Pregnancy didn’t put a pause on Katy Perry‘s almighty promotional push for new album ‘Smile.’
Instead, the singer went as all-out as all-out could be (given the circumstances) to trumpet the arrival of her fifth studio effort.
From a lengthy list of live performances to a vast array of retail configurations, Team Perry deployed a multi-layered roll-out.
With the final sales tallied and verified, how did the LP perform? Find out below…
‘Smile’ officially premieres at #5 on the Billboard 200.
Its sales?
50,000
Of that sum, 35,000 are attributed to merchandise/album bundles sold by way of the singe’s official webstore. Also of note is the 19 million streams which translate to 14,000 units.
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Hmm.
This really serves as one of those scenarios where both “hey, it could have been worse” and “yikes” are both applicable.
Because, no matter how it’s sliced or diced, the commercial drop from the 180k debut of 2017’s ‘Witness’ (which itself was an under-performer) is impossible to ignore.
But, at the same time, a top 5 debut from a seasoned artist whose schtick doesn’t fit in to the current climate as domineeringly as it did in times of past could almost be seen as a small…win. Almost.
With that, what are…
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This is atrocious 😩 whens the last time a main pop girl sold this little in their first week?
Her music is just soo uninspired, not unique and not good enough to be just fun songs to enjoy.
BRING BACK DR LUKE, SHE NEEDS HIM OR HER MUSIC CAREER IS OVER
Even if she brought back dr Luke, at this point, the damage is done. Plus she’s too old – radio doesn’t play her. This is the end. She’s about to open a cheese farm with cheese made from her breast milk 🥛
Didn’t her team try to lie and say that the physics copies were sold out online? How embarrassing. Hopefully she finally retires and moves to Milwaukee. We don’t care about you or Nicki anymore. Old h_oes
Corny b is already on onlyfans
At least she knows where she’s going when her album flops
#Sophomore slump
#Scaredtodrop #Scaredtoflop
Wap going back to number 1 Monday career far from
Over wap biggest song of year 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😊
It’s really sad, but why don’t y’all make these post when Beyonce flop? She has flop twice back to back. I hate the bias here
Bey flopped 4 times back to back chile 🤣
Right. She literally under performed 4x back to back. But they were so excited bout the visuals and all the smoke and mirror they ain’t notice the horrible performance of the actual music. Chile
@Meme exactly!
Lemonade- 485k
Beyoncé – 600+k
Opening numbers. Flop where sis?
Sad how? She called Britney a flop but Britney’s never sold this little. This is karma
Look I said it’s sad because she was once a force & now she’s at the bottom. I don’t care for Katy & never have especially when she made her comments about Britney, so please don’t come for me
Yea right… At least Katy roll out an album while bri bri is still trapped inside the mad house
Girl, F*** BRITNEY SPEARS & I’m from her home state! White people here don’t even remember her and that’s her main audience. You stay under Katys post talking “RemBeR ShE taLkED aBouT BriTneY”, she’s f****** mentally unstable, she don’t even remember what Katy said and at this point don’t care.
Trashy BISH had no data to stream it on her phone. Y’all know she would been streaming it non-stop chile 😂😂
McDonald’s store manager refused to her the WiFi password unless she cleaned the toilet bowls and mopped the floor. Stinky nasty trashy bish 😂🤣😂🤣
Chile she a whole MESS 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Once again, you two peasants (well, actually one person lol) are in here UGLY and REAL FISHY 🤣 Ugly and Uglier 😂 Y’all the reason for abortion lmaooooooooooooo
Honey, you survived abortion and thats why you have fried brains and have the face of a scrambled egg 🤣🤣🤣
Well, as soon as you were born, yo mama saw you and said, “Ya’ll got me FCKD UP” 🤣
Your mom started f****** the family p**
Shayla, you’re not black or mixed, you’re white lol…cause nobody with an ounce of black in them would fix their mouth to say THAT ish 🤣 🤳🏽
Don’t spin it around on me now chile 🤣🤣🤣 Lawwwwd! That’s yo family 😂😂😂
Karma.
