No.

Nope. It's all about radio power and Britney has never had strong radio backing. Didn't stop her from outselling all of your faves, though.

I dont know....she needs a clever promo strategy and the right song to do that...

She'll never go #1 again.

It's okay, babe.

Baby One More Time the album spent several weeks at #1, while most current pop girls find it hard to get 2 or even 1 week on top with an album.

Nah, but she doesn't need to.

HIAM is her only #1 (besides S&M) to not gotten more than 1-week because of slow radio pacing. It was her only #1 to be "front loaded". Let's get that straight right now.

Womanizer and 3 both had the potential, but the demand for a new Britney single was so great in week one they punched through at that point. Then naturally, first week sales falter, and in Brit's case, without promotion, sales stay at an average. For example "3" spent 11 weeks in the top ten. The video came a month later and it didn't get a performance until Femme Fatale Tour 2 years later. I would put money it could have had more than 1 week had she done live promo in between the time of release and video premiere. Or if she could get played on urban, HAC, AC, rhythmic and pop at the same time.

Womanizer stood no chance, with the cross-format giants that were populating the #1 at the time. It was a blessing she did so well to get #1 in the first place, icing on top for her big comeback.

But what does it matter when you're Britney Spears?

no, she doesnt need too

Outselling implies that she continues to outsell into the present day which is clearly not the case my sistren, there are a lot of ways to defend Britney, the first half decade of the career she was one of best performers around, she's a good hearted person and she sold well through 2009, why do you continue to cling to expired bubble gum that nobody has wanted to chew since 2002
http://stan-wars.com/mediawiki/index...Britney_Spears

Honestly this SCREAMS slow news day.
When there's not much news to defend against their faves, it's typical to create threads surrounded around the best selling female artist of the past 16 years.

I bet if a new song came out by Rihanna we'd get fewer threads like this that are just to pass their time by...that said, Britney does stay on the minds of many so it's the best compliment.


Answering the question: I really don't know because Britney's career is exciting for many reasons one of which is that you just never know if she's going to give a smash or a crash. I really didn't think she'd have another WW #1 but then Scream and shout did it.

It's all about the right material because she's not at that stage of her career where people will just buy based on the name she has to serve hits to sell.

I think 3 was the main moment she essentially had no promo surrounding it and the name alone served the 1st week sales but then the song did make it all the way up to #2 months later.


I think people will be surprised with this new era.

It's strange how her #1 singles didn't stay at the top for long because they're all very memorable.

It's really cute that the Hive always tries to discredit Britney's global sales because they're old but then clings to Bey's DC sales (which are older than Britney's) because she needs them to have higher album sales than Rihanna, Taylor Swift, P!nk, Christina Aguilera, Avril Lavigne, Paula Abdul, Linda Ronstadt, etc.

If you all can use sales from 1997 where your fave wasn't even credited, then why can't I use sales from 1998-2015? Because my fave more than doubled your fave's solo career or because your fave's overall career is only 2/3 the size of my fave's solo career? Thanks for trying, though

The way some of you just nitpick receipts to downplay her success is ridiculous.

This comment made my night.

I screamed