Britney Spears :: Charts & Sales History

[Danzo]

Up to date Britney's US digital singles sales:

- Womanizer almost 3.3
- Circus is so close to the 3 mln mark !
- Toxic smashing
- Piece of me slaying in downloads
- BOMT from 398k to 511k !
- OIDIA almost 100k more since the last update

[JSparksFan]

Up to date Britney's US digital singles sales:

- Womanizer almost 3.3
- Circus is so close to the 3 mln mark !
- Toxic smashing
- Piece of me slaying in downloads
- BOMT from 398k to 511k !
- OIDIA almost 100k more since the last update

*Dead* at "Toxic" being the greatest gainer! I guess that just goes to show how ahead of its time that gem was.

[pcdm3]

Does anybody knows the singles sales?? Downloads + Physical?

2.9 million physical singles and 29 million digital tracks.

With the new updates I'd say 30 million digital tracks already

[Bney]

Does anybody knows the singles sales?? Downloads + Physical?

2.9 million physical singles and 29 million digital tracks.

With the new updates I'd say 30 million digital tracks already

Not that bad for someone who peaked before digital era and half of those singles were from the last 3 albums of 7 albums total

[GetBack]

ASK BILLBOARD: X-Cellent Sales of Britney Spears

Hello, Gary!

As a fan of Britney Spears, I must say that I'm really happy that she has joined Fox's "X Factor," which means that we'll get to see her twice a week on live television. That's so exciting!

We fans know, according to widely-reported estimates, that she has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide. But, how many copies has she (and each of her albums) sold in the U.S.?

Cheers from a Brazilian Billboard.com 24/7 visitor,

Saulo Viegas
Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Hi Saulo,

As the retooled "X Factor," with Spears and Lovato joining fellow judges Simon Cowell and Antonio "L.A." Reid, is set to return to Fox for the new fall season, let's look at the sales track records, per your requests, of the series' newcomers.

Here are Spears' U.S. album sales to-date:

10,500,000, "…Baby One More Time," 1999
9,200,000, "Oops!...I Did It Again," 2000
4,000,000, "Britney," 2001
3,000,000, "In the Zone," 2003
1,700,000, "Circus," 2008
1,400,000, "Greatest Hits: "My Prerogative," 2004
1,000,000, "Blackout," 2007 (Blackout passed 1 million in sales for the week ending July 24, 2011. It had stood at 990,000 sold at the start of last year)
755,000, "Femme Fatale," 2011
209,000, "The Singles Collection," 2009
131,000, "B in the Mix: The Remixes," 2005
24,000, "B in the Mix: The Remixes: Vol. 2," 2011

Spears' career album sales in the U.S. total 32.5 million. That makes her the 16th-best-selling album artist since the advent of SoundScan data in 1991.

SOURCE

[LostAvenger]

"Femme Fatale" will reach 800K soon.

[Bney]

ASK BILLBOARD: X-Cellent Sales of Britney Spears

Hello, Gary!

As a fan of Britney Spears, I must say that I'm really happy that she has joined Fox's "X Factor," which means that we'll get to see her twice a week on live television. That's so exciting!

We fans know, according to widely-reported estimates, that she has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide. But, how many copies has she (and each of her albums) sold in the U.S.?

Cheers from a Brazilian Billboard.com 24/7 visitor,

Saulo Viegas
Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Hi Saulo,

As the retooled "X Factor," with Spears and Lovato joining fellow judges Simon Cowell and Antonio "L.A." Reid, is set to return to Fox for the new fall season, let's look at the sales track records, per your requests, of the series' newcomers.

