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I noticed “From the Bottom of my Broken Heart” is missing from the “Digital Singles“, as is “Outrageous” from In The Zone, (despite her injury it was still a single released), also Tom’s Diner (stand alone single), and “Someday I will Understand”.
I know it may technically have been placed under Remaining Songs, but I feel that they would at least perform better than some of her lower listed singles.
Do her remixed singles combine with the original singles? For example; Overprotected was released in original form abroad; while in the U.S. the Darkchild remix was released. Are these figures factored in?
What about Boys, and Drive Me Crazy? Both are remixed soundtrack singles, are remixes counted separately?
Baby one more time sold 17.001.000 copies by the end of 1999 and Oops!...I Did It Again sold around 16 million copies by the end of the year 2000
you need to update this soon, since this was posted Criminal has become a streaming juggernaut. same with Gimme More. I Wanna Go & Sometimes are doing decent as well
All of the artists' streams are updated automatically on this list: https://chartmasters.org/2017/10/best-selling-artists-albums-and-singles-of-all-time/18/
Look at the last column. So Britney's total increases every time this is updated (almost daily for most artists).
Is Glory above 1M CSPC units already? Can we get an update on that? Thank you!
Her all albums are now above 1M making her the 7th best selling female artist of all time.
Britney has sold a lot of albums and has good numbers, especially for the last 25 years. But I must confess that I am disappointed with the sales of her albums in this article. I grew up thinking that BOMT had sold 30M, OIDIA 22M, Britney 15M and ITZ 9M. So bad! F**k Wikipedia and its sources, LOL! Could you verify this correctly? I mean, I really think BOMT has already reached 25M and OIDIA 20M. And what about 'Britney'? Her sales dropped a lot on the 3rd album. Was it because of the sex appeal with the single 'Slave 4 U'? Interesting.
I think its typical for teen pop stars to have big drop of sales on their 3rd studio albums. The pattern are similar for other teen pop stars like BSB, Nsync, Xtina Aguilera, etc. I believe its necessary for her to turn into a more sex appeal image in order to stay relevant. She probably would drop even more if she did not resort to that. She did all she could in order to stay relevant. Having said that I dont think she was inconsistent as people seems to paint a picture on her. Having multiple top 10 hits for her album Femme Fatalle, 12 years into her career. That shows great longevity. Not everybody can claim that achievement.
https://www.youtube.com/c/britneyspears/about Her Youtube says she sold 150 million records instead of albums
It is due to recertifications: Britney was last certified in the USA 6 weeks after release, where it sold 4 M pure, and that meant December 2001, and only 1 single (I’m a Slave 4 U) out to promote it. If she re-certified a year later she would have 2 movies (Crossroads & Austin Powers: Goldmember), which promoted her singles from her album: I’m Not a Girl, Overprotected: Darkchild Remix , I Love Rock & Roll (Crossroads), & Boys: Co-Ed Remix (Austin Powers).
Unlike Oops, and Baby One More Time, which were re-certified year after year and month after month, until they were Diamond, Britney was never re-certified. Plus, her DWADream Tour would have also promoted the singles and album, even after the breakup.
Lastly, if someone average 750K a week in sales in its 6th week, it’s clear she would have become diamond by the next few years, even as her sales for that album slowed, as her movies, and singles, tour, and potentially even the Breakup, would have kept up some of her momentum throughout 2002.
Compare it to INZone which sold 2 M in 1 month, and you notice that Britney’s average was still pretty strong, but like Britney, she never re-certified that beyond 1 month after release, same with Femme Fatale, and even Greatest Hits which both went 1x Platinum after 1 month to the day after release, but have not been re-certified since.
Throw in Track Album Equivalents (note: her singles also haven’t been re-certified) + streams, and it is hard to imagine her 3rd album slumping that hard.
Chartmasters can only go off of official data, and if Britney’s team doesn’t re-certify, it looks lower than it actually is.
I would say Britney’s 3rd album is diamond in the USA by now, after 20 years.
I was just going to say that Glory has hit 1 M! I see the streams updated from 2021-08-16!
I just asked the question the other day and this was the answer:
"the ‘old Spotify streams’ was set at 3,991,000 by the date of the article. I looked into the file, the correct value was actually 3,091,000! This was creating a ratio downgraded by nearly 25%. I fixed that number, her accurate totals appear to be 8,736,000 EAS from streams and 106,825,000 career sales!" -MJD
So just a simple typo changed the way the streaming calculations were made.
Hey guys!
Have y'all ever come across this forum that also discusses Britney's stats? I think you could find many useful info and sources for a more accurate article on Britney. For example it looks like you have underestimated some of her albums' sales like 'Britney' in France and Spain, ITZ in Japan and Italy, GH:MP in Japan and Italy, her Mexican sales etc.
