As expected, Britney Spears ‘Circus’ opened the week selling 505,000 copies in the U.S.A grabbing her fifth #1 on The Hot 200 Albums, making her the first female to have 6 albums among 1-2 positions on Hot 200, being ‘Blackout’, released in 2007, her only album that didn’t make it to #1.

The ‘Circus’ debut did not give Spears’ a well deserved number one, but made her the only person to have four albums debut with 500,000 or more.

Besides Spears, only other 4 singer have got 3 albums selling more than 500,000 – 2Pac, 50 Cent, Jay-Z and Garth Brooks.

Her previously records to set 500,000 + in the opening week were her second studio album ‘Oops!…I Did It Again’ (2000) that opened the week with 1,3 million copies, ‘Britney’ (2001) with 746k copies sold and ‘In The Zone’ (2004) that opened the week counting 609,000.Being this Britney’s 5th #1 on the Hot 200, among females only Barbra Streisand, Madonna,Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson have earned more numbers #1, in order, eight, seven and the last two with six.

Not only the album made it to the top, but the second single, also titled ‘Circus’, grabbed #1 on The Hot Digital Songs with more than 212,000 legal downloads and debuted at #3 on The Hot 100 Singles, Previous to ‘Circus’, Britney’s ‘Womanizer’ also appears on the top 10 at #10 — making it the first time Britney’s got 2 singles on the Top 10 of Hot 100 at the same time.But these songs aren’t the only ones making it to the charts, the non-singles ‘Shattered Glass’ and ‘If U Seek Amy’ appears at #65 and #95.

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• ‘Circus’ #1 on Europe Top 100 Albums & Hot 100 Singles + #2 on United World Chart
• The Singles Collection opens with 28,076 copies sold at #22 on The Billboard 200 Albums
• Britney Spears ‘Circus’ Second Week Sales Slides Down
• Britney Spears ‘Circus’ #6 this week on U.S. Billboard Hot 200 Albums
• It’s Official: Britney Spears The Singles Collection hit stores 11/24 + New Single “3″ radio debut set to 09/29