Britney Spears :: Charts & Sales History

[pedrolabre]

[MrLeonix]

Chartmasters updated their all-time list.

Only 6 female artists are over 100 million units and those same 6 were also the only ones that made the Top 40. Britney Spears was one of them:

Top female artists on chartmasters:

1. Madonna - 242,686,000
2. Celine Dion - 194,757,000
3. Mariah Carey - 169,674,000
4. Whitney Houston - 153,469,000
5. Barbra Streisand - 152,699,000
6. Britney Spears - 102,876,000

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7. Rihanna - 95,155,000
8. Adele - 88,214,000
9. Taylor Swift - 88,084,000
10. Enya - 87,040,000
11. Shania Twain - 81,072,000
12. Beyoncé - 79,143,000
13. Janet Jackson - 77,578,000
14. Cher - 72,883,000
15. P!nk - 65,688,000
16. Lady Gaga - 64,028,000
17. Shakira - 61,374,000
18. Ayumi Hamasaki - 61,073,000

Source: https://chartmasters.org/2020/05/csp...ate-streaming/

[Instinct]

"Glory" had 171,634 plays on Spotify yesterday.

And also 212,109 plays on Sunday. Even if the album didn't chart, I'm glad its streaming numbers have improved significantly. The same cannot be said for most of the other diva campaigns (which were also helped by discounts).

May 3 - 151,371
May 4 - 184,628
May 5 - 135,010
May 6 - 115,430
May 7 - 98,940
May 8 - 192,327
May 9 - 342,783
May 10 - 212,109
May 11 - 171,634

Total: 1,604,142 streams in 9 days.

[MrLeonix]

And also 212,109 plays on Sunday. Even if the album didn't chart, I'm glad its streaming numbers have improved significantly. The same cannot be said for most of the other diva campaigns (which were also helped by discounts).

May 3 - 151,371
May 4 - 184,628
May 5 - 135,010
May 6 - 115,430
May 7 - 98,940
May 8 - 192,327
May 9 - 342,783
May 10 - 212,109
May 11 - 171,634

Total: 1,604,142 streams in 9 days.

Very positive results for the album on Spotify indeed.

[nympho]

And also 212,109 plays on Sunday. Even if the album didn't chart, I'm glad its streaming numbers have improved significantly. The same cannot be said for most of the other diva campaigns (which were also helped by discounts).

.

Well, Mariah’s E=MC2 reached #1 on iTunes and it has been the only album of those fans’ campaigns that managed to chart in any Billboard chart (#66 on Billboard Top Album Sales). Which was the ultimate goal for all those campaigns on iTunes = make the official charts.

Glory wasn’t discounted... but unlike the others, it has a new cover which caused the climb on iTunes again this 2nd time around.

Regarding significantly improving on Spotify, E=MC2 had a huge boost on Spotify too.
The day after reaching #1 on iTunes it went from 83,812 streams on Spotify to 144,250. A 72.11% increase. (I don’t know what was the % increase for Glory)
The following days it had 158, 150k, 138k... Way higher than what it was doing before the campaign.

[Instinct]

Well, Mariah’s E=MC2 reached #1 on iTunes and it has been the only album of those fans’ campaigns that managed to chart in any Billboard chart (#66 on Billboard Top Album Sales). Which was the ultimate goal for all those campaigns on iTunes = make the official charts.

Glory wasn’t discounted... but unlike the others, it has a new cover which caused the climb on iTunes again this 2nd time around.

Regarding significantly improving on Spotify, E=MC2 had a huge boost on Spotify too.
The day after reaching #1 on iTunes it went from 83,812 streams on Spotify to 144,250. A 72.11% increase. (I don’t know what was the % increase for Glory)
The following days it had 158, 150k, 138k... Way higher than what it was doing before the campaign.

I'm not taking anything away from Mariah. It's clear she had a great effect and her fans clearly started the trend, so props to them. However, I don't think that would have been possible without the discount.

