Katy Perry and Arctic Monkeys Set for BRIT Awards 2014

It's just been announced that ending their previous mocking of the awards show, that the band Arctic Monkeys will open the BRIT Awards 2014. Also announced is the show's second confirmed performer, Katy Perry, who just announced a UK arena tour for May 2014. Her new single 'Unconditionally' will be released in the UK on December 16th. The awards will be hosted by James Corden, marking his fifth appearance on the show on February 19, 2014.

The awards will take place at London's O2 Arena, and will be broadcasted live to an anticipated audience of 10 million views.

Katy Perry cemented her status as a best-selling superstar with the global success of her second studio album, Teenage Dream, which debuted at #1 in 8 countries and spent over two years on Billboard's Top 200 album sales chart. She became the only female artist to have 5 #1 singles from one album on the Billboard Hot 100 chart ("California Gurls," "Teenage Dream," "Firework," "E.T." and "Last Friday Night"). The special edition, Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection, added "Part of Me" and "Wide Awake" to Katy's list of nine Top 40 chart-toppers (dating back to her multi-platinum debut album, 2008's One of the Boys, which generated four hit singles: "I Kissed A Girl," "Hot N Cold," "Thinking of You" and "Waking Up In Vegas"). "Roar," the first single from PRISM, became Katy's 10th #1 Top 40 track after debuting at #1 on iTunes in 68 countries with 557,024 downloads in its first week of release in the US alone, the biggest digital song sales week of 2013. Katy's 3rd album PRISM, released Oct. 22, debuted at #1 on Billboard with the biggest sales week of her career.