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12:34 pm - 12/10/2008
Final Billboard numbers are in for Circus. These aren't the estimates from HDD posted yesterday, these are the FINAL numbers. Britney sold...
505,694
albums in her first week. That's actually 1,000 more than HDD had posted yesterday, so all the haters saying "OH THEY'RE ONLY ESTIMATES, SHE'LL DROP BY 50-60K IN THE FINALS" STFD.
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.
Back on The Billboard 200, Taylor Swift's Big Machine album "Fearless" stays put at No. 2 for a second week with 193,000 copies, a 28% sales decline. Beyonce's "I Am ... Sasha Fierce" (Music World/Columbia) ascends 4-3 with a 41% downturn to 153,000. Last week's chart-topper, Kanye West's Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam set "808s & Heartbreak," slips to No. 4 on a 69% dip to 142,000.
Nickelback's "Dark Horse" (Roadrunner) climbs 7-5 with 133,000 (-25%), while the Chop Shop/Atlantic soundtrack to "Twilight" ascends 8-6 with only a few hundred copies short of "Dark Horse," also at 133,000 (-18%).
Akon's Konvict/Upfront/SRC/Universal Records album "Freedom" debuts at No. 7 with 111,000. The singer's last set, 2006's "Konvicted," bowed at No. 2 with 284,000 and spent 68 weeks on the chart. It has sold 2.9 million so far.
The soundtrack to Disney's "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" re-enters the top tier 11-8 on a 7% decrease to 91,000. The multi-label hits compilation "Now 29" keeps the No. 9 spot warm for a second week with 90,000 (-38%), as David Cook's self-titled debut from 19 Recordings/RCA hold at No. 10 for a second week on a 22% decline to 87,000.
Only two other albums bow inside the top 50: Scarface's "Emeritus" (J Prince/Rap-A-Lot 4 Life/Rap-A-Lot Asylum) enters at No. 24 with 42,000, while a Neil Young concert set, "Sugar Mountain -- Live at Canterbury House 1968" (Reprise), debuts at No. 40 with 26,000.
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Jive Press Release:
NEW YORK, Dec. 10 NY-Jive-Spears-Circus
SPEARS IS THE FIRST FEMALE EVER TO HAVE FIVE #1 ALBUM DEBUTS
OVER 500K CONCERT TICKETS SOLD IN LESS THAN ONE WEEK
NEW YORK, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- This week, Britney Spears secures her status as an iconic superstar with the release of her newest album, Circus (Jive Records). Additionally, Spears makes music history by becoming the first female ever to have five No. 1 album debuts. Her sixth studio album, Circus debuts No. 1 in the U.S. according to SoundScan, selling over 505,000 albums and also enters at No. 1 on the Digital Albums chart. This is the second biggest album debut of the year for a female artist.
Released December 2, 2008, on Britney's 27th birthday, Circus is a veritable international success as well: the album debuts No. 1 in six countries including Canada, Switzerland, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and Top 10 in an additional seven countries. This follows the reception of her smash hit single "Womanizer," currently a Top 10 single in 16 countries worldwide and is certified gold in six countries, and platinum in Canada and Ireland.
Circus comes one year after the release of the critically-acclaimed release Blackout, which has sold a respectable two million units world-wide to date. Circus is also earning accolades: The New York Times states, "...her new songs are crisp, cunning dance-pop..."; The Washington Times exclaims the current album is, "...the best work of Miss Spears' career"; and the Associated Press says"...like any good circus, Britney's version will leave you thoroughly entertained..."
Circus reunites Spears with previous collaborators Max Martin, Danja and Bloodshy & Avant. The second single from the album, the up-tempo title track, "Circus" makes its debut in the No. 1 position this week on the Digital Songs chart, giving Spears her second No. 1 song from this album. "Circus" was produced by Dr. Luke and Benny Blanco and the video was directed by director Francis Lawrence who previously worked with Spears on "I'm A Slave For You" in 2001.