Also, Glory went up by 95.3% on Spotify the day after it hit #4 on iTunes. It was only pulling 60-70k streams a day before the campaign, so the fact it's been averaging 178k a day is a pretty good result imo.

[MrLeonix]

Well, Mariah’s E=MC2 reached #1 on iTunes and it has been the only album of those fans’ campaigns that managed to chart in any Billboard chart (#66 on Billboard Top Album Sales). Which was the ultimate goal for all those campaigns on iTunes = make the official charts.

Glory wasn’t discounted... but unlike the others, it has a new cover which caused the climb on iTunes again this 2nd time around.

Regarding significantly improving on Spotify, E=MC2 had a huge boost on Spotify too.
The day after reaching #1 on iTunes it went from 83,812 streams on Spotify to 144,250. A 72.11% increase. (I don’t know what was the % increase for Glory)
The following days it had 158, 150k, 138k... Way higher than what it was doing before the campaign.

1) Actually the ultimate goal for all of these campaigns was to take the albums back to the Billboard 200 and all failed (as expected since iTunes is irrelevant).

2) Mariah's album was discounted and "Glory" wasn't , what Glory did was at full price which was way harder to pull.

3) Glory's cover was released AFTER the fans campaign had ended.

4) "Glory" had a 95% increase on Spotify, the best effect so far on streaming platforms out of these divas campaigns.

[Enzolorenzo]

What is the difference between the European Hot 100 and the Euro Digital Tracks Chart? Because I was looking at American Radio History articles and they include both charts in their articles from 2007 onwards. For example I found these:

Gimme More (European Hot 100): 77-10-15-2-2-6-8-11




Gimme More (EURO DIGITAL TRACKS): 1-4-4-5-9-14-19




Piece of Me (European Hot 100): 42-6-7-13-15-8-11-13




Piece of Me (EURO DIGITAL TRACKS): 10-5-6-7-7-7-11-13-15




Womanizer (European Hot 100): 42-10-7-4-7-1-2-3-3-2-4-7-12-11-14




Womanizer (EURO DIGITAL SONGS SALES): 13-2-5-5-4-5-8-5-8-13-15

[nympho]

1) Actually the ultimate goal for all of these campaigns was to take the albums back to the Billboard 200 and all failed (as expected since iTunes is irrelevant).

2) Mariah's album was discounted and "Glory" wasn't , what Glory did was at full price which was way harder to pull.

3) Glory's cover was released AFTER the fans campaign had ended.

4) "Glory" had a 95% increase on Spotify, the best effect so far on streaming platforms out of these divas campaigns.

1) Expecting a BB200 re-entry is delusional. For any of them. You need more than 5k units. The objective target was Top album sales. And only Mariah achieved it.

2) Maybe. We’ll never know how high E=MC2 could had climbed at full price. I don’t think many lambs would have stopped participating in the campaign for a difference of $4-$5. They all already have the album and are still paying for it. Paying a bit more or less it’s not such a big thing for a stan with a purpose. Just like I don’t think hundreds and hundreds of Britney fans would have joined the campaign if the album was discounted. This point is just guessing, both for your opinion and mine, not a fact.

3) I know. I posted that it climbed again a 2nd time on iTunes thanks to the new cover. Some of you were even talking about how the new cover will benefit Spotify streams as well. So it helped to maintain high streams longer.

4) Congratulations. One of the reasons could be that less people bought the album so they decided to stream it instead.

She did great. Specially on Spotify. And her campaign overall had better results than Janet or Madonna’s, despite not reaching #1 on iTunes.
But not Mariah’s, who was the only one making an official chart (two actually, as it returned to UK’s R&B chart as well), besides reaching #1 on iTunes and having a big boost on Spotify.

[nympho]

What is the difference between the European Hot 100 and the Euro Digital Tracks Chart? Because I was looking at American Radio History articles and they include both charts in their articles from 2007 onwards.

Just like Hot 100 and Hot Digital Songs.
European Hot 100 included sales and airplay.
Euro Digital Songs just downloads.

[Enzolorenzo]

Just like Hot 100 and Hot Digital Songs.
European Hot 100 included sales and airplay.
Euro Digital Songs just downloads.

