Posted August 24, 20222 yr To celebrate the release of Hold Me Closer, we've compiled the lists and crunched the numbers to present the Official and up-to-date ranking of Britney's most successful singles and albums in the UK. Let's get stuck in. 10. Piece Of Me Album: Blackout Released: 2007 Official Singles Chart peak: Number 2 Total UK chart units: 427,000 A masterclass in how take back control of your own narrative, Piece Of Me also contains uncredited background vocals from none other than Swedish pop princess Robyn. 9. Circus Album: Circus Released: 2008 Official Singles Chart peak: Number 13 Total UK chart units: 462,000 The energetic title track from Britney's sixth studio album is perhaps best remembered for its kitsch music video, where Brit genuinely seems to be having the time of her life. It was directed by Francis Lawrence, known for helming Lady Gaga's Bad Romance video and three of The Hunger Games films. 8. Everytime Album: In The Zone Released: 2004 Official Singles Chart peak: Number 1 Total UK chart units: 562,000 A rare Britney Spears single written by Britney herself, Everytime is a tender piano ballad that many have taken as a response to the break-up with her then-boyfriend, Justin Timberlake. Its iconic music video, helmed by David LaChappelle, forms as an eerily prescient reminder of the insidious media presence surrounding Britney at the height of her fame. 7. Sometimes Album: ...Baby One More Time Released: 1999 Official Singles Chart peak: Number 3 Total UK chart units: 584,000 Britney may not be the biggest fan of the perky Sometimes, but those looking for a modern-day re-interpretation should seek out queer pop trio MUNA's reverential cover released this year for the film Fire Island. 6. Gimme More Album: Blackout Released: 2007 Official Singles Chart peak: Number 3 Total UK chart units: 596,000 Blackout's lead single was an instant classic; a dark and glitzy electro-pop smash that has quietly influenced an entire generation of dance music, and helped usher in EDM supremacy. Also features one of the greatest opening lines, naturally. 5. Womanizer Album: Circus Released: 2008 Official Singles Chart peak: Number 3 Total UK chart units: 835,000 Lest we forget Britney's chaotic yet highly iconic performance of the juddering Womanizer in that year's X Factor, where she then had to stay on stage and very respectfully try to answer Dermot O'Leary's questions about the finalists despite clearly not having a clue as to who any of them were. 4. Oops! I Did It Again Album: Oops! I Did It Again! Released: 2000 Official Singles Chart peak: Number 1 Total UK chart units: 931,000 When Max Martin looked at all the success of ...Baby One More Time and said, how about that...but more? Oops! is a brilliant pop single, and its timelessness is proved by the fact is contains a Titanic reference in its iconic middle eight, a film that was already three years old by the time it was released. Also: red catsuit. 3. Scream & Shout (with will.i.am) Album: #willpower Released: 2012 Official Singles Chart peak: Number 1 Total UK chart units: 1.3 million Britney's sixth and most recent UK Number 1 single, will.i.am collaboration Scream & Shout claims the title of her most-digitally downloaded track in the UK, with 880,000 of them. 2. Toxic Album: In The Zone Released: 2004 Official Singles Chart peak: Number 1 Total UK chart units: 1.3 million Just as sonically innovative and exciting today as it was in 2004, the clarity of vision on Toxic is crystal clear. A Number 1 hit in the UK (a feat it never achieved in Brit's native US), Toxic has UK chart units totally 1.3 million and is also Britney's most-streamed track in the UK; with 96 million streams in total. Spare a thought for Kylie Minogue, though, who had the opportunity to record Toxic and