Hold Me Closer debuts at #3 in the UK - it is the highest new entry of the week and most downloaded song of the week in the UK!

[Glory*]

42 minutes ago, Mp mar50 said:

I'm surprised too. Britney was huge in Italy during her prime, i guess not so much in 2022

After blackout days she have like a radio ban, but with HMC she is in the top40 of most played song

but with Glory she debuted #1 with album

[Slayer]

Absolutely amazing!

Britney's UK chart stats (courtesy of Buzzjack)

1999 01 ...Baby One More Time -MILLION SELLER
1999 03 Sometimes 
1999 05 (You Drive Me) Crazy 
2000 01 Born To Make You Happy 
2000 01 Oops!...I Did It Again 
2000 05 Lucky 
2000 07 Stronger 
2001 12 Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know 
2001 04 I'm A Slave 4 U 
2002 04 Overprotected 
2002 02 I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman
2002 07 Boys (feat. Pharrell Williams)
2002 13 I Love Rock 'N' Roll 
2003 02 Me Against The Music (feat. Madonna)
2004 01 Toxic MILLIONAIRE
2004 01 Everytime 
2004 03 My Prerogative
2005 06 Do Somethin'
2007 03 Gimme More 
2007 02 Piece Of Me 
2008 15 Break The Ice
2008 03 Womanizer 
2008 13 Circus 
2009 20 If U Seek Amy 
2009 46 Radar 
2009 07 3 
2011 06 Hold It Against Me 
2011 21 Till The World Ends
2012 01 Scream & Shout (will.i.am feat. Britney Spears) MILLIONAIRE
2013 72 Ooh La La 
2013 07 Work *****
2015 16 Pretty Girls (Britney Spears & Iggy Azalea) 
2016 42 Make Me... (feat. G-Eazy) 
2021 82 My Only Wish (This Year) 
2022 03 Hold Me Closer (Elton John & Britney Spears)

6 x #1 | 18 x Top 5 | 24 x Top 10 | 30 x Top 20 | 31 x Top 40 | 35 x Top 100
 

[Markoct]

50 minutes ago, Mp mar50 said:

The song debuted at #83 in Italy

Canceling my trip to Italy 

[pablitonizer]

3 minutes ago, Slayer said:

Absolutely amazing!

Britney's UK chart stats (courtesy of Buzzjack)

1999 01 ...Baby One More Time -MILLION SELLER
1999 03 Sometimes 
1999 05 (You Drive Me) Crazy 
2000 01 Born To Make You Happy 
2000 01 Oops!...I Did It Again 
2000 05 Lucky 
2000 07 Stronger 
2001 12 Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know 
2001 04 I'm A Slave 4 U 
2002 04 Overprotected 
2002 02 I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman
2002 07 Boys (feat. Pharrell Williams)
2002 13 I Love Rock 'N' Roll 
2003 02 Me Against The Music (feat. Madonna)
2004 01 Toxic MILLIONAIRE
2004 01 Everytime 
2004 03 My Prerogative
2005 06 Do Somethin'
2007 03 Gimme More 
2007 02 Piece Of Me 
2008 15 Break The Ice
2008 03 Womanizer 
2008 13 Circus 
2009 20 If U Seek Amy 
2009 46 Radar 
2009 07 3 
2011 06 Hold It Against Me 
2011 21 Till The World Ends
2012 01 Scream & Shout (will.i.am feat. Britney Spears) MILLIONAIRE
2013 72 Ooh La La 
2013 07 Work *****
2015 16 Pretty Girls (Britney Spears & Iggy Azalea) 
2016 42 Make Me... (feat. G-Eazy) 
2021 82 My Only Wish (This Year) 
2022 03 Hold Me Closer (Elton John & Britney Spears)

6 x #1 | 18 x Top 5 | 24 x Top 10 | 30 x Top 20 | 31 x Top 40 | 35 x Top 100
 

'Born to make you slay' went #1 ??!!! 

 

I'd love for Britney to perform that bop again, but I believe she must hate it, pretty much like Sometimes 

[Slayer]

 

[Jay Harrison]

32.2k sales this week including 9k downloads.

[Slayer]

Hold Me Closer had 32k sales in the UK this week and 9k of them were downloads.

[MomOfTheYear]

22 minutes ago, Slayer said:

Absolutely amazing!

