Katy Perry discography: History and Key Facts

The American singer Katy Perry has released seven studio albums, one reissue, seven extended plays (EP), one compilation album, 43 singles (including four as featured artist), and 13 promotional singles. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Perry is the fourteenth top digital singles artist in the United States, with 121.5 million digital singles and 19 million album units. As of July 2024, she has a total of seven RIAA Diamond-certified records. Billboard listed Perry as the fifth top female artist of the 21st century (15th overall) and the 61st greatest artist of all time. She has scored three number-one albums on US Billboard 200 and nine number-one songs on Billboard Hot 100.With over 151 million pure sales worldwide, Perry is one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Her discography has garnered more than 125 billion cumulative streams from various digital and streaming platforms as of November 2025.

At age 16, Perry released a self-titled gospel album in March 2001 under her real name Katy Hudson, which failed to chart in any music market. After signing with Capitol Records in April 2007, she released her second album, One of the Boys, in June 2008. Its singles "I Kissed a Girl" and "Hot n Cold" both topped charts in Austria, Canada, Germany, and Switzerland. The album peaked within the top 10 in the US, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, and Switzerland, and sold more than seven million copies worldwide. Throughout 2009 and 2010, Perry was featured on two singles. The first was on Colorado-based band 3OH!3's song "Starstrukk", and the second was a collaboration with Timbaland on "If We Ever Meet Again", from his album Shock Value II. Both singles reached the top 10 in Australia, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, while the latter topped the charts in New Zealand. Perry also performed for MTV Unplugged and a live album of the performance was released in November 2009.

Perry's third studio album Teenage Dream was released in August 2010 and topped the charts in the US, Australia, Austria, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK. It sold more than 12 million copies worldwide, becoming Perry's highest-selling album to date. When its singles "California Gurls", "Teenage Dream", "Firework", "E.T.", and "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" topped the Hot 100, she became the first woman and only the second artist after Michael Jackson to attain five number-one singles in the US from one album. The album was re-released in March 2012 as Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection. Both of its singles, "Part of Me" and "Wide Awake", charted at number one in Canada and New Zealand. Her fourth studio album Prism was released in October 2013 and reached number one in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. It sold more than eight million copies worldwide. The album's lead single, "Roar", topped the charts in the US, Australia, Austria, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK. The song has become the fourth most-certified single of all time in Australia (tied with "Blinding Lights" and "Uptown Funk") and Perry's most-certified single in the US and the UK. "Dark Horse", the third single from Prism, peaked at number one in the US and Canada and became the second best-selling single worldwide in 2014, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). She subsequently released an anthem for the 2016 Summer Olympics titled "Rise", which debuted at number one in Australia.

Perry's fifth album Witness followed in June 2017. It topped the charts in the US and Canada. That year, she was also featured on Calvin Harris's song "Feels" from his album Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1 along with Big Sean and Pharrell Williams, which reached number one in the UK. In 2018, she released the Christmas single "Cozy Little Christmas". This was followed by the release of the collaborations "365" (with Zedd) and "Con Calma" (remix, with Daddy Yankee and Snow). Perry released the non-album singles "Never Really Over", "Small Talk" and "Harleys in Hawaii" in 2019. Smile and 143 respectively followed as her sixth and seventh albums in August 2020 and September 2024. Both reached the top 10 of the album charts in the US, Australia, Austria, Italy, New Zealand, and the UK. In May 2026, Perry released a compilation album titled The Ones That Got the Plays, which became her fifth top-five album in New Zealand.

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