base talk Madonna was a bigger album seller than Britney in the digital era. Why?

[momal]

Even though she was in her third decade, Madonna did bigger numbers than Britney in the digital era when it comes to pure albums sales.

 

Hard Candy sold on par with Circus, ~4 million, with Circus selling slightly more.

Celebration Greatest Hits outsold The Singles Collection.

MDNA outsold Femme Fatale even though the later had 3 Top 10 hits.

Rebel Heart outdid Britney Jean.

Madame X sold on par/or slightly more than Glory.

 

This is about pure albums sales, not SPS. Britney obviously had more hits, but they didn't make their parent albums move pure units.

 

[Space Cowboy]

Madonna is an artist.

 

Britney is a product.

[DevilsRollTheDice]

MDNA outsold FF!? 

[momal]

2 minutes ago, DevilsRollTheDice said:

MDNA outsold FF!? 

Yes. Since this site uses Chartmasters, according to him MDNA did 1.85 million while FF did 1.68 million in pure sales.

[LadyDiana]

23 minutes ago, DevilsRollTheDice said:

MDNA outsold FF!? 

I think we underestimate how good that album did. For lack of promotion from her side. It was basicaly an excuse for a superbown performance and a new tour

[Migs]

I'm a Britney stan, but Madonna is a legend. There's no competing with that. Britney herself never wanted to compete with her.
 

50 minutes ago, momal said:

Hard Candy sold on par with Circus, ~4 million, with Circus selling slightly more.

Celebration Greatest Hits outsold The Singles Collection.

Madame X sold on par/or slightly more than Glory.

 

But this was a stretch. 

[Popboi.]

Britney always was more of a singles artist when compared to Madonna, especially after Blackout (still a huge album seller when compared to her peers up to ITZ though)

[BorderBoy]

I think the public still thought of Madonna as an entertainer, plus she's touring the whole time, she's releasing stuff, she's selling herself as an entertainer. Britney on the other hand is recently thought of more when it comes to her personal issues with her father and legal stuff.

[Blackout2006]

1 hour ago, momal said:

Hard Candy sold on par with Circus, ~4 million, with Circus selling slightly more.

You're saying with figures last updated in 2009/2010? The album has sold more since

[Onyxmage]

Because Madonna fans dont know how to download songs or stream.   

Edited September 29 by Onyxmage

[Blackout2006]

Like someone said, Britney became more singles-oriented towards the early 2010s (not a bad thing tho since she has anyway sold the most albums amongst her generation of female pop stars). This doesn't mean anything disadvantageous because her eras were anyways big due to the popularity of all her singles (Womanizer, Circus, Criminal, TTWE, Scream). When you view these albums as eras, all of the albums you mentioned of Britney's outdid Madonna's (Hard Candy gives tougher competition due to its tour and 4 Minutes, but it didn't have as many hits) 

Edited September 29 by Blackout2006

[DonnaSpring]

34 minutes ago, Popboi. said:

Britney always was more of a singles artist when compared to Madonna, especially after Blackout (still a huge album seller when compared to her peers up to ITZ though)

no, other way round Britney was always a big album seller and not sigles artist 

[Lover]

[ithinkheknowsoutsold]

17 minutes ago, Blackout2006 said:

You're saying with figures last updated in 2009/2010? The album has sold more since

Britney (& most older divas) have poor recurrent sales, and before the re-advent of the vinyl album, recurrent sales in the late 2000s/early 2010s were quite awful if you weren't Taylor Swift or Adele. I highly doubt Circus has sold more than a few hundred thousand copies in the last 15 years.

[ericcartman]

1 hour ago, Space Cowboy said:

Madonna is an artist.

 

Britney is a product.

There's your answer 

[Phaunzie]

THi sis so mean-spirited, so I will say better music, bigger fanbase and talent. Durig this period, she had the ban and the GP still hated her.

[Britney Spears]

Britney was in a very bad place after all the stuff that happened to her in the mid-00s obviously. She wasn't able to properly promote her work, the rollouts were messy and there was always controversy around her name plus the media was treating her horribly. Despite all that, Britney still had a decent chart success post-2004. 
Had none of this happened, Britney would be obliterating Madge in album sales too, just like she did until 2004

Edited September 29 by Britney Spears

[Popboi.]

10 minutes ago, DonnaSpring said:

no, other way round Britney was always a big album seller and not sigles artist 

Not in contrast to Madonna though. Since Blackout things shifted and her single sales soared as the albums did next to nothing next to the ones before.

 

At least with SPS Blackout, Circus and Femme Fatale show really great success.

Edited September 29 by Popboi.

[Bloodflowers.]

Britney didn't have any creative say over her albums after being put in a conservativeship, so she became a product of quick lil' singles artist and couldn't do much public interviews without restrictions 

[prézli]

3 hours ago, Space Cowboy said:

Madonna is an artist.

 

Britney is a product.

Can a product write a song like Everytime?

[Blackout2006]

1 hour ago, ithinkheknowsoutsold said:

Britney (& most older divas) have poor recurrent sales, and before the re-advent of the vinyl album, recurrent sales in the late 2000s/early 2010s were quite awful if you weren't Taylor Swift or Adele. I highly doubt Circus has sold more than a few hundred thousand copies in the last 15 years.

I mean, we'll need to have the stats of an album that came out from the same timeline with recently updated sales to compare that, which I doubt we do. Idk tho, I feel Circus could have accumulated 500,000+ sales since.

[Richie.Valdez]

All those albums you mentioned were released while Britney was being trafficked and held captive. Mods please close thread and ban OP 

 

 

[Blackout2006]

1 hour ago, Britney Spears said:

Britney was in a very bad place after all the stuff that happened to her in the mid-00s obviously. She wasn't able to properly promote her work, the rollouts were messy and there was always controversy around her name plus the media was treating her horribly. Despite all that, Britney still had a decent chart success post-2004. 
Had none of this happened, Britney would be obliterating Madge in album sales too, just like she did until 2004

Yea. BOMT has between 25-30 million sales, and that puts it within the same range as Madonna's best-selling studio album, True Blue (I'm not saying this makes her as big or bigger than Madonna, just that not many MPGs after Madonna's generation can boast of such a record). This girl did not mess around during her peak  Even after everything in the mid-00s, she was still a household name, competing with MPGs of the new generation (KP, LG, Rihanna), had her first series of #1s between 2008-2011, and embarked on what was one of the highest grossing female tours at the time. 

I really wonder how her career could've been had it not been for the unfortunate knee injury 

Edited September 29 by Blackout2006

[TeemoR]

I mean, Madonna is the queen of pop. 

[TipToe]

During those years Madonnas brand was still in good state, she was a touring juggernaut and them bundles helped MDNA a lot. Britney could have sold more since she had actual hits but singels doing well doesn't always correlate to alberm sales performance, so... 

Edited September 29 by TipToe