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Stats: Britney Spears: The Receipts
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Originally posted by Ozzy8923
Okay, Spotify streams total (everything on her account + My Only Wish, Scream & Shout and its respective remix, SMS, Crazy ft. Kevin Federline, S&M remix):
668,158,122
We can round that to 669,000,000 streams which divided by 1,500 = 445,000 albums.
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We can definitely around this up to 700,000,000 given that it's 2 months old and we're missing other streaming services such as Google Play, Rdio, Beats Music, Rhapsody, Xbox Music, Sony Music Unlimited, etc. That's a total of 466,000 albums sold.
Album Sales - 84,450,000 albums sold
Single Sales - 97,000,000 singles sold - 9,700,000 albums sold
VEVO views - 2,146,386,650 VEVO views - 1,430,924 albums sold
Spotify/Other plays - 700,000,000 - 466,000 albums sold
= Almost 96,000,000.
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Originally posted by Eternium
Album Sales - 84,325,000 albums sold
Single Sales - 97,000,000 singles sold - 9,700,000 albums sold
VEVO views - 2,146,386,650 VEVO views - 1,430,924 albums sold
Spotify views - ?
I wish we had some way to see total Spotify views without having to add them all up ourselves. Britney should be passing 100M albums/SEAs/TEAs by the end of this year
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Teas and seas are disgusting
Britney album and single sales slay without t&s
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How didi t go from 86m to 84...?
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Originally posted by slw84
How didi t go from 86m to 84...?
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Yeah, wtf?
75M albums reported by 2007, according to Forbes magazine. [X]. A very accurate figure, considering our lowest estimates for her first 5 releases + remix album add up to the following: 25M + 20M + 11M + 8M + 7M + 1M = 72M. 75M is very reasonable to assume by this point.
75M (pre-Blackout) + 2.7M + 4M + 1M + 1.8M + .65M = 85.15M. Round to 86M.
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The figures are based on known estimates. We all know she's sold over 84m (probably somewhere in the upper 96-100m range) but since this thread is based on known figures we can't just add an extra sales because we have sources that say she's sold 75m at a certain point in time (also you're incorrectly attributing sales that occurred AFTER 2007 in catalog sales into the 75m figure... plus how accurate is a publications figures for WW album sales? Time after time we see figures published that aren't actual retail figures, Forbes may be reputable but how do we know these are concrete figures for actual retail sales and not shipments when it doesn't explicitly say so? We can't be like the Janet stans and slap a source's figure onto an album just because they're reputable nnn - even though Britney would be much closer to 100m that way hihi).
The current breakdowns for the 84m figure are the most concrete and reliable estimations Anticipating has been able to compile. If anyone can find more album-specific or region-specific data that number may increase, but for now it's the most reliable one we have!
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Originally posted by Kyle-x
The figures are based on known estimates. We all know she's sold over 84m (probably somewhere in the upper 96-100m range) but since this thread is based on known figures we can't just add an extra sales because we have sources that say she's sold 75m at a certain point in time (also you're incorrectly attributing sales that occurred AFTER 2007 in catalog sales into the 75m figure... plus how accurate is a publications figures for WW album sales? Time after time we see figures published that aren't actual retail figures, Forbes may be reputable but how do we know these are concrete figures for actual retail sales and not shipments when it doesn't explicitly say so? We can't be like the Janet stans and slap a source's figure onto an album just because they're reputable nnn - even though Britney would be much closer to 100m that way hihi).
The current breakdowns for the 84m figure are the most concrete and reliable estimations Anticipating has been able to compile. If anyone can find more album-specific or region-specific data that number may increase, but for now it's the most reliable one we have!
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Pretty much this. Brit has definitely sold more than that and Ozzy makes a good point, the 75,000,000 figure (pre-Blackout) does makes sense but it's better to go by estimated numbers rather than claimed ones unless we wanna look like the Shakira or Janet threads. Okay nothing beats those two but still.
We can definitely round up the total to 85,000,000 anyways.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Kyle-x
The figures are based on known estimates. We all know she's sold over 84m (probably somewhere in the upper 96-100m range) but since this thread is based on known figures we can't just add an extra sales because we have sources that say she's sold 75m at a certain point in time (also you're incorrectly attributing sales that occurred AFTER 2007 in catalog sales into the 75m figure... plus how accurate is a publications figures for WW album sales? Time after time we see figures published that aren't actual retail figures, Forbes may be reputable but how do we know these are concrete figures for actual retail sales and not shipments when it doesn't explicitly say so? We can't be like the Janet stans and slap a source's figure onto an album just because they're reputable nnn - even though Britney would be much closer to 100m that way hihi).
The current breakdowns for the 84m figure are the most concrete and reliable estimations Anticipating has been able to compile. If anyone can find more album-specific or region-specific data that number may increase, but for now it's the most reliable one we have!
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Well done ...i want real figures not delusional one...hope all of u make every receipt thread here cuz most of the receipt threads r a mess...
