Britney Spears "Circus" Album Flops in Britain

Britney Loses Chart Battle Against Band Take That

December 8. 2008

Britney Spears

Britney Spears has once again faced defeat on the British music scene. Last year her album “Blackout” suffered from underwhelming sales and it has happened again.

After lip-syncing her way through a series of London performances that were fraudulently billed as “live” Spears’ record sales took a beating.

Her new CD “Circus” came in at #4, handily beaten by singing group Take That, who outsold her many times over. Actually, Axl Rose of Guns N Roses phoned it in two weeks ago and still placed higher than Britney did on the British charts.

It is quite ironic, as at this point in time Spears is more famous than the quartet and Rose and co. However, over the last couple years, Britney has become famous for all the wrong reasons and that’s never good for a career.

Other U.S. acts have done quite well on the British charts, so this is about Spears.

Spears’ sales in America for her “Circus” CD are also in the same range of her last disc “Blackout” – debuting at #1 on an easy week, with sales not high enough to sustain and produce a hit album as the weeks go by.

For further reference, see Janet Jackson’s “Discipline” and Madonna’s “Hard Candy” that both debuted at #1 on easy weeks, then quickly fell down the charts and were branded flops.