[Hollywood.]

A mess.

[Hustle.]

after everything she still can't command 300k first week? if she can't do it now, she'll never be able to.

but at least there's always longevity to look forward to.

[chris1991]

Not Femme Fatale doing a little better with a single that plummeted after it went #1.

[DanceForYou]

Originally posted by chris1991

Mess but it isn't Katy's fault that BTW failed to connect with the GP.
A 10 month era is pretty sorry, Gaga should have obliterated Katy in the long run with BTW even with a ten month long run.

Your logic isn't correct here sis.

She outsold her worldwide though so.

[Britney Spears]

Originally posted by HausofKen

Meanwhile Katy is living rich and fancy and probably doesn't give a **** meanwhile everyone in here is causing trouble have fun guys

But you did the same with GaGa so your argument is invalid.

[dnav87]

Monsters need to relax! Gaga is due in 2 weeks please don't give them a reason to mock us and have this backfire! For all we know gaga can debut with 250k let's just not

[Concept & Theory]

Originally posted by Grim

Poor Katy. Even after a gigantic era and massive promo she still can't get the public to buy the full body of work, only the singles. Deserved tbh. Prism is awful.

Agreed. 'Prism' is just... compared to 'Teenage Dream'.

[Konichiwa]

All that endless promo for Femme Fatale-sized numbers?

[Rico Shameless v2]

Y'all are so drama.

[princedonte]

I'm calling the police if yall don't stop dragging Katy. These number are fine the Market is over it's shocking that anyboy buys music anymore.

[GreasyBruce]

Ehh, you know what, there are certain stars who never managed to have huge first week sales that are still HUGE and very successful. Mariah is a good example, even after Emancipation she didn't blow up first week but that doesn't mean she's a flop or irrelevant or a singles artist. 270k is pretty much the high end for pop girl album sales nowadays (P!nk, Miley, Britney) so it's not awful.

[Starkboy]

Femme Fatale debuted with bigger numbers than Teenage Dream. Well FF is not even platinum while TD is almost x3. Use your brains guys.

Opening numbers mean ****. Born this Way debuted 6 times bigger than Teenage Dream, well Teenage Dream outsold it by far in the end.

Final number matter, not opening ones!

[MileyCyrus]

So Katy perry matched Femme Fatales sales.

Wow.

[mikeyace16]

Well, at least she did better than "Teenage Dream".

ARTPOP's decline from BTW however is going to be

[gio88]

good debut for katy !surely i wans't expecting 500.000 copies in first week , her music it's more for singles instead of albums !it's the truth , she always been more a singles artist than an album artist , like 90 % of pop singers!

[chris1991]

Originally posted by Konichiwa

All that endless promo for Femme Fatale-sized numbers?

Right. 300k would have been fine, but 270-290k is kind of disappointing for all the promo capitol and Katy did.

[GreasyBruce]

Originally posted by DanceForYou

She outsold her worldwide though so.

Well not to start anything but since most people don't consider Born This Way's 440k 99 cent sales as part of the first week total, it would only be fair to subtract them from the overall total as well in which case Born This Way did not outsell Teenage Dream. That's not to say Born This Way was a flop or anything and it still opened much higher than Prism....they're just different artists. Gaga has a fervent young fanbase that rushes out while Katy's appeal is more general and people start buying their music at a slower, but more consistent rate.

[cuneytb]

those numbers are so high for her though

[Rico Shameless v2]

Originally posted by I'mRihannaFan

Femme Fatale debuted with bigger numbers than Teenage Dream. Well FF is not even platinum while TD is almost x3. Use your brains guys.

What does have to do with PRISM? Use your brain.

[RudeBoyy]

Katy Perry is not a singles artist . She's selling more than Miley, Rihanna, Lorde and Robin Thicke.

If ya'll don't like these numbers I can only imagine the meltdowns when predictions are released for 'Artpop' and Britney Jean