December 6, 201311 yr I think it pretty much boils down to personal opinion! Beyoncé's Crazy In Love was only the 15th best seller of 2003 (I concede that the album it was from was selling excellently at the same time), but sometimes best sellers lists can be deceiving in terms of lasting popularity. I will agree that 'Toxic' wasn't/isn't on the level of 'Blurred Lines' and 'Get Lucky'. I think it's generally considered to be one of the ultimate pop classics of this century though, but that's just my view. ^_^ As for 'In The Zone', the album it was taken from - I'm not sure how well in sold across 2003/4 alone, but it went on to sell just under 530,000 copies by June 2009, so it was comfortably Platinum. Quite good sales, considering its initial floppy chart run of 14-37-51-59-65-out :o It eventually reached a new peak of #13, two or three weeks after 'Everytime' went to #1. That album was a bit of a slow burner which never had one fantastic week of sales, sadly. Who knows why two big #1 singles didn't catapult it into the Top 10? :snif: Oh well, 'Britney Jean' is now here to make that #13 peak seem better. :kink: 2003: 145. Britney Spears - In The Zone 125,000 2004: 51 In The Zone - Britney Spears 350,000 Britney sold 1.02 million albums in 2004 overall though including the release of the greatest hits album.
December 6, 201311 yr Thanks! :D May I ask where you found the Year End Album + Sales information? ^_^ I just found some lists on Haven, and they reckon 363,000 sales for it in 2004: http://fatherandy2.proboards.com/thread/51368
December 6, 201311 yr Thanks! :D May I ask where you found the Year End Album + Sales information? ^_^ I just found some lists on Haven, and they reckon 363,000 sales for it in 2004: http://fatherandy2.proboards.com/thread/51368 Oh I found that sales number on UKMix. I think the Haven number is more accurate as Music Week never published year end sales for "In The Zone" that year.
December 6, 201311 yr You wouldn't put "Toxic" or "Crazy In Love" up there with "Hung Up" or "Can't Get You Out Of My Head"? Each one of these songs spent at least 8 weeeks at #1 on the radio airplay chart in their respective years of release. I'd personally only class 'Can't Get You Out of My Head' as a truly monster hit out of those 4. As for 'In The Zone', the album it was taken from - I'm not sure how well in sold across 2003/4 alone, but it went on to sell just under 530,000 copies by June 2009, so it was comfortably Platinum. 2003: 145. Britney Spears - In The Zone 125,000 2004: 51 In The Zone - Britney Spears 350,000 Britney sold 1.02 million albums in 2004 overall though including the release of the greatest hits album. I'll admit I was wrong on that, I based my "barely went platinum" on its 2004 figure alone, completely forgetting it was released the year before :lol:
December 6, 201311 yr It's funny that "Sometimes" is so successful and she hates it so much. I don't blame her, it's awful! I find it really cheesy, probably helped by the video too.
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