Katy Perry has beat Lady Gaga in the US digital chart with Roar outselling Applause by almost double. According to Nielsen SoundScan, Perry’s new single Roar has shifted 557,000 copies in the US last week, reports Metro UK.
Roar has toppled Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines featuring TI and Pharrell Williams from the top of the Billboard’s Digital Songs, although he remains number one of the Hot 100 which combines sales, streaming and airplay.Lady Gaga’s Applause charts at three after selling 218,000 copies, just 39 per cent of the Perry’s opening sales.
Applause was rush-released last week after it was leaked online meaning it went head-to-head with Perry’s Roar.
The track debuted at number five last Sunday in the UK singles chart, but has since dropped to 10 in yesterday’s midweek chart.
Gaga was criticised this week by Billboard boss Bill Werde for trying to inflate views for her music video for Applause.
The singer asked her Little Monsters to watch the video and then retweet it to other fans.
Werde tweeted: ‘We count multiple views per person. Go to VEVO and keep watching a video on your own and we count it.
‘An artist tweeting out and facebooking a link that enables a fan to hit play and leave their computer is not in the spirit of what we chart.’
-With New Age input