Mess I assumed that the European Singles Chart was based only on sales. Is there a reason why “Circus” didn’t make the European Hot 100? It was charting on the European Digital Songs chart (19-20-18-14-15-14-20) and even went top 10 on the airplay chart

[Instinct]

Glory got 140,812 plays on Spotify yesterday. 1.745.044 in the past 10 days, which means a massive 141% increase from the previous 10 days.

[JeremySpears]

Probably because of this lol

[MrLeonix]

Probably because of this lol

Didn’t Katy and Missy also go #1 with the “Last Friday Night Remix”?

... but yeah the “S&M Remix” was one of those very few remixes that served it’s purpose to go #1. It really worked and did what it was meant to do.

[Instinct]

[B_IN_ME]

Just like Hot 100 and Hot Digital Songs.
European Hot 100 included sales and airplay.
Euro Digital Songs just downloads.

Nope.
The European Hot 100 was a POINT-based chart weighted on countrys market-size.
First they hadn't all the sales and second this was neccessary to prevent that the EU-Chart become a second UK-Chart cause single sales were enormous in the UK back then especially in the top 5. So if they would go with sales the Eurochart would be topped every week by the new UK no. 1 single.

Since 2006 it contains physical AND digital sales which wasn't a good idea due the big differences between the marktes. Especially the Digital Top 50 become a second UK chart. If you look for example on the chartrun of If you seek amy you know what I'm talking about.

And another factor makes that chart unuseable: in Germany singles need an allowance to chart before the physical release which was a bad joke. This "rule" affects the EU Hot 100 a lot, cause they didn't count any sale from Britney in Germany until the CD was released which was mostly 2 month after the video-release. So her positions 2007-2009 would be better without that german "rule".

Here's the Circus chartrun:
63 - 56 - 74 - 72 - 61 - 40 - 38 - 42 - 33 - 36 - 43 - 45 - 53 - 22 - 24 - 27 - 36 - 42 - 64 - 64 - 86

And here's the CR from the Digital TRACK chart (don't confound it with the Digital SONGS chart):
22-35-38-36-29-23-19-20-18-14-15-14-20-22-32-38-41-50

Digital SONGS I have only the Top 20 positions:
20-//-//-//-//-//-17-18-16-13-12-12-18-18
It has better positions cause in that chart they count every song-versions as one unlike in the track chart

[Enzolorenzo]

B_IN_ME Thank you! So basically “Circus” didn’t perform well on the European Hot 100 because the CD was released pretty late in Germany, which is one of the biggest European market? Also what’s the difference between the Digital Tracks Chart and Digital Songs Chart?

[B_IN_ME]

B_IN_ME Thank you! So basically “Circus” didn’t perform well on the European Hot 100 because the CD was released pretty late in Germany, which is one of the biggest European market? Also what’s the difference between the Digital Tracks Chart and Digital Songs Chart?

That's only one reason. It didn`t reach top 10 in many countries (only sweden, denmark and ireland) and as I said before, the chart wasn't country-weighted which means that the UK market has a huge influence, small countries not. If you have country where a top 20 position means 10.000 sales and a country where the no. 1 sold 500 copies that small country hasn't any impact.

Digital SONG chart counts every version of a song e.g. remix version, album version etc.
Digital TRACK counts only separate tracks.

[Enzolorenzo]

That's only one reason. It didn`t reach top 10 in many countries (only sweden, denmark and ireland) and as I said before, the chart wasn't country-weighted which means that the UK market has a huge influence, small countries not. If you have country where a top 20 position means 10.000 sales and a country where the no. 1 sold 500 copies that small country hasn't any impact.

Digital SONG chart counts every version of a song e.g. remix version, album version etc.
Digital TRACK counts only separate tracks.

