Eternium

I'm A Slave 4 U. Overprotected (Darkchild Remix) > Beautiful > Overprotected Fighter. The peak of Christina's career and a 10/10. Equal. Genuinely love both. Boys. Honestly, I would give anything to get old Christina back. Her albums were always full of amazing singles and at least one great B-side.

BOMT. But either choice is excellent. BOMT launched the most impactful career of our lifetimes and GIAB is legitimately the only song I ever felt could compete. What A Girl Wants. Sometimes is good, but WAGW is in Christina's top 5 and a career high. (YDM)C The Stop Remix is heavenly. BTMYH. I hated COO and it never clicked for me until very recently. BTMYH is an all-time great. FTBOMBH. This one could go either way, but I love the bridge.

"Spanked Ariana and Olivia" Twilight Zone - 348,219,789 (+319,090 with no promo) Obsessed - 383,599,759 (+192,762 with no promo) Patient Zero - 128,062,746 (+1,740,655 with a VMA MV debut) Twilight Zone seems to actually be doing the best but they're all about the same. Again, not sure why certain Swifties are feeling the need to tear these women down (incorrectly) when the question was just about why "Housewife" didn't make it to #1 yet And the answer is literally just radio and lack of sales.

Fun fact: now that "Patient Zero" is bombing, we can comfortably say that neither of your faves have ever had a fourth single as big as "Expectations" in its debut decade. I don't even like Olivia but didn't "Expectations" stomp all three singles your fave released this year?

Apparently you need to spend more time watching the Latin Grammy's and reading @D.M.F 's threads.

K-pop stars are insanely obsessed with her. She's insanely big in Asia despite racism towards black people. Mommy, that girl is making pop. She and Billie are basically two sides of the same coin. OT: Happier Than Ever is the best sophomore album of the decade, and probably the best album of the decade. I will never forget how Billie gagged me when I got to the second half of the eponymous track.

Mind Your Business isn't even a song recorded by Britney Spears. It's just a bunch of demos frankensteined together and released by her gay friend (will.i.am).

Then why does she need to triple count botted streams, include digital sales at 1.5x their worth and release 20+ variants per album to compete yet still comes up short on impact, fame, influence and notoriety? I guess autoplay can't buy impact. There are a couple of girls here obsessed with Britney Spears, and it's not the Britney fans. Janet will always be the blueprint but it's not a secret to any living person that her legacy was unfairly rejected after Justin Timberlake's dastardly actions at the 2004 Super Bowl. Taylor literally went to the Britney Spears Performing Arts Camp and owes her career to hiring a man only known for managing Britney Spears, Dan Dymtrow (Taylor's dad even wrote about it in an email and how it lead to meeting Scott Borchetta). Taylor's literally still working with Max Martin, her biggest music video moments are all with Joseph Kahn and she literally has a music video dedicated to replicating Britney Spears outfits. How is that not fan behavior?

Britney surpassed Janet, but unfortunately Taylor failed to surpass Britney despite plagiarizing so much of Britney's work.

Horrendous, ugly and overshadowed by her other albums. Her plagiarism game had never been worse (hi Britney, hi Lana). Speak Now, Red, Reputation and even Lover remain superior.

Birthday Wish > Deserve > Looks Can Kill > You're Under Arrest NMIXX are on a god-tier run in 2026

Baby, airplay and streaming are not on-demand. The term "on-demand" in charting was literally created to differentiate "on-demand streams" from "programmed streams." The OP's point is not about money earned - his point is about consumption. And it's honestly fair to postulate how songs would have performed then if they had the same charting rules that we have today. The demise of MTV is no different than the demise of YouTube. A change in programming style and overall viewership decline is basically what has defined YouTube this decade. That's no different than airplay, streams or even retail space. The difference is MTV was powerful and still had to worry about advertisers. MTV wasn't just throwing people in power rotation and losing all of their advertisers. It's similar to how Franz Ferdinand had radio payola and still lost spins, suggesting that programmers would only let them have so much airplay. TRL was voted by the public and pulled over 800k viewers daily. The best example is Korn's "Freak On A Leash." It peaked at #106 but would have been an easy #1 had video views counted for the Hot 100. It actually did incredibly well on the Hot 100. It went #21 on the Hot 100 with no physical release. It would have been a top 5 easily if they had released a physical! Maybe even a #1! If ratings counted the way video views do now, Britney would have had 13 more #1s (Sometimes, YDMC, FTBOMBH, OIDIA, Lucky, Stronger, IAS4U, Overprotected, Me Against The Music, Toxic, Everytime, Do Somethin' and My Prerogative). The BSB would have been the real winner for 90s artists, though. They have 0 #1s in the U.S. but would have had 10 #1s (I'll Never Break Your Heart, All I Have To Give, I Want It That Way, Larger Than Life, Show Me The Meaning of Being Lonely, The One, Shape Of My Heart, The Call, More Than That and Drowning). It just goes to show how flawed the charts used to be.

I am proud to come out as a "Deserve" studio version stan.

That was "Greedy" that did that. She's not at the top of the heap, but Sabrina, Tate, Olivia, Chappell, Charli, Dua, Doja and Billie are basically this generation's MPGs.

I will be updating this by the end of the month. SYNK Complaexity is already over $10M in reported gross!