“Womanizer” has had great success in radio sales and ‘digital material’ in Anglo-Saxon America. Meanwhile, in Latin America has simply been a big success on the radio from some major countries in the region. Proceeds from this, “Womanizer” is number 1 position instantly on the lists of music singles in Brazil, Canada and the United States, and number 2 on the list of simple musical Chile. With this, “Womanizer” surpass the success in the years 2000, 2004 and 2007 by the respective simple “Oops! … I Did It Again”, “Toxic” and “Gimme More” ‘the three most successful of past simple singer in the continent ‘, with a success only in America comparable to the success recorded by “… Baby One More Time” in 1999.
After the impact, “Womanizer” made at Circus debut at the top of almost all the albums of American music charts, with sales in addition to high, far higher than the sales recorded by Blackout in 2007. With this, the simple framework ‘according to the media,’ the beginning of the “true regreso Britney Spears in the music industry, after the period of personal and professional problems that lived and opaque that the heyday of commercial and Blackout of the singles of the latter: “Gimme more”, “Piece of me” and “Break the ice”.
United States
In the United States “Womanizer” is number 1 position on the Billboard Hot 100 the week of October 25, 2008 ‘after stripping “Whatever you like’ IT ‘. This, after that week that the single debuted at number 1 position of the Hot Digital Songs after selling 286,000 downloads in its first week in the country. This “Womanizer” became the second single number 1 Britney Spears on the Hot 100, after almost ten years since “… Baby One More Time ‘the debut single of singer’ reaching that position.
286,000 downloads sold by the “Womanizer” in its first week in the United States, caused the rise of the simple from the number 96 position to No. 1 Hot 100, breaking several records in the country. The principal of these was the temporary record of advancement to the highest position of 1 Hot 100, which had been broken during the week of October 18, 2008 for “Live your life” by TI with Rihanna, with a rise from position number 80 to number 1 of the Hot 100. Despite the large rise of “Womanizer,” was passed this week of 28 January 2009 by the rise since the Position Number 97 to Number 1 Hot 100, “My life would suck without you” by Kelly Clarkson. In parallel, “Womanizer” broke the record of a single singer sold more downloads in its first week, which had been broken in the first half of 2008 with “Touch My Body” by Mariah Carey, with lower sales by just 200 downloads.
Success as a download of “Womanizer” in the United States does not end there, because to date it has sold around 2,305,000 downloads in the country, which exceeds by 15.2 to sales for be certified Double Platinum by the RIAA. When this certificate is registered, the largest recorded for a simple certification of the singer in the country, after passing to the commercial success of “… Baby One More Time,” “From the bottom of my broken heart,” “Toxic” “Gimme More” and “Piece of me”, which, individually, also exceeded the barrier of a million copies sold in the United States alone.
In the tenth week of residence of “Womanizer” on the Hot 100 the week of December 20, 2008, directly Circus debut at the position number 1 on the Billboard 200, having sold 505,000 copies in its first weeks, and “Circus” ‘successor to the single “Womanizer”‘ clatterdebuted at number 3 position of the Hot 100, having sold 212,000 downloads in the same period. With this, the week “Circus” and “Womanizer” is located, a respective at positions number 3 and number 10 of the Hot 100, and ‘as in Australia’ the first recorded instance in which two singles from Britney Spears was placed simultaneously in the top 10 list of music’s most important singles of the United States.
While in the UK digital release date of “Womanizer” coincided with “Keeps Gettin ‘Better” by Christina Aguilera in the U.S. was the launch date of both simple material which coincided. Repeating the feat recorded in the British territory, “Womanizer” debuted the week of January 10, 2009 in the number 2 position of the Hot Singles Sales, exceeds the income of “Keeps Gettin ‘Better” by Christina Aguilera at the position number 8 of the latter, and equating the recorded debut in 2007 with “Gimme more” in it. This week, “Womanizer” also debuted at number 1 position of the Hot Dance Singles Sales, 40 in which he became the second number 1 single of Britney Spears, after five years since “Me against the music” ‘his duet with Madonna’ reaching that position.
In a complementary manner to high levels of sales and digital materials in the U.S. music market, “Womanizer” a great success record in radio in the country.
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