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Oh, Britney, what would pop culture be without you in the last decade? Spears is the best-selling female artist of the decade, and her last time breaking records on the chart were: in 2008 her last disc Circus became her fifth #1 album (only behind Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey (6), Madonna (7) and Barbra Streisand (9) for most #1 albums for a female artist), her 7th top 5 album and her 6th consecutive studio album to land in the top 2, making her the only female artist to do so. Prior to that, Britney had the best opening-week sales when her sophomore album Oops!…I Did it Again opened in 2000 with sales of 1,319,193 in its first week.
“Womanizer”, her last and second only #1 song (prior to “3”) debuted at 96 on the charts, later jumping to #1 where it stayed for one week. The jump was a record at the time, until Kelly Clarkson’s “My Life Would Suck Without You” jumped from 97 to 1 earlier this year. “Womanizer” is Britney’s best selling digital track with over 2.5 million downloads.
“3”, which debuted this past week from her new greatest hits disc, is going to be Spears’ third #1, with sales of over 255,000 in the past week. This makes the track the first one since 2006 to debut at #1. The last few singles to do so were all American Idol related: Taylor Hicks “Do I Make You Proud” July 2006, Carrie Underwood’s “Inside Your Heaven” July 2005, Fantasia “I Believe” July 2004, and Clay Aiken’s “This is The Night” in 2003. The last non-AI song to debut at #1 was in 1998, Lauryn Hill’s “Doo Wop (That Thing)”.
Cool fact, “Womanizer” was #1 the same week, last year.
Watch "Womanizer" parody here.
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