143 (Katy Perry album)

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ReleasedSeptember 20, 2024 (2024-09-20)
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Length33:34
Label Capitol
Producer
Katy Perry chronology
Smile
(2020 (2020))
143
(2024)
Singles from 143
  1. "Woman's World"
    Released: July 11, 2024 (2024-07-11)
  2. "Lifetimes"
    Released: August 8, 2024 (2024-08-08)
  3. "I'm His, He's Mine"
    Released: September 13, 2024 (2024-09-13)

143 is the seventh studio album by American singer Katy Perry. [1] It was released on September 20, 2024, by Capitol Records. The album title represents the phrase "I love you", [a] and is also Perry's symbolic "angel number". [b] As her first album since Smile (2020), 143 includes themes of self-love and empowerment, inspired by her motherhood.

Contents

In order to create a "dance party" album, she worked with previous collaborators Max Martin, Dr. Luke, and Stargate, while also approaching first-time collaborators Vaughn Oliver and Rocco Did It Again!. Dr. Luke's involvement in the album was widely criticized because of fellow singer Kesha's sexual assault allegations against him. 143 features guest appearances from German singer Kim Petras and American rappers JID, 21 Savage and Doechii.

Three singles preceded the album's release: "Woman's World" was released as the lead single on July 11, 2024. The song peaked at number 63 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 47 on the UK singles chart. It was followed by the single "Lifetimes" on August 8, and "I'm His, He's Mine" featuring Doechii on September 13. Commercially, the album debuted at number six on both the US Billboard 200 chart and the UK Albums Chart, while reaching the top ten in eight other countries. In support of the album, Perry is set to embark on the Lifetimes Tour in 2025.

143 received negative reviews from music critics, becoming the worst-reviewed album of Perry's career. They criticized the album as a product of Perry's creative stagnancy, and considered its songwriting subpar and the production outdated and insipid; several compared 143 to AI-generated music.

Background and conception

In August 2020, Katy Perry released her sixth studio album, Smile. It received mixed reviews from critics [2] and was dubbed by journalists as a commercial disappointment. [3] In August 2023, Perry confirmed in a Good Morning America interview that she was working on new material from a "place of love". [4] The next February, she made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and announced her exit from the American Idol judges' panel following the conclusion of the twenty-second season, wanting to "go out and feel that pulse to my own beat" and release new music after being "in the studio for a while". [5] Two months later, Perry told Access Hollywood that she was working on a "very bright and joyful" album. [6]

Rolling Stone reported in June 2024 that Perry had "reconnected" with producers who worked with her before, including Max Martin, Stargate, and Dr. Luke. [7] During a livestream via her social media on July 10, 2024, Perry described 143 as a dance album: "This record is super high energy, it's super summer, it's very high BPM. We just had a family dance party to one of the songs, and it's just full of so much joy, so much love, so much light." Perry also stated that an acoustic follow-up album was in the works. [8]

During an exclusive interview with Zane Lowe, she explained that the album title is her symbolic "angel" number: "A couple years ago, we were going through a little bit of a hard time medically in our family, and it was a little bit scary, and I started seeing 143 in many different ways, not just, like, on the phone. It was just like trippy, almost. And I looked it up, and it's code for 'I love you.' I really believe it was my angels, my guides, saying, 'I love you. We got you. We're going to protect you. You're exactly where you're meant to be. You're on the path". [9] [c]

Music and lyrics

143 is a pop, [11] [12] dance-pop, [13] [14] and Europop album, [12] addressing themes around love, motherhood and feminism. [15]

Release and promotion

Perry at 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards yellow carpet Katy Perry on the iHeartAwards2024 Yellow Carpet 02.jpg
Perry at 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards yellow carpet

Perry revealed on July 10, 2024, that her seventh album is titled 143 and will be released on September 20, 2024, by Capitol Records, aligned with her headlining live performance at the Rock in Rio Festival, in Brazil. [16] To further excite her fans, she went on a social media livestream that day and teased new songs from the album, including "Nirvana", "Gimme Gimme" featuring 21 Savage, and "I'm His, He's Mine" featuring Doechii, which samples "Gypsy Woman" by Crystal Waters. [8] During her interview with Lowe, Perry shared snippets of two other 143 tracks: "Lifetimes" and "Gorgeous". [17] The album was available as eight vinyl variants, four CD variants, a cassette tape, and multiple digital download variants with exclusive bonus tracks. [18] [19]

Singles

Perry performing at the 2024 AFL Grand Final. Katy Perry at the 2024 AFL Grand Final.jpg
Perry performing at the 2024 AFL Grand Final.

