Well then she's had plenty of success since then; many hits including 2 global smash hits and another big hit. 2 other #1 hits and many top 10 hits. Circus sold like 4.5m, FF like 1.9m, Blackout 2.5m, then there's the sales from both her greatest hits. The MTV documentary and the Circus Tour which, in retrospective, should have been extended since she was going zombie after it anyway. And she's been beautiful unarguably all the way through 2010, and arguably to 2012. It's silly to act like she's been a nobody this past decade when she practically became the poster child for the word "comeback"
Britney's last global smash was in 1999. Global smashes stay at #1 for more than just 1 week on the biggest chart in the world.
Circus has mediocre sales for being her real comeback
That's because it was all hype. If she actually came back, she would have done like 8m. I don't see the difference between the Womanizer TB performances and VMA 2007 tbh