In terms of social media dominance, Katy Perry is no dark horse; shes the frontrunner.

The 31-year-old pop star, already the most-followed Twitter user, passed 80 million followers.

Thats about as many digital singles Perry has sold.

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Taylor Swift and her nearly 69 million Swiftie followers rest in third place.

Perry bested Swift in another field last year asthe highest-paid woman in music.

In almost seven years on Twitter, what was Perrys most popular tweet, according to amount of retweets?

This enthusiastic reveal of One Direction fanaticism.

(For the record, 1D did indeed perform at the 2012 show.)

Perrys fourth full-length studio albumis expected this year.