The lead single, "Woman's World", was released on July 11, 2024. [20] The song and its music video were received negatively by critics and the audience. Several journalists attributed it to the "bad taste" of the album's marketing, which they found unhelpful to Perry's perceived commercial decline with Witness and Smile. Perry's collaboration with Dr. Luke, who has been accused of sexual harassment by American singer Kesha, was also widely criticized. [21]

A second single, "Lifetimes", was released on August 8, 2024. Its music video, which revealed 143's track list, was accused of trespassing on ecologically protected dunes by the government of Balearic Islands, Spain. [22] [23] [24] [25]

Perry performed "I'm His, He's Mine" with Doechii and "Lifetimes" in a medley at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards on September 11, [26] with the song being released as a single two days later on September 13. [27] On the album's release day, Perry performed "Woman's World", "Gimme Gimme", "Gorgeous", "I'm His, He's Mine" and "Lifetimes" at Rock in Rio. Perry performed "Gorgeous" and "Lifetimes" at the 2024 AFL Grand Final on September 28. [28] [29] [30] The album's singles underperformed on the charts. [12] [31] [32]

Live performances

Perry conducted a one-off concert, Katy Perry: Night of a Lifetime, on December 11 at the Methodist Central Hall, Westminster in London. The special recorded and set to be aired on December 21 at ITV1.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?3.7/10 [33]
Metacritic 37/100 [34]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [35]
Clash 5/10 [36]
The Daily Telegraph Star full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [37]
Exclaim! 3/10 [38]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [12]
The Independent Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [39]
The Line of Best Fit 2/10 [40]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [41]
Pitchfork 4.5/10 [42]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [43]

143 received negative reviews from music critics, who dubbed it Perry's worst work. [d] At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 37, based on 18 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". [34] It marked the lowest-rated album of Perry's career and the lowest-rated album of the 2020s decade on the website. [48]

Several reviews considered 143 an unimpressive and insubstantial record from Perry. Alexis Petridis of The Guardian dubbed 143 a mediocre pop album "some way short of total catastrophe." [12] The New Yorker critic Amanda Petrusich, Financial Times 's Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, and PopMatters ' Peter Piatkowski said that Perry has lost the frivolity and "cartoonish eccentricity" that used to make her songs "dexterous and funny". [14] [49] [50] Clash 's Robin Murray, [36] Slant 's Tom Williams, [51] The Times 's Ed Potton, [52] and NME 's Nick Levine felt 143 was a dull, unsatisfying listen with very little highlights. [53] Tanatat Khuttapan of The Line of Best Fit dubbed 143 an album of "mindless club fillers", [54] while The Daily Telegraph 's Helen Brown referred to it as an inept "disastrous" album. [37] Slate 's Carl Wilson, [55] Business Insider India 's Callie Ahlgrim, [56] and The Arts Desk 's Guy Oddy said the album has no redeeming songs after its three singles. [57]

Critics took issue with what they considered as an outdated music production. Petridis, [12] Murray, [36] Radio New Zealand's Jared Richards, [32] and Los Angeles Times ' Mikael Wood felt that Perry's music does not fit in a pop scene defined by the fresh sounds of Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan. [11] Dubbing the album "genuinely bad", Wilson regarded Perry as "an invasive species pushing into environments where she doesn't belong, namely the 2020s." [55] To The Independent 's Roisin O'Conner, 143 is out of touch, held back by "commercial aspirations to have any real fun". [58] Chris Kelly of The Washington Post , Maura Johnston of Rolling Stone , and Hunter-Tilney agreed that 143 is a failed attempt in rekindling Perry's prime, resulting in perfunctory pop music that is "as dated as a Vine". [59] [14] [60]

