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I know you won’t accept my comments about Britney, but at least be fair and delete from this page the writing paragraph where specifies that she is the best selling female artist who debuted in the past 25 years, because she is not anymore. She has been surpassed by a lot of artist who debuted in 21 century. She must be exactly were she belongs...behind the other one who worked hard without breaks to get their success .
How obsessed do you have to be to write something like this. You will obviously never create a career that comes anywhere near what Britney has done. I can foreshadow a life in agony and loneliness if you dont check up on a doctor to fix your mental issues girl.
In fact, Glory sold 5000 physical albums in China in the first week, but it was purchased from Japan or the United States. I witnessed this at that time
Britney's Chinese fans contributed 2000 sales to the HMC at UK, and Britney's popularity in China is underestimated
It seems like just because you were her fan for over 20 years, you feel the need to explicitly bash her. You are right that she's not the most succesful artist who debuted in the last 25 years anymore, but her being nowhere, or at the bottom of the ranking (or calling her a loser) is utterly unnecessary discrediting an all-time top 50 artist with over 100 million CSPC. It's OK to not like her anymore, you're probably not the only one, but no need to keep attacking her or anyone who disagrees with you on this website. Let the numbers speak and be realistic is what everyone here tries to do!
Hey, why has her digital sales gone down? I remember In The Zone having 1,206,000 and now it's 1,079,000? Same for other albums!
Hello admins,
Would you consider "Femme Fatale" a successful era?
It's dubbed as a success in the stan community, but when you look at the numbers, it's on par with Lady Gaga's ARTPOP, an album that's clearly mocked for its results.
FF had mediocre album sales for a 2011 release and tragic streams. The era only benefited from some cute little digital success.
The difference is that FF was Britney's 7th album. Artpop was Gaga's 3rd... FF did well considering she was 12 years into her career.
es, but that's not really a logical excuse for me. When a director produces a film and he has bad numbers, we don't say it's his 12th album etc... What counts are the figures produced and we compare them with those made in the same year.
Ok but that's not valid for to me....
When a movie flops at the box office, the public doesn't say "it's the producer's 12th movie so it did good considering the circumstances or that the actor starred in many projects beforehand and his career is in decline so it did fair enough..."
What objectively determines he success of an album is simply its generated numbers, and we compare them with the releases of the same year or with projects carried out not very far in time.
ARTPOP & Femme Fatale produced equivalent album sales which are nearly identical. So one can be considered a success and the other one a flop. Sorry.
Movies and music are actually rated differently. Popstars are viable way less years than producers of movies. Maybe more comparable to actors, but harder to maintain top-level status.
Gaga's third way underperformed compared to her 2 predecessors, Femme Fatale performed more or less in the ballpark of what could be expected given the sales of her 2 predecessors. Of course, by then she wasn't the popstar she once was, but that wasn't because of this particular album. Artpop destroyed the illusion of Gaga being an absolute star which she could have been at that moment.
Even Born This Way can be argued to have underperformed. It had one huge song and some other hits. But compare that to The Fame or Fame Monster which produced several hits, each.
On the physical sales that yall have published yourselves shows that Britney has sold 132,000 CSPC physical singles on Orphan but now it's 3,000 CSPC?
Proof 
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Cute little digital success?
Britney placed at the year-end H100 Artist Top 10, and had Worldwide Hits with Till The World Ends, Hold It Against Me, and I Wanna Go (check the single’s charts on Wiki where you can organize it by Top #1 down to bottom).
