Katy Perry should enter the charts at # 1 with a 170,000 recordings sold according to Rolling Stone?
And?
“The five singles from Perry’s Teenage Dream — “California Gurls,” “Teenage Dream,” “Circle the Drain,” “Not Like the Movies” and “E.T.” — have already sold a combined 4.5 million digital downloads, according to Nielsen SoundScan
Incidentally, every single one of those songs is whatever except “Teenage Dream” which is excellent.
Still, almost through shamanism she managed to make her album a hit and for that you have to scratch your head and say “waaah???”

