Katy Perry’s comeback single “Woman’s World” smashes the Billboard charts after the singer holds crisis talks to save the album

Katy Perry’s comeback single, “Woman’s World,” is off to a lackluster start on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

The female empowerment song failed to crack the top 10, reaching only #63 in its first full tracking week.

The pop anthem appears on the 39-year-old singer’s upcoming seventh studio album, 143, which debuted at No. 65 on the Global 200 chart and No. 47 on the UK charts, according to Variety.

In terms of streaming, it ranked 110th on Spotify’s US charts and 58th on its global charts.

The single has also plummeted down the US iTunes charts since its release on July 11, leaving Katy “panicked” and demanding that her team “rethink the plan” to prevent her album from suffering the same fate.

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By comparison, her last solo single, “Daisy,” from her 2020 album Smile, peaked at No. 40 on the Billboard charts but dropped off soon after.

Katy was recently spotted shooting a raunchy new music video with handsome, shirtless model and stuntman Oscar D’Orta, but sources say she’s “blaming everyone but herself” following the single’s failure, and is desperately plotting a new plan to get back into music.

The lead single from her upcoming album was billed as a powerful feminist anthem, but was quickly dismissed as unoriginal, hypocritical and cliché.

The Teenage Dream hitmaker also faced criticism over the sexual content of the accompanying video and his decision to work with music producer Dr Luke, 50, following his highly publicized legal battle with TikTok singer Kesha, 37.

“Katie is in a panic right now because she’s very conscious of the repercussions Woman’s World is getting,” a source exclusively told DailyMail.com. “She’s blaming everyone but herself, which is her own fault.”

Sources claimed the biggest risk Katy took was rekindling her relationship with Dr. Luke, the music producer behind hit singles such as 2008’s “I Kissed a Girl” and 2010’s “California Gurls,” and who Kesha later accused of sexual, physical and emotional abuse.

The super-producer, whose real name is Lukas Gottwald, has denied all of the allegations, including Kesha’s claim that he raped Katy (which she denied).

A New York state judge ruled against Kesha in 2020, finding the claims defamed her former producer, and an appeals court upheld that decision in 2021.

Despite Kesha and her reaching a settlement in 2023, music fans have been vocal about their disdain for artists who choose to work with the hitmaker in the wake of Kesha’s allegations.

Some of Katy’s fans have defended her, claiming she was forced to work with Dr Luke due to contractual obligations, but Katy has previously admitted she has no connection with the producer.

During testimony in Kesha’s 2018 lawsuit against Dr. Luke, Katy acknowledged that she had only signed a three-album publishing deal with Dr. Luke’s Kemosabe Records and that the two no longer had a contractual relationship.

She also acknowledged how the public would react if she chose to collaborate with Dr. Luke amid her feud with Kesha.

“Working with him at this time would mean he would not be viewed favorably because of this litigation,” she said.

When asked if he thought working with Dr. Luke would potentially affect the success of his future releases, the Dark Horse singer replied: “Yes, I think so.[People would] They protest, they run smear campaigns, they tell me 20 different stories than I do.”

After DailyMail.com previously reported that Katy had been warned not to collaborate with Dr Luke on her new album, sources confirmed that the Roar singer had ignored the pleas.

“She was out of her mind thinking Dr. Luke was a good idea. She didn’t listen to anyone,” the source said. “Instead of digging deep and creating art, she put out stuff that could have been on her 2010 album.”

Not only did Katy collaborate with producers on this song, it was also produced primarily by males.

Four people co-wrote and produced the song – Dr. Luke, Aaron Joseph, Vaughn Oliver and Rocco Did It Again! – but Katy and Chloe Angelides are the only two women to help write and produce the song.

No women produced the album.

“It’s basically an all-male group that doesn’t make songs about female empowerment,” the source said.

“Katie lives in a celebrity world that means she can’t relate to other women. She has no idea what it’s like to be a woman in the real world.”

“She’s not using her star power to change the world, she’s using it to make money.”

Katy’s apparent response to critics who slammed the music video’s alleged message did little to promote the lackluster single.

“It’s just fun, with a bit of sarcasm,” she said in behind-the-scenes footage from the set. “It’s very slapstick and very explicit.”

“With this set, it’s like, ‘Oh, we’re not really about the male gaze, but we’re really about the male gaze,’ and we’re doing it in a big, overt way.”

One of the strangest scenes in the video sees Katie being crushed by an anvil falling from the sky, before reinflating and walking through the city in a futuristic form.

The former American Idol judge later explained that the moment was intended as a “reset” for her to embrace “this idea of ​​feminine divinity.”

With just weeks to go until the release of her new album, Katy is frantically working with her team to “tweak” the record to get a better response.

A source explained: “Katy has demanded plans be rescheduled ahead of any further single releases and they’re currently tweaking the album in a desperate attempt to salvage her comeback. She should be very grateful they have three months to do so.”

It seems Katy is planning to let her fans take the lead after announcing on Station Head on July 14 that she’ll be asking her followers to vote to choose her next single.

“143,” whose title is based on the code word for “I love you” that was commonly used on pagers in the 1990s, will be released on September 20th.

This marks Starr’s first album since his 2020 album “Smile,” which failed to replicate the success of his previous albums.

While sharing information about her new album, informally known as KP6, Katy declared that she was entering a “new era.”