This week Britney Spears has become the first solo singer in Billboard history to have six titles in the top of albums chart pop, before turning 30. Before her, Mariah Carey was the youngest female to achieve success with six albums in the first place, but she was 38 when he managed to take his sixth CD to the top, E=MC2 (2008).
Only two solo singers managed the same feat before Spears 30: Elvis Presley had his sixth album #1 (Something for Everybody, 1961) when she was 26, and Elton John when he was 28 years with the sixth album (Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy, 1975).
Femme Fatale has sold 276,000 copies in its first week in the U.S., which represents the second-best sales week in 2011, only behind Adele, 21, 352 thousand copies. That said, this is the week of release the album sold less than Spears since ...Baby One More Time, with 121,000 copies in January 1999, which also ranked first.
Britney's new album, Femme Fatale, sold far fewer copies in its first week that its latest release of new material, Circus, which had 505,000 copies in December 2008. But the CD has sold nearly the same amount in digital format (113,000 for this title, compared to 118 000 copies of the Circus), which means that digital sales accounted for a much higher percentage this time.
Femme Fatale also debuted at number one positions in Canada, Australia and South Korea, also entered the Top 10 of 15 countries.
Only two solo singers managed the same feat before Spears 30: Elvis Presley had his sixth album #1 (Something for Everybody, 1961) when she was 26, and Elton John when he was 28 years with the sixth album (Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy, 1975).
Femme Fatale has sold 276,000 copies in its first week in the U.S., which represents the second-best sales week in 2011, only behind Adele, 21, 352 thousand copies. That said, this is the week of release the album sold less than Spears since ...Baby One More Time, with 121,000 copies in January 1999, which also ranked first.
Britney's new album, Femme Fatale, sold far fewer copies in its first week that its latest release of new material, Circus, which had 505,000 copies in December 2008. But the CD has sold nearly the same amount in digital format (113,000 for this title, compared to 118 000 copies of the Circus), which means that digital sales accounted for a much higher percentage this time.
Femme Fatale also debuted at number one positions in Canada, Australia and South Korea, also entered the Top 10 of 15 countries.
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