Britney Spears’ memoir sells much more than 1 million copies in first week

NEW YORK (AP) – Britney Spears’ memoir “The Female in Me” has offered 1.1 million copies in the U.S. by itself via its initial week.

“I poured my heart and soul into my memoir, and I am grateful to my fans and visitors about the world for their unwavering assistance,” Spears reported in a statement produced Wednesday by Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster.

The sales figures include pre-orders, print product sales, e-guides and audiobooks. “The Lady in Me,” unveiled Oct. 24, has been praised by critics as a persuasive account of her rise to world fame and her ongoing struggles, including the conservatorship that for decades granted her father control of significantly of her lifetime and her revelation that she had an abortion whilst dating Justin Timberlake far more than 20 decades in the past.

On the working day of publication, Spears posted on Instagram that her reserve experienced become “the maximum offering movie star memoir in record.” It is not, so significantly, even the optimum marketing memoir of 2023.

“The Girl in Me,” for which she did very little publicity further than Instagram, was the prime vendor of previous week. But Prince Harry’s memoir “Spare,” which came out in January, offered 1.6 million U.S. copies in its initially 7 days.

Spears’ memoir served give a solid boost to streams and product sales across her tunes catalog, according to Luminate, a songs and enjoyment analytics business. In one particular working day final week, from Monday to Tuesday, Spears’ catalog jumped 18.2% in on-demand streams, and 36.8% in album gross sales. The numbers ongoing to climb over the adhering to times. According to Luminate, her U.S. streams elevated 24% above the previous week – from 16 million to 19.8 million her album product sales have been up 61.4% and digital income 49%.

The audio version of “The Female in Me,” browse by Oscar-nominated actor Michelle Williams, appears a critical aspect in the book’s original level of popularity. Williams’ studying of “The Girl in Me” has been really acclaimed, and in accordance to Gallery, is the swiftest providing audio release in the company’s historical past. The publisher did not immediately announce a distinct audio gross sales figure.

According to Circana, which tracks about 85% of the print market, “The Girl in Me” offered just less than 418,000 copies, considerably down below initially week Circana quantities for previous President Barack Obama’s “A Promised Land” and former initial girl Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” amongst other memoirs.

No nonfiction release techniques the scale of J.K. Rowling’s ultimate Harry Potter reserve, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” which arrived out in 2007 and sold much more than 8 tens of millions copies in its to start with 24 hours.

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AP Audio Author Maria Sherman contributed to this report.