Carly Rae Jepsen a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actress. Before she released her first album, Carly competed on the fifth season of Canadian Idol in 2007, placing third.
In 2008, Jepsen released her folk-influenced debut studio album Tug of War in Canada. Jepsen's breakthrough came in 2012, when her single "Call Me Maybe" was boosted to significant mainstream popularity; the song became the best-selling single of that year, reaching number one in eighteen countries worldwide. As a result, she was signed to a joint worldwide record deal with Schoolboy Records and Interscope Records. Jepsen's second studio album Kiss was released later that year. The record marked a greater shift into mainstream pop music and saw fair commercial success, reaching the top ten in Canada and the United States. In 2016, Jepsen performed in the television special Grease: Live, and lent her voice to the animated film Ballerina.Jepsen has received multiple accolades, including three Juno Awards, a Billboard Music Award, and an Allan Slaight Award, in addition to various nominations for Grammy Awards, Primetime Emmy Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, Polaris Music Prize and People's Choice Awards., Jepsen has sold over 20 million records worldwide.