California Gurls is part of Katy Perry's third platinum album.
`` California Gurls '' is a song recorded by American singer Katy Perry for her third studio album , Teenage Dream ( 2010 ) . Teenage Dream (Katy Perry album) . It was later certified three times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ) , sold 3 million copies in the United States , and charted within the Top 40 of the Billboard 200 year-end chart three years in a row .