Here are Spears' U.S. album sales to-date:

10,500,000, "…Baby One More Time," 1999
9,200,000, "Oops!...I Did It Again," 2000
4,000,000, "Britney," 2001
3,000,000, "In the Zone," 2003
1,700,000, "Circus," 2008
1,400,000, "Greatest Hits: "My Prerogative," 2004
1,000,000, "Blackout," 2007 (Blackout passed 1 million in sales for the week ending July 24, 2011. It had stood at 990,000 sold at the start of last year)
755,000, "Femme Fatale," 2011
209,000, "The Singles Collection," 2009
131,000, "B in the Mix: The Remixes," 2005
24,000, "B in the Mix: The Remixes: Vol. 2," 2011

Spears' career album sales in the U.S. total 32.5 million. That makes her the 16th-best-selling album artist since the advent of SoundScan data in 1991.

SOURCE

and how about WW sale? he doesn't have it ?

[GetBack]

The guy he asked was from Billboard, He only knows the exact US sales and not worldwide, sadly.

[FadingLight]

How could he have it ?
It's impossible to know exact worldwide sales...

[Bney]

Then please anyone posts your own estimation to date for her ww album sale? I'm dying to know it now.

[arab]

Blackout has been added to Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's Music Library and Archives
http://catalog.rockhall.com/catalog/173650295

[truthless]

Blackout has been added to Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's Music Library and Archives
http://catalog.rockhall.com/catalog/173650295

Is that a good thing? Don't know who/this page is about.

Rihanna is also there with LOUD.

[Wayne]

Well most with half a brain cell will know she hasn't come close to 100m album sales worldwide.

[Pmadrid]

Well most with half a brain cell will know she hasn't come close to 100m album sales worldwide.

If you add all her studio albums, Remixes, Compilations and DVDs is not impossible. Also remember sometimes when they talk about copies sold it is really copies shipped, that is what they care about.
100 M sounds good to me and I am sure I have more than a half brain cell.

[arab]

Well most with half a brain cell will know she hasn't come close to 100m album sales worldwide.

If you add all her studio albums, Remixes, Compilations and DVDs is not impossible. Also remember sometimes when they talk about copies sold it is really copies shipped, that is what they care about.
100 M sounds good to me and I am sure I have more than a half brain cell.

Oh 100mln copies is defo too much IMO. Her album sales are stand @ ~75-76mln. Remixes 1-1.5mln(max), DVD's ~5mln(max)

[Pmadrid]

Well most with half a brain cell will know she hasn't come close to 100m album sales worldwide.

If you add all her studio albums, Remixes, Compilations and DVDs is not impossible. Also remember sometimes when they talk about copies sold it is really copies shipped, that is what they care about.
100 M sounds good to me and I am sure I have more than a half brain cell.

Oh 100mln copies is defo too much IMO. Her album sales are stand @ ~75-76mln. Remixes 1-1.5mln(max), DVD's ~5mln(max)

What is really sad is that for Britney numbers are always high but not for the rest.

I know Wikipedia is not a good source but all her her sales have sources there and it is really close to 100M. If her label say is near to 100M it is just a fact. As i said I think they talked about copies shipped.

[Bney]

My estimated album sale WW (Shipment):
-Baby One More Time around 26m
-Oops! I did it again around 22m
-Britney Around 12m
-ITZ around 8m
-Blackout around 3.5m
-Circus around 4m
-FF around 1.7m
-Greatest Hitz around 6m
-B in the mix around 1m
-B in the mix around 0.3m
-The single collection around 0.5m

Total: 26+22+12+8+3.5+4+1.7+6+1+0.3+0.5 = 85m

Can anyone approve this????

[Pmadrid]

My estimated album sale WW (Shipment):
-Baby One More Time around 26m
-Oops! I did it again around 22m
-Britney Around 12m
-ITZ around 8m
-Blackout around 3.5m
-Circus around 4m
-FF around 1.7m
-Greatest Hitz around 6m
-B in the mix around 1m
-B in the mix around 0.3m
-The single collection around 0.5m

Total: 26+22+12+8+3.5+4+1.7+6+1+0.3+0.5 = 85m

Can anyone approve this????

I think ITZ is very low, it should be close to 10M now. TSC is for sure close to 800K, I remember it was around 750K near to FF realease. FF has sold more than 1.5 M for sure, I think it has shipped more than 1.7. Greatest Hits albums normaly keep selling, I think it has shipped more than 6M, real sales are almost at 6M now.
I have seen a couple of sources selling BOMT has shipped around 28M or even more.

