Harleys In Hawaii Debuts at #110

[Arturo 40,746]

3 hours ago, StrawberryBlond said:

How did this chart lower than Small Talk, which the majority didn't like or even watch the video for? Why is there no promo for this song? Why aren't Katy's fans watching and liking this video? Why aren't her fans downloading the song? Why aren't her fans...being fans? Why has Katy seemingly being erased from the public's memory? Did the flop of Bon Appetit just break her power? I'm genuinely baffled as to what went so disastrously wrong that the public suddenly didn't want anything to do with her. I'm honestly wondering at this point if the sales of previous singles were inflated because I don't get how she had smashes such a short while ago, with several million sales and 2 billion+ viewed videos and now this. She's not had a sound change so drastic that it could've turned people off forever, so what gives?

Is it just a cute little upcoming chart? I've always been confused as to what it means to not chart in the top 100 but be #120 or something. I'm sure I heard of a song that charted at #102 and was #2 on the Bubbling Under chart so I just assumed every number after 100 flows on from there. But does it really mean basically nothing?

it does mean something I guess.

But if you take the rankings seriously rank by rank rather than just a relative compilation of songs that look like they’re about to break the Hot 100 then I guess it doesnt mean anything. Remember songs go recurrent after dipping below 50 so the Hot 100 itself isnt even entirely accurate much like the Bubbling Under due to the several (maybe even dozens) of songs that should be in the 50’s 60’s 70’s etc.

[PoshLife 17,002]

Yikes. I was rooting for her this era, especially after I really liked Never Really Over, but both singles since then have been pretty lackluster. I kinda liked Harleys the first time I heard it, but the video is boring af and after that I just can't get through the song.

I guess I'm not surprised this song isn't doing well, but... it's just still weird to see someone of Katy's caliber legitimately flopping, and not in the twitter stan "your fave didn't go Top 10" but LEGIT flopping.

[hankhatesyouall 2,731]

11 hours ago, Smith said:

i find this comment about disrespectful for the gay community.

As a member of the gay community, I can criticize some stans for being shallow and obsessed. 

[Arturo 40,746]

6 hours ago, hankhatesyouall said:

As a member of the gay community, I can criticize some stans for being shallow and obsessed. 

Some of just like following charts and seeing this type of decline is unheard of. I mean she wasn’t some Meghan Trainor with 2 or 3 big hits and then fell off. She had a dozen smash hits and now she can’t seem to capture anyone’s attention. I mean it takes so little for a standalone single to crack the Top 100.

I don’t think her networth or whatever matters when she herself surely wants to be back to the point she was just 5 years ago

[hankhatesyouall 2,731]

1 hour ago, Arturo said:

Some of just like following charts and seeing this type of decline is unheard of. I mean she wasn’t some Meghan Trainor with 2 or 3 big hits and then fell off. She had a dozen smash hits and now she can’t seem to capture anyone’s attention. I mean it takes so little for a standalone single to crack the Top 100.

I don’t think her networth or whatever matters when she herself surely wants to be back to the point she was just 5 years ago

Yes, we get, Katy Perry is the AOL of pop, but she had a nice five-year run, which is a normal life span for pop girls who are likable when they are fresh and young.   

People grow up, move on, and they tend to have a short attention span. 

It's not like they are going to check for her latest singles simply because she was big in the early 2010s.     

There is no reason track her chart updates like a bunch of scavengers and gloat over her failures because you are literally pointing fingers at a person who is worth $330 mln and can release any music for the rest of her life (or doing whatever she wants). This is extremely dumb. 

And I am not even a Katy stan, but you  had me defending her, gross. 

[Andreu 37,216]

17 hours ago, StrawberryBlond said:

Is it just a cute little upcoming chart? I've always been confused as to what it means to not chart in the top 100 but be #120 or something. I'm sure I heard of a song that charted at #102 and was #2 on the Bubbling Under chart so I just assumed every number after 100 flows on from there. But does it really mean basically nothing?

What makes it a little more complicated is that there are rules that prevent songs to be on it:

-if they have been on the Hot 100 they can't fall back to the bubling under

-if they have gone recurrent they can't be on the bubbling under.

So let's imagine the hot 100 had 150 positions. Katy Perry's song probably would be lower than 110, because a song that in this hypothetic case has a chart run of 88-102-105 would be above it, while this song that has been above 100 (therefore would enter the real hot 100) can't fall back on the bubling under.

More complicated to explain than what it really is tbh

[freebit 6,240]

This is still puzzling to me.  It has a trendy radio friendly sound. Why wasn't this the follow-up to NRO? There's some strange decisions happening here. 

It's puzzling that this bombed in all metrics.  She used to have good YouTube views even with the floppy singles from Witness. Plus where's the radio promo? Katy is a Maroon 5-type of artist who relies on it. There's no Spotify investment here either. It's like Capital left her out on her own with this one.