Katy Perry just made a massive music deal.
Litmus Music, a catalog rights company backed by private-equity group Carlyle Group LP, confirmed that it acquired the rights to Katy’s five studio albums released for Capitol Records, via Billboard on Monday (September 18).
Litmus reportedly paid $225 million for Katy’s stake in the master recording royalties and music publishing rights to her five albums released between 2008 and 2020: One of the Boys, Teenage Dream, PRISM, Witness and Smile.
Katy remains the first woman and only second artist ever, after Michael Jackson, to send five songs from the same album to the top of the Hot 100: “California Gurls,” “Firework,” “E.T.,” “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” and “Teenage Dream.”