One of the bestselling, once

Katy Perry sat among the biggest-selling pop stars in history. Album sales have thinned, and her concert film has now handed her a new low.

Four million in, 21 grand out

The film cost £4 million to make. Its limited UK cinema run earlier this month brought in £21,000.

Two nights in Paris

It was shot across two nights of her Lifetimes tour in Paris last year, with a large crew and a budget to match.

Built as a fan party

The idea was to gather millions of fans in cinemas to celebrate her music together. That was the pitch.

150 cinemas, empty rooms

Around 150 cinemas and IMAX theatres across the UK put on screenings. Most played to largely empty auditoriums.

Leeds sold nothing

At one Leeds showing, not a single ticket was sold.

Two fans in Coventry

A Coventry screening drew exactly two die-hard fans.

IMAX in Milton Keynes

One IMAX screening in Milton Keynes pulled 17 people. A second managed ten.

Seventeen in Edinburgh

Across two Edinburgh screenings combined, 17 fans bought tickets.

Leicester Square, 42 seats

Even at the flagship Vue in London's Leicester Square, only 42 of 201 seats sold, taking £881.58.

Beaten by a wildlife film

Super Nature, a crowd-sourced wildlife documentary out around the same time, sold nearly twice as many tickets.

The insider verdict

A source close to the release called the interest dire and said the numbers speak for themselves.

“This has been an incredibly poor showing and just shows how far her star has fallen”

It never made its money back

The takings will not cover what it cost to shoot, according to the same insider.

“It certainly hasn't paid for itself.”

No US numbers at all

How it did in America is unknown. No box office figures have been released.

£844 in New Zealand

Overseas takings were thinner still. New Zealand returned £844 and Colombia £3,717.

The Taylor Swift yardstick

Swift's Eras film took £12 million in the UK and £198 million worldwide in 2023, the highest-grossing concert film ever made.

The tour actually worked

Lifetimes sold more than a million tickets over 91 nights worldwide. The live demand was real. The film could not borrow it.

She once matched Jackson

Her 2010 album Teenage Dream produced five US number ones, equalling Michael Jackson's record from a single album.

Then 143 landed

Her 2024 album 143 met savage reviews on release, and the slide got harder to argue with.

Mocked on the way down

Her Lifetimes dancing went viral as a school talent show comparison, the Blue Origin flight drew jokes, and at 41 she is now dating Justin Trudeau.