Britney Spears :: Charts & Sales History

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[MrLeonix]

Biggest opening numbers in USA with 6th studio albums:

Female artists

1. Taylor Swift - Reputation - 1,238,000
2. Beyoncé - Lemonade - 653,000
3. Britney Spears - Circus - 505,000
4. P!nk - The Truth About Love - 281,000
5. Lady Gaga - Chromatica - 274,000
6. Mariah Carey - Butterfly - 236,000
7. Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope - 202,000
8. Rihanna - Talk That Talk - 198,000
9. Ariana Grande - Positions - 160,000 ??
10. Shakira - Fijación Oral Vol 1 - 157,000
11. Madonna - Bedtime Stories - 145,000
12. Celine Dion - These Are Special Times - 126,000

Are Taylor, Beyoncé and Britney the only female artists with a +500K opening for a 6th studio album?

[JeremySpears]

The song is getting bigger every year yup

[Instinct]

Biggest opening numbers in USA with 6th studio albums:

Female artists

1. Taylor Swift - Reputation - 1,238,000
2. Beyoncé - Lemonade - 653,000
3. Britney Spears - Circus - 505,000
4. P!nk - The Truth About Love - 281,000
5. Lady Gaga - Chromatica - 274,000
6. Mariah Carey - Butterfly - 236,000
7. Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope - 202,000
8. Rihanna - Talk That Talk - 198,000
9. Ariana Grande - Positions - 160,000 ??
10. Shakira - Fijación Oral Vol 1 - 157,000
11. Madonna - Bedtime Stories - 145,000
12. Celine Dion - These Are Special Times - 126,000

Are Taylor, Beyoncé and Britney the only female artists with a +500K opening for a 6th studio album?

I believe so. The fact she’s Top 3 is truly amazing and speaks volumes about her longevity.

How did her peers perform with their respective 6th studio albums?

[Choley]

Biggest opening numbers in USA with 6th studio albums:

Female artists

1. Taylor Swift - Reputation - 1,238,000
2. Beyoncé - Lemonade - 653,000
3. Britney Spears - Circus - 505,000
4. P!nk - The Truth About Love - 281,000
5. Lady Gaga - Chromatica - 274,000
6. Mariah Carey - Butterfly - 236,000
7. Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope - 202,000
8. Rihanna - Talk That Talk - 198,000
9. Ariana Grande - Positions - 160,000 ??
10. Shakira - Fijación Oral Vol 1 - 157,000
11. Madonna - Bedtime Stories - 145,000
12. Celine Dion - These Are Special Times - 126,000

Are Taylor, Beyoncé and Britney the only female artists with a +500K opening for a 6th studio album?

Mary J Blige - Love & Life - 285,298
Enya - Amarantine - 178,498

such an amazing list btw even some of these divas 7th or 8th albums were opened with +100k

[MrLeonix]

How did her peers perform with their respective 6th studio albums?

Well.. Beyoncé and P!nk are there in the list, they did good.

[MrLeonix]

Mary J Blige - Love & Life - 285,298
Enya - Amarantine - 178,498

such an amazing list btw even some of these divas 7th or 8th albums were opened with +100k

Thanks for the contribution

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It’s worth mentioning that not only Britney had a +500K opening with a 6th studio album .. she’s also one of the very few ones that got a #1 on both the Billboard 200 and the Hot 100 with a 6th studio album.

Hopefully her label updates her certs on the RIAA soon so she can also be one of the very few female artists with a 6th studio album going Multi-Platinum.

[Choley]

Does FF eligible for double Platinum?

[MrLeonix]

Does FF eligible for double Platinum?

Yes it is

[Choley]

Yes it is

So if i remember this right

Bomt - 14xP
Oops - 11xP
Britney - 5xP
ITZ - 4xp
GH:MP - 1xP
Blackout - 1xP
Circus - 3xP
Singles Collection - Gold
FF - 2xP
BJ - Gold

Should be 42xP

[MrLeonix]

So if i remember this right

Bomt - 14xP
Oops - 11xP
Britney - 5xP
ITZ - 4xp
GH:MP - 1xP
Blackout - 1xP
Circus - 3xP
Singles Collection - Gold
FF - 2xP
BJ - Gold

Should be 42xP

Yep. But if I were her label or team I would do something different.

Being strategic enough I wouldn’t count any BOMT or OIDIA single towards their parent albums. Let’s be real, those albums are already Diamond, they don’t really need more certifications and they don’t even get a big effect / change after adding the SPS units.

