No I wasn't undermining Katy's success. Those monster single sales from her has to come from somewhere, that's why I'm puzzled at people saying "She should be selling more for an album with 5 #1s". Her album is selling good based on the massive success of her songs.
With Britney, her strength always came from album sales. Despite most of her signature songs having low peaks at Billboard (Oops/Toxic

), her album receipts were always there to compensate. That's why I was expecting better performance for Femme Fatale singles because her album sales weakened by a lot.