Britney's UK chart stats (courtesy of Buzzjack)

1999 01 ...Baby One More Time -MILLION SELLER
1999 03 Sometimes 
1999 05 (You Drive Me) Crazy 
2000 01 Born To Make You Happy 
2000 01 Oops!...I Did It Again 
2000 05 Lucky 
2000 07 Stronger 
2001 12 Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know 
2001 04 I'm A Slave 4 U 
2002 04 Overprotected 
2002 02 I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman
2002 07 Boys (feat. Pharrell Williams)
2002 13 I Love Rock 'N' Roll 
2003 02 Me Against The Music (feat. Madonna)
2004 01 Toxic MILLIONAIRE
2004 01 Everytime 
2004 03 My Prerogative
2005 06 Do Somethin'
2007 03 Gimme More 
2007 02 Piece Of Me 
2008 15 Break The Ice
2008 03 Womanizer 
2008 13 Circus 
2009 20 If U Seek Amy 
2009 46 Radar 
2009 07 3 
2011 06 Hold It Against Me 
2011 21 Till The World Ends
2012 01 Scream & Shout (will.i.am feat. Britney Spears) MILLIONAIRE
2013 72 Ooh La La 
2013 07 Work *****
2015 16 Pretty Girls (Britney Spears & Iggy Azalea) 
2016 42 Make Me... (feat. G-Eazy) 
2021 82 My Only Wish (This Year) 
2022 03 Hold Me Closer (Elton John & Britney Spears)

6 x #1 | 18 x Top 5 | 24 x Top 10 | 30 x Top 20 | 31 x Top 40 | 35 x Top 100
 

 

#3 is a great result in a competitive week! #1 is still very possible with good radio and MV. 

 

So HMC has already outpeaked some of Brit's all time classics and lesser knowns:

1999 05 (You Drive Me) Crazy 

2000 05 Lucky
2000 07 Stronger 
2001 12 Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know 
2001 04 I'm A Slave 4 U 
2002 04 Overprotected

2002 07 Boys (feat. Pharrell Williams)

2005 06 Do Somethin'

2008 15 Break The Ice
2008 13 Circus 
2009 20 If U Seek Amy 
2009 46 Radar 
2009 07 3 
2011 06 Hold It Against Me 
2011 21 Till The World Ends

2013 72 Ooh La La 
2013 07 Work *****
2015 16 Pretty Girls (Britney Spears & Iggy Azalea) 
2016 42 Make Me... (feat. G-Eazy) 
2021 82 My Only Wish (This Year) 

 

[RyRy]

HMC is also the UK's Highest New Entry and Biggest-selling single of the week!

[iLOVEtoFLY iLOVEtoFLY]

2 hours ago, do the thing said:

not so long ago this place was a ring  

I mean britney's story is literally politics and history at this point 

I remember when britney performed in Tel Aviv  the thread got 10 or 20 pages of arguments  

or another about asghari's being iranian 

As if we dont have enough bull**** in the world with wars, inflation, pandemics etc

Do we really need to bring it here as well?

let us have some kind of escape 😂

[Mp mar50]

Usually, songs on the UK charts always peak when they debuts and then they fall.

[Slayer]

Just now, Mp mar50 said:

Usually, songs on the UK charts always peak when they debuts and then they fall.

I'm from the UK...this is actually the opposite.

Songs usually reach their peak at a later stage.

[Slayer]

Her 24th Top 10 hit:

 

90s

"...Baby One More Time" 1

"Sometimes" 3

"(You Drive Me) Crazy" 5

 

00s

"Born to Make You Happy" 1

"Oops!... I Did It Again" 1

"Lucky" 5

"Stronger" 7

"I'm a Slave 4 U" 4

"Overprotected" 4

"I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" 2

"Boys" 7

"Me Against the Music" 2

"Toxic" 1

"Everytime" 1

"My Prerogative" 3

"Do Somethin'" 6

"Gimme More" 3

"Piece of Me" 2

"Womanizer" 3

"3" 7

 

10s

"Hold It Against Me" 6

"Scream & Shout" 1

"Work *****" 7

 

20s

"Hold Me Closer" 3

[David Blackberry]

we have to coordinate well this week with the people on twitter to keep asking for the song and make stream

 

[IonutM]

34 minutes ago, Markoct said:

Canceling my trip to Italy 

What about FRANCE???

I better not cancel my trip to Paris on nye because of this

French people are good at… many things, hopefully music is one of them

[IsraeliMatt]

2 hours ago, do the thing said:

 

I remember when britney performed in Tel Aviv  the thread got 10 or 20 pages of arguments  

Glad I missed that 

[Isla]

This is amazing. I wasn't even sure when the song was first announced if it could be a big hit here but I'm so pleased with this. I really hope fans don't try and a have a meltdown over the fact it's not number one, three is still good especially for its debut chart position!

[Mp mar50]

7 minutes ago, IonutM said:

What about FRANCE???

I better not cancel my trip to Paris on nye because of this

French people are good at… many things, hopefully music is one of 

The song is not here on the French charts. It didn't have a lot of impact here but maybe next week

[Watch Me Work It]

Amazing

[Isla]

3 hours ago, Daniela.tomasseli said:

#3 is great! I don’t get how the song is #1 on AirPlay but low on Spotify in the UK, thought the exposure on radio  would help the streaming, unless people listening to radio can’t afford Spotify 

 

 

Radio play doesn't equate streams. It seems BOTA/Afraid To Feel are doing better at streaming.