Britney Spears :: Charts & Sales History

[Instinct]

May 22, 2020

Me Against the Music has 184,000 chart sales

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart...-chart__29839/

November 19, 2020

By comparison, Britney's Me Against The Music has 189,000 chart sales, including 5.2 million streams.

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart...mber-1__20981/

That's like 850 copies a month. With her streaming boost this year, it should be around 198-9K copies as of this month, so it'll hit Silver in no time.

[Ivica]

Digital Songs update US


Scream & Shout: 3,614,000
Womanizer: 3,611,000
Circus: 3,268,000
Till the World Ends: 3,025,000
Toxic: 2,450,000
3: 2,398,000
Piece of Me: 1,911,000
Gimme More: 1,888,000
I Wanna Go: 1,805,000
Hold It Against Me: 1,635,000
If U Seek Amy: 1,376,000
Work Bitch: 1,056,000
..Baby One More Time: 890,000
Break the Ice: 794,000
Oops I Did It Again: 777,000
Everytime: 688,000
I’m a Slave 4 U: 668,000
Radar: 612,000
My Prerogative: 486,000
Criminal: 422,000
Lucky: 418,000
Stronger: 411,000
(You Drive Me) Crazy: 409,000
Do Something: 409,000
Make Me: 381,000
Pretty Girls: 353,000
Me Against The Music: 333,000
Boys: 257,000
Perfume: 252,000
Ooh La La: 243,000
Sometimes: 178,000
Outrageous: 148,000
Slumber Party: 77,000
Someday (I Will Understand): 72,000
Born To Make You Happy: 67,000
Overprotected: 60,000
Don’t Let Me Be The Last To Know: 59,000
From The Bottom of My Broken Heart: 49,000
Mood Ring: 20,000
Matches: 9,000
Swimming in the Stars: 8,000

Source Mark from BMK

[Instinct]

So happy to finally have updated sales as it's been years Will be very handy to make SPS estimations.

VERY surprising to see Boys ahead of Overprotected and Sometimes

[Instinct]

Physical single sales as of 2011/2012
1,412,000, "...Baby One More Time"
778,000, "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart"
415,000, "Stronger"
60,000, "Me Against the Music"
57,000, "Oops!...I Did It Again"
32,000, "I'm a Slave 4 U"
28,000, "(You Drive Me) Crazy"
12,000, "Toxic"
6,000, "Lucky"
5,578, "Everytime"
3,000, "Sometimes"

Missing sales for "Swimming in the Stars" which had a vinyl release.

Digital + physical

Toxic - 2,462,000
...Baby One More Time - 2,302,000
Oops!...I Did It Again - 834,000
From the Bottom of My Broken Heart - 827,000
Stronger - 826,000
I'm a Slave 4 U - 700,000
Everytime - 693,578
(You Drive Me) Crazy - 437,000
Lucky - 424,000
Me Against the Music - 393,000
Sometimes - 181,000

[MrLeonix]

Digital sales for “Lucky”, “Crazy”, “Criminal” and “Stronger” were higher than expected.

It will be easier to work on SPS numbers now.

[LostAvenger]

Canada:

49 re Essential Britney Spears

[Choley]

According to MIDEM2006 MPAJ report Greatest Hits My Prerogative sold 110,000 copies in Taiwan (2005).Chartmasters only have 105k so it must be around 120-30k then maybe 150k?

Here's the link if someone wants to edit GH:MP wiki page

[Instinct]

According to MIDEM2006 MPAJ report Greatest Hits My Prerogative sold 110,000 copies in Taiwan (2005).Chartmasters only have 105k so it must be around 120-30k then maybe 150k?

Here's the link if someone wants to edit GH:MP wiki page

And yet another underestimation Thanks for posting! GH:MP was such a smash in Asia. Do you know the sales for her first four albums in Taiwan?

[Instinct]

My estimations for Work Bitch's sales in the US

Using the ChartMasters method...

– South Korea : Genie streams * 3.05 (consistent with Gaon streaming numbers)
– Japan : AWA streams * 100/5.5 (AWA has 5.5% of the Japanese streaming market)– Elsewhere : Spotify streams * (370 – 8.5 – 9.5 – 33 – 9) / 207 (370 million global subscribers minus 8.5 million from South Korea minus 9.5 million from Japan minus 33 million from China divided by the number of Spotify only users minus 9 million more Asian users) + Genie streams * 3.05 (uses Genie rather than Spotify to extrapolate markets like Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam)

Audio
South Korea (Genie) - 2,795,000
Japan (AWA) - 197,533
World (Spotify) - 226,308,293
Total: 229,300,826

YouTube
Work B**ch (Official Music Video) - 361,506,792
Work B**ch (Official Audio) - 15,106,324 views
Work B**ch (Live from Apple Music Festival, London, 2016) - 2,992,746 views
Work Bitch (Auto-Generated) - 12,907,201 views
Total: 392,513,063

Comprehensive streams:
South Korean streams - 8,524,750
Japanese streams - 3,591,509
Global audio streams - 364,916,288

Estimating 35% of its global audio streams and 25% of its YouTube views come from the US, that's 127,720,700 and 98,128,265, respectively. 225,848,965 total streams, or 1,505,659 sales.

