Britney's '98-'05 Singles Performances

[DiscoHeaven23 35,007]

Below is the week by week performance of Britney Spears' singles from "...Baby One More Time" to "Do Somethin", otherwise known as the songs put out by Britney 1.0 (first phase of her career). 

I already did the performances of of her 2010's singles which can be found here: http://gagadaily.com/forums/topic/171699-britneys-2010s-singles-performances/

I'll do her singles performances from 2007 to 2009 soon.  

Things I noticed

-Britney is DEFINITELY an albums artist. 

-Her BOMT and OIDIA eras were going on at the same time. "From the Bottom of my Broken Heart" and "Oops...I Did It Again" were charting at the same time. 

-"Toxic" really saved her career in the US. The drama that occurred during the Britney era really took a toll on her career, and seemed to flow into the In The Zone era. Like how did a Britney and Madonna song only reach #35??

 

 

...BABY ONE MORE TIME

Baby One More Time
1st Week: #17
2nd Week: #14
3rd Week: #18
4th Week: #9
5th Week: #8
6th Week: #5
7th Week: #4
8th Week: #4
9th Week: #4
10th Week: #3
11th Week: #1 - PEAK POSITION
12th Week: #1 
13th Week: #2
14th Week: #2
15th Week: #4
16th Week: #5
17th Week: #8
18th Week: #11
19th Week: #13
20st Week: #14
21st Week: #17
22rd Week: #19
23rd Week: #20
24th Week: #21
25th Week: #18
26th Week: #24
27th Week: #29
28th Week: #31
29th Week: #38
30st Week: #46
31st Week: #46
32rd Week: #49
(knocked out)

 

Sometimes
1st Week: #81
2nd Week: #57
3rd Week: #48
4th Week: #36
5th Week: #28
6th Week: #27
7th Week: #27
8th Week: #26
9th Week: #22
10th Week: #21 - PEAK POSITION
11th Week: #21
12th Week: #22
13th Week: #25
14th Week: #33
15th Week: #40
16th Week: #54
17th Week: #61
18th Week: #69
19th Week: #81
20th Week: #86
(knocked out)

(You Drive Me) Crazy
1st Week: #62
2nd Week: #48
3rd Week: #34
4th Week: #29
5th Week: #24
6th Week: #23
7th Week: #16
8th Week: #14
9th Week: #10 - PEAK POSITION
10th Week: #14
11th Week: #17
12th Week: #18
13th Week: #23
14th Week: #36
15th Week: #53
16th Week: #76
17th Week: #89
18th Week: #73
19th Week: #87
20th Week: #99
(knocked out)

 

From the Bottom Of My Broken Heart
1st Week: #76
2nd Week: #59
3rd Week: #52
4th Week: #52
5th Week: #14 - PEAK POSITION
6th Week: #14
7th Week: #17
8th Week: #24
9th Week: #33
10th Week: #35
11th Week: #41
12th Week: #45
13th Week: #54
14th Week: #64
15th Week: #64
16th Week: #81
17th Week: #97
18th Week: #92
19th Week: #86
20th Week: #90
(knocked out)

 

 

 

OOPS!...I DID IT AGAIN

Oops!…I Did It Again
1st Week: #67
2nd Week: #37
3rd Week: #26
4th Week: #19
5th Week: #15
6th Week: #13
7th Week: #12
8th Week: #9 - PEAK POSITION
9th Week: #9
10th Week: #10
11th Week: #14
12th Week: #15
13th Week: #17
14th Week: #24
15th Week: #35
16th Week: #49
17th Week: #77
18th Week: #85
19th Week: #90
20th Week: #96
(knocked out)

 

Lucky 
1st Week: #61
2nd Week: #41
3rd Week: #28
4th Week: #26
5th Week: #23 - PEAK POSITION
6th Week: #29
7th Week: #30
8th Week: #40
9th Week: #66
10th Week: #86
11th Week: #100
(knocked out)

