Despite lyrics centered on being “a winner,” “champion,” and even “number one,” “Woman’s World,” the recent single from Katy Perry, has debuted at No. 63 on the Billboard Hot 100.
This might not come as a huge surprise for those who watched her unfortunate release weekend unfold. To be clear, the creative team behind “Woman’s World” is questionable at best, the song is bad, and the music video is worse. Having the track become the subject of so much conversation worked in Perry’s favor, though, as enough people tuned in or gave the song a spin to at least bolster it onto the charts in the first place (a feat not achieved by the title track for her 2020 album, Smile, which bubbled under the Hot 100).
After a few years off from releasing music, Perry was counting on “Woman’s World” to kick off her next chapter with a bang, but the track’s stumble out of the gate isn’t promising. Failing to land within the Top 40 doesn’t bode well for the remainder of the album, 143, which is set to arrive in September.
Compare this to the lead single for Smile, “Daisies,” which peaked exactly at No. 40 on the Hot 100. To go even further back, 2019’s “Never Really Over” was considered a step down for Perry at the time in terms of performance — but the song hit No. 15 on the same chart.
Meanwhile, “Woman’s World” spent exactly one day on Spotify’s US chart — at slot 110 — and then vanished. This indicates that most listeners, and even fans, found the replay value on the song to be low or nonexistent. The song fared slightly better on the global chart, but only by a tiny margin, with a launch at No. 58. The next day, though, “Woman’s World” met a similar fate, and left the chart immediately.
Perry racks in over 58 million monthly listeners on the streaming platform, but “Woman’s World” currently sits at just over 12 million streams, just a week after release.”Baby we ain’t going away,” she sang — but the single might be.