Multiple critics compared the album's quality and content to those of artificial intelligence (AI) generated music, [61] [3] [62] [15] with some suspecting AI could have been involved in the making. [37] [63] Others felt that 143 confirms Perry's perceived loss of creativity after having been a prominent pop star of the 2010s; Fred Thomas of AllMusic opined, "143 rings the death knell for Perry". [64] [65] [66] [50] [58] 143 was declared a generic and derivative album in reviews from Thomas, [65] Juzwiak, [42] Sowman-Lund, [63] Victoria Wasylak of Paste , [13] John Murphy of musicOMH , [67] Mark Kennedy of Associated Press, and Wren Graves of Consequence . They found the songs to be boring, "uninspired", "forgettable" and "lifeless", describing the songwriting as hollow and formulaic. [68] [15] Exclaim! critic Sydney Brasil wrote, "It's confusing why Perry continues to make such soulless music when she has enough resources to quietly quit and be remembered dearly". [38] Variety writer Steven J. Horowitz described 143 as a "flat" album of lyrical clichés and "limp" music production, marking a new creative low for Perry. Horowitz argued that Perry's decision to reflect on her older catalog to create new music was a bad creative decision. [3]

On a positive note, Billboard author Rania Aniftos regarded 143 as a "characteristically Katy Perry" album that her fans are "sure to enjoy". [69] Some reviewers, such as Horowitz, Petridis, and Khuttapan, declared "Wonder" as the best track of the album, complimenting the display of sincere emotion. [12] [3] [54] Rich Juzwiak of Pitchfork considered 143 a confident "flop" album after the "back-to-back flops" of Witness (2017) and Smile, and felt that releasing albums that are so-bad-it's-good could be a part of Perry's appeal. [42] The Spinoff 's Stewart Sowman-Lund agreed, naming Prism (2013) as Perry's last success. [63] Hunter-Tilney remarked that "a so-bad-it's-good reassessment" is 143's last resort and pondered if the album could be "reborn as a kitsch classic for its sheer badness". [14]

The album's critical reception was a topic of media coverage. Nick Levine of the BBC opined that the album's reception "may also have been hampered by a toxic combination of misogyny and ageism that tends to affect female artists over 35." [70] Ahlgrim argued that one might believe the criticism "is overblown or prejudicial, a cliché result of herd mentality" but said that is not the case with 143 and that "the adverse reaction [...] is very much earned, if even a little generous." [61]

Commercial performance

143 debuted at number six on the US Billboard 200 chart, marking Perry's seventh top-ten album. [71] It opened with 48,000 album equivalent units, of which 37,500 were sales, 10,000 were streaming-equivalent units (translated from 13.11 million on-demand streams), and 500 track-equivalent units. [19] It marked the singer's second-lowest first-week sales debut on the Billboard 200, surpassing only One of the Boys (2008), which sold 47,000 copies in its opening week, [72] [73] and departed from the charts after a total of two weeks, making it Perry's shortest running album to date. Some journalists noted that Perry's perceived commercial decline continued with 143. [3] [12] As of December 2024, the album has sold 100,000 units.

The album fared better in Europe, surpassing the first-week performance of Perry's previous release, Smile (2020), in multiple countries. It debuted at number six on the UK Albums Chart with 9,250 album equivalent units, her best first-week sales in the country since Witness (2017), and became her sixth top-ten album. [74] [75] In Spain, the album entered the chart at number three, becoming her highest-charting album in the country since Witness (2017). [76] Similarly, the album debuted at number six in Italy, beating the number ten peak of Smile (2020). [77] The album also reached number six and number five on the Belgian Flanders and Wallonia charts, respectively, becoming her fifth consecutive top-ten album in both regions. [78]

In Australia, 143 reached number two on the ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart, and remained on the chart for a second week at number twenty. [79] The album also reached the top-ten in New Zealand and Scotland. [80] [81]

