Usually they were only charting due to airplay, that's why she suffered so much on the Hot 100 during the radio ban. The only singles you listed with actual physical single releases were ...Baby One More Time, From the Bottom of My Broken Heart, and Stronger. The others weren't released at all or only limited to limited edition vinyls.
For example, Oops!... I Did It Again was released only on a limited edition 12" vinyl yet broke radio spin records in it's first week, which is why it managed to chart high and From the Bottom of My Broken heart was released as a single and was the 8th best selling physical single of the decade but didn't get much airplay so it only peaked within the top 15. If it was not one thing it was usually the other.
she was never a person who cared about how her singles charted. Her singles have sold her albums like they are meant to do. So she succeeded where other pop girls failed
What's up with this "radio ban" I always hear of? I remember hearing those songs on the radio. Does anyone have any proof? I love Britney and she didn't need number one songs because she felt like such a huge force back in the day!
What's up with this "radio ban" I always hear of? I remember hearing those songs on the radio. Does anyone have any proof? I love Britney and she didn't need number one songs because she felt like such a huge force back in the day!
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Originally posted by TheEdgeOfGaga
Wait why was Britney blacklisted on radio?
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When the DWAD tour was being planned, ClearChannel Communications offered to sponsor it for a cut of the profits in return. Britney was having her lucrative deal with Pepsi who wanted to sponsor the tour, and Jive decided to go with them. ClearChannel got angry and told all the radio stations they owned, which was like most of it, to blacklist Britney. Slave had already been released and stalled at 27. All the other singles flopped in The US.
When the Onyx Hotel Tour was being planned, ClearChannel again approached Jive and offered its services, and Jive said yes. MATM was out by then and had a troubled run, stalling even lower than Slave, but once the tour started Britney had radio support again, AND her blockbuster Toxic was the first song to get the benefit of full radio support since, and the people LOVED the song too. Everytime also did well.
Her sales charts #1 count is in the teens somewhere; the only reason her Hot 100 count is low is because of the chart's reliance on airplay (and her radio ban didn't help her there). She has more #1 hits with actual consumers.
How did it not go to number 1?