Stronger
1st Week: #70
2nd Week: #55
3rd Week: #55
4th Week: #53
5th Week: #29
6th Week: #22
7th Week: #28
8th Week: #15
9th Week: #11 - PEAK POSITION
10th Week: #14
11th Week: #27
12th Week: #29
13th Week: #43
14th Week: #69
15th Week: #74
(knocked out) 

 

 

 

BRITNEY

I’m A Slave 4 U
1st Week: #68
2nd Week: #58
3rd Week: #58
4th Week: #55
5th Week: #49
6th Week: #40
7th Week: #27 - PEAK POSITION
8th Week: #36
9th Week: #42
10th Week: #50
11th Week: #64
12th Week: #84
13th Week: #88
14th Week: #89
(knocked out )

Overprotected
1st Week: #93
2nd Week: #86 - PEAK POSITION
3rd Week: #88
4th Week: #90
5th Week: #99
(knocked out)

 

 

 

IN THE ZONE

Me Against The Music
1st Week: #50
2nd Week: #43
3rd Week: #38
4th Week: #38
5th Week: #44
6th Week: #35 - PEAK POSITION
7th Week: #40
8th Week: #51
9th Week: #78
10th Week: #81
11th Week: #83
12th Week: #91
13th Week: #95
(knocked out)

Toxic
1st Week: #53
2nd Week: #36
3rd Week: #29
4th Week: #22
5th Week: #18
6th Week: #14
7th Week: #11
8th Week: #10
9th Week: #9 - PEAK POSITION
10th Week: #11
11th Week: #11
12th Week: #10
13th Week: #14
14th Week: #17
15th Week: #19
16th Week: #19
17th Week: #37
18th Week: #41
19th Week: #51
20th Week: #56
(knocked out)

 

Everytime
1st Week: #61
2nd Week: #51
3rd Week: #26
4th Week: #23
5th Week: #21
6th Week: #17
7th Week: #15 - PEAK POSITION
8th Week: #15
9th Week: #15
10th Week: #15
11th Week: #22
12th Week: #28
13th Week: #35
14th Week: #43
15th Week: #53
16th Week: #80
17th Week: #86
18th Week: #88
(knocked out)

Outrageous
1st Week: #85
2nd Week: #81
3rd Week: #79 - PEAK POSITION 
4th Week: #87
(knocked out)

 

 

GREATEST HITS: MY PREROGATIVE 

Do Somethin
1st Week: #100
(knocked out)

 

 

 

[Fiona Apple 13,006]

Yes it's insane.When she was HUGE,her singles flopped or did okay.. After the breakdown she became more of a singles-artist.

[Lucas 20,606]

The missing ones didn't chart all ? 

[Justin Drew Bieber 25,317]

I thought all the singles from OIDIA would be top 10's ?

[DiscoHeaven23 35,007]

17 minutes ago, GagaInTheZone said:

The missing ones didn't chart all ? 

that's correct. a lil shocking i must admit.

[Serendipity 7,821]

45 minutes ago, CurlyBae said:

Yes it's insane.When she was HUGE,her singles flopped or did okay.. After the breakdown she became more of a singles-artist.

 

19 minutes ago, GagaInTheZone said:

The missing ones didn't chart all ? 

 

7 minutes ago, Majora said:

I thought all the singles from OIDIA would be top 10's ?

@DiscoHeaven23

you missed out a very crucial factor

 

her singles didn't get Cd releases, if not limited

 

Sometimes, Oops, Toxic, Stronger, Lucky charted on airplay ALONE

 

back then urban dominated, so it made it harder for her

 

moreover she got banned during Britney era

Spoiler

When the DWAD tour was being planned, ClearChannel Communications offered to sponsor it for a cut of the profits in return. Britney was having her lucrative deal with Pepsi who wanted to sponsor the tour, and Jive decided to go with them. ClearChannel got angry and told all the radio stations they owned, which was like most of it, to blacklist Britney. Slave had already been released and stalled at 27. All the other singles flopped in The US.

