the perfect situation
-Video Snippet end of next week
-May 4 pre-release to itunes in the evening
-May 5 official release with banner as well as adds to streaming and a radio deal
-May 11 video release
-May 17 BBMAs which is the 2nd to last day before sales cutoffs for the billboard week
At the BBMAs
-Britney opens the show at the BBMAs with Pretty girls sings or at least pre-records the first part before lipping the rest where she serves the choreography in an iconic performance.
-Britney is honored at the BBMAs while her biggest BB record (15 years and counting) is safe before Adele.
Unlike many that have receive a prestigious award at the BBMAs as of late she has many accolades they can cover in a 5 minute montage.
-This and a slew of radio interviews (like 3 or 4 with at least one with Britney and Iggy the others can be iggy promoting)
A commercial on bravo or some national commercial.
PER MY STATS collected over the years:
BBMA related
US charts-
#1 Billboard 200 albums
9 or 10???-Barbra 8-Madonna
6-Britney, Mariah and Janet
5-Mary J. Blige, Alicia and Beyonce 4-Whitney
#1 Hot 100 Singles-
18-Mariah 14-Rihanna 12-Madonna
11-Whitney
10-Janet 9-Katy
6-Diana Ross and Paula Abdul
5-Britney, Barbra, Christina, Beyonce and Olivia Newton John
4-Pink, Cher, Alicia, Jennifer Lopez and Celine
Hot 100 Peak 5 #1s 19 top 20 hits
#01 Baby One More Time #01 Womanizer #01 3 #01 Hold It Against Me #01 S&M (With Rihanna)
#03 Scream and shout #03 Till The World Ends #03 Gimme More #03 Circus
#07 I wanna go #09 Oops! I Did It Again #09 Toxic #10 (You Drive Me) Crazy #11 Stronger #12 WORK BITCH #14 From The Bottom Of My Broken Heart #15 Everytime #18 Piece Of Me
#19 If U Seek Amy #21 Sometimes #23 Lucky #27 I'm A Slave 4 U #35 Me Against The Music
#43 Break The Ice #55 Criminal #70 Shattered Glass
#76 Perfume #79 Outrageous #85 Ooh la la #86 Overprotected #88 Radar #100 Do Somethin’ #101 My prerogative #102 Not a girl #109 Boys #110 Up n down
#111 Kill the lights #112 Don’t let me be the last to know #119 Out from under
#1 Digital songs
14-Rihanna
10-Katy Perry
6-Taylor Swift, Eminem, Britney
5-Beyonce, Black eyed peas
#1 pop hits:
15- Madonna
14- Mariah Carey
11- Whitney and Rihanna (#1 per billboard) Katy Perry
9-Janet jackson and Pink
7-Gaga
6- Britney (16 top 10s) and Paula Abdul
5- Barbra, Kelly Clarkson, Christina and Beyonce
4- Avril, JLO
POP (mediabase)
#01 (6) Oops! I Did It Again #01 (5) Baby One More Time #01 (4) Toxic #01 (2) I wanna go
#01 (2) Womanizer #01 (1) Circus #02 3 #03 Scream and Shout #03 Till The World Ends
#03 Hold It Against Me #04 (You Drive Me) Crazy #04 Everytime #04 Sometimes #06 If U Seek Amy #09 Lucky #11 Me Against The Music #13 Work bitch #14 Stronger #16 From The Bottom Of My Broken Heart #16 Gimme More #18 I'm A Slave 4 U #19 Criminal #21 Break The Ice #21 I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman #22 Perfume #22 My Prerogative #23 Ooh la la #23 Outrageous #28 Piece Of Me #32 Boys #32 Radar
#34 Overprotected #36 Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know
[U] 2nd most charted songs behind Rihanna and tied with mariah
Accolades and achievements-
- the first female artist (2nd artist overall after Usher) to have at least a #1 hit single and album in 90s, 00s, 10s, 3rd female overall.
-#1 albums in 3 decades (Britney, Whitney, Janet, MJ, Rolling stones, Elvis [4], Barbra [5], Beatles [4], Bryan Adams)
-#1 singles in 3 decades (Britney, Michael, Janet, Madonna, Usher, Elvis, technically christina)...
