base talk Half of Katy's discography are bombs. Surprised?

[sciencemagic]

I was reflecting on the career of Ms. Perry, the #25th Best Pop Star of the 21st Century according to Billboard. Though she is a flop today, I realized that of six studio albums, only three (50%) are successful (the last of which was released in 2013). The three since, are big flops! (Yes, Witness hit #1 but it was not a success.)

 

Are you surprised that one of the biggest pop stars of our time has a discography where 50% of it is a flop? Are there any other boatmates of hers with this ratio of flops:hits in their discographies?  

 

EDIT: forgot that PRISM came out in 2013, not 2012. 

Edited 15 hours ago by sciencemagic

[swiftawaywithme]

5 minutes ago, sciencemagic said:

Are you surprised

No. Teenage Dream singles were a picture-perfect playlist. The rest of the album--like her discography--fails to make a significant splash.

[By the Water]

Not really but there are other girls out there with more flop studio albums than hit studio albums

[Blade Runner]

No. Biggest flop of all time. 

 

Flop collabs. 

Flop solo singles. 

Flop droplets. 

No hit since like 2012 or something. 

 

Glad she RIHtired. 

[Rogue_Redux]

Nope! Not surprised one bit! 

[Great808]

She's been over for more than half her career literally. Mind you her first album really wasn't even that big. Flash in the pan tbh 

[KatyPrismSpirit]

its actually more than half since her trew debut album was a chopiana as well chi

[Erreur2 La Nature]

48 minutes ago, By the Water said:

Not really but there are other girls out there with more flop studio albums than hit studio albums

Definitely. Christina Aguilera has way more flop albums. By the way if you combine the daily streams of all of her studio albums (except her debut one) it's still not reaching 1M streams.

 

Katy has been flopping for some time sure but yeah, there are much bigger flops than her. Her peak was high.

 

 

Edited 17 hours ago by Erreur2 La Nature

[Shimenawa]

Sabrina has more flop albums i think?

[ArtForFreedom]

She's like Christina in my opinion and failed to evolve and used the same old producers or trending ones. She is also a woman over 40 now and lets be honest we all know how that goes for the majority of pop gals 

[Venice B]

Half of Gaga's too she's not that special 

[A-V-XYZ]

I'd say Katy's got more flops than bombs tbh. Some of her flops will eventually get certified thanks to streaming. She could've ended up as our Xtina but Gaga did instead.

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[LovingDays]

I think she'll live just fine off he money she continues to make from OOTB - TD and the moderate Witness hits.

Also here comes that one Britney stan talking about Xtina for literally no reason  The obsession is...  She is on his mind "3-6-5, all the time" as Mrs. Perry would say.

Edited 16 hours ago by LovingDays

[FabForAThrowback]

1 hour ago, sciencemagic said:

I was reflecting on the career of Ms. Perry, the #25th Best Pop Star of the 21st Century according to Billboard. Though she is a flop today, I realized that of six studio albums, only three (50%) are successful (the last of which was released in 2012). The three since, are big flops! (Yes, Witness hit #1 but it was not a success.)

 

Are you surprised that one of the biggest pop stars of our time has a discography where 50% of it is a flop? Are there any other boatmates of hers with this ratio of flops:hits in their discographies?  

How reductive and superficial this is pls... does you actually believe it?! 

[manuelalex9810]

More than half of Kesha's discography is a bomb.

And half of Gaga's discography is also flop/bomb 

katy is not the only one 

[original_lifeline]

2 hours ago, sciencemagic said:

ul (the last of which was released in 2012).

Prism was released in 2013. deleting your account for misinformation as we speak 

[Helix]

I still remember when Thinking Of You was her biggest flop (and it only was a underperformance). It looks like a smash now compared to everything she put out this decade 

[Walk_Away21]

Her discography aged infinitely better than Lady Gaga. Even if 143 (and half of Smil) is absolute unlistenable garbage.

[sciencemagic]

1 hour ago, FabForAThrowback said:

How reductive and superficial this is pls... does you actually believe it?! 

What am I not supposed to believe? I'm confused 

[sciencemagic]

43 minutes ago, original_lifeline said:

Prism was released in 2013. deleting your account for misinformation as we speak 

Oops you're right, corrected! Maybe Jaime Leegend Curtis should use her connections and lobby the Recording Academy to get Katy a Grammy

[sciencemagic]

47 minutes ago, manuelalex9810 said:

More than half of Kesha's discography is a bomb.

And half of Gaga's discography is also flop/bomb 

katy is not the only one 

Which albums are these? 

 

I'll give you Artpop (but even that had at least one successful single), but Joanne and Chromatica are certainly not flops. Each had at least two top 20s, something Katy hasn't had since 2013. Chromatica even had two top 5s!  

[Iaintsorry]

It sucks bc with each succeeding flop she is further and further reached from having a hit comeback again. 
 

Hopefully she can score a hit collab or feature like Xtina did during the 2010's to maintain her relevance.

Edited 15 hours ago by Iaintsorry

[Pop Fan]

So you're saying that half of Katy's discography tanked and bombed…And despite all that, Katy is still overall a bigger artist (with an objectively more successful discography) than Lady Gaga in the US, according to Billboard's Top Artists of the 21st Century chart
 

This makes me wonder what's the % of bombs in Gaga's discography…🤔

 

[Pop Fan]

30 minutes ago, Walk_Away21 said:

Her discography aged infinitely better than Lady Gaga. Even if 143 (and half of Smil) is absolute unlistenable garbage.

SAY IT AGAIN FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK! 🙌