Katy Perry has tipped Charli XCX to win the 2024 Mercury Prize. The "Woman's World" singer has heaped praise on the English pop star for working "so hard" to get to her "prime" and is vying for her to take home the prestigious accolade.

Whilst promoting her upcoming seventh album on British chat show "The One Show" last Friday [July 26], following a segment about the shortlist for the 2024 Mercury Prize – which included Brat – host Roman Kemp prompted Perry to talk about an artist [she's] a big fan of, and who she would back to win the 2024 Mercury Prize.

Perry insisted: "This is Brat summer, and your couches are Brat. And the trash cans are Brat. You guys are really Brat fans."

"You guys, this is a Brat couch, Charli XCX."

Then she added: "She's got all of her flowers; she works so hard, and she is a super mega big pop star."

The 31-year-old BRAT singer-songwriter, who recently made headlines for branding U.S. Vice President runner Kamala Harris a "brat" as a compliment – as she said the term means a fun-loving woman – is shortlisted for her sixth studio record.

Also in the running are Irish country singer CMAT, 28, breakout dance act Barry Can't Swim and BBC Sound of 2024 winners The Last Dinner Party – along with Beth Gibbons, who is nominated for her debut solo album Forever Lives.

The 2024 Mercury Prize winner is set to be revealed in September, 2024, but for the first time in the award's 32-year history – there will be no public award ceremony. Instead, the Prize’s broadcast partner BBC Music will provide exclusive television and radio coverage of the event.

Established in 1992, the prize was set up to honor the best British or Irish album of the last year.

In a record high for the award nominations, eight of the 12 shortlisted artists are women or female-fronted bands.

Last year, the Mercury Prize was won for the first time by jazz act Ezra Collective, who took the gong for their second release, What I'm Meant to Be.

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