Thursday, December 11, 2008

BIllboard News: Britney Spears Top Charts!

According to Billboard.com, Britney Spears has scored another number one album selling over 500,000 with her studio effort, Circus. Here's a quote from the article:

As expected, Britney Spears' "Circus" makes a big bow at the top of The Billboard 200, becoming her fifth No. 1. The Jive set moved 505,000 copies in the United States, making Spears the only act in Nielsen SoundScan history to have four albums debut with 500,000 or more. Since SoundScan began tracking data in 1991, only four acts -- aside from Spears -- have notched three 500,000-starts: 2Pac, 50 Cent, Garth Brooks and Jay-Z. Previously, her second, third and fourth sets all racked up half-million weeks: 2000's "Oops! I Did It Again" started with 1.3 million, 2001's "Britney" debuted with 746,000 and 2003's "In the Zone" entered the chart with 609,000. Among female artists, only four have earned more No. 1 albums: Barbra Streisand (eight), Madonna (seven) and Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson (both with six). On the Billboard Hot 100 to be released tomorrow, Spears scores her first top 10 debut as the set's title cut debuts at No. 3. The song, which she performed live on ABC's "Good Morning America" the day "Circus" hit retail, opens at No. 1 on Hot Digital Songs with 212,000 downloads. With her former No. 1 single "Womanizer" at No. 10 on the Hot 100, Spears places two tracks simultaneously in that chart's top 10 for the first time in her career.


That's a good look for Brit! She's set to go on tour in the U.S very soon, and word is those tickets are selling like crazy.

2 comments:

  1. So proud of her and kinda shocked that she sold that many! i mean while shes been away u 4get how HUGE of an artist she is!!

    Im sooo excited tho, Ive got my tickets for her concert in Chicago- 3rd row!!!

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  2. Great! I'm so happy for Britney. She's coming back in a big way.

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