...Baby One More Time - Commercial Performance

Commercial Performance

...Baby One More Time debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 selling 120,500 units, replacing DMX's Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood (1998). After four weeks, the album had sold more than 500,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan sales data. After dropping to the top five, the album went back to number one in its fourth week, selling over than 804,200 since its release. ...Baby One More Time spent a total of six non-consecutive weeks at number one, and sold more than 1.8 million copies in its first two months of release. In its 47th week on the Billboard 200, the album held strong, peaking at number-three, and with sales over of 10 million copies in the United States alone. The album was later certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America, making Spears the youngest artist to receive that award, breaking Alanis Morissette's record, who was 21 when she released Jagged Little Pill (1995). The album was the 14th album to sell over 10 million copies in the United States, with this Spears became the best-selling female artist of 1999. ...Baby One More Time spent a total of fifty-one weeks in the top ten of the Billboard 200. The album spent a total of 103 weeks on the chart. ...Baby One More Time landed at number-three on BMG Music Club all-time best-sellers list, selling 1.6 million units, behind Shania Twain's Come on Over (1997).

The album debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart, totaling nine non-consecutive weeks at the top. On December 12, 1999, the Canadian Recording Industry Association certified it Diamond, for sales over 1 million units. ...Baby One More Time spent two weeks at number two on the European Top 100 Albums, and sold over four million copies within the continent, being certified quadruple platinum by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. The album reached number two in the United Kingdom, number four in France and was certified triple Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry, double Platinum by the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique, triple Gold in Germany by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, and ten-times Platinum (Diamond) by the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. ...Baby One More Time debuted at number-nine in May 1999 on the Australian Albums Chart, reaching at number two nine weeks later, placing behind the Dawson's Creek soundtrack. The album became the seventh highest-selling of 1999 in the country, and was certified four-times Platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association the following year after shipping 280,000 copies to retailers. The track debuted at number three in the New Zealand, placing behind Shania Twain's Come on Over and The Corrs'. The album was later certified triple Platinum in the country by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand.. ...Baby One More Time sold at least 320,000 copies or more in a week during 23 weeks and something between 500,000 or so during over 11 weeks, having sold almost 600,000 copies in one week in April due to high sales in U.S. and then again over 900,000 copies in last week during holiday season in December bringing its sales in 1999 to 17.4 million copies sold standing as the second best selling album worldwide that year behind Backstreet Boys' "Millennium" with 18.0 million copies sold