Katy got third Number 1
View(s):Katy Perry claimed her third straight Number One album as her new LP Witness debuted atop the Billboard 200.
Witness sold 180,000 total copies in its first week out, a significant dip from the 286,000 copies Prism sold when it was released in October 2013.
Still, Witness – Perry’s third Number One after 2010’s Teenage Dream and Prism – had the best-selling week by a female artist since Lady Gaga’s Joanne sold 201,000 first week copies in November 2016, Billboard reports.
Perry’s Number One finish came just a week after Halsey became 2017’s first female artist to land atop the Billboard 200; that singer’s Hopeless Fountain Kingdom dipped to Number Seven in its second week of release.