Spears' upcoming arena tour, "The Circus Starring Britney Spears" kicks-off in New Orleans on March 3, 2009. In the days following her tour announcement on Good Morning America -- on December 2, 2008 -- fans purchased more than 400,000 concert tickets in North America alone. In order to meet the overwhelming rush for tickets, tour promoter AEG Live immediately added six shows in Los Angeles, Toronto, New Jersey, Chicago, Long Island, NY and Anaheim, CA, expanding Spears' tour to include 41 concerts. Across the pond, Spears' Circus-mania has also reached a feverish pitch, as six additional dates were just added at London's O2 Arena, with more than 100,000 tickets sold for eight total shows during the first weekend of sales.
Britney Spears is one of the top-selling artists of the last decade, and to date she has sold in excess of 62 million albums worldwide: ...Baby One More Time (1999); Oops!... I Did It Again (2000); Britney (2001); In The Zone (2003) and Blackout (2007).
As for Circus the song, it sold 211,831 last week debuting at #1 on Hot Digital Songs. It will be #3 on the Hot 100 tomorrow, and this will be the first time Britney has had two singles in the top 10- Womanizer stays steady at #10.
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Final BB #'s for Circus, Single Debuts at #3
Final Billboard numbers are in for Circus. These aren't the estimates from HDD posted yesterday, these are the FINAL numbers. Britney sold...
505,694
albums in her first week. That's actually 1,000 more than HDD had posted yesterday, so all the haters saying "OH THEY'RE ONLY ESTIMATES, SHE'LL DROP BY 50-60K IN THE FINALS" STFD.
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.
Back on The Billboard 200, Taylor Swift's Big Machine album "Fearless" stays put at No. 2 for a second week with 193,000 copies, a 28% sales decline. Beyonce's "I Am ... Sasha Fierce" (Music World/Columbia) ascends 4-3 with a 41% downturn to 153,000. Last week's chart-topper, Kanye West's Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam set "808s & Heartbreak," slips to No. 4 on a 69% dip to 142,000.
Nickelback's "Dark Horse" (Roadrunner) climbs 7-5 with 133,000 (-25%), while the Chop Shop/Atlantic soundtrack to "Twilight" ascends 8-6 with only a few hundred copies short of "Dark Horse," also at 133,000 (-18%).
Akon's Konvict/Upfront/SRC/Universal Records album "Freedom" debuts at No. 7 with 111,000. The singer's last set, 2006's "Konvicted," bowed at No. 2 with 284,000 and spent 68 weeks on the chart. It has sold 2.9 million so far.
The soundtrack to Disney's "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" re-enters the top tier 11-8 on a 7% decrease to 91,000. The multi-label hits compilation "Now 29" keeps the No. 9 spot warm for a second week with 90,000 (-38%), as David Cook's self-titled debut from 19 Recordings/RCA hold at No. 10 for a second week on a 22% decline to 87,000.
Only two other albums bow inside the top 50: Scarface's "Emeritus" (J Prince/Rap-A-Lot 4 Life/Rap-A-Lot Asylum) enters at No. 24 with 42,000, while a Neil Young concert set, "Sugar Mountain -- Live at Canterbury House 1968" (Reprise), debuts at No. 40 with 26,000.
source
Jive Press Release:
NEW YORK, Dec. 10 NY-Jive-Spears-Circus
SPEARS IS THE FIRST FEMALE EVER TO HAVE FIVE #1 ALBUM DEBUTS
OVER 500K CONCERT TICKETS SOLD IN LESS THAN ONE WEEK
NEW YORK, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- This week, Britney Spears secures her status as an iconic superstar with the release of her newest album, Circus (Jive Records). Additionally, Spears makes music history by becoming the first female ever to have five No. 1 album debuts. Her sixth studio album, Circus debuts No. 1 in the U.S. according to SoundScan, selling over 505,000 albums and also enters at No. 1 on the Digital Albums chart. This is the second biggest album debut of the year for a female artist.
Released December 2, 2008, on Britney's 27th birthday, Circus is a veritable international success as well: the album debuts No. 1 in six countries including Canada, Switzerland, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and Top 10 in an additional seven countries. This follows the reception of her smash hit single "Womanizer," currently a Top 10 single in 16 countries worldwide and is certified gold in six countries, and platinum in Canada and Ireland.
