Despite lifting official and/or animated music videos for every song on the album, slashing its first-week price twice (as we reported here), and embarking on an aggressive promotional tour in its support, music buyers are apparently still scowling at ‘Smile’ – the latest LP from Katy Perry.
The follow-up to her critically and commercially panned ‘Witness’ (2017), ‘Smile’ – released August 28 – is Perry’s first major label effort to charge into chart battle without a Hot 100 top 10 single preceding it. Garnering modest first-week sales that landed it at #5 on the Billboard 200, its placement made it her first major label effort since her debut (2010’s ‘One of the Boys’) to miss the chart’s top spot.
Its performance in week 2 spelled even worse. See what we mean inside:
Katy Perry’s ‘Smile’
Second Week Sales (SPS): 10,900 units
Billboard 200 Position: #54
The figures above represent a nearly 80% sales drop, a feat that nearly rivals the 89% second-week sales drop of its predecessor ‘Witness’ (click here to read more).
As we reported here, approximately 70% of ‘Smile’s inaugural week numbers were attributed to merchandise/album bundles sold by way of the singer’s official Web store. With that sales support absent from week 2, the chart free fall – though anticipated – is still surprising given its depth.
A shame, if you ask us, as ‘Smile’ is definitely a solid project.
Look below to see who made the cut on this week’s TGJ Chart Check: Billboard 200.
Damn Katy is out here doing brandy numbers. I never thought I’d see the damn day.
LMAOO You dumb trash can BRANDYS still
SOLD MORE ALBUMS then that yodeling Kermit sounding flop aka the reality show star LOL aka cmurders payphone H0
LMAOOOO
Damn y’all this desperate for comments 😝 😿
🤣🤣 Girl Katy is still on the Billboard 200 after 2 weeks. Brandy fell off after week two to 200 and something 🤣🤣🤣
Meanwhile trenches is a certified FLOP that never even made it to Bilboard!💀🤣🤣🤣
That song makes Shows Monica’s mid life crisis is in FULL action 💀💀💀
KATY, KARMA IS A B****…YOU’RE JUST COLLECTING WHAT YOU PLANTED…SORRY GURL BUT THIS IS LIFE…
Coming from a sissy who stans for a 40 year old ghetto queen. Monica ain’t seen the Billboard 200 since 2004 lol. Katy outsold that h** 10x over.
Poor Katy 😿 Unfortunately this is what happens when you are mediocre… she was only supposed to be a 1 hit wonder in my opinion
Katy is great for a throwback. All tea, all shade.
Damn, I didnt know it was this bad
Where are her fans?
She gas 100 million followers on Twitter alone.
Karma for her shading Britney Jean Spears. The only way she might be able to save her career is if she made amends with Britney and publicly showed her support for #FreeBritney. But until this, this clown will be a FLOP clown.
#FreeBritney
Yet your flop fav Brandy fell out of the billboard 200 in 2 weeks after her release of BFlop 🤣🤣
He stans f******* who doesnt even have an album, only 1 solo song that flopped
Trenches is a flop and camila still has a canceled tour so …😂😂
Trenches never charted💀
#IF U SEEK BRITNEY!!!! F This mental bish
No shade but Britney flopping too, hopefully her next album will be better because that last one was not it
At under 37 minutes long, I absolutely understand that people aren’t handing over their recession dollars to ms perry. Sorry, not sorry about it
I am shocked with the poor stats only in the middle of a global pandemic on lockdown fancy trying to cheer us up with her cobbled together 33 minutes long (approx) #KP5 effort to make us smile which missed the target somewhat. #KP6 will be released in recovery around 2022/23 and will fly to number one