What I’d do instead is counting the lesser singles (“Sometimes”, “Crazy”, “Lucky” and “Stronger”) towards GHMP so it goes Double Platinum ... and the two biggest ones (“Baby” and “Oops”) towards TSC so it goes Platinum. In that way I would give Britney one extra Multi-Platinum album and another extra Platinum album and her results could look like this:

BOMT - 14xP
OIDIA - 10xP
Britney - 5xP
ITZ - 4xP
GHMP - 2xP
Blackout - 1xP
Circus - 3xP
TSC - 1xP
FF - 2xP
BJ - Gold

The total is nearly the same (42,5xP this time) but the distribution would be much better (7 Multi-Platinum albums and 9 Platinum albums overall).

Hopefully her label gets it and uses some logic by the time they decide to update her certifications.

[Choley]

Yep. But if I were her label or team I would do something different.

Being strategic enough I wouldn’t count any BOMT or OIDIA single towards their parent albums. Let’s be real, those albums are already Diamond, they don’t really need more certifications and they don’t even get a big effect / change after adding the SPS units.


The total is nearly the same (42,5xP this time) but the distribution would be much better (7 Multi-Platinum albums and 9 Platinum albums overall).

Hopefully her label gets it and uses some logic by the time they decide to update her certifications.

I would do the same too but i thought that Oops sold 11M in pure sales alone.
10.4M with Nielsen + BMG but what about Columbia House?I know we don't have any data from that club though

[MrLeonix]

I would do the same too but i thought that Oops sold 11M in pure sales alone.
10.4M with Nielsen + BMG but what about Columbia House?I know we don't have any data from that club though

Don’t know about the Columbia House info. Sadly.

Also “Scream & Shout” is included in Britney’s compilation album “The Essential Britney Spears” (released in 2013). In that case I’m not sure if her team or label can ask for S&S data to be counted towards this album for certification purpose.

It’s complicated when the same song is featured in two different artists’ albums but I think Carlos Vives & Shakira collab single “La Bicicleta” data which is featured in both artists’ albums counted for both of them.

[Instinct]

I haven't done any estimates for Blackout in a while but with Gimme More picking up on streaming, I feel like it won't take too long before its eligible for 2x Platinum.

[pedrolabre]

Don’t know about the Columbia House info. Sadly.

Also “Scream & Shout” is included in Britney’s compilation album “The Essential Britney Spears” (released in 2013). In that case I’m not sure if her team or label can ask for S&S data to be counted towards this album for certification purpose.

It’s complicated when the same song is featured in two different artists’ albums but I think Carlos Vives & Shakira collab single “La Bicicleta” data which is featured in both artists’ albums counted for both of them.

I believe each SEA and TEA can be counted for one album only, but the artist could share and for ex. La Bicicleta or Senorita, half streams would go for one album and the other half to other

[MrLeonix]

I believe each SEA and TEA can be counted for one album only, but the artist could share and for ex. La Bicicleta or Senorita, half streams would go for one album and the other half to other

Cool thanks for the info.

I guess it’s a good thing that Will.I.Am has not used the track to update his cert yet. So they could share (50/50).

“S&S” is basically responsible for (around) 750K album equivalent units in USA. Half of that would be 375K units that could potentially go towards “The Essential Collection”.

[InFamous]

I believe so. The fact she’s Top 3 is truly amazing and speaks volumes about her longevity.

The opening week of Circus was really really impressive.

[MrLeonix]

Circus era:

- 500K opening week? Checked.
- #1 album? Checked.
- #1 single? Checked.
- Multi-Platinum Eligible? Checked.
- +$100M tour? Checked.

That’s how you pull a 6th studio album and that folks is the reason Britney will always be an Icon. She made sure to DO a lot in order to cement her status in the music industry before her fall.... by the time she fell into chart irrelevance she was already too big and cemented.

IMO her first 6 studio albums / eras: BOMT-Circus (1998-2009) will always guarantee her free pass as an Icon and eternal high status in the music industry. “Femme Fatale” was also cute with it’s hit singles and radio success but IMO her first 6 eras were the ones that set her legacy in stone.

[Enzolorenzo]

Cool thanks for the info.

I guess it’s a good thing that Will.I.Am has not used the track to update his cert yet. So they could share (50/50).

“S&S” is basically responsible for (around) 750K album equivalent units in USA. Half of that would be 375K units that could potentially go towards “The Essential Collection”.

Scream & Shout is 7x platinum eligible?

[pedrolabre]

Toxic got another 400k update, second in November

the song already received 2.718.693 streams on Spotify this month (388k average)

[Instinct]

Huge numbers! At this rate it'll end 2020 with 498,206,980 streams. Maybe a bit higher with NYE effect.

[pedrolabre]

The average for Toxic in Nov 2019 was 300k and the song got 534k at new years eve, so i expect to finally enter the Spotify Global Daily Top 200

[Stronger99]

I hope the song has a chance to enter the Billboard Top 100 in December.

[Britneysdream]

I’m looking forward to seeing if Britney can get an official chart placement on the uk official chart with my only wish this year because she now she has a new version would it be free from the ACR it has been on?