By U.S. Billboard Hot 100 peak, Katy Perry’s highest-charting songs include nine No. 1 hits. The ten entries below are selected from songs that reached the Hot 100’s top 10 and ranked by peak position, with ties broken by chart longevity where the historical chart reference reports it. A peak measures a song’s best position; weeks on the chart measure how long it stayed there.
How this top 10 is ranked
This is a ranking of U.S. Billboard Hot 100 performance, not a claim that these are Perry’s ten best songs or a comparison of sales. The historical chart-history reference lists both peaks and weeks on the chart; the table uses peak first, then weeks as the tie-break. It is a compiled historical reference, not a live chart feed. Billboard Explains’ 2024 retrospective separately reports nine Hot 100 No. 1 hits and identifies five of them as coming from Teenage Dream.
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Katy Perry’s top 10 Billboard Hot 100 hits
| Rank | Song | Hot 100 peak | Weeks on chart | Milestone or context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “California Gurls” | No. 1 | Not stated in the chart-history reference | One of five Hot 100 No. 1 singles from Teenage Dream. |
| 2 | “Teenage Dream” | No. 1 | Not stated in the chart-history reference | One of five Hot 100 No. 1 singles from Teenage Dream. |
| 3 | “E.T.” | No. 1 | Not stated in the chart-history reference | One of five Hot 100 No. 1 singles from Teenage Dream. |
| 4 | “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” | No. 1 | Not stated in the chart-history reference | One of five Hot 100 No. 1 singles from Teenage Dream. |
| 5 | “Firework” | No. 1 | Not stated in the chart-history reference | One of five Hot 100 No. 1 singles from Teenage Dream. |
| 6 | “I Kissed a Girl” | No. 1 | Not stated in the chart-history reference | Her early Hot 100 No. 1 hit. |
| 7 | “Part of Me” | No. 1 | Not stated in the chart-history reference | Hot 100 No. 1. |
| 8 | “Roar” | No. 1 | Not stated in the chart-history reference | Hot 100 No. 1. |
| 9 | “Dark Horse” | No. 1 | Not stated in the chart-history reference | Hot 100 No. 1. |
| 10 | “Wide Awake” | No. 2 | Not stated in the chart-history reference | Her highest listed peak below No. 1. |
Peak positions and the No. 1 milestones in this table are listed in Volker’s Chart-History historical Billboard Hot 100 compilation. The five-song Teenage Dream milestone and total of nine Hot 100 No. 1s are reported in Billboard Explains via Radio 88.8’s July 11, 2024 retrospective.
What the rankings reveal
Teenage Dream produced an unusually concentrated run
All five singles identified by the 2024 retrospective as No. 1s from Teenage Dream appear among Perry’s Hot 100 leaders: “California Gurls,” “Teenage Dream,” “E.T.,” “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.),” and “Firework.” The milestone is about peak position, not a claim that these songs spent the same number of weeks at No. 1 or had identical chart longevity.
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Her top 10 also spans different phases
“I Kissed a Girl” represents an early breakthrough, while “Part of Me,” “Roar,” and “Dark Horse” add further No. 1 peaks beyond the Teenage Dream run. “Wide Awake” reached No. 2, showing why a top-ten list need not consist solely of chart-toppers.
Other Katy Perry songs that reached the Hot 100 top 10
The historical chart reference also lists several top-ten entries that fall just outside this ten-song selection. They reached strong peaks, but their best positions were lower than the No. 1s and No. 2 entry ranked above.
Rank #2
- Katy Perry's breakthrough 2008 album, One Of The Boys, features three Top 10 hits including "Hot N Cold," "Waking Up in Vegas," and the #1 smash "I Kissed a Girl
| Song | Hot 100 peak | Weeks on chart |
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| “Hot N Cold” | No. 3 | Not stated in the chart-history reference |
| “The One That Got Away” | No. 3 | Not stated in the chart-history reference |
| “Chained to the Rhythm” | No. 4 | Not stated in the chart-history reference |
| “Waking Up in Vegas” | No. 9 | Not stated in the chart-history reference |
U.S. Billboard peaks are not UK chart results
This ranking uses the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 only. The Official Charts Company maintains separate UK chart histories and UK sales rankings; those measures have different geography and should not be substituted for Billboard peaks. The Official Charts Company’s historical UK sales list is also dated, rather than a current U.S. chart ranking.
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Rank #4
- Teenage Dream is the 2010 sophomore album from the American Pop princess Katy Perry
Rank #3
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