When the Onyx Hotel Tour was being planned, ClearChannel again approached Jive and offered its services, and Jive said yes. MATM was out by then and had a troubled run, stalling even lower than Slave, but once the tour started Britney had radio support again, AND her blockbuster Toxic was the first song to get the benefit of full radio support since, and the people LOVED the song too. Everytime also did well.

If you ask me, that was HANDS-DOWN the worst mistake of Britney's career. Before that, BOMT shipped 14 million in the States and OIDIA sold 10 million. Britney had two diamond albums and a fantastic reputation under her belt. Her third album sold purely on the strength of Slave alone, and her reputation as a performer. The album got 4 million in the US. It coincided with the advent of illegal downloading, but if Britney had been given a proper chance, she would have sold way higher, maybe 7 or 8 million, AND in result, ITZ (and maybe even Blackout and Circus) would have all sold just a little bit higher than they have now.

 

Britney got banned on radio from late 2001 because ClearChannel asked Jive to let them be a sponsor for the Dream Within A Dream Tour and Jive told them they were going with AEG. ClearChannel got pissed off and banned Britney from being played on the radio in retaliation. This lasted from 2001 to 2003, meaning that the singles from Overprotected to Me Against The Music weren't allowed to be played. Slave was getting airplay, but was blacklisted halfway through, which is why it stopped rising on the Billboard Charts and peaked at #27.

Spoiler

Clear Channel wanted to sponsor Britney’s ‘Dream within a Dream’ tour supporting ‘Britney’ and so did Concerts West. Clear Channel were the biggest tour promoters at the time and she had worked with them on all of her previous tours, however, despite her original plans to go with Clear Channel as her tour promoters once again, she went with Concerts West for the first time.

Concerts West were also a strong touring company, however, they were also in charge of 7,000 movie theaters throughout the country and Britney had ‘Crossroads’ coming out, so they decided to go with them in order to promote the tour and the movie at the same time, thinking it was a win-win situation.

Clear Channel owned a mass majority of US radio stations (over 750 stations from over 150 cities) and had a list of artists that shouldn’t be played. Their excuse for the list was that radio stations had the ability to choose who they play, depending on their audience. After Britney announced that Concerts West were going to promote her tour, she was added to the list. She wasn’t the only one they did that to (the same happened to Dixie Chicks, for example.) Several court documents were filed talking about how unjustified and unfair it was. 
 

 

01/22/02

The Honorable John Ashcroft
U.S. Attorney General
Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington DC 20530

The Honorable Michael K. Powell, Chairman
Federal Communications Commission
The Portals II
445 12th Street SW
Room 8B201
Washington DC 20554

Dear Attorney General Ashcroft and Chairman Powell:

I write to express my serious concern about vertical and horizontal integration in the radio, television, and concert promotion industries. Specifically, I am concerned that Clear Channel Communications, Inc. has negatively affected recording artists, owners of sound recording copyrights, consumers, advertisers, and competitors in the radio and television industries. 

Clear Channel’s consolidation of the radio and concert promotion industries has had a variety of negative repercussions on recording artists, copyright owners, and consumers. Clear Channel has “punished” recording artists, including Britney Spears, for their refusal to use its concert promotion service, Clear Channel Entertainment, by “burying” radio ads for their concerts and by refusing to play their songs on its radio stations. The consolidation of the radio industry also lends growing support to persistent allegations that record companies often must pay radio stations to play the music of their artists.

These actions have obvious, negative implications for consumers, both through higher concert ticket prices and reduced selections of broadcast music. To the extent your respective agencies have jurisdiction to do so, I believe you should investigate and fully prosecute any violations of the antitrust laws or FCC regulations that have occurred in the above-referenced circumstances.

