Billboard: Britney Spears’ ‘Selfish’ Tops Justin Timberlake’s ‘Selfish’ in Sales During Latter’s First Full Week, Thanks to Fan Movement

[pablitonizer]

Billboard reports:

This week: Britney Spears’ fans ensure Justin Timberlake isn’t by his “Selfish” lonesome on the charts this week, a Prime Video musical series seems to be on the verge of a major breakout, “Not the 1975” passes The 1975 on radio and much more.

A little low-stakes trolling never hurt anybody, right? Last Friday (Jan. 25), Justin Timberlake kicked off the campaign for Everything I Thought It Was – his forthcoming sixth studio album – with lead single “Selfish.”  

Of course, Timberlake’s name has been embroiled in controversy for the past few months following unsavory excerpts from Britney Spears’ The Woman In Me memoir, in which she reflects on him cheating on her, dumping her right before a music video shoot, and playing guitar as she cried on the bathroom floor after aborting their unborn child. 

To troll Timberlake’s release, Britney’s fans started throwing their support behind a Spears single also titled “Selfish.” A bonus track from the deluxe edition of 2011’s Femme Fatale, “Selfish” had seen virtually no substantial commercial success before this weekend. At one point, Spears’ “Selfish” reached the top of the U.S. iTunes Chart, conquering a Tom McDonald-Ben Shapiro collab, Megan Thee Stallion’s much-talked-about “Hiss,” and Timberlake’s own “Selfish” in the process. 

According to Luminate, during the period of Jan. 29-31, Spears’ “Selfish” garnered over 397,000 official on-demand streams, marking an unbelievable 14,978% increase from just over 2,600 streams during the period of Jan. 22-24. Notably, Spears’ “Selfish” also sold just under 10,000 digital copies during Jan. 29-31, a vast improvement from the negligible number of copies the song sold during Jan. 22-24. 

For what it’s worth, Spears has since come out as a fan of Timberlake’s “Selfish,” writing on Instagram (which is now set to private), “I am so in love with Justin Timberlake’s new song ‘Selfish.’ It is soo good.” Timberlake’s new single earned 4.8 million official on-demand streams during Jan. 29-31. 

 

 

This is pretty interesting! However, the article does not mention Britney's sales from Jan 25 -28 which were her biggest and highest sales so I expect 'Selfish' to debut at a big number next week on the BB digital song sales chart 

 

 

 

Britney Spears’ ‘Selfish’ Tops Justin Timberlake’s ‘Selfish’ in Sales During Latter’s First Full Week, Thanks to Fan Movement

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Britney Spears' "Selfish" is outpacing Justin Timberlake's "Selfish" in sales thanks to a Britney fan movement.

 

 

Great job everyone!  

[KrisJ]

Boom boom baby. This was a fun fan moment of connection! I’m sure Britney saw and in her own maybe weird way appreciated it 

[pablitonizer]

1 minute ago, KrisJ said:

Boom boom baby. This was a fun fan moment of connection! I’m sure Britney saw and in her own maybe weird way appreciated it 

It was effin epic! Britney this was for you, baby 

 

Other fanbases should take notes from us 

Edited January 31 by pablitonizer

[PokemonSpears]

10 minutes ago, pablitonizer said:

14,978%

[PokemonSpears]

Now let's just wait for Justin to release a Trip to Your Heart or Body Ache

[DiamondCircus]

[Cqleb]

Nerds are so powerful 

[pablitonizer]

I rarely say this but tomorrow is the last day for streaming so if we make a HUGE effort and stream 'Selfish' we might get a chance at the BBHot100 bubbling under 

Edited January 31 by pablitonizer

[britney_rocks]

[Aymama]

Her power. My delusional self is hoping it inspires something in her! 

[pablitonizer]

Here's a playlist for those who want to help GODish for a chance at BBHot100 bubbling under!  

 

[Body ache]

I'm just glad Britney knows that we have her back

[LordofTheMoodRing]

 

[warioaddams]

We did it. Who's the BOSS now JT 

[gar]

Genius trolling.

[Dreamer26]

The way RCA tried to sabotage Britney’s Selfish with #that forced IG post and ignored Briney's selfish success but it’s not early 20s anymore. Thanks to social media we have the power. We are stronger then yesterday🎶

This is her sign to back studio. But not gonna happen.

The real question is what will motivate Britney to return to music? 

 

[Kyky]

2 hours ago, pablitonizer said:

It was effin epic! Britney this was for you, baby 

 

Other fanbases should take notes from us 

The lambs actually invented this. We got

Glitter to number one in iTunes, we weren’t doing it to troll tho. It’s ok tho most fan bases take after the lamely. 

[pablitonizer]

10 minutes ago, Kyky said:

The lambs actually invented this. We got

Glitter to number one in iTunes, we weren’t doing it to troll tho. It’s ok tho most fan bases take after the lamely. 

What on earth are the lambs? 

What on earth is Glitter? 

 

Slay I guess 

[e_ffen]

She still has today and tomorrow left! Let’s keep pushing and get it as high as we can while we can!

[Crayboy]

Britney coming to drag us for this in 3 2 1....

 

Jk keep streaming