Doja Cat scores her first No. 1 hit in Australia with new single Paint The Town Red after slamming her own fans for enjoying her ‘mediocre pop’ music

Doja Cat has scored her first No. 1 single in Australia with ‘Paint The Town Red’. 

The controversial star reached the top spot with the song this week, dethroning Billie Eilish’s Barbie ballad ‘What Was I Made For?’.

The 27-year-old previously came close to topping the charts in 2020 with ‘Kiss Me More’ featuring SZA, which reached No. 2. 

Doja has courted controversy in recent weeks after going on several rants on social media.

The rapper has derided her own fans at times, and even slammed her previous albums, calling them ‘cash-grabs’.

‘Planet Her and Hot Pink were cash-grabs and yall fell for it,’ she tweeted in May.

‘Now I can go disappear somewhere and touch grass with my loved ones on an island while yall weep for mediocre pop.’

Doja has repeatedly expressed her desire to move away from her top forty pop sound to do something less commercial.

She recently attempted to make the jump into hip-hop with the Kendrick Lamar-inspired ‘Attention’, however, the song failed to set the charts alight.  

The controversial star reached the top spot with the song this week, dethroning Billie Eilish’s Barbie ballad ‘What Was I Made For?’

The 27-year-old went for a less commercial sound with her previous single ‘Attention’ (pictured), but it failed to set the charts alight  

It comes after Doja lost around 250,000 followers on Instagram after bashing her own fans for calling themselves ‘kittenz’ – a name that her fandom had coined for themselves.  

The singer, who’s birth name is Amala Dlamini, 27, stated on Instagram that she feels ‘free’ after losing the ‘creepy’ followers.

‘Seeing all these people unfollow me makes me feel like I’ve defeated a large beast that’s been holding me down for so long,’ she wrote.

‘It feels like I can reconnect with the people who really matter and love me for who I am and not for who I was. I feel free,’ she added.

It comes after Doja lost around 250,000 followers on Instagram after bashing her own fans and mocking them for enjoying her ‘mediocre pop music’

The 27-year-old went on a social media tirade in a series of since-deleted tweets, targeting her fans who label themselves ‘Kittenz’. 

‘My fans don’t get to name themselves s***. If you call yourself a “kitten” or f****** “kittenz” that means you need to get off your phone and get a job and help your parents with the house,’ the rapper wrote.

She even responded to several of her fans’ replies to the since-deleted tweet, notably telling one user off for using her ‘government name’ as their social media handle.

‘You making my government name your [screenname] is creepy as f**k,’ she tweeted, but later deleted.