Track listing

143 standard edition track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Woman's World"2:43
2."Gimme Gimme" (featuring 21 Savage)
  • Dr. Luke
  • Rocco Did It Again!
2:57
3."Gorgeous" (featuring Kim Petras)
  • Perry
  • Kim Petras
  • Gottwald
  • Max Martin
  • Oliver
  • Joseph
  • Valdes
  • Angelides
  • Malibu Babie
  • Devin Wilkes
  • Dr. Luke
  • Oliver
  • Malibu Babie
3:17
4."I'm His, He's Mine" (featuring Doechii)
  • Dr. Luke
  • Rocco Did It Again!
3:18
5."Crush"Dr. Luke2:57
6."Lifetimes"
  • Perry
  • Gottwald
  • Oliver
  • Valdes
  • Ogren
  • Thomas
  • Lewis
  • Hudson
  • Dr. Luke
  • Oliver
3:12
7."All the Love"
  • Perry
  • Gottwald
  • Oliver
  • Joseph
  • Ogren
  • Bach
  • Alqaisi
3:15
8."Nirvana"
  • Perry
  • Gottwald
  • Oliver
  • Joseph
  • Valdes
  • Ogren
  • Bach
  • Hudson
  • Koehlke
  • Thomas
  • Warren
  • Harris
  • Dr. Luke
  • Oliver
  • Joseph
2:51
9."Artificial" (featuring JID)
  • Perry
  • JID
  • Gottwald
  • Joseph
  • Valdes
  • Bach
  • Angelides
  • Hudson
  • Samuel Catalano
  • Dr. Luke
  • KBeazy
2:43
10."Truth"
  • Perry
  • Gottwald
  • Oliver
  • Valdes
  • Ogren
  • Lewis
  • Hudson
  • Dr. Luke
  • Oliver
2:57
11."Wonder"3:24
Total length:33:34
1432 edition
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
12."I Woke Up"
  • Perry
  • Gottwald
  • Lewis
Dr. Luke2:28
13."Has a Heart"
  • Perry
  • Gottwald
  • Oliver
  • Valdes
  • Ogren
  • Lewis
  • Dr. Luke
  • Oliver
2:49
14."No Tears for New Year's"
  • Perry
  • Gottwald
  • Valdes
  • Ogren
  • Thomas
  • Alqaisi
Dr. Luke3:23
15."OK"
  • Dr. Luke
  • Oliver
2:38
Total length:44:55
HMV/Target & Japan edition (bonus track) [82] [83] [84] [85]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
12."Has a Heart"
  • Perry
  • Gottwald
  • Oliver
  • Valdes
  • Ogren
  • Lewis
  • Dr. Luke
  • Oliver
2:49
Total length:36:23
Web store exclusive purple vinyl (bonus track) [86]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
12."No Tears for New Year's"
  • Perry
  • Gottwald
  • Valdes
  • Ogren
  • Thomas
  • Alqaisi
Dr. Luke3:23
Total length:36:57
143: I Love You More web store digital deluxe [87]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
12."I Woke Up"
  • Perry
  • Gottwald
  • Lewis
Dr. Luke2:28
13."No Tears for New Year's"
  • Perry
  • Gottwald
  • Valdes
  • Ogren
  • Thomas
  • Alqaisi
Dr. Luke3:23
14."Gimme Gimme" (solo version)
  • Perry
  • Gottwald
  • Valdes
  • Ogren
  • Thomas
  • Lewis
  • Alqaisi
  • Dr. Luke
  • Rocco Did It Again!
2:44
Total length:42:09
143: I Love You IRL web store digital deluxe [88]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
12."Woman's World" (live from Brazil)
  • Perry
  • Gottwald
  • Oliver
  • Joseph
  • Valdes
  • Angelides
3:18
13."California Gurls" (live from Brazil)
3:17
14."Teenage Dream" (live from Brazil)
  • Perry
  • Gottwald
  • Martin
  • Levin
  • McKee
3:43
15."Part of Me" (live from Brazil)
  • Perry
  • Gottwald
  • Martin
  • McKee
4:03
16."Dark Horse" (live from Brazil)
  • Perry
  • Gottwald
  • Hudson
  • Martin
  • Walter
2:48
17."Never Really Over" (live from Brazil)
3:36
18."Wide Awake" (live from Brazil)
  • Perry
  • Gottwald
  • Martin
  • McKee
  • Walter
3:41
19."Lifetimes" (live from Brazil)
  • Perry
  • Gottwald
  • Oliver
  • Valdes
  • Ogren
  • Thomas
  • Lewis
  • Hudson
3:11
Total length:1:01:11

