Anyone know the reason why In The Zone flopped in the UK??

[jonloch1]

I have always wondered why ITZ only made it to #13 in the UK?? Anyone know any reason why or what it could have been ?? Because MATM went to #2, Toxic and Everytime both went to #1 and I'm   sure I remember her UK leg of her Onyx Hotel Tour sold out in minutes. So what went wrong??

[Isla]

I've always wondered this too. Think I read she released her album in a very competitive week though.

Even though it's her 2nd lowest charting album I think it still sold more than Femme Fatale and that charted highter.

[Anti-Hero]

Her albums usually flop in the UK. Her singles do very well though.

[car]

Europney needs to focus more on that continent. in the future. 

My French friends didn't even know she released any new music in years. 

[prettylittleliar_2214]

I feel like she always chooses the worst album release week in the UK. 

[Peter Pan]

Besides what eveyone thinks, she wasn't THAT popular during ITZ. she had a lot of haters too. she was most popular during OIDIA

 

In The Zone also didnt have a strong first single (MATM) maybe it woldve been diffeent if Toxic was the first single

[Godney'sSweetCheeks]

#13 sounds bad, but I remember there being loads of competition at the time. 

 

Thanks to the Uk #1 hit singles of Toxic and Everytime, ITZ actually spent as long in the Uk album charts as the Britney album and almost as long as the Oops album... when will Glory? 

 

Source:

http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/7405/britney-spears/

 

 

[Isla]

1 hour ago, Godney's Sweet *** said:

#13 sounds bad, but I remember there being loads of competition at the time. 

 

Thanks to the Uk #1 hit singles of Toxic and Everytime, ITZ actually spent as long in the Uk album charts as the Britney album and almost as long as the Oops album... when will Glory? 

 

Source:

http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/7405/britney-spears/

 

 

Actually that link brought me up to this: http://www.officialcharts.com/search/albums/in-the-zone/ turns out it only charted at #13 in the summer of 2004. It's original chart position was #14. Still though, you'd think the album would have gone top 10 after the massive success of Toxic. 

And this: http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/20031123/7502/ In the Zone was released the same week as new albums from Michael Jackson (greatest hits), Busted, Kylie Minogue and The Beatles (compilation) and there were many albums released in the previous weeks by Dido, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, REM, Sheryl Crow etc. that were still selling well. 

[pablitonizer]

Wasn't it the time when albums had different release dates?  Like USA on november 2nd and UK a week later or more? 

 

That could have been one of the main reasons

 

[britboy123]

It’s peak may not have been the best but In The Zone is actually Britneys 4th highest selling album in the Uk selling almost 600,000 and spawned a lot of hits, it’s stayed in the charts for a pretty long time if memory serves me right. I wouldn’t  consider this a flop at all, if you check Kylies album come out the same time and out peaked Brit but sales wise Britney sold a lot more and also all of a Britney’s singles from In the Zone outpeaked all of Kylies.

[Iexpectyouto]

Brit's albums always do lackluster in the U.K., but her singles chart much better there (until the breakdown) 

[Isla]

2 hours ago, britboy123 said:

It’s peak may not have been the best but In The Zone is actually Britneys 4th highest selling album in the Uk selling almost 600,000 and spawned a lot of hits, it’s stayed in the charts for a pretty long time if memory serves me right. I wouldn’t  consider this a flop at all, if you check Kylies album come out the same time and out peaked Brit but sales wise Britney sold a lot more and also all of a Britney’s singles from In the Zone outpeaked all of Kylies.

It spent 43 weeks in the charts. You can see for yourself here http://www.officialcharts.com/search/albums/in-the-zone/

[popprison]

Because of Me Against the music among other things

[KatLove]

7 hours ago, Peter Pan said:

Besides what eveyone thinks, she wasn't THAT popular during ITZ. she had a lot of haters too. she was most popular during OIDIA

 

In The Zone also didnt have a strong first single (MATM) maybe it woldve been diffeent if Toxic was the first single

Why did she have haters during ITZ?

[britboy123]

Yea 43 weeks. I think that’s pretty decent and she had a massive tour here that sold out very quickly. Kylies body language album spent 30 weeks in the chart and peaked at number 6, selling 393,000 so Britney done pretty well.

[everybodygoesdown]

14 hours ago, car said:

My French friends didn't even know she released any new music in years. 

They are flop friends britney's always been very popular in france and she gets a lot of radio play.

[LilyRoseAllen]

14 hours ago, car said:

Europney needs to focus more on that continent. in the future. 

My French friends didn't even know she released any new music in years. 

same. They think she has retired in Vegas! 

[LilyRoseAllen]

8 minutes ago, everybodygoesdown said:

They are flop friends britney's always been very popular in france and she gets a lot of radio play.

used to... 

[fnfurter]

6 hours ago, KatLove said:

Why did she have haters during ITZ?

Because people were sick of her. She was overexposed. At least, that's why she had them here in the U.S. I assume its the same there.

[Isla]

7 hours ago, popprison said:

Because of Me Against the music among other things

It got to #2 though. It’s not like it flopped at all.