accolades for Britney Spears that will either not be broken or will be tough to break
#1 worldwide hits:[/B]
19 - Madonna 13 - Michael Jackson 12 - Elvis Presley
11-Rihanna
10 - Britney Spears, Beatles
-tied with Janet at #10 with 26 top 10 WW hits.
- 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)
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.
Youngest artist to have back to back diamond albums.
At 19, selling 37 million albums WW becoming the best selling teenage artist of all time.
first female artist to have 4 of their first albums debut at 1
first female artist to have all 5 of her albums debut at either #1 or #2
first female artist to have 4 studio albums debut with over 500k
Best SELLING female artist of 2000s.
most mainstream top 40 pop hits of 2000s.
#2 Billboard 200 artist (#1 female)
-youngest artist to have 6 #1 albums (under 30)
-only female artist to have 6 albums debut at #1
-youngest solo artist under 30 to ship 100 million albums.
-youngest artist to occupy #1 debut single and album at the same time.
-youngest artist to get to 25 10 WW hits at 31 (Elvis, Janet, Mariah, Michael were 35 and Madonna 36)
-6th most successful female artist of all time WW/#8 in US
-#50 certified artist of all time in the U.S. 34 M certified albums and #8 certified female artist in the U.S.
-Fastest Selling Female Artist in the World
-Britney, Madonna, and Michael Jackson are the only artists to have 3 or more #1 hits off of two different albums. (...Baby One More Time, In the Zone)(True Blue, Like a Prayer)(Thriller, Bad)
-Britney and Madonna are the only female artists to have had a #1 WW hits in three consecutive decades. Britney (90s,00's,10's) Madonna (80's,90's,00's)
-Youngest artist to get star on hollywood walk of fame
Only female to have a vevo certified video in 3 different decades.
-Biggest first week sales in the U.S. for a female artist (OIDIA album 1.3M)
highlighted ones on par with or bigger than the first week sales as we will need to know this when Adele slays next month.
I'll revisit the chart thread to see if any new ones are there too.
