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Originally posted by brandytheonlyone
^but many didnt not even reach top 10....like sometimes, lucky, stronger, from the bottom of my broken heart ,and im a slave for you........and they all deserved to...........and dont let me get started on the epic over-protected....which only reached number 86............
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The entire "Britney" era was doomed do to media giant, Clearchannel blacklisting Britney on Pop radio (her lone radio support). She didn't use Clearchannel as a promoter for the "Dream Within A Dream" Tour and in response they did some shady business behind the scenes. They had Z100 and KIISS FM refuse to spin Britney songs and ignore the requests made by fans. Clearchannel was nearly taken to court over the whole thing.
Once the ITZ era came, they let up with their vendetta and started to play Britney against on Pop Radio. In result, we get Toxic as a #1 CHR/TOP 40 smash, but we already see the decrease in albums sales do to illegal downloading and the emergence of digital songs. Physical singles became a thing of the 20th century at this point and as we can tell now, iTunes and other digital stores rule the sales for singles.
Let me remind you that physical singles back in the day didn't cost no $.99 or $1.29 like we pay for $3-$7, almost the cost of a full album. By making people save their money to spend on albums, we seen Britney sell over 10 million for each of her first two albums. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