1,505,000 streaming sales + 1,056,000 pure sales = 2,561,000 units. Definitely overdue for a 2x Platinum certification.

[MrLeonix]

^ At this point they better wait for it to be 3x Platinum instead.

[Instinct]

Thanks to Mark from BMK

US ALBUMS - TOTAL STREAMS (updated 7/29/21)

The Singles Collection: 3,405,820,000
Greatest Hits: My Prerogative: 1,837,781,000
In the Zone: 691,022,000
Circus: 670,279,000
Baby One More Time: 518,887,000
Oops I Did It Again: 462,797,000
Femme Fatale: 440,724,000
Blackout: 333,691,000
Glory: 290,404,000
Britney Jean: 229,706,000
Britney: 220,149,000

Streaming units
In the Zone - 460,681
Circus - 446,852
...Baby One More Time - 345,924
Oops!...I Did It Again - 308,531
Femme Fatale - 293,816
Blackout - 222,460
Glory - 193,602
Britney Jean - 153,137
Britney - 146,766

Clearly my estimate for Work Bitch's streams was a little too much I think about 20% of her YouTube views come from the US, rather than 25%. And her Spotify streams are probably closer to 30%. Global queen!

Glory
172,000 pure sales
61K TEA
193K SEA

= 426,000 units

In the Zone
3,052,000 pure sales (Soundscan only)
400K TEA
460K SEA
= 3,912,000 units

Definitely eligible for 4x Platinum with club sales (which are estimated to be no less than 200K).

Circus
1,734,000 pure sales
890K TEA
446K SEA
= 3,070,000 units

Please note that this is without Radar

Femme Fatale
812,000 pure sales
725K TEA
293K SEA

= 1,830,000 units

The album is officially certified Platinum by the RIAA for over 1 million shipments though, so...

1 million shipments
725K TEA
293K SEA

= 2,018,000 units

Blackout
1,058,000 pure sales
580K TEA
222K SEA
= 1,860,000 units

Britney Jean
284,000 pure sales
149K TEA
153k SEA
= 586,000 units

Will do her first three albums later!

[Instinct]

Britney (album) sold nearly half a million copies in Japan by the end of 2002

And also I would like to speak briefly about Britney Spears. We released the album almost at the same time. I donﾕt know why Jive does it to us but we released the 2 biggest albums at the same time. For Britney Spears, we shipped about 150,000 which is now almost a half a million. We marketed these artists over a long period, by using singles releases etc. By the way, it depends on situation if you release a single, but in her case, we wanted to get a lot of airplay so we released a single.
In April last year, she came to Japan to do a Tokyo Dome show. As being a small company like us, I think it is unusual to have two artists this big. But that also involved about 50,000 people to come to the show.
After that her movie called “Crossroads” started in Japan. While she was in town, she did as many appearances as she could. We got every TV show that we could, as much as her time would allow. We also got very good press interviews. After that, we still kept pushing her. She appeared in a cameo appearance in an Austin Powers movie whereas we pushed another single at that time. And in the end of the year, we released a gift package, which sold very well too. We also did a TV commercial with X Box using one of her songs. And in the beginning of this year, she was chosen to be one of the Best Female artists at the awards at Bunka Hoso, Bunka Radio Broadcasting, which is, I think in a way we can also say that 2002 was the year of Britney Spears.

https://mpaj.or.jp/about/international/report/1237

[adamf2thedeath]

Me against the music was kind of a flop right? I mean she totally killed it with toxic and everytime but for some reason I never realised MATM underperformed.

[Instinct]

Me against the music was kind of a flop right? I mean she totally killed it with toxic and everytime but for some reason I never realised MATM underperformed.

Me Against the music may be completely forgotten now, but it was a worldwide hit for sure.

#1 in Australia (made the year-end chart for both 2003 and 2004)
#1 in Europe
#1 in Spain
#1 in Ireland
#1 in Denmark
#1 in Canada
#2 in Italy (#31 on the year-end chart)
#2 in Norway
#2 in the UK
#3 in Belgium
#4 in Austria
#4 in Switzerland
#5 in Germany
#5 in Finland
#5 in the Netherlands
#5 in Sweden
#11 in France
#13 New Zealand

It was Top 15 in every big market except for the US. And even then, #35 wasn't a terrible peak considering both Britney and Madonna were blacklisted from radio and there was no physical release.

[adamf2thedeath]

Me Against the music may be completely forgotten now, but it was a worldwide hit for sure.

