Britney Spears :: Charts & Sales History

[Ewokguy15]

What are you contributing? Exactly.

I am answering a question and I sourced the link so they know to look there next time, thus answering the question and helping them find more info outside of this thread.

Didn’t I solve the short-term question, and provide the long-term solution so these questions can be answered by the person asking?

Isn’t a chart thread specifically supposed to discuss charts? That’s what I am covering. It’s on topic.

Your rant is not.

Please stop clogging thread with unnecessary complaints.

You made your point, I am making mine: It’s done.

By saying something 10 people have said before… you’re causing issues and you’ve been here for a month… guess you won’t be around for long, peace newbie

[Artoo]

As long as a post remains on topic then it is a valid contribution to a chart discussion thread. We have many threads dedicated to artists with long term careers and there is no problem discussing historical activity.

Please move the conversation on.

[mitchuzu@gmail.com]

As long as a post remains on topic then it is a valid contribution to a chart discussion thread. We have many threads dedicated to artists with long term careers and there is no problem discussing historical activity.

Please move the conversation on.

Thank you, I can’t expect everyone to double-check each page to see if it was posted somewhere first, especially if we may have new information than the last time it was posted.

Guess my point on staying on topic applies, and Ewokguy15 who has been on here for 20 years since their join date can learn the lesson today…

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Back on topic, Britney was able to achieve international success for her FF singles, although her album Femme Fatale was a noticeable drop from Circus.

It may catch up to Blackout in regards to single sales and pure sales when it is Re-certified, but I think Blackout wins on streaming.

[BritneyMadonnastan]

https://twitter.com/beyoncenumbers/s...508551681?s=21

Circus title track is her most streamed song on koreas biggest streaming service

[InFamous]

I mean at the time of release Femme Fatale was definitely an underperformance. Think it sold around 700k. The singles definitely carried it.

[InFamous]

As of February 2014, the album had sold 2.4 million copies worldwide.

So if we add streams, further track album equivalents and pure sales since, we would see it at at least 3 M WW sales easily, as streams were not a factor then. Even Chartmasters puts it about 5 M and they lowball it.

It isn’t a smash, but it’s not a flop either.

The 5 million at chartmasters is not sales, its CSPC, which is some random formula they invented. It doesnt mean that Femme Fatale has sold 5 million worldwide. In fact the figure they have for its global sales are 1,680,000 and 850k in the US and the page was updated in 2019.

[Eugine]

Artoo can I please understand why other posters come here to troll? We as chart estimators knows MJD has downplayed Britney's sales just like other old Divas why he's being refereed as a source by random people here? The trolling here is too much as we fans can discuss Britney old sales as much as we want to, it's chart discussion anyway.

[BritneyMadonnastan]

"...Baby One More Time" has replaced "Oops!...I Did It Again" as the #3 popular song on Britney's Spotify page.

Talent won

[And then we kiss]

The comparison between circus and femme fatale is irrelevant…there are a lot of singer that release 10 million seller era and then fall down to an underperformed era that barely get gold in us.
In 2011, britney as an 90’s act was against singers from 2007-9 when most of her peers disappeared and releasing 2 million seller with 3 top 10 singles was very impressive…
plus let’s not act like the singles were local to us…I live in france and israel and ttwe and Iwg are her most known songs here (except oops baby and toxic) the fact they didn’t do so well in uk doesn’t mean they weren’t huge hits… here, they were even bigger than circus and 3

[BritneyMadonnastan]

The comparison between circus and femme fatale is irrelevant…there are a lot of singer that release 10 million seller era and then fall down to an underperformed era that barely get gold in us.
In 2011, britney as an 90’s act was against singers from 2007-9 when most of her peers disappeared and releasing 2 million seller with 3 top 10 singles was very impressive…
plus let’s not act like the singles were local to us…I live in france and israel and ttwe and Iwg are her most known songs here (except oops baby and toxic) the fact they didn’t do so well in uk doesn’t mean they weren’t huge hits… here, they were even bigger than circus and 3

Britney is a tank in UK only , but the rest of other markets she performs very well

[Artoo]

Artoo can I please understand why other posters come here to troll?

No idea.

All chart discussion and updates are valid. It’s worth remembering not everyone is a chart expert and some people simply don’t know any better. Thus, part of any ongoing chart discussion is going to have to involve an element of education from time to time, which can be done politely and with respect.

However if you feel someone is genuinely trolling:

1. Don’t engage.
2. Report the post and explain why it’s trolling.
3. Put the user on ignore if you don’t want to read any of their posts (past and future).

[And then we kiss]

Again, top 10 album that went gold (100,000)
And two certified singles (one is top 10 and the other one had nice chart run longevity) it’s not a tank maybe for her standard but it’s not bad…

[Artoo]

Britney is a tank in UK only , but the rest of other markets she performs very well

Sadly Britney has rarely promoted in the UK for the last twenty years. I don’t think she’s performed on British TV since 2004.