Circus comes one year after the release of the critically-acclaimed release Blackout, which has sold a respectable two million units world-wide to date. Circus is also earning accolades: The New York Times states, "...her new songs are crisp, cunning dance-pop..."; The Washington Times exclaims the current album is, "...the best work of Miss Spears' career"; and the Associated Press says"...like any good circus, Britney's version will leave you thoroughly entertained..."
Circus reunites Spears with previous collaborators Max Martin, Danja and Bloodshy & Avant. The second single from the album, the up-tempo title track, "Circus" makes its debut in the No. 1 position this week on the Digital Songs chart, giving Spears her second No. 1 song from this album. "Circus" was produced by Dr. Luke and Benny Blanco and the video was directed by director Francis Lawrence who previously worked with Spears on "I'm A Slave For You" in 2001.
Spears' upcoming arena tour, "The Circus Starring Britney Spears" kicks-off in New Orleans on March 3, 2009. In the days following her tour announcement on Good Morning America -- on December 2, 2008 -- fans purchased more than 400,000 concert tickets in North America alone. In order to meet the overwhelming rush for tickets, tour promoter AEG Live immediately added six shows in Los Angeles, Toronto, New Jersey, Chicago, Long Island, NY and Anaheim, CA, expanding Spears' tour to include 41 concerts. Across the pond, Spears' Circus-mania has also reached a feverish pitch, as six additional dates were just added at London's O2 Arena, with more than 100,000 tickets sold for eight total shows during the first weekend of sales.
Britney Spears is one of the top-selling artists of the last decade, and to date she has sold in excess of 62 million albums worldwide: ...Baby One More Time (1999); Oops!... I Did It Again (2000); Britney (2001); In The Zone (2003) and Blackout (2007).
As for Circus the song, it sold 211,831 last week debuting at #1 on Hot Digital Songs. It will be #3 on the Hot 100 tomorrow, and this will be the first time Britney has had two singles in the top 10- Womanizer stays steady at #10.
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Unless, you know, she does an amazing performance. Like, a world shattering one. Realistically, i don't see it happening.
But WOOT BRITNEY!! :)
why did they release it the same week as the eagles? just cause of the push-up for online leaks?
If you get what I'm saying. Billboard allowed them to count sales from the one retailer. Which wasn't supposed to happen.
try again.
you clearly know nothing about the US chart system bb. This is one of the highest debuts in billboard history. And to make it even more amazing, the song only got released to radio yesterday.
je l'adore!!!
..or blackout.
i'm such a bad fan. :/
i know, i know, it's bad, but i'm an unemployed college student.. love you britbrit, but.. eh.
on the other hand, i did buy me some tickets to the circus, so that counts for something..
I still don't own the Britney CD and just bought In the Zone like a few months ago
Still wouldn't touch that vagina though. Its like a wasteland.
Because i'm sure any man who touches vaginas would touch her vagina now.
what did blackout sell?
who was the first?
LIVING LEGEND YOU CAN LOOK BUT DON'T TOUCH
BTW, I was looking at her Womanizer performance on GMA through another perspective, and...I don't think it's Andre's fault at all.
Look at what those dancers are doing. Look how fucking awesome it looks. Imagine Britney doing something similar. Yeah.
Not bitching or anything, just saying I don't think it's his fault.
That choreography sucks. Period.
but yeah you can see that the dancer's parts are good. still not the best choreography imo but they weaken the argument that he's just doing "static" choreographies with only a lot of arm movement.
your theory about it being because of brit not being able to do hard choregraphie's on stage yet might be true.
i guess the tour will prove your theory either wrong or right.^^
p.s. thank you for being rational and not worshipping practically everything that she does just because you're a ~brit fan~ either it was good or bad in reality.
I mean.. come on. it's amazing.
Womanizer and Circus just aren't really doing it for me. I watch and think.. I couldve done a better job. And so could Britney probably.