Britney Spears :: Charts & Sales History

[PromoSpears]

It is probably a bit harder to calculate a single that sold in all platforms and formats but if the label want to do it, they will mimi has sold physical and digital as well and gladly they update her stuff quite often..

I know with Christina Aguilera's song "What A Girl Wants" was first certified Gold back in 2000 and has been certified Platinum in 2021 or 2022. Either way, they combined both physical sales with digital and streams so it is possible. Besides the label that certified it was RCA and Britney is on RCA too so they might

[PromoSpears]

Oh my goodness Sometimes hit a new peak!

Another note, Lucky is at #84 on iTunes US!

[JeremySpears]

Why is Lucky rising on iTunes?

[Instinct]

Hold Me Closer is now certified Gold in Belgium for 20,000 units


9th international certification for Hold Me Closer so far! (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Poland, United Kingdom, Switzerland).

Her song certificationd in Belgium:
...Baby One More Time - 3x Platinum (150,000)
Sometimes - Platinum (50,000)
(You Drive Me) Crazy - Platinum (50,000)
Oops!...I Did It Again - Platinum (50,000)
Lucky - Gold (25,000)
Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know - Gold (25,000)
I'm a Slave 4 U - Gold (25,000)
Everytime - Gold (25,000)
Womanizer - Gold (15,000)
Till the World Ends - Gold (15,000)
Scream & Shout - 2x Platinum (60,000)
Hold Me Closer - Gold (20,000)

[MrLeonix]

I know with Christina Aguilera's song "What A Girl Wants" was first certified Gold back in 2000 and has been certified Platinum in 2021 or 2022. Either way, they combined both physical sales with digital and streams so it is possible. Besides the label that certified it was RCA and Britney is on RCA too so they might

RCA or labels in USA don’t wake up one day and say “let’s proactively update certifications for this artist” … they won’t certify anything if artists or their teams don’t push and pay the fee for it. Artists’ teams / management get informed about the units “sold” but the label will certify only if the artists’ teams give them the money so they can pay RIAA’s fee (yes, certifications in USA are not for free).

As far as I know Britney Spears currently doesn’t even have a team of any kind. So who is going to push or pay for her certifications when there’s no one around to do so? Britney herself? I doubt she even knows how that process works or that she’s even interested in paying for that. Without a team it’s very likely she doesn’t get certified in long time.

”Hold Me Closer” might get certified Platinum in USA eventually only because Elton’s team will push and pay for it. But who’s going to push for “Circus”, “Femme Fatale”, “Gimme More”, etc, etc? No one!

[Choley]

Hold Me Closer is now certified Gold in Belgium for 20,000 units

Wow even DLMBTLTN was certified there.

[And then we kiss]

I always find her certifications in Belgium funny and random…at the beginning anything she’s done was certified and then her team got tired and stopped..the only country where don’t let me be is certified and toxic isn’t

[Instinct]

Wow even DLMBTLTN was certified there.

I wonder how Stronger isn't certified yet DLMBTLTK is

Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know:
Flanders: 38-16-13-14-19-22-26-30-31-41-OUT
Wallonia: 38-//-38-34-OUT

Stronger:
Flanders: 50-29-22-16-15-19-17-18-20-25-32-46-OUT
Wallonia: 38-17-16-14-19-20-17-18-23-27-28-29-OUT

The Flanders region is bigger than Wallonia, and their performance in the former is pretty similar but still.

[Instinct]

14 songs over 100K yesterday!

Both BOMT and Circus have three songs doing 100K+.

[Swimmingbritney]

Did anyone post that TSC is 87 on the uk album charts and now has 92 weeks top 100

[BritneyMadonnastan]

BOMT re-stocked on Hmv

[PromoSpears]

Songs that are reaching 10 million streams on Spotify

Till The World Ends (the Femme Fatale Remix) (feat. Nicki Minaj & Ke$ha): 9,818,465
Swimming In The Stars: 9,722,509
What U See (Is What U Get): 9,474,864
Freakshow: 9,383,000
Unusual You: 9,341,995
Tom's Diner (feat. Britney Spears): 9,268,599
Toy Soldier: 9,045,307
Alien: 8,937,591
Shattered Glass: 8,782,114

[Instinct]

Random, but I was watching this interview on YouTube and Britney was given an award for 300,000 copies sold of Oops!...I Did It Again in Belgium + the Netherlands

This was backstage during her stadium show in Arnhem in the Netherlands on Nov. 4, 2000.

According to ChartMasters, the album sold 180K in the Netherlands and 155K in Belgium as of 2019 for a total of 335K. That seems underestimated, considering Stronger and Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know hadn't even been released yet and it obviously sold a lot during the holidays.

After she was given this award, the album charted for 23 more weeks in the Netherlands and even returned to the Top 20 during the busy month of December (37-39-17-20-28-32-39-44-49-48-51-63-62-65-63-72-71-68-47-52-67-87-89-OUT).

And in Belgium:
Flanders: 32-39-39-32-33-31-35-44-44-37-29-34-33-37-41-42-46-44-47-//-49-41-44-//-50-//-50-48-OUT
Wallonia: 32-37-36-30-26-26-32-39-41-37-31-33-37-47-OUT

It was the 75th best selling album of 2001 in Flanders and #89 in Wallonia, so it clearly sold well that year too. I know this is minor but just wanted to point it out because it's yet another underestimation.

[Lookingfornews81]

Songs that are reaching 10 million streams on Spotify

Till The World Ends (the Femme Fatale Remix) (feat. Nicki Minaj & Ke$ha): 9,818,465
Swimming In The Stars: 9,722,509
What U See (Is What U Get): 9,474,864
Freakshow: 9,383,000
Unusual You: 9,341,995
Tom's Diner (feat. Britney Spears): 9,268,599
Toy Soldier: 9,045,307
Alien: 8,937,591
Shattered Glass: 8,782,114

For a second I thought these were songs closer to 10 million copies sold

[p0isonparadise]

I was going through Britney's top 10 most popular songs on her youtube across various nations and found some surprising results.


Brazil
1. Toxic
2. Baby One More Time
3. Gimme More
4. I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman
5. Criminal
6. Oops! I Did It Again
7. Sometimes
8. Womanizer
9. Circus
10. If U Seek Amy

Japan
1. Toxic
2. Baby One More Time
3. Oops! I Did It Again
4. Womanizer
5. Circus
6. Sometimes
7. Gimme More
8. Overprotected
9. I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman
10. You Drive Me Crazy

Philippines
1. Sometimes
2. Toxic
3. Baby One More Time
4. Oops! I Did It Again
5. I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman
6. Lucky
7. Criminal
8. Everytime
9. Womanizer
10. Gimme More

Ukraine
1. Gimme More
2. Toxic
3. Baby One More Time
4. Womanizer
5. Oops! I Did It Again
6. Criminal
7. Circus
8. If U Seek Amy
9. Overprotected
10. Work Bitch

Turkey
1. Toxic
2. Criminal
3. Gimme More
4. Baby One More Time
5. Womanizer
6. Oops! I Did It Again
7. Circus
8. If U Seek Amy
9. Work Bitch
10. I Wanna Go

Romania
1. Toxic
2. Gimme More
3. Baby One More Time
4. Criminal
5. Womanizer
6. Oops! I Did It Again
7. Circus
8. Break the Ice
9. If U Seek Amy
10. Born To Make You Happy

Cambodia
1. Criminal
2. Sometimes
3. Toxic
4. Baby One More Time
5. From the Bottom of My Broken Heart
6. Gimme More
7. Everytime
8. Oops! I Did It Again
9. I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman
10. Lucky

[Instinct]

Philippines
1. Sometimes

They really do stan

[Instinct]

Highest peaking songs by pre-digital era female artists - 2020s

Australia
Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You - #1
Britney Spears, Elton John - Hold Me Closer - #1
Brenda Lee - Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree - #2
P!nk - Cover Me in Sunshine - #6
P!nk, Keith Urban - One Too Many - #6
Latto, Mariah Carey, DJ Khaled - Big Energy (Remix) - #6
Beyoncé - Break My Soul - #6
The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride - #9
Beyoncé - Cuff It - #8

United Kingdom
Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You - #1
Beyoncé - Break My Soul - #2
Britney Spears, Elton John - Hold Me Closer - #3
The Pogues (feat. Kirsty MacColl) - Fairytale of New York - #4
Beyoncé - Cuff It - #5
P!nk, Rag'n'Bone Man - Anywhere Away from Here - #9

United States
Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You - #1
Beyoncé - Break My Soul - #1
Brenda Lee - Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree - #2
Britney Spears, Elton John - Hold Me Closer - #6
Beyoncé - Cuff It - #6
Karol G, Shakira - TQG - #7
Shakira, Bizarrap - Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53 - #9
The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride - #10

Canada
Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You - #1
Brenda Lee - Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree - #1
Britney Spears, Elton John - Hold Me Closer - #3
Beyoncé - Break My Soul - #4
Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree - #9

New Zealand
Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You - #1
Brenda Lee - Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree - #1
Beyoncé - Cuff It - #3
Britney Spears, Elton John - Hold Me Closer - #4

The top 5 biggest Anglo music markets Feel free to let me know if I'm missing anyone!

[And then we kiss]

Hold me closer dropped bellow the top 50 and ended it’s official chart-run in Canada, wish it would be there for one more week but it officially became her single with the longest chart run there (along with S&S) with 27 weeks which is impressive as well
I really hope she’ll release something someday but if not, in the end of the day, hold me closer will be her last single ever, it was an amazing career closer especially after the two flop albums with tons of mistakes…
#1 in Australia
#3 in Canada and UK (her longest chart run in the former)
# 6 in US
very nice achievement for the legend

[Instinct]

Hold me closer dropped bellow the top 50 and ended it’s official chart-run in Canada, wish it would be there for one more week but it officially became her single with the longest chart run there (along with S&S) with 27 weeks which is impressive as well
I really hope she’ll release something someday but if not, in the end of the day, hold me closer will be her last single ever, it was an amazing career closer especially after the two flop albums with tons of mistakes…
#1 in Australia
#3 in Canada and UK (her longest chart run in the former)
# 6 in US
very nice achievement for the legend

I don't wanna go too off-topic but she said she's been in the studio so new music is probably coming just in time for her book. There are stuff in the works.

Hopefully HMC will return next week once the Morgan songs fall, but if not, it's still tied as her longest charting song there and had an amazing run.

[Instinct]

[PromoSpears]

Britney Spears latest US units:

March 14, 2023

Toxic 6.7M
If U Seek Amy 2.3M
Hold Me Closer 935K
Do Somethin 495K

[Instinct]

Hold Me Closer is higher than I thought! Platinum is coming

The previous figure (825K) was from Jan. 27 and this one (935K) from Mar. 10 most likely, s it’s still averaging nearly 20K per week.

Toxic has sold 200K since December 23

[breatheonme]

Do Somethin coming for that Gold cert!!

[Choley]

Britney Spears latest US units:

March 14, 2023

Toxic 6.7M
If U Seek Amy 2.3M
Hold Me Closer 935K
Do Somethin 495K

Thanks to asking for Do Somethin'

[Eugine]

PromoSpears Excellent updates, all thanks to you! I cannot believe at Do Somethin - it was never promoted and still will be gold someday!
Toxic is exceeding everyone's expectation - it'll be her first diamond single in years. Hold Me closer platinum by this summer