I am also concerned about related reports of “parking” or “warehousing” of radio and television stations by Clear Channel. These reports allege that Clear Channel has intentionally flouted FCC rules limiting ownership of multiple radio and television stations in numerous markets around the country, including Monterey, San Diego, San Francisco, Hudson NY, Catskills NY, Charlotte NC, Chillicothe OH, Oklahoma City OK, and Waco TX. Clear Channel often arranges for third parties, shell corporations, or related entities to buy radio and television stations in markets in which Clear Channel has already reached the ownership caps or been faced with public opposition or regulatory scrutiny. Clear Channel allegedly has arranged to officially “buy” these stations when, and if, the FCC lifts those caps.

I believe you should fully investigate these “warehousing” and “parking” allegations, and if true, should prosecute any violations of law. These acts may be illegal in and of themselves, and are likely to exacerbate the negative effects, outlined above, that consolidation has had on recording artists, copyright owners, advertisers, and consumers. It is also apparent that any investigation of possible antitrust violations by Clear Channel must consider the existence of “warehousing” or “parking” arrangements.

I would appreciate the favor of a reply at your earliest convenience concerning your agencies’ plans on this matter.

Respectfully,

HOWARD L. BERMAN
Member of Congress

SOURCE

They went unnoticed, because Clear Channel was too powerful.

Prior to the blacklist, ‘Slave’ was actually receiving a good amount of airplay, hitting top 15 on Pop, top 5 on Dance, and #85 on R&B (becoming her first entry on the chart.) The blacklist finally ended in November 2003, shortly after the release of ‘Me Against The Music.’

 

[Yanko 9,860]

the fact that  toxic peaked at #9 yet its such a pop classic

legend  

[The Child 18,994]

Britney 1.0? Really? How childish you must be to call her Britney 1.0?

[PMKKARDASHiAN 8,570]

I was in 4th-5th grade when BOMT and OIDIA were happening, and it seemed like britney was every where and on top of everything!!!!! I can't believe these are her single runs. I would have lived the rest of my life thinking she had 7+ #1s. 

My whole life has been a lie

[hausofmike 127]

Also remember that radio boycotted Britney in early 2000s until mid 2000s with her decision of the Onyx tour and not doing what Clear Channel wanted

[barcodemonster 3,525]

These numbers don't mean anything to me. Crazy, OIDIA, Stronger, and Toxic all still seem like #1s to everyone 

[DiscoHeaven23 35,007]

3 hours ago, hausofmike said:

Also remember that radio boycotted Britney in early 2000s until mid 2000s with her decision of the Onyx tour and not doing what Clear Channel wanted

ya, thats what i meant by the "drama", though i prob could have elaborated on that haha

[DiscoHeaven23 35,007]

1 hour ago, barcodemonster said:

These numbers don't mean anything to me. OIDIA, Crazy, Stronger, and Toxic all still seem like #1s to everyone 

yea, its is kind of surprising. But if you do look at her radio airplay, most of those songs were Top 10. 

[DiscoHeaven23 35,007]

4 hours ago, CrazyMonster said:

Britney 1.0? Really? How childish you must be to call her Britney 1.0?

???

I'm sorry I didn't mean any disrespect by that. I was just describing it in terms of the first part of her career, before she went away and had her comeback. Just like i would say Mariah Carey from 19990 to 2002 was Mariah 1.0, before she had her comeback in 2005. I wasn't saying she was two different people, i was saying they were two different career "sessions"

[DiscoHeaven23 35,007]

For those who care and wanna see how much of a dominant force she was on the radio, compared to her songs overall performances, here's the peaks of all of her songs on Top 40 radio from 1998-2005.

@CurlyBae @GagaInTheZone @Majora @Clean  @Yanko  @PMKKARDASHiAN  @hausofmike  @barcodemonster

Baby one more time: #1
Sometimes: #6
Crazy: #4
From the Bottom of My Broken Heart: #17

Oops I Did It Again: #1
Lucky: #9
Stronger: #17

I’m A Slave 4 U: #15
Overprotected: #37
I’m Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman: #21
Boys: #32

Me Against the Music: #11
Toxic: #1
Everytime: #4
Outrageous: #23

My Prerogative: #22