Yes. It had almost 4 day airplay tracked for this week's chart.
Billboard: The comparisons to "Brave" are far-fetched -- "Roar" is cleaner, more precise, with a similar message of empowerment but with an arena-rock sensibility.
John Mayer knew from the moment he first heard his girlfriend Katy Perry's new song, "Roar," that it would be a "megaton bomb"-sized summer hit. The singer-guitarist says he got wrapped up in the moment of witnessing the creation of a "huge song" before it even "left the stable."
"I remember hearing it, going like, 'Wow what an interesting experience' to hear something that you identify as massive before it's massive," he tells Billboard. "I thought it was a really sweet, unforgettable sort of experience to hear someone's work while they still have a very nascent relationship with it."
Perry's "Roar" leaked to the Internet early on Saturday (Aug. 10) and was quickly serviced to radio stations later that day. The track reached digital retailers at 12 a.m. on Monday (Aug. 12) and shot to No. 34 on the Pop Songs radio airplay chart.
"In a way you get swallowed up by it, it's so big," he says, adding: "Because it's such an incredibly big song that it doesn't need you to tell anybody, while you're eating lunch, [that] millions of people are going to be dancing on tables to that."
For now, I'm done with the competition with Applause. Roar is an amazing song, I love it, and it exceeded my expectations so far commercially (it's been #1 on iTunes, above a huge current hit and a new Lady Gaga, for 3 days) and critically and anything from this point is just bonus