Notes

Personnel

Musicians

Technical

Visuals

Charts

Chart performance for 143
Chart (2024)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [89] 2
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [90] 8
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [91] 6
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [92] 5
Canadian Albums (Billboard) [93] 42
Croatian International Albums (HDU) [94] 7
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [95] 13
French Albums (SNEP) [96] 14
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [97] 16
Greek Albums (IFPI Greece) [98] 62
Irish Albums (OCC) [99] 20
Italian Albums (FIMI) [100] 6
Japanese Digital Albums (Oricon) [101] 29
Japanese Hot Albums ( Billboard Japan ) [102] 74
Japanese Western Albums (Oricon) [103] 21
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [104] 9
Polish Albums (ZPAV) [105] 15
Portuguese Albums (AFP) [106] 20
Scottish Albums (OCC) [107] 4
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [108] 3
Swedish Physical Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [109] 18
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [110] 12
UK Albums (OCC) [111] 6
US Billboard 200 [112] 6

Release history

Release dates and formats for 143
RegionDateFormat(s)EditionLabelRef.
VariousSeptember 20, 2024Standard Capitol [18]
  • CD
  • vinyl
HMV/Target [82] [83]
  • United States
  • Australia
September 23, 2024Digital download143: I Love You More [87] [113]
JapanSeptember 25, 2024CDJapan Universal Music Japan [84]
United StatesSeptember 26, 2024Digital download143: I Love You IRLCapitol [88]
VariousDecember 20, 2024
  • Digital download
  • streaming
1432 [114]

Notes

  1. The representation is formed by a simple letter-count of each word in the independent clause "I love you".
  2. Not to be confused with the concept of Angel number in numerology
  3. 143 was a popular pager number to communicate "I love you" derived from the number of letters in each of the three words. [10]
  4. Multiple references: [31] [44] [45] [46] [47]

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"Smile" is a song by American singer Katy Perry for her sixth studio album of the same name (2020). It was released on July 10, 2020, by Capitol Records as the second single from the album, along with the album's pre-order. Musically, it is a nu-disco song which samples Naughty by Nature's 1999 song "Jamboree". On the song, Perry talks about expressing her gratitude for changes in her life. A version featuring American rapper Diddy is featured on some vinyl versions of the album, while remixes of the song by Giorgio Moroder and Joel Corry have also been released to promote the song.

"What Makes a Woman" is a song by American singer Katy Perry from her sixth studio album Smile. It was released as album's first promotional single on August 20, 2020. It was written by Perry, Sarah Hudson, Jacob Kasher Hindlin, John Ryan, and song's producer Johan Carlsson, with additional production by Elvira Anderfjärd. Perry acknowledged that the song was written to her daughter, Daisy Bloom. It received polarized reviews, with most of critics praising Perry's performance and song's production, with lyrics being mainly panned. The track was given with two visuals: acoustic performance published on the same day as the song, and animated video released as a part of The Smile Video Series on September 1, 2020.

"Cry About It Later" is a song by American singer Katy Perry from her sixth studio album, Smile (2020). It is a mid-tempo break-up pop song written by Perry, Noonie Bao, Sasha Sloan, and the track's producer Oscar Holter. The song gatherned positive reviews from music commntary, with Holter's production being praised. However some critics pointed out how the next album track, "Teary Eyes", is identical in subject matter to "Cry About It Later" – postponement of sorrow in favor of short-term pleasure.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lifetimes (song)</span> 2024 single by Katy Perry

"Lifetimes" is a song by American singer Katy Perry from her seventh studio album, 143 (2024). It was released as the second single through Capitol Records alongside an accompanying music video on August 8, 2024. The Italo house dance song was inspired by Perry's love for her daughter.

"I'm His, He's Mine" is a song by American singer Katy Perry featuring American rapper Doechii, from Perry's seventh studio album 143 (2024). It was released as the third single through Capitol Records alongside an accompanying music video on September 13, 2024, and was sent to contemporary hit radio on October 1, 2024 and Italian radio on October 8, 2024.

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