Did you know that Britney Spears’ ‘Oops!…I Did It Again’ holds the record for the biggest first week sales by an album by a female artist?
‘Oops!’ sold 1.319 when it entered the Billboard 200 at #1 in May 2000 and nabbed the title of having the highest opening sales of an album by a solo act at that time. However, her record was soon broken by Eminem’s ‘The Marshall Mathers LP’, which sold 1.76 million copies when it debuted in June 2000.
Now ranked as the album as the album with the third largest first week sales – Eminem’s ‘The Eminem Show’ started with 1.322 million in 2002 – ‘Oops!’ is certified diamond in the US with sales exceeding 9.20 million copies. Watch the video for the title track below: