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So ultimately, you can just do a change to the pure sales side, as streaming wasn’t a factor back in 2011, and then calculate all sales after October 2011 onto that base given in the picture, so this site’s article has at minimum what was proven a decade ago. I assume this doesn’t include TAE, because all albums were pre-2005, but they may have added TAE for post-2005.
Afterall, JIVE cites Guinness Book of World Records, Billboard, etc. as worldwide sources, and doesn’t just list numbers. I cannot think of a more official source than the final calculation before JIVE ceased to exist. At least they did this for Britney before they disappeared.
So yeah, just move the numbers to the right album:
0. Baby One More Time at 30 M Sales
1. 24 M sales for Oops, not Baby One More Time.
2. 19 M sales for Britney, not Oops.
3. 10 M sales for ITZone, not Britney.
Correct numbers, just the wrong album, as the JIVE picture proved.
It says she sold 110 M WW: if you minus the first four albums, that leaves 27 M for My Perogative, Blackout, Circus, and the recently (at the time) released Femme Fatale.
27 / 4 albums is about 6.8 M each, on average… not bad. Especially when only 2 are studio albums that had been out for over a year. So Blackout, Circus, My Perogative GHits, must have sold closer to 9 M on average, since FFatale was still new:
Buddy, unrealistic numbers even posted by record label shouldn’t be considerate. Remember when Sony claimed Michael Jackson sold 750M albums. And it’s obviously a lie. These Britney’s Sales are inflated as Hell.
Can you please finally update Britney's streams EAS on the Top Artists - EAS list? Her numbers haven't been updated since the end of November (9,553,000 - 11/29/21).
this needs to be updated! Especially in celebration of her freedom & her 40th birthday!
Y'all updated and then her numbers decreased lmao. The Britney sabotage needs to stop.
(9,553,000 – 11/29/21)
(9,515,000 – 12/15/21)
Hi justiceforglory!
I hope you understand everything is automated, there are no 'sabotage' or whatever nonsense there.
As we mentioned very often, when artists totals freeze, 9 times out of 10 it is because one total was saved with duplicated songs (it happens for 1-2 hours a day when Spotify updates its data and some songs have both the previous day and the new day playcounts on distinct releases), so when this gets fixed, we won't see a significant increase but instead the number goes back to normal, with no duplicates, hence the drop.
I think that Justin Beaber‘s numbers increase very fast for this reason .
It's probably best to do it when RIAA updates certifications. Right now I don't expect her to really gain more than 1,000,000 - 2,000,000 pure album sales. She hasn't had a lot of longevity. Streams are the only thing that would get her higher numbers and that's automatically adjusted.
She did have longevity. Having multiple top 10 hits 12 years into her career is longevity.
I noticed that femme fatale doesn't have any physical sales and I have some data you can add to that.
Femme fatale had four singles and these are the sources that I found that you should add.
Australian (ARIA) has data here,
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/k9o2q7p7o4awhqx/AAAJJrqHEx_H2AkwuL1RJvc4a/2011%20Accreds.pdf
Do CTRL + F and search Britney Spears.
You will find "Hold It Against Me" "I Wanna Go" Till The World Ends".
Hold It Against me has PLATINUM = 70,000 copies.
I wanna go has GOLD = 35,000 copies.
Till The World ends has 2X PLATINUM = 140,000 copies.
The Femme Fatale tour is gold in Australia = 7,500 copies.
Side note, this data is from 2011 so it's outdated but at least you have something to add to the charts.
Belgium (BEA) has also some data from single.
https://www.ultratop.be/nl/goud-platina/2011/singles
Again do CTRL + F and search Britney spears and then it will come up with Till The World Ends.
Till The World Ends has GOLD = 15,000 copies.
Danmark (IFPI Danmark) has some data to.
http://ifpi.dk/node/7291
Till The World Ends has GOLD = 15,000 copies and no just copies no streams or digital copies just pure physical streams.
France data:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160128192330/http://www.infodisc.fr/Ventes_Single11.php
I Wanna go has 81,500 sales
Till The World Ends has 98,500 sales
South Korea data
http://gaonchart.co.kr/main/section/chart/online.gaon?serviceGbn=S1020&termGbn=year&hitYear=2011&targetTime=11&nationGbn=E
You can do again CTRL + F and search Britney Spears
Hold It Against Me sold 672,356 copies
I Wanna Go sold 536,491 copies
S&M (Remix) Feat. Britney Spears sold 486,616 copies
Till The World Ends sold 288,307 copies
Scary sold 220,356 copies. Scary is not a single but it did sell in Japan so hope that counts as well.
Switzerland Data from (IFPI Switzerland)
http://www.swisscharts.com/search_certifications.asp?search=Britney+Spears+Till+The+World+Ends
Till the world ends has GOLD = 15,000 copies sold.
Mexican Data
https://amprofon.com.mx/es/pages/certificaciones.php
It is in another language but translate it and search for Britney Spears.
Work B**ch has ORO = Gold = 30,000 copies.
Till The World ends = ORO = Gold = 30,000 copies.
Hold It Against Me = ORO = Gold = 30,000 copies.
I hope this helps and please add those to the graphs thank you because I did my research really hard and went deep.
Hi Artomphaser!
The numbers you list refer to digital sales, not physicals.
That being said the main 3 singles did come out in France, Germany, and South Korea as physical singles. Obviously, we can't expect large numbers for this format, about 5,000 to 10,000 units per single.
Literally,
Baby One More Time
Sometimes
You Drive Me Crazy
Oops I Did It Again
Stronger
I'm A Slave 4 U
Overprotected
Toxic
Gimme More
Womanizer
Circus
If U Seek Amy
Hold It Against Me
Till The World Ends
Criminal
Scream & Shout
Work *****
Hey why dosen't Femme Fatale has physical singles? I know for a fact that in 2011 JIVE RECORDS did sell singles from Femme Fatale album and even I have some of those singles? It dosen't make sense how it could have sold "0" since I remember really well at the time they were in stores.
