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She released her first single "There You Go" and first album, the R&B-oriented Can't Take Me Home, in 2000 via LaFace Records, which garnered commercial success. It sold around 4 million copies worldwide. Her more pop rock-oriented second studio album, Missundaztood, which began a marked shift in the sound of her music, was released in 2001 and was also very successful worldwide, selling around 13 million copies.
Pink released her third album, Try This, in November 2003, which although less successful commercially than her previous release, still managed to sell around 3 million copies and earned her a Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for the single Trouble, and her fourth album was released in April 2006, called I'm Not Dead. The album generated several hit singles, including "Stupid Girls", "U + Ur Hand" and "Who Knew". Both U + Ur Hand and Who Knew went 1 on the pop chart. Her fifth album, Funnhouse, was released in late October 2008 and was preceded by her first solo number one on the Hot 100, "So What". The album notched three other Top 20 hits "Sober", "Please Don't Leave Me" and "Glitter in the Air. Both Funnhouse and I'm Not Dead sold more than 6 million copies each.
Pink is the 1 Pop Song Artist of the Decade according to Billboard's Decade End Chart. She has sold approximately 32 million records worldwide. She has also scored ten Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 US hits, including eight as a solo artist, and won two Grammy Awards, 5 MTV Music Awards and 2 Brit Awards.
Billboard Top 40 Money Makers in Music List of 2010 showed that Pink was the 6th highest paid artist of 2009, with an annual income of more than US $36 million.
The People's Chart, announced through BBC Radio 1, declared Pink as the 11th Most Played Artist on UK Radio of the past decade ahead of artists such as The Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, U2 and Michael Jackson
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