Both #1 albums and singles in 3 or more decades...Britney, janet, MJ, Elvis)
BOMT-
youngest artist to sell over 6 million albums in the us. youngest artist to go diamond, best selling album by a teenage artist, best selling debut from a female artist, youngest female artist to occupy the #1 album/single spot simultaneously. #81 album of the decade (billboard 200) #41 all time top selling albums WW. Baby one more time and Crazy #2 and #17 song of the year WW.
#2 US album of the year, #1 female, #3 WW selling over 24M
OIDIA-
Highest first week sales for a female
(for over 15 years and counting) 1.347 million (2.4M WW #7 all time),
First female artist to sell 1M+ in debut week. Youngest artist to have back to back diamond albums. #5 top selling album of the decade WW. #66 all time top selling albums WW. OIDIA, Lucky and Born to make u happy #3, #14 and #21 song of the year WW. #6 album of the decade (Billboard 200).
#3 US album of the year, #1 female, #3 WW selling over 21M
Britney-
First female artist to have 3 of their first albums debut at 1. #8 highest first week sales for a female artist. At 19, selling 37 million records WW becoming the best selling teenage artist of all time. 1st musician to cover and score the #1 rank on Forbes in 2002. #34 top selling albums of the decade WW. Stronger and Slave #21 and #33 top selling song of the year WW. #64 album of the decade (billboard 200).
#4 US album of the year, #4 female, #4 WW selling over 12M
In the zone-
first female artist to have 4 of their first albums debut at 1. #13 highest first week sales for a female artist. #143 album of the decade (billboard 200) #83 top selling album of the decade WW. Toxic, Everytime, and Me against the music #5, #12 and #27 top selling song WW.
#4 female, #10 WW selling over 8M
Blackout-
first album to get hijacked for their #1 album billboard b!tches... j/k first female artist to have all 5 of her albums debut at either #1 or #2...Gimme more and Piece of me #30 and #37 top selling song WW.
3M WW
Circus-
first artist to have 4 studio albums debut with over 500k, highest digital sales for a female at the time. Highest jump to #1 at the time, most mainstream top 40 pop hits of 2000s. #20 highest first week sales for a female artist. Best SELLING female artist of 2000s. Circus and Womanizer #26 and #28 top selling song of the year WW. Tour grossed $132M #27 highest grossing sale of all time. 16th highest grossing artist on tour. #23 digital album of the decade.
3M WW
2000s Decade charts:
#2 Billboard 200 artist (#1 female)
#8 artist of the decade and pop artist
#36 hot 100 artist of the decade
#5 Highest earning artist - $609.7 million
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The singles collection-
"3" Fifteenth song to debut at #1 on the hot 100
Femme Fatale era-
-first female artist to have all 7 of her albums debut at either #1 of 2
-youngest artist to have 6 #1 albums (under 30)
-only female artist to have 6 albums debut at #1
- the second artist to have multiple #1 debuts on the hot 100 (1st Mariah Carey).
Almost 2M WW
Scream and Shout era-
Britney, Robbie Williams and Usher #1 UK singles in 3 decades. She's the only female to do this so far.
[B][U]8th album era:
I cant...
Overall
-youngest solo artist under 30 to sell 100 million records.
-youngest artist to occupy #1 debut single and album at the same time.
-youngest artist to have 25 top 10 WW hits at 31 (Elvis, Janet, Mariah, Michael were 35 and Madonna 36)
-5th most successful female artist of all time WW/#8 in US
-#47 certified artist of all time in the U.S. 34 M certified albums and #8 certified female artist in the U.S.
Note: Will be at 35M certified albums. RCA needs to certify In the zone 3x platinum, Britney 5x platinum so that she can have 37M certified albums.
Her team needs to put TSC and GH:MP in stores in Vegas and eventually have TSC certified gold and maybe GH:MP 2x platinum (this is the biggest reach).
-Fastest Selling Female Artist in the World
-Sold 200 million records - albums (105) and singles (95)
-85M records sold in the US alone
That's all that's needed and don't wake me up from my dream. I still want to luxuriate in it for a few more minutes
