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Alessia Cara discography

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Source revisionJul 24, 2026
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Canadian singer-songwriter Alessia Cara has released four studio albums, two live albums, four extended plays, twenty-three singles (including five as a featured artist), ten promotional singles and thirty music videos. She signed to EP Entertainment and Def Jam Recordings in 2014, and began recording her debut album the same year.

Cara released her debut single, "Here", in April 2015. The song became a sleeper hit, reaching number five in the United States and peaking within the top twenty in Australia, Canada, Iceland, and New Zealand. Cara released her debut studio album, Know-It-All, on November 13, 2015. In February 2016, "Wild Things" impacted contemporary hit radio as the album's second single. Later that same year, Cara found greater success in the release of her third single, "Scars to Your Beautiful". The single reached the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the US pop radio charts, becoming her second song to do so. In November 2016, she released a single entitled "How Far I'll Go" for Disney animated film Moana. In 2017, Cara collaborated with producer Zedd to create the single "Stay", which reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 and became her third chart-topper on the US Mainstream Top 40 chart.

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