[MrLeonix]

Sadly Britney has rarely promoted in the UK for the last twenty years. I don’t think she’s performed on British TV since 2004.

She performed for UK TV in 2008 and 2016. Other than that nothing else.

”Femme Fatale” went Gold and yielded a Top 10 UK single and two certified songs. Not a tragedy but definitely at the time it was her WORST performing era in the UK.

The era performed good and had solid results in Canada, France, Latin America, Sweden, and in USA (singles wise) though.

[And then we kiss]

And since Britney Jean and glory a successful era like femme fatale is our (Britney fans) sweetest dream..
I still have hopes the singles from that album will have their revival especially hold it..

[BritneyMadonnastan]

She performed for UK TV in 2008 and 2016. Other than that nothing else.

”Femme Fatale” went Gold and yielded a Top 10 UK single and two certified songs. Not a tragedy but definitely at the time it was her WORST performing era in the UK.

The era performed good and had solid results in Canada, France, Latin America, Sweden, and in USA (singles wise) though.

Also she was barley played on UK radio, I think her album sales would of been so much higher if played , cause her hits are known but her albums are not

[Instinct]

https://twitter.com/beyoncenumbers/s...508551681?s=21

Circus title track is her most streamed song on koreas biggest streaming service

Actually, it's not. Melon doesn't combine all versions of the same song, but Toxic is ahead overall.

1. Toxic (GH:MP) - 3.2M
2. Toxic (Single) - 1.9M
3. Toxic (ITZ) - 1M
4. Toxic (The Essential) - 346.6K
5. Toxic (Peter Rauhofer Reconstruction Mix) - 336.3K
6. Toxic (ITZ Deluxe) - 138.8K
7. Toxic (TSC) - 138.2K
8. Toxic (2000s XL) - 96.4K
9. Toxic (Glory Tour Edition) - 84.9K
10. Toxic (Armand Van Helden Remix Edit) - 68.7K
11. Toxic (Bloodshy & Avant's Intoxicated Remix) - 64.8K
12. Toxic (30 Running Hits) - 52.8K

And there are a few more with 10-50K streams, so around 8M overall.

[britneylinda]

Instinct from where we can check Melons data? Also, are these good streaming numbers she was huge back in her heydays there but I think streaming plays a lot of role coming from playlisting is it the same there too?

[esswein]

The underperformance of some singles from Femme Fatale in UK is somehow acceptable considering her incredible run of singles on the beggining of her career.

[Instinct]

Instinct from where we can check Melons data? Also, are these good streaming numbers she was huge back in her heydays there but I think streaming plays a lot of role coming from playlisting is it the same there too?

Most streamed Western pre-2000 female artists

1. Mariah Carey - 262,300,800
2. Britney Spears - 85,855,300
3. Whitney Houston - 65,379,800
4. Celine Dion - 64,997,100
5. Jennifer Lopez - 59,396,200
6. Christina Aguilera - 59,245,500
7. Mandy Moore - 58,773,600
8. Shakira - 36,203,300
9. Madonna - 29,065,900
10. Sarah Brightman - 27,940,700

The reason Mandy Moore has so many streams is because of the Tangled soundtrack. Mariah's AIWFCIY has 114.5M streams hence the huge gap between #1 and #2.

You can check here: https://xn--o39an51b2re.com/melon/artiststream/ (type the artist's name).

[Instinct]

"Toxic Pony" has reached a new peak in daily streams on Spotify

February 19 - 381,825
February 20 - 328,189
February 21 - 357,833
February 22 - 360,768
February 23 - 366,337
February 24 - 349,497
February 25 - 379,003
February 26 - 410,693

[britneylinda]

410K omg we now love Saturdays

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Monthly Listeners: 25,457,430 (+25,838)
Daily Listeners: 2,504,436 (+26,426)
Monthly Listeners Rank: #111
Top Artists Global: #152(+1)

Gaining daily, to all people who said her boost was because of FreeBritney, effortless success only
A non promoted remix by Britney did that

[InFamous]

410K omg we now love Saturdays

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Monthly Listeners: 25,457,430 (+25,838)
Daily Listeners: 2,504,436 (+26,426)
Monthly Listeners Rank: #111
Top Artists Global: #152(+1)

Gaining daily, to all people who said her boost was because of FreeBritney, effortless success only
A non promoted remix by Britney did that

Well in 2022 what matters is playlisting not promotion. That is where streams come from.

Toxic Pony has a current reach of 23.9 million !

[britneylinda]

So? She didn't push it except a IG post and anway not RCA pushing it as well, it's getting there due to demand which it has.

[Eugine]

It has organic playlisting which shows demand actually, RCA won't promote anything for now. So there's your answer for it! Focus on updating Katy's thread she has a new song out.