Thank you very much! Sorry to bother you but do you have the chart runs for her other singles from the digital era (Gimme More onwards)? I found these but they’re most likely incomplete

Gimme More: 77-10-15-2-2-6-8-11


Gimme More (EURO DIGITAL TRACKS): 1-4-4-5-9-14-19


Piece of Me: 42-6-7-13-15-8-11-13


Piece of Me (EURO DIGITAL TRACKS): 10-5-6-7-7-7-11-13-15

Womanizer: 42-10-7-4-7-1-2-3-3-2-4-7-12-11-14


Womanizer (EURO DIGITAL SONGS SALES): 13-2-5-5-4-5-8-5-8-13-15

[Instinct]

Spotify Update (13/05/2020)

01 - 413,193,520 - Toxic
02 - 291,766,435 - ...Baby One More Time
03 - 280,837,695 - Oops!...I Did It Again
04 - 195,114,233 - Womanizer
05 - 176,158,322 - Work Bitch
06 - 125,989,551 - My Only Wish (This Year)
07 - 107,952,280 - Make Me (feat. G-Eazy)
08 - 102,362,037 - Till the World Ends*
09 - 101,798,962 - Circus
10 - 101,497,547 - Gimme More
11 - 75,049,161 - I'm a Slave 4 U
12 - 70,823,660 - I Wanna Go
13 - 70,713,349 - Sometimes
14 - 69,935,355 - Everytime
15 - 66,702,186 - Criminal
16 - 64,603,350 - Piece of Me
17 - 64,521,450 - (You Drive Me) Crazy*
18 - 62,018,351 - Stronger
19 - 58,173,896 - Lucky
20 - 57,489,585 - If U Seek Amy
21 - 57,443,978 - Pretty Girls
22 - 55,259,780 - Slumber Party (feat. Tinashe)
23 - 50,309,359 - 3
24 - 45,490,286 - Hold It Against Me
25 - 35,381,232 - Overprotected*
26 - 31,236,402 - Radar
27 - 28,893,462 - Break the Ice
28 - 28,039,295 - Perfume
29 - 27,460,190 - I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman
30 - 27,079,454 - Me Against the Music (feat. Madonna)
31 - 26,179,799 - Born to Make You Happy
32 - 25,287,219 - I Love Rock 'n' Roll
33 - 24,767,221 - Boys*
34 - 22,403,584 - My Prerogative
35 - 19,590,053 - Do You Wanna Come Over?
36 - 13,930,728 - Change Your Mind (No Seas Cortes)
37 - 12,478,991 - Private Show
38 - 12,121,948 - Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know
39 - 12,111,741 - Do Somethin'
40 - 12,015,192 - Ooh La La
41 - 11,814,478 - Get Naked (I Got a Plan)
42 - 11,673,900 - Outrageous
43 - 11,067,274 - From the Bottom of My Broken Heart*
44 - 10,950,251 - Just Luv Me
45 - 10,550,875 - Clumsy
46 - 10,206,145 - Man on the Moon
47 - 10,136,943 - Breathe on Me
48 - 8,917,017 - (Drop Dead) Beautiful (feat. Sabi)
49 - 8,915,020 - Just Like Me
50 - 8,845,096 - (I Got That) Boom Boom (feat. Ying Yang Twins)
51 - 8,691,139 - Inside Out
52 - 8,117,767 - Liar
53 - 8,108,185 - Love Me Down
54 - 8,010,170 - Invitation
55 - 7,808,266 - Out from Under
56 - 7,246,973 - Alien
57 - 6,884,174 - If I'm Dancing
58 - 6,864,704 - It Should Be Easy (feat. will.i.am)
59 - 6,642,921 - Tik Tik Boom (feat. T.I.)
60 - 6,526,220 - Kill the Lights
61 - 6,334,988 - Big Fat Bass (feat. will.i.am)
62 - 6,261,936 - Unusual You
63 - 6,049,926 - Body Ache
64 - 5,844,672 - Better
65 - 5,842,792 - Shattered Glass
66 - 5,818,528 - Freakshow
67 - 5,683,519 - The Hook Up
68 - 5,638,943 - Toy Soldier
69 - 5,627,774 - How I Roll