YAWN Y’all need to keep Beys name out yo mouth. Her next Solo studio album will open at No.1 just like all the others and finish platinum + in a year just like all the others. Something Katy and Nikki can not relate to 🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️ Sucks to be you haterz. As you were. 🤳🏾
Keep dreaming 😂😂😂
Nicki has good album numbers…katy on the other hand is a no.
Bey’s time HAS BEEN UP. All of Nicki’s album are platinum or better.
Nicki has 3 multi platinum records
Her most recent was platinum in under 6 mos
She has two #1 singles 12 years in
And one debuted at number one without a single performance while she on pregnancy vacation
But back to the topic at hand
U b****** could never
Wow! That’s some sad numbers, even Xtina’s liberation can pulled 60k on the first week. Still selling more than that biblegirl brandy 😂🤣😂🤣
She had tour bundles to be fair but still this is EMBARRASSING
Yikes. The gift numbers
This is what she gets for being shady to people. Remember what she said about Mariah? People got sick of her attitude.
And how’s Mariah doing? Those sales on the last album were pretty bad. I guess she has her old songs, which is why she is releasing never before heard flops (which justifiably should have been left in the flop bin).
Mariah’s 15th studio album sold more first week than this flop. Mariah has been doing this for 30+ years, and sells more Christmas albums every year than this flop. I am pretty sure Mariah is doing just fine!
This is what she gets for being shady to people. Remember what she said about
Britney and Mariah? People got sick of her attitude.
Well she still sold more than 6k and she doesn’t have big promo and push from Disney and Netflix
Congrats Katy💕
Im sure that her sales were also inflated
So is she “just a throwback” nah?? 👀 lmao looks like it to me
Funny when beyonce tanked with 27k sales we got a long drawn out overblown post about how much of a “win” it was, now Katy sells double those numbers and there’s a panel discussion about where she went wrong. Make the hypocrisy make sense someone please.
They will NEVER post about Bey’s tragic numbers. Theur head are to far up her a$$.
Lmaooo so let’s get this right. Katy called Mariah’s music “fabulous for a throwback” in 2014, and 6 years later Mariah’s 15th studio album had better first week numbers that Katy’s 6th? Lmaooo when you do clownery….
For reference:
Caution (2018): 50,633 SPS (43,173 Pure Sales)
Smile (2020): 50,000 SPS (35,000 Pure Sales)
Mariah outsold her with 633 copies.
😭😭
Katy is Fabulous for a throw back.
I think Katy should have waited to put the album out and aligned the release with the inevitable “look how fast I bounced back from having a baby” media storm that her team is probably already working on. She could have marketed her first live performance since having a baby to help push the album and even had a “Decade of Katy” night on American Idol so that the conversation is all about her.
Nobody cared about her pregnancy
She literally released a song to announce her pregnancy and the song didnt chart. The name of the song is never worn white
Also,.she was pregnant for a washed up actor named orlando bloom
Nobody is checking for Orlando bloom in 2020.
If she was pregnant for Robert Pattinson or Leonard DiCaprio pr Brad Pitt , people would have cared.
I saw this coming for Katy. Lets start with that album cover, not a good look. She should have done a surprise release or released the album when NRO was popular. Wrong single choices, there are only a few good songs on the album. The public loses interest and moves on quickly to the next hot song. I thought Witness was bad, but the album was able to hit number 1 and sold 180k first week. Hopefully she will rethink, re-brand, write better music and work with better producers.
Whichever way this is chopped and sliced, its not good at all. I don’t think the album is any worse than Witness. The concept was a bit dated, perhaps Teary Eyed or Resilient would have been a better name for the album. Daisies should have followed straight after NRO and it should have been released then. Small Talk and HARLEYS we’ll pretend never happened.
Everyone is so cruel to her though. She should take sometime out and come back in 2 years with her next album. She needs to refind the soul and essence of her music which was missing from witness and this album
Kesha, aka GASHa, ruined Katy’s career by LYING about Dr. Luke attacking her. Katy was fearful of the backlash and stopped working with him. Bye hits.
GASHa is also a flop now and future star of Where Are They Now? segments and #3 on the line-up of Oldies acts at an amusement park near you.
Katy, at least, can bring her nine #1 hits to small theaters and large clubs for the next 20 years.
She’s a has been flop no matter how you try to dice is. These numbers are Brandy-Monica territory.