#1 in Australia (made the year-end chart for both 2003 and 2004)
#1 in Europe
#1 in Spain
#1 in Ireland
#1 in Denmark
#1 in Canada
#2 in Italy (#31 on the year-end chart)
#2 in Norway
#2 in the UK
#3 in Belgium
#4 in Austria
#4 in Switzerland
#5 in Germany
#5 in Finland
#5 in the Netherlands
#5 in Sweden
#11 in France
#13 New Zealand

It was Top 15 in every big market except for the US. And even then, #35 wasn't a terrible peak considering both Britney and Madonna were blacklisted from radio and there was no physical release.

Ah ok. Thanks for clarifying. So it had some good peaks but not much longevity.

[MrLeonix]

Ah ok. Thanks for clarifying. So it had some good peaks but not much longevity.

Depends on the market ... it spent at least 5 weeks inside the Top 10 alone in several markets:

Australia - 9 weeks inside the Top 10

Belgium Wallonia - 7 weeks inside the Top 10

Denmark - 5 weeks inside the Top 10

Irrland - 5 weeks inside the Top 10

Italy - 10 weeks inside the Top 10

Norway - 9 weeks inside the Top 10

Spain - 12 weeks inside the Top 10

Switzerland - 5 weeks inside the Top 10


.....

And in other countries that I didn’t mention it still spent multiple weeks in the Top 10 .. for example even in Netherlands (which is a cr*p market for Britney) the song spent 3 weeks inside the Top 10.

So yeah ... it didn’t smash at the level of “Toxic” or “Everytime” but MATM was not the flop you think it was either.

[thebritneykid]

MATM was a big success. Whilst charting on the GLOBAL top 40, it reached SALES of 1 million. Toxic and Everytime never reached 1 million sales whilst in the top 40, but they have since overtaken MATM of course. Toxic has suggested global sales approaching 6 million, 2.5 million for Everytime. Streaming would increase that further. MATM would be at almost 1.5 million sales worldwide it seems. < just going with the more realistic claims

[Choley]

And yet another underestimation Thanks for posting! GH:MP was such a smash in Asia. Do you know the sales for her first four albums in Taiwan?

Sadly i have no info.



According to MUYAP 2005 report -which i found on Charts in France- GH:MP was the 7th best selling international abum in Turkey.No sales figures given though

1.VARIOUS
POWER HITS 15

2.PINK MARTINI
HANG ON LITTLE TOMATO

3.BLUE
BEST OF BLUE

4.RAY CHARLES
GENIUS LOVES COMPANY

5.NATALIA
NATALIA

6.JENNIFER LOPEZ
REBIRTH

7.BRITNEY SPEARS
GREATEST HITS: MYPREROGATIVE

8.MAROON 5
SONGS ABOUT JANE

9.NICOS
MEDITERRANO

10.LINKIN PARK & JAY-Z
COLLISION RACE

GH:MP was such a global smash

[Instinct]

A 21 year old song

[JeremySpears]

^ Legend.

[AndiIversen]

Depends on the market ... it spent at least 5 weeks inside the Top 10 alone in several markets:

Australia - 9 weeks inside the Top 10

Belgium Wallonia - 7 weeks inside the Top 10

Denmark - 5 weeks inside the Top 10

Irrland - 5 weeks inside the Top 10

Italy - 10 weeks inside the Top 10

Norway - 9 weeks inside the Top 10

Spain - 12 weeks inside the Top 10

Switzerland - 5 weeks inside the Top 10


.....

And in other countries that I didn’t mention it still spent multiple weeks in the Top 10 .. for example even in Netherlands (which is a cr*p market for Britney) the song spent 3 weeks inside the Top 10.

So yeah ... it didn’t smash at the level of “Toxic” or “Everytime” but MATM was not the flop you think it was either.

how did MATM do in LatAm? I mean I assume it did well since both Brit and M were (are?) huge south of the border

[And then we kiss]

Me against the music was kind of a flop right? I mean she totally killed it with toxic and everytime but for some reason I never realised MATM underperformed.

MATM was farrrr from being a flop, it did overshadowed by the success of the other two(especially toxic which overshadowed all her 2003-5 releases) but it topped the charts in many countries and was top 10 hit everywhere (except us) probably eligible to some new certifications in Sweden, France and Belgium. it was more successful single than all the singles from “Britney”
even today when (sadly) it’s forgotten it is known to include one of her best (if not the best) choreography….

[Nost]

Canada :

#49 (RE) The Essential Britney Spears

[adamf2thedeath]

MATM was farrrr from being a flop, it did overshadowed by the success of the other two(especially toxic which overshadowed all her 2003-5 releases) but it topped the charts in many countries and was top 10 hit everywhere (except us) probably eligible to some new certifications in Sweden, France and Belgium. it was more successful single than all the singles from “Britney”
even today when (sadly) it’s forgotten it is known to include one of her best (if not the best) choreography….

Yeah the choreo is amazing although the choreo of the Britney glee MATM episode is even better. Heather did her justice! I always liked MATM & thought the Times Square performance was killer.

[MrLeonix]

how did MATM do in LatAm? I mean I assume it did well since both Brit and M were (are?) huge south of the border

Yeah it performed good.