Streams have risen 24 percent compared to last week amid the release of Spears’s The Woman in Me
Streams for Britney Spears‘s catalog rose about 24 percent this week amid the release of her much-talked-about memoir The Woman in Me, according to data from Luminate.
Streams had begun to steadily climb last week when details in the book — notably Spears’s claims that she had an abortion after getting pregnant with her then-boyfriend Justin Timberlake’s child — had begun to surface online. Those numbers remained steady this week, with streams up nearly 23 percent just from release day and the day after compared to the week before. As of Wednesday, Spears had garnered about 16 million streams, per Luminate. Sales hiked even more, up over 80 percent compared to a week ago, though that only amounts to about 1,150 digital sales total.
Sales for The Woman In Me memoir itself have been hot. It’s currently at the top of Amazon’s Best Sellers book list, and Spears claimed this week that the book became the bestselling celebrity memoir of all-time after release day alone this week. Michelle Williams provided the voice of Spears for the memoir’s audio book.
Aside from the abortion claims, the book revealed bombshells and insights from Spears about her life, particularly regarding the controversial conservatorship she was under for years before it finally ended in 2021. Spears wrote that the conservatorship turned her into a “child-robot,” and that she felt betrayed by her sister Jamie Lynn after she told her to stop fighting it.