You'll be seeing fireworks after hearing this total. 

 just sold the rights to her music—including hits such as "Teenage Dream," "Hot N Cold" and "California Gurls"—to Litmus Music, which launched in 2022 and was co-founded by former Capitol Records president Dan McCarroll, for a whopping $225 million. 

While the Grammy winner hasn't commented on her musical news, Dan was quick to praise Katy for her more than a decade of chart-topping hits.

"Katy Perry is a creative visionary who has made a major impact across music, TV, film, and philanthropy," he said in a statement to Sept. 18. "I'm so honored to be partnering with her again and to help Litmus manage her incredible repertoire.

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The news comes three years after the 38-year-old last released new music with her 5th studio album back in 2020. But this doesn't mean that drift through the wind. In fact, she is wanting to start again—this time with a new source of inspiration: 's .

"I haven't put any new material out since my Darling Daisy," she told  in an interview published Aug. 4. "I think that I'm writing a lot and have written a lot from a place of love, because I'm feeling so much of it—so much unconditional love, that love you never knew existed." 

But while she's overflowing with love and inspiration, the "Dark Horse" singer doesn't want to rush through this

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"I'm always writing, I have been, but I think what's really important to me is to be celebrating the world that I've got to build with all of these wonderful songs and to be responsible for a life for a 3-year-old," she added. "I will be back, but let me get this right."

Even though she hasn't released new music, the judge has been busy with her music career, having over the last few years. 

"I'm just so grateful for the continuous opportunity to keep evolving as an artist," she noted of her current musical era, "as a human, as a mother, and to be able to keep bringing joy to people's lives through the arts and entertainment and visuals.

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