turned it down! 1. ...Baby One More Time Album: ...Baby One More Time Released: 1999 Official Singles Chart peak: Number 1 Total UK chart units: 2 million There are many, many ways you can explain the brilliance of ...Baby One More Time, but one of the greatest debut singles of all time sounds about right. Proof that Britney knew herself and her career better than anyone else at the time, she rejected a cartoon-ish pitch for the music video, instead demanding it be set in a high school. The rest, as they say, is history. Baby One More Time is still Britney's biggest track in the UK, with a total of over 2 million chart units to its name. It's also her most physically purchased single (1.4 million units) and most-viewed music video (over 10 million video streams). What makes it even more impressive? Baby One More Time - written entirely by a then up and coming Max Martin, still in his production infancy - was actually turned down by the Backstreet Boys and TLC. But Britney, recovering from a hangover on the day she recorded the career-defining track, took it in her stride. And one of the most successful pop partnerships in pop history was born. Britney Spears' Official Top 40 biggest singles in the UK POS TITLE ARTIST PEAK YEAR 1 BABY ONE MORE TIME BRITNEY SPEARS 1 1999 2 TOXIC BRITNEY SPEARS 1 2004 3 SCREAM & SHOUT WILL I AM FT BRITNEY SPEARS 1 2012 4 OOPS I DID IT AGAIN BRITNEY SPEARS 1 2000 5 WOMANIZER BRITNEY SPEARS 3 2008 6 GIMME MORE BRITNEY SPEARS 3 2007 7 SOMETIMES BRITNEY SPEARS 3 1999 8 EVERYTIME BRITNEY SPEARS 1 2004 9 CIRCUS BRITNEY SPEARS 13 2008 10 PIECE OF ME BRITNEY SPEARS 2 2007 11 BORN TO MAKE YOU HAPPY BRITNEY SPEARS 1 2000 12 YOU DRIVE ME CRAZY BRITNEY SPEARS 5 1999 13 STRONGER BRITNEY SPEARS 7 2000 14 I'M A SLAVE 4 U BRITNEY SPEARS 4 2001 15 WORK ***** BRITNEY SPEARS 7 2013 16 LUCKY BRITNEY SPEARS 5 2000 17 TILL THE WORLD ENDS BRITNEY SPEARS 21 2011 18 MY ONLY WISH (THIS YEAR) BRITNEY SPEARS 82 2005 19 3 BRITNEY SPEARS 7 2009 20 IF U SEEK AMY BRITNEY SPEARS 20 2008 21 I'M NOT A GIRL NOT YET A WOMAN BRITNEY SPEARS 2 2002 22 OVERPROTECTED BRITNEY SPEARS 4 2002 23 HOLD IT AGAINST ME BRITNEY SPEARS 6 2011 24 ME AGAINST THE MUSIC BRITNEY SPEARS FT MADONNA 2 2003 25 MY PREROGATIVE BRITNEY SPEARS 3 2004 26 BREAK THE ICE BRITNEY SPEARS 15 2007 27 BOYS BRITNEY SPEARS FT P WILLIAMS 7 2002 28 I LOVE ROCK 'N' ROLL BRITNEY SPEARS 13 2002 29 MAKE ME BRITNEY SPEARS FT G-EAZY 42 2016 30 PRETTY GIRLS BRITNEY SPEARS & IGGY AZALEA 16 2015 31 DO SOMETHIN' BRITNEY SPEARS 6 2004 32 I WANNA GO BRITNEY SPEARS 111 2011 33 RADAR BRITNEY SPEARS 46 2007 34 DON'T LET ME BE THE LAST TO KNOW BRITNEY SPEARS 12 2001 35 CRIMINAL BRITNEY SPEARS N/A 2011 36 SLUMBER PARTY BRITNEY SPEARS N/A 2016 37 TOXIC PONY ALTEGO/BRITNEY SPEARS/GINUWINE N/A 2022 38 PERFUME BRITNEY SPEARS N/A 2013 39 SMS (BANGERZ) MILEY CYRUS FT BRITNEY SPEARS 157 2013 40 OUTRAGEOUS BRITNEY SPEARS N/A 2004 ©2022 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved. Britney Spears' Official biggest albums in the UK POS TITLE PEAK YEAR 1 BABY ONE MORE TIME 2 1999 2 GREATEST HITS - MY PREROGATIVE 2 2004 3 OOPS! I DID IT AGAIN 2 2000 4 IN THE ZONE 13 2003 5 BRITNEY 4 2001 6 CIRCUS 4 2008 7 THE SINGLES COLLECTION 38 2009 8 BLACKOUT 2 2007 9 FEMME FATALE 8 2011 10 BRITNEY JEAN 34 2013 11 GLORY 2 2016 ©2022 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/b...revealed__9774/ Sometimes & Gimme More so close to Platinum! Great that Oops!... I Did It Again will top a million soon. And great to see ... Baby One More Time at 2 million. Edited August 24, 20222 yr by Ne Plus Ultra
August 24, 20222 yr Toxic has done incredible in the streaming era wasn't it only silver on its initial release? If so it has added a million units to it's total since. An excellent pop record though truly her defining moment.
