Katy Perry to tour China

Katy Perry will bring The Prismatic World Tour to China in April, the singer announced on her microblog on Thursday.

"Ni hao, Shanghai," Perry said via a video posted on her Sina Weibo account, "It's Katy Perry, and I'm so excited to bring the Prismatic World Tour to Shanghai on April 21. I will see you there."

The "Roar" singer will sing her greatest hits in Shanghai's Mercedes-Benz Arena, the organizer AEG China announced. Presales of tickets will begin at 2 pm on Feb 10.

The Prismatic World Tour is the third concert tour by Katy Perry, in support of her fourth platinum studio album, Prism (2013). The tour began on May 7, 2014 in Belfast, Northern Ireland at the Odyssey Arena and will extend its stops in Asia in 2015.

Besides Shanghai, Perry will hold Asian leg concerts in Guangzhou, China on April 18 at the Guangzhou International Sports Arena and she will tour to Macao, China from May 1 - 2 to the Cotai Arena of The Venetian Macao, as well as the Taipei Arena, Taipei on April 28, 2015.

Katy Perry also revealed that her Asian stops also include Tokyo, Jakarta, Manila, Singapore and Bangkok from April to mid-May.

The Prismatic World Tour has been an international success and has become Perry's most successful tour to date. The tour has been the second highest-grossing, and highest-grossing led by a female in North America by average box office takings per city in 2014. According to Pollstar, the tour was the fourth best-selling in the world, and the best-selling by a solo female artist in 2014 with takings of US$153 million and 1.4 million attendees.

It is not first time that Katy Perry has come to China; she performed a small concert in January 2014 in Beijing. But the Prismatic World Tour is her official debut grand show in China.

Katy Perry, who helped the Super Bowl XLIX become the most-watched US television show ever with 114.4 million viewers on Feb 1, will be performing at Sunday's Grammys. However, she has been shut out by the Recording Academy from 11 previous nominations dating back to 2009. Whether she can break the curse and win her first Grammy remains to be seen.