Katy Perry Albums & Singles

Katy Perry Biography

Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television personality. She is one of the best-selling music artists in history, having sold over 151 million records worldwide.

Perry is known for her influence on pop music and her camp style, being dubbed the "Queen of Camp" by Vogue and Rolling Stone. The world's highest-paid female musician in 2015 and 2018, she was named by Billboard as one of the greatest pop stars of the 21st century.

At 16, Perry released a gospel album titled Katy Hudson (2001) under Red Hill Records, which was unsuccessful. She moved to Los Angeles at 17 to venture into secular music, and later adopted her stage name from her mother's maiden name.

Perry recorded an album while signed to Columbia Records, but was dropped before signing to Capitol Records. She rose to fame with One of the Boys (2008), a pop rock album containing her debut single "I Kissed a Girl" and follow-up single "Hot n Cold", which reached number one and three on the U.

S. Billboard Hot 100 respectively.

Perry's disco-influenced pop record Teenage Dream (2010) became the only album by a female artist to spawn five U. S.

number-one singles: "California Gurls", "Teenage Dream", "Firework", "E. T.

", and "Last Friday Night (T. G.

I. F.

)". Its reissue, subtitled The Complete Confection (2012), produced the U.

S. number-one single "Part of Me".

The dance-inspired Prism (2013) spawned two U. S.

number-one singles, "Roar" and "Dark Horse", with their respective music videos making Perry the first artist to have multiple videos reach one billion views on Vevo and YouTube. Her following albums—Witness (2017), Smile (2020) and 143 (2024)—were released to varying critical and commercial success.

Six of Perry's songs have received Diamond certifications from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Her accolades include a Billboard Spotlight Award, 19 Guinness World Records, five Billboard Music Awards, five American Music Awards, a Brit Award, a Juno Award, and the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award.

Outside of music, she released an autobiographical documentary titled Katy Perry: Part of Me in 2012, voiced Smurfette in The Smurfs film series (2011–2013), and launched her own shoe line Katy Perry Collections in 2017. Perry served as a judge on American Idol from the sixteenth season in 2018 to the twenty-second season in 2024.

With an estimated net worth of $360 million, she is among the world's wealthiest musicians.