70 - 5,574,689 - Anticipating
71 - 5,531,252 - Gasoline
72 - 5,448,929 - Cinderella
73 - 5,321,803 - Up n' Down
74 - 5,202,105 - Hot as Ice
75 - 5,122,638 - Hard to Forget Ya
76 - 4,968,556 - Til It's Gone
77 - 4,873,248 - He About to Lose Me
78 - 4,703,436 - Ooh Ooh Baby
79 - 4,689,559 - What You Need
80 - 4,538,254 - What U See (Is What U Get)
81 - 4,512,383 - Coupure Électrique
82 - 4,512,220 - Trouble for Me
83 - 4,506,109 - Seal It With a Kiss
84 - 4,314,128 - Don't Go Knockin' on My Door
85 - 4,081,856 - Bombastic Love
86 - 3,923,980 - Selfish
87 - 3,916,182 - Trip to Your Heart
88 - 3,878,861 - Heaven on Earth
89 - 3,848,465 - Lonely
90 - 3,706,077 - Touch of My Hand
91 - 3,569,298 - Lace & Leather
92 - 3,508,463 - Passenger
93 - 3,434,804 - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
94 - 3,353,691 - (I've Just Begun) Having My Fun
95 - 3,257,996 - Showdown
96 - 3,150,473 - Perfect Lover
97 - 3,076,918 - Blur
98 - 3,032,078 - What It's Like to Be Me
99 - 2,997,521 - Mannequin
100 - 2,963,945 - Don't Cry
101 - 2,942,612 - Can't Make You Love Me
102 - 2,908,685 - Mmm Papi
103 - 2,897,129 - I Will Be There
104 - 2,879,202 - One Kiss from You
105 - 2,878,871 - Now That I Found You
106 - 2,782,009 - Brightest Morning Star
107 - 2,740,963 - Chillin' With You (feat. Jamie Lynn)
108 - 2,678,766 - Soda Pop
109 - 2,565,774 - Perfume (The Dreaming Mix)
110 - 2,462,956 - Phonography
111 - 2,406,599 - Why Should I Be Sad
112 - 2,382,466 - Hold on Tight
113 - 2,326,957 - Where Are You Now
114 - 2,283,273 - Don't Keep Me Waiting
115 - 2,203,835 - Get Back
116 - 2,184,048 - Early Mornin'
117 - 2,166,380 - Brave New Girl
118 - 2,165,309 - That's Where You Take Me
119 - 2,131,588 - My Baby
120 - 1,974,560 - Everybody
121 - 1,900,069 - Someday (I Will Understand)
122 - 1,896,342 - I Will Still Love You (with Don Philip)
123 - 1,879,701 - I Run Away
124 - 1,859,821 - Deep In My Heart
125 - 1,836,697 - Shadow
126 - 1,807,050 - Autumn Goodbye
127 - 1,780,863 - When Your Eyes Say It*
128 - 1,699,410 - Dear Diary
129 - 1,640,090 - I'll Never Stop Loving You
130 - 1,620,634 - E-Mail My Heart
131 - 1,607,187 - When I Found You
132 - 1,590,412 - Thinkin' About You
133 - 1,556,719 - The Beat Goes On
134 - 1,495,830 - Rock Me In
135 - 1,474,619 - Before the Goodbye
136 - 1,013,793 - And Then We Kiss (Junkie XL Remix)
137 - 894,673 - Mona Lisa
138 - 602,751 - Don't Hang Up
141 - 494,298 - The Answer
142 - 457,616 - Chaotic
143 - 416,161 - Heart*
144 - 357,365 - Walk on By
145 - 340,097 - Rock Boy
146 - 326,213 - Girl in the Mirror
147 - 324,615 - Intimidated
148 - 274,059 - I'm So Curious
149 - 251,531 - You Got It All
150 - 227,414 - Mood Ring
151 - 87,814 - Amnesia
152 - 28,642 - Outta This World

Please note that Amnesia, Mood Ring, You Got It All, Girl in the Mirror, Outta This World and Rock Boy are either no longer available or have limited availability. * means multiple versions.