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I really appreciate the dedication in here to go with estimated sales instead of claimed sales
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Some Danish stats from 2000/2001:
Year-end chart 2000 (albums):
18 OOPS, I DID IT AGAIN BRITNEY SPEARS 47621
Year-end chart 2000 (singles):
11 OOPS, I DID IT AGAIN BRITNEY SPEARS 9409
44 LUCKY BRITNEY SPEARS 3896
From Western artists, only Madonna's Music (song) sold more than OIDIA.
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Originally posted by °ColdFire°
Some Polish stats from 2000/2001:
Year-end chart 2000 (albums):
18 OOPS, I DID IT AGAIN BRITNEY SPEARS 47621
Year-end chart 2000 (singles):
11 OOPS, I DID IT AGAIN BRITNEY SPEARS 9409
44 LUCKY BRITNEY SPEARS 3896
From Western artists, only Madonna's Music (song) sold more than OIDIA.
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Some old stuff (albums):
Portugal ( ...Baby One More Time) : 5 – 4 – 4 – 3 – 3 – 1 – 3 – 2 – 4 – 4 – 4 – 5 – 7 – 5 – 7 – x – x – x – 10 – 8 – 10 – 9 – 9 – x (20 weeks)
Portugal ( Oops!...I Did It Again): 4 – 2 – 1 – 1 – 2 – 1 – 3 – 3 – 7 – 2 – 2 – 3 – 2 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 7 - ? – x (18 weeks)
Argentina ( Oops!): 9 – 5 – 4 – 6 – 6 – 9 – 9 – 8 – 8 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 6 – 6 – 6 – 8 – 6 – 8 - x (18 weeks)
Malaysia ( Baby): 9 – OUT (4-5 weeks) – 10 – 7 – 7 – 8 – 7 – 6 – 6 – 6 – 3 - 5 - 8 – 9 – 8 – 10 – ? – x (5+wks) – 9 – x – 9 – 3 – 3 - ? – x (19 weeks)
Malaysia ( Oops!): 2 – 4 – 4 – 6 – 4 – 6 – 4 – 6 – 4 – x – 5 – x – 5 – 7 – 7 – 7 – 7 – 7 – 10 – 8 – 10 – 10 – 10 - x (21 weeks)
Greece ( Oops!) - Peak: #5 (Archive started in October 2000)
Source: http://books.google.hr/books?id=6A0E...issues_r&cad=1
There's title inside the book "Hits of the world" and there are some weekly charts from multiple countries... I think it's reliable, it's Billboard.
And btw, there's also Hong Kong chart, but Britney never charted. Not even Mariah.
Only Mariah's albums did better than Britney's in Malaysia.
*DON'T TAKE ME ON WORD THAT THIS IS 100% CORRECT*
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I wouldn't necessarily use the Billboard Hits of the World chart, though, just because they're not official anywhere but the USA and Canada. Their criteria for #1s is often different than most countries' official charts (see: Oricon vs. Billboard Japan or Gaon vs. K-Pop 100).
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THE 10 BEST-SELLING DIGITAL ARTISTS TO DATE
1. Rihanna (47,571,000)
2. Black Eyed Peas (42,405,000)
3. Eminem (42,290,000)
4. Lady Gaga (42,078,000)
5. Taylor Swift (41,821,000)
6. Katy Perry (37,620,00)
7. Lil Wayne (36,788,000)
8. Beyonce (30,439,000)
9. Kanye West (30,242,000)
10. Britney Spears (28,665,000)
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Y'all think she's still in the top ten? This was 3 years ago...and they don't count features. The only artist that I can see having surpassed the 29M figure is maybe Bruno, how much has he sold w/ singles digitally in the US? Or Maroon 5.
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Originally posted by Ozzy8923
Y'all think she's still in the top ten? This was 3 years ago...and they don't count features. The only artist that I can see having surpassed the 29M figure is maybe Bruno, how much has he sold w/ singles digitally in the US? Or Maroon 5.
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These do count features. And I was looking at that earlier, too!
Drake has also passed her.
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Originally posted by Eternium
These do count features. And I was looking at that earlier, too!
Drake has also passed her.
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She's definitely still Top 5 for females but Drake and Bruno probably passed her overall.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Ozzy8923
Y'all think she's still in the top ten? This was 3 years ago...and they don't count features. The only artist that I can see having surpassed the 29M figure is maybe Bruno, how much has he sold w/ singles digitally in the US? Or Maroon 5.
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So this doesn't include S&S or WB
That said she should still be top 10 if this is only dated by 3 years now if it were 5 years dated I'd say Drake and Nicki Minaj might have passed her.
They should count features because they all count
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Quote:
Originally posted by Ozzy8923
Y'all think she's still in the top ten? This was 3 years ago...and they don't count features. The only artist that I can see having surpassed the 29M figure is maybe Bruno, how much has he sold w/ singles digitally in the US? Or Maroon 5.
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Prob she isnt top 10... we need and update..
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Originally posted by coddiecollins
Prob she isnt top 10... we need and update..
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She's def at 33M+ by now if we count S&S and WB.
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Originally posted by popboi__
She's def at 33M+ by now if we count S&S and WB.
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But all the others have sold more this period...but stil its a good number for brit brit
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