With DVDs I don't think 100M albums sold(shipped) is that far.

[Luminator]

-Baby One More Time around 26m
-Oops! I did it again around 22m
-Britney Around 12m

Those are heavily overestimated.

Where on earth did BOMT ship 12 million copies outside the USA and OIDIA 10-11 million outside the USA?

And Britney surely didn't ship 7 million copies outside the USA.

[Bney]

-Baby One More Time around 26m
-Oops! I did it again around 22m
-Britney Around 12m

Those are heavily overestimated.

Where on earth did BOMT ship 12 million copies outside the USA and OIDIA 10-11 million outside the USA?

And Britney surely didn't ship 7 million copies outside the USA.

Don't you ever know that BOMT has gone Diamond in several countries?? Don't you ever realize that BOMT and OIDIA were really big WW. These two eras were like Adele's 21 era for Britney you know.

Again, this is just estimation.

[Luminator]

I would then like to get a breakdown from you that indicates that BOMT has shipped 26 million copies worldwide.

[Bney]

I would then like to get a breakdown from you that indicates that BOMT has shipped 26 million copies worldwide.

No one will never ever know exact sale/shipment aside from her label (not even herself I guess). We only can estimate. However, many people/sources said this. I hope I could go back to BOMT era, so I'd have the best answer of her sales

[Wayne]

I did some work on Britney's sales figures about 2 years ago [as you'll see my the update date below] - I feel that my figures, which have been shared across the web, are much closer to reality than anything posted on this page.

Britney has NOT sold 100m albums.

Britney has NOT sold 150m records.

BRITNEY'S WORLDWIDE ALBUM SALES:

Baby One More Time - 23,500,000
Oops I Did It Again - 18,500,000
Britney - 11,000,000
In The Zone - 8,500,000
Greatest Hits: My Prerogative - 6,500,000
Blackout - 2,250,000
Circus - 3,750,000
The Singles Collection - 750,000

TOTAL: 74,750,000

Single Sales

Baby One More Time - 6.5million
Sometimes - 1.2million
You Drive Me Crazy - 1.2million (had massive airplay, but low sales: #10 BB100 peak)
Born To Make You Happy - 1.25million
From The Bottom Of My Broken Heart - 1.2million
Oops I Did It Again - 1.5million (no US commercial release)
Lucky - 0.85million
Stronger - 1.5million
Dont Let Me Be The Last To Know - 0.25million (successful only in tiny European markets)
I'm A Slave 4 U - 1million
Overprotected - 0.5million
I'm Not A Girl.... - 0.5million
I Love Rock And Roll - 0.5million
Me Against The Music - 1.3million
Toxic - 4.75 million
Everytime - 1.65million
My Prerogative - 0.5million
Do Somethin - 0.3million
Gimme More - 3.5million
Piece Of Me - 4million
Womanizer - 4.5million
Circus - 5million
If U Seek Amy - 1.5million
Radar: 850,000
3: 3.25m
Other singles - < 1million

TOTAL: 50.55million singles worldwide

*UPDATED - 25/11/2010*

TOTAL RECORD SALES WW:

124,700,000

Obviously, you can add in around 1.5/1.6m copies for Femme Fatale and the single sales too, and you'll get to around 140m records sold worldwide.

[weare]

your estimation were not including ringtone/mastertone.
For example, Circus sold 5.5 million in a year WW (according to the IFPI report)


I'm sure she has passed 150 million records

[Wayne]

your estimation were not including ringtone/mastertone.
For example, Circus sold 5.5 million in a year WW (according to the IFPI report)

I'm sure she has passed 150 million records

I know full well it doesn't include mastertones - it is IMPOSSIBLE to get a comprehensive list of mastertones for 99% of most artists and outside of the top 20 selling singles of the year, we know hardly anything [though certifications can tell us something, about some songs, in some countries].

So therefore, I didn't hazard a guess.