She beat her peers: P!nk was flopping off her 2011 singles, Beyoncé couldn’t touch Top 15, let alone Top 10, and Britney had 3 Top 10 singles that year from Femme Fatale:
Here is a copy/paste of the records set with just her lead single of Femme Fatale: Hold It Against Me:
After its first day of release in the United States, "Hold It Against Me" set the record for most radio plays during a first day, registering 619 plays on Mediabase and 595 plays on Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems (BDS).[36] The song broke Mediabase's record for the largest spin-increase in a single week, registering 3,866 more spins.[37] Billboard reported that it was likely to debut at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, due to high airplay and sales, which were expected to exceed 400,000 copies.[38][39] On the issue dated January 29, 2011, "Hold It Against Me" debuted at number one on the Hot 100, making Spears the second artist in history to debut multiple songs at the top of the chart, behind only Mariah Carey. The single is also the eighteenth song to debut at number one, and Spears' fourth chart-topper.[40] "Hold It Against Me" made Spears the third female artist, behind Madonna and Janet Jackson, to top the Hot 100 in three decades, as well as the seventh artist overall.[41] In 2012, it was voted as the best song to reach the top position on the Hot 100 over the past two years, in Billboard's "Hot 100 March Madness" poll for readers.[42]
"Hold It Against Me" also debuted atop the Hot Digital Songs chart, with 411,000 copies sold. The sum marked the most downloads in a first week by a female artist, beating the previous record held by Taylor Swift's "Today Was a Fairytale" (2010).[40] The current record is held by Adele, with her 2015 single "Hello" selling 1,112,000 downloads in its first week.[43] It is also Spears' biggest sales week total, as well as the fifth biggest first-week sales tally in digital history.[44] In seven weeks, "Hold It Against Me" topped one million downloads, becoming her eighth song with at least a million copies sold.[45] "Hold It Against Me" debuted at number sixteen on Billboard's Pop Songs chart with 4,071 plays, the highest detections total by a new entry in the chart's history. It was also tied with Madonna's "Frozen" (1998) for the second highest debut, behind Carey's "Dreamlover" (1993).[38] The following week, it climbed to number ten, becoming the seventh song in history to reach the top ten in only two weeks, as well as the first to do so in six years.[46] On Radio Songs, "Hold It Against Me" debuted at number twenty-three with 45 million first-week audience impressions, which according to Nielsen BDS, is the highest debut on the chart since Carey's "Touch My Body" (2008).
Britney's streaming numbers might not be massive but still they are good enough.. She is moving decent units year after year
To me FF was a "neither" it was not a huge succes, but also not a flop. Britney was already way past her peak, but still scored a couple of hits from that album, though they didn't age very well. Still roughly 5 mln EAS is moderately good, all things considered. Not a success but also not a flop
Not true as Edge Of Glory was a big hit WW. Judas did well too but lacked longetivity.
Her book sold 2.4 million copies in print ( not digital counted yet)
With right material, queen can make comeback worldwide. She has gp support. And this time she will make it on her own terms. She didn't enjoy 90% of her career. She is beyond fan wars for me
The Hot 100 just measures success in the United States, for a year, and on top of that it is not correlated to digital sales but also to radio plays.
The Hot 100 just measures success in the United States, for a year, and on top of that is not correlated to digital sales but also to radio plays.
The single sales from that era weren't that good. In fact, "only" TTWE performed really well if we're being unbiased (it sold 5M). The lead single (a very frontloaded one) and IWG both stand below 3,5M pure sales worldwide. These are clearly average numbers for 2011 standards.
And despite the low peak of the singles, Beyoncé's 4 era still sold 20M digital downloads on a global scale, more than Femme Fatale (12M) and even more than Circus (17M).
I don't know if you're talking about Pink's F**kin' Perfect, but it sold 5,650,000 digital sales, more than any single from Femme Fatale, and its predecessor single (Raise Your Glass) has more impressive numbers (7,140,000).
The fact I highlighted the records set for SALES, proves what a point I made earlier that Hold It Against Me did very well.
So you are wrong.
Bey released 7 Singles for that album, compared to just 4 for Britney's Femme Fatale and Circus, each.
I am sure if Britney released nearly double her singles, they would be higher than Beyonce's bc 4/7 = 53% X 20 M (Bey's total) = 11.42 M which is less than the 12 M she has from Femme Fatale, proving she is above the average needed to surpass Beyonce if they had the same # of singles.
Of course, the same can be said for Circus, since it is about 50% higher than Femme Fatale.
P!nk's F-in Perfect is from 2010, and bringing up an even prior single in Raise Your Glass is also still not challenging my point about 2011 Singles... so you are automatically wrong!
The only single P!nk released in 2011, was Bridge of Light, which you conveniently skipped since that is not even at half a million sales...
Lastly, Bey's songs had low sales, they were later certified due to streams.
Britney Spears's Billboard 200 entries, ranked by weeks in top 10:
1. 50, ...Baby One More Time
2. 23, Oops!...I Did It Again
3. 9, Circus
4. 8, Britney
5. 7, In The Zone
6. 5, Femme Fatale
7. 2, Blackout
8. 1, Greatest Hits
8. 1, Britney Jean
8. 1, Glory
Total: 107 weeks
MJD, do you still consider blackout a flop álbum? 5.8 M equivalent albums looks ok , and gimne more are doing very well in streaming.