Remixes
01 - 6,371,904 - Till the World Ends
02 - 5,596,853 - Make Me...
03 - 4,984,163 - Toxic
04 - 4,516,833 - Circus
05 - 3,970,229 - Gimme More
06 - 3,820,971 - I Wanna Go
07 - 3,273,482 - Womanizer
08 - 3,181,134 - Slumber Party
09 - 3,034,859 - Piece of Me
10 - 3,027,413 - Me Against the Music
11 - 2,780,561 - Hold It Against Me
12 - 2,201,618 - Everytime
13 - 2,087,076 - Chris Cox Megamix
14 - 1,922,188 - ..Baby One More Time
15 - 1,905,586 - If U Seek Amy
16 - 1,625,667 - 3
17 - 1,275,252 - I'm a Slave 4 U
18 - 1,205,430 - Radar
19 - 1,161,103 - Breathe on Me
20 - 1,011,556 - Outrageous
21 - 906,316 - Criminal
22 - 565,217 - Stronger
23 - 540,130 - Born to Make You Happy
24 - 494,509 - Break the Ice
25 - 464,914 - Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know
26 - 439,834 - Touch of My Hand
27 - 378,143 - My Prerogative
28 - 347,929 - (Someday) I Will Understand
29 - 308,546 - Early Mornin'
30 - 301,650 - I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman
31 - 135,009 - Do Somethin'

Total Streams (Lead): 3,630,321,895

Featurings:
01 - 324,684,519 - Scream & Shout*
02 - 23,830,631 - SMS (Bangerz)
03 - 21,725,285 - S&M (Remix)
04 - 6,518,988 - Tom's Diner
05 - 5,470,652 - Scream & Shout (Hit-Boy Remix)
06 - 1,969,675 - Like a Virgin / Hollywood
07 - 1,676,442 - Tom's Diner (Leu Leu Land Remix)
08 - 1,024,841 - Tom's Diner (Hibell Remix)
09 - 9,725 - Crazy

Total Streams (Featuring): 386,910,758 // Total Streams: 4,017,232,653

I love that only 9.5% of her total streams come from her features.

[pedrolabre]

Instinct ^^ are u sure the remixes numbers are right?

I made an update last year and you numbers are almost 20M streams higher, even though the time passage I don’t think it’s streams grew that much

besides that 6 days ago i did the 4B update, today should be like 4.02B what match with the inflation

I don’t know i could be wrong, but maybe has some duplicated remixes there, no? Sorry to bother if dont^

[Instinct]

I don’t know i could be wrong, but maybe has some duplicated remixes there, no? Sorry to bother if dont^

Don't worry, I checked carefully and wrote the numbers down to avoid any mistakes or double counting. She has MANY hidden/unavailable remixes with tons of streams. I had to search for them individually since they don't show up on her page.

For example

Toxic
1,819,779
797,492
787,837
435,722
381,089
268,445
204,385
141,227
110,308
37,879

Everytime
1,101,153
723,939
176,212
112,372
55,576
32,366

Gimme More
1,585,117
998,382
560,387
282,847
234,168
107,053
76,747
68,367
30,294
13,512
4,426
3,851
2,551
2,525

[pedrolabre]

195,292,112 • Womanizer
101,887,267 • Circus
57,559,310 • If U Seek Amy
7,810,874• Out From Under
6,529,750 • Kill the Lights
6,264,843 • Unusual You
5,845,544 • Shattered Glass
3,571,273 • Lace and Leather
3,078,460 • Blur
2,998,986 • Mannequin
2,910,163 • Mmm Papi
2,464,904 • Phonography
2,132,427 • My Baby
1,496,857 • Rock Me In
340.097 • Rock Boy
87.814 • Amnesia

[pedrolabre]

Instinct i got it whats off

has two Borm to Make you Happy on the list, if we take the 26M streams extra the numbers match

[Instinct]

Instinct i got it whats off

has two Borm to Make you Happy on the list, if we take the 26M streams extra the numbers match

Damn. Oops. Fixed!