August 24, 20222 yr 'Do Somethin' wasn't that released in 2005? Early 2005 as a single, but I think maybe because it was available on her Greatest Hits from 2004?
August 24, 20222 yr Thank god scream and shout is no longer on top!! I had no idea Robyn sang backing vocals on Piece Of Me !
August 24, 20222 yr 'Perfume' deserved to be a top 40 at least :( interesting to see Circus' inside her top 10 though considering it was a non top 10 peaker!
August 24, 20222 yr Poor brave Break The Ice only limping to be her 26th biggest hit. It’s not my absolute favourite from Britney but still love it and it’s underrated.
August 24, 20222 yr Make Me has racked up decently sales. I'd forgotten it missed the Top 40, what a shame.
August 24, 20222 yr *Only* 10 million video streams for “Baby One More Time” surely that’s a typo no?
August 24, 20222 yr *Only* 10 million video streams for “Baby One More Time” surely that’s a typo no? Video streams have contributed to the chart sales since July 2018; 10m views in 4 years 1 month.. roughly speaking it would be ~46,000 views a week or ~6,600 a day. Yesterday it got 263,544 views on YouTube, and if we were to assume 6,600 came from the UK, we'd contribute to 2.5% of its daily viewership. Maybe that's reasonable? I'm not sure but I suppose we'll have to take OCC's word for it. ~~~~ I wish they'd taken the opportunity to reveal some album sales :( Poor Glory still being behind Britney Jean! I'd love to know what their sales are and what the gap is between them. Exciting to see that Britney has three fairly imminent Platinum singles incoming. I wonder how far off Silver 'My Prerogative' is? 'I Wanna Go' with a #111 peak only one place behind the #6 'Do Somethin''! It's also outsold a Top 20 hit, the #12 peaking 'Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know'. 'Criminal' didn't manage to enter the Top 200, but it achieved popularity on TikTok in recent years which turned it into being one of her most popular songs on streaming. I wonder how close it is to outselling 'Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know'? 10 singles with lower peak positions than 'DLMBTLTK' have actually outsold it. The only Top 100 hit it's sold more than is 'Ooh La La' (#72) which isn't in her Top 40 best sellers.
August 25, 20222 yr Early 2005 as a single, but I think maybe because it was available on her Greatest Hits from 2004? Thanks, :) 'Toxic' being her most streamed probably the defining song of 2004 for me.
August 26, 20222 yr Toxic is her best and most credible hit. I really like the Britney album too and in the zone.
August 26, 20222 yr It still amazes me how UK radio was not interested in the Femme Fatale era at all... Till The World Ends not being top 10 is odd considering. I really would have thought Toxic would be #1 by now. It's the go-to Britney song.
August 30, 20222 yr Thank god scream and shout is no longer on top!! I had no idea Robyn sang backing vocals on Piece Of Me ! Yep - I think some of her team were involved in writing it also but I may be wrong. Either way, it definitely sounded at the time like it could have been lifted from Robyn's self titled album.
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