Katy Perry

Katy Perry is an American pop singer and songwriter. After earning a GED during her first year of high school, she began to pursue a career in music. As Katy Hudson, she released a self-titled gospel album in 2001, which was unsuccessful. She later recorded an album with production team The Matrix and completed the majority of a solo album from 2004–05, the latter of which was never released.

After signing with Capitol Music Group in 2007, her fourth record label in seven years, she adopted the stage name Katy Perry and released her first Internet single "Ur So Gay" that November, which garnered public attention but failed to chart. She rose to fame with the release of her second single "I Kissed a Girl" in 2008, which went on to top international charts. Perry's first mainstream studio album One of the Boys followed later that year and it was accredited platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America, while "I Kissed a Girl" and her second single "Hot n Cold" both received multi-platinum certifications. The recording earned two nominations Grammy Awards. In 2009, Billboard magazine named her the 51st-best-selling music artist of the 2000–2009 decade.

Her second studio album Teenage Dream was released in August 2010 and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. The album included the Billboard chart-toppers "California Gurls", "Teenage Dream", "Firework", "E.T." and "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)", and top ten hit "The One That Got Away". This made her the first female artist to get five hits on the Billboard Hot 100 in one year and was only the second album, after Michael Jackson's Bad. The album produced six Hot 100 top ten hits, and was only the seventh album reaches this mark. In May 2011, Perry became the first artist in history to spend 52 consecutive weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 and remained in 69 consecutive weeks in the Top 10. The recording earned six nominations Grammy Awards, including the coveted Album of the Year and Record of the Year.

In 2013, Perry released her third studio album, Prism, featuring the single "Roar"