KATY PERRY has released a new single that marks her first new music since her smash 2013 album, “Prism.”

    Perry delivers soaring vocals on the song, “Rise,” to match inspirational lyrics, which include the line, “Victory is in your veins.”

    Perry shared the song Thursday night and Friday morning she dropped the action-packed video for the track co-written by Perry, Max Martin, Savan Kotecha and Ali Payami.

    Although she doesn’t appear in the Joseph Lee-directed clip, there is plenty of superstar power in the form of most-decorated Olympian in history swimmer Michael Phelps, as well as members of the U.S. track and field team, gymnastic powerhouse Simone Biles, swimming sensation Missy Franklin, Jamaican sprinting superstar Usain Bolt and the four-time champion U.S. women’s soccer team, among dozens of other decorated and hopeful athletes traveling to Brazil.

    The song is being released ahead of next month’s Olympics and Perry says NBC has chosen to use it as an anthem for the Rio Games.

    Perry explains in a statement that she released the song now instead of waiting for her next album because there’s “a need for the world to unite.” She says she can’t think of a better example of coming together than the Olympic athletes.

    (SD-Agencies)