The last 2 pages could be particularly helpful for you, please check them out and consider a possible update soon. Thank you!
https://www.ukmix.org/forum/chart-discussion/artist-chart-analysis/106542-britney-spears-charts-sales-history/page488
A small chart fact:
Britney’s RPM Canada chart peaks for year end charts in 2000 (was never published)
RPM Canada:
The oops Album (2000): #3
The oops I did it again (single) (2000); #13
Lucky (2000): #26
Stronger (2000): #91
Stronger (2001/RPM Canada (Bonus): #72
Lol not at all. Britney sold 750k during its debut week. Her sales was recorded clearly and soundscan confirmed she sold 2.6 million albums by end of 2001. Come 2002 her album only spend one week inside the top 10. So there is no way she would go from 2.6 million to 10 million considering she only stayed one week inside the top 10. By mid march 2002 the album sold 3.3 million according to soundscan. My bet is that RIAA probably certify the album as 4x plat due to pre orders. Record stores probably thought the album was going to smash the way that Oops did so they ordered her albums in bulks. But we all know the album wasnt a hit like her previous 2. Plus, there is no way she could have sold diamond for Britney. Britney only stayed in the top 10 for 8 weeks and only 7 of them in the top 5 , and only 4 weeks top 3. Oops was top 2 for 17 weeks and 6 more weeks top 10. That is on top of Oops having far bigger first few weeks sales compared to Britney. So there is no way Britney could have reached diamonds. RIAA never recertifies Britney because the album itself hardly sold a thing after its certifications. So there is no need for a re certifications
It's at 5M pure with music club sales (and if I'm right they count towards certifications). With SPS it should definitely reach 6x Platinum in a few years.
And nowhere near this: "RIAA never recertifies Britney because the album itself hardly sold a thing after its certifications. So there is no need for a re certifications"
If it is 5 M and that’s without streams, or track album equivalents we have to add that. Plus, you have to consider, that regardless of America, if we look at WW sales, that would add millions, (not counting towards Diamond, but still much higher than current numbers).
I am sure it would have gone up beyond 4 M by now.
Also, how do you know Britney hasn’t sold that much more? Did Soundscan update in 2011, 2015? If not, maybe they should update for the 20th anniversary, so we would definitely know.
The Britney album is one of her least stream album and Britney herself isnt really a monster streaming seller. So whatever streams she gets, it will hardly do a thing. Plus, regardless of that, Chartmasters already put weightings from Physical Single Sales, Downloads, Streamings, Compilations, etc on that album. So there is no need to bring up streaming. Soundscan last detect it at 4,899,000 album sold I think that was back in 2004/2005 because I remember seeing that figure back then. But I highly doubt she would have add another 1-2-3 million pure album sales. The album never reenters the Top 200 charts since 2004. So whatever little sales she got, its not gonna reach millions, hundred thousands at most (Especially since album sales kept on dropping year after year at double digit rate since then). 5.2 million estimated by Chartmasters looks reasonable.
Let’s say it generated from 2005 to 2021 just 50,000 total CPCS sales in USA streams, track album equivalents and pure sales per year, that could still be 800,000 over 16 years, and could push it up to the 6 M threshold since you mentioned 5.2 M looks reasonable.
Hi Trumry!
There are two big flaws on your message. The first is that you add sales since 2005. The thing is, Billboard last reported its Nielsen sales as recently as in 2019, and as they do for several years they report 'Britney' at a rounded 4.4 million. Add in 588,000 BMG Music Club copies, and you get the near 5 million copies that has been floating around lately.
Then, you seem to consider that 50,000 copies a year is a low expectation, but the real number this album has been moving is way lower than that.
It sold 2.92 million units in 2001 and 1.126 million in 2002. It was at 4.3 million by the end of 2004. In 2011, the album had sold 4.342 million. The truth is that the 4.4 million figure is most likely rounded up.
Sales of singles downloads for this album add for about 150,000 units in total. Its 300 million streams in the World through Spotify hardly suggest millions of sales either.
Why not also add in YouTube streams?
Also, was I wrong? You added the 588,000 + 4.4 M, which pushes it to 5M (adding in the singles downloads means you don’t even have to round up). Did you only add singles, and not all album track streams?
Also, aren’t 300 M / 1500 = 200,000 more albums based on streams from Spotify? Afterall, looking at your own Streaming live update chart, she gained 206K streams since the article was last updated…
200K + 150K + 588K +4.4 M = 5.33 M,
Throw in YouTube and all songs from the album on Spotify, and you have a chance to push it up to a few more 100 K.
