed being rather more than a pageant, a stage for distinctive, dwell, and collective experiences displaying that folks united in peace and concord are the best transformative power to construct the world we need to see.”
They’ve additionally introduced that the pageant website shall be expanded by 25 sq. kilometres for 2026, and they’ll additionally debut ‘The Flight’, a brand new aerial present created particularly for the eleventh version of the pageant.
Perry launched her seventh album ‘143’ in September, which NME awarded two stars and described as “a serviceable however barely uninteresting assortment on which Perry struggles to relocate her previous sense of enjoyable”.
Final month, Perry mirrored on her “rollercoaster yr” and mentioned she was finished “forcing” her profession. “No matter comes subsequent, I’m letting it unfold naturally,” she mentioned. “No forcing, no controlling – simply trusting the angels, the followers, and the music to information me the place I’m meant to go. Please know this: my love for you is unconditional, and I couldn’t do any of this with out you.”
Controversies surrounding the album included her option to work with Dr. Luke regardless of the abuse and assault allegations towards him, and the supposed male gaze-centric nature of her single ‘Lady’s World’.
Elsewhere, she was lately noticed apparently kissing former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, though neither celebration have confirmed the connection.
