artist stats Britney's Top 40 Biggest Singles In The UK: BOMT #1 2 million

[Hector]

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

 

Sometimes & Gimme More so close to Platinum  Oops so close to a million

[D.M.F]

I thought Scream & Shout would be challenging #1. It’s recurrent stats aren’t great I guess.

[Xder]

I wanna go with peak at #111

 

 

[Shelter]

Her not having a number 1 album is shocking 

 

Britney Jean peak 

[Fastlane]

I thought #1 is Born to Make You Happy for a second. 

[D.M.F]

26 minutes ago, Shelter said:

Her not having a number 1 album is shocking 

 

Britney Jean peak 

Are you really shocked by that? ATRLers have posted about her not having a #1 album in this major market for over a decade.

[Shelter]

1 minute ago, Fastlane said:

I thought #1 is Born to Make You Happy for a second. 

Shame that can’t push out Piece of Me. Better song 

[Rev8]

12 minutes ago, D.M.F said:

Are you really shocked by that? ATRLers have posted about her not having a #1 album in this major market for over a decade.

kskskks it was only U

[Heartbreak Prince]

A discography.

[Arcadius]

1 hour ago, D.M.F said:

I thought Scream & Shout would be challenging #1. It’s recurrent stats aren’t great I guess.

Thankfully Britney's biggest hits are solo! 

[Frozen99]

next album better be #1

 

1 hour ago, Xder said:

I wanna go with peak at #111

 

 

screaming

[unclefloprry]

Work B bigger than TTWE or I Wanna Go 

 

work b a smash hit confirmed 

[Jeremiah]

4 hours ago, D.M.F said:

I thought Scream & Shout would be challenging #1. It’s recurrent stats aren’t great I guess.

It has great recurrent stats, it's just that Britney has even bigger hits!

[JoAddams]

4 hours ago, Hector said:

32 I WANNA GO BRITNEY SPEARS 111 2011

33

RADAR

BRITNEY SPEARS

46

2007

Edited August 24, 2022 by JoAddams

[Hot Volcano]

Shocked at her having only 5 Platinum singles 

[Ivan_brit]

Legend 

 

Hold Me Closer this Friday!!!

[prézli]

Work ***** is more successful than TTWE and HIAM

[skizzo]

12 hours ago, Shelter said:

Shame that can’t push out Piece of Me. Better song 

The opposite happened, with streaming, Piece Of Me and Gimmer More pushed out BTMYH

 

Compared to December 2019:

1. ...Baby One More Time - 1,807,429
2. Scream & Shout - 1,069,338
3. Toxic - 839,809
4. Oops!...I Did It Again - 707,192
5. Womanizer - 618,250
6. Sometimes - 516,996
7. Everytime - 475,171
8. Born to Make You Happy - 385,344
9. (You Drive Me) Crazy - 358,693

10. Piece of Me - 353,590

Edited August 25, 2022 by skizzo

[naval23]

Britney Jean: #34

Glory: #2

 

But Britney Jean outselling Glory is sending me 

 

In the Zone peaking at #13 is a MESS but the longevity was there - the fact it outsold Circus and Britney 

[lovemehateme]

19 hours ago, Shelter said:

Her not having a number 1 album is shocking 

 

Britney Jean peak 

And she still otusold certain peers in this market despite not having a #1 album. 

Edited August 25, 2022 by lovemehateme

[Keeandga]

On 8/24/2022 at 5:34 PM, Hot Volcano said:

Shocked at her having only 5 Platinum singles 

Not really single sales were the pits in the early 2000s In the uk. 

[Hot Volcano]

1 hour ago, Keeandga said:

Not really single sales were the pits in the early 2000s In the uk. 

Yea but she had 3 hits off FF in 2011 and S&S.

[BGood2Me]

Surprised bout Oops being almost a million seller

[Anticipating]

On 8/24/2022 at 6:34 PM, Hot Volcano said:

Shocked at her having only 5 Platinum singles 

You're forgetting the fact she peaked during the physical era. Toxic, for example, was the 9th best selling single of 2004 and barely scanned 200K. Now it's up to 1.3M thanks to downloads and streams. OIDIA landed at #15 on the 2000 YEC with 400K. Now it's nearing 1M. Everytime didn't even hit 200K despite #18 on the 2004 YEC. Now it's nearing 600K. Going Platinum back then is definitely not the same as going Platinum now.

 

And yes, she had several hits during the digital era but that's when she stopped promoting in the UK. Blackout, Femme Fatale and Britney Jean had 0 promo performances. Circus and Glory only had one each.

[Jeremiah]

1 hour ago, Anticipating said:

Blackout, Femme Fatale and Britney Jean had 0 promo performances.

And when she went to the UK in 2011, she had politicians over her accusing her of promoting gun violence  FF was a flop there anyways, why the fake shock