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It's not an excuse if you're stating that it ''outsold all her singles'' when most were released before the digital age, and none were officially released considering her team aimed more towards album sales (which played its part).

You're literally grasping at straws. Anyways, idek why I am sitting in here arguing over local receipts. Let's take it WW and then see who comes out on top.

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Toxic

CIL is played at the club EVERY night (not even exaggerating). Hell, they play Beyonce mash ups for 30 minutes straight. Whereas Britney? Toxic can be heard bopping from the 1991 Honda civic of a twink that wasnt allowed into the club

Exactly

No one brought up Womanizer though we were talking about Toxic lol your slippin'

How is Toxic forgotten when it still receives radio airplay and Taylor Swift paid a little tribute to the music video in Bad Blood?
Crazy In Love started getting a lot of airplay recently because of 50 Shades of Grey and bc of the Superbowl.

They are both pretty remembered.

Little Monster criteria teas

Yes. Columbia and Epic got slapped with huge fines for payola. Meanwhile Britney had a radio deal and still managed to outsell every artist under those labels sans Mariah Carey.

Location: Atlanta

Britney has sold 40M+ albums in the U.S. Beyonce has sold 14M. Usher has sold 24M. You're embarrassing yourself.

But didn't a large chunk of Britney's singles flop when she was still active because her payola stopped once she did the Pepsi deal? Beyonce did a Pepsi deal too, and her singles still flourished because people requested them. She didn't need payola/radio deal to get a hit in 2003/4.

So now we're assuming things lmao until there are receipts Bye bye

Article about Sony's Payola.

Look who is named (Britney) and who is not (Beyoncé).

Britney is on Jive, which is owned by Sony.

The song gets performed all the time and she haven't changed the choreo so it is pretty iconic. I bet u know all the moves and dance along with it.

Don't pull up receipt sis, they only use them if they're written on papyri from the last century.

Clock

I laughed so hard,

this is too much

Ya, there are Beyoncé parties in just about every major city. I've yet to hear of a Britney one.

In my city the current Beyoncé party is on it's 7th edition, and I'm in Canada.

This is a very hard question. Especially since Crazy In Love got featured in 2 movies these past years (Gatzby/50Shdes).

I think they're about equal.

Toxic went top 10 in every country it charted in, sans Poland which was just an AirPlay chart. The demand for the single was so strong in the US that the radio ban was lifted. It literally revived the ITZ era after Me Against the Music flopped in be US due to the radio ban, despite it being massive worldwide.

What other pop girl on Britneys level in 2003 was doing electropop/dance pop? It's revolutionary in the same way that Can't Get You Out of My Head was. It helped to bring in the electro/dance trend that started 2 years later (Loose by Nelly Furtado, FutureSex/LoveSounds by JT).

It only charted at #9 in the US due to 1) urban music being much bigger that dance music at the time and 2) Britney's radio ban was still in effect.

So basically what were going off on here is your own personal experience that's probably a BS lie?

It's time to change my sig

Britney was under a radio ban from 2001-2003 and won her lawsuit against Clear Channel media in late 2003, which is why ITZ didn't have a second single till January 2004. Britney is under neither Epic nor Columbia and never has been.

I can see you put a lot of research in to these fully formulated "opinions"