Britney’s “Hold It Against Me” debuts at No.1 on the Hot 100.

It’s official: Britney Spears’ new single “Hold It Against Me” has rocketed onto the Hot 100 at No.1, giving the princess Queen of Pop the fourth chart topping single of her career.

Check out a breakdown of Britney’s “Hold It Against Me” success below.

- “Hold It Against Me” is Britney’s second consecutive single to debut at No.1, after her hit “3″ achieved the feat in 2009.

- Britney and Mariah Carey are the only two artists to ever score multiple No.1 debuts.

- “Hold It Against Me” is only the 18th song to ever debut at No.1 on the Hot 100.

- “Hold It Against Me” sets the record for the highest debut digital sales by a lead female artist with 411,000 copies sold, easily beating out Taylor Swift’s 325k for “Today Was a Fairytale”.

- “Hold it Against Me” opens at No.23 on the Radio Songs chart with 45 million first-week audience impressions — the highest audience sum for a debuting title in the chart’s history.

“Hold It Against Me” set the record for the most radio spins in one day, and broke Mediabase’s one-week spincrease record. [source]

To make it even more impressive, you can take into account that “Hold It Against Me” has yet to receive any proper promotion from Spears, was exclusive to iTunes so it wasn’t available for purchase from other digital retailers like Amazon, and it only had one day or radio play before being released for purchase.

Who else but Britney?

Oh yeah, and Avril’s new joint debut at No.13, and that Kanye/Jay-Z HAM song came in at No. 23.

Livin’ Legend you can look, but don’t touch…

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  • TC23

    @ UnusualBritney
    wow its stans like you that make it marginally enjoyable to shit on her hahah if you cant read (most of her fans probably can’t that well) then you would see i did congradulate her while making joke .. and joke that is justified because just because she doesnt sound like a complete robot (like she usually does) does not mean they didnt fuck with her pitch which is clear and anyone who says otherwise clearly has not stepped foot in a recording studio .. im not even holding that against her if you paid attention to the post it was more a comment on ACTUAL SINGING something that i know might be crazy expecting some of the biggest singers in the world to i dont know actually SING. if anything i think britney spears is one of the best hustlers i know so more power to her.. making millions off of a talent you dont have is pretty remarkable so if thats the amazement pretty are latching onto then ill gladly agree SHES INCREDIBLE!!

  • TC23

    and for the record i do think hold it against is a decent song =) its just my 5 year old nephew was singing it and sounded just as good ..

  • gymjunki3

    Even at radio Spears could not manage to dethrone Carey. Although Spears’ ‘Hold It Against Me’ enters the Radio Songs chart at #23 with a record 45 million 1st week audience impressions, the track merely tied with the diva’s ‘Touch My Body’ which debuted at the same spot the week of March 1, 2008. That Mariah reign just won’t let up!

  • Becca

    LOL – there are some outrageous comments on here!

    but first, congrats to britney!!! i’m so happy it actually happened. i wonder if her second single could repeat this feat….

    lol @ Bye Bye Lady tranny. i’m loving these gaga haters names. Hitler Granddaughter will always be a classic though.

    and DEAD @ “Divo no wonder Africa is a mess. listen to britney and you’re country’s gonna be great.”

    LMAO!!!!!!!!

  • JD

    & this is why i love being a britney fan .
    the haters are hilarious to me.
    NOW they`re saying she`s just “a name that sells” . .
    sooo what is beyonce? what is gaga? ALL these bitches are marketing tools ! that doesn`t change the numbers. stfu and bow down ;)

  • dee

    Queen of Pop! Wow shouldn’t that title go to Madonna, Janet or Mariah who have had far far greater success.

  • Iceberg

    LOL @ TC23

    I say WELL SAID :-)

  • Iceberg

    @ Godney#1

    You forgot to mention Floptina is a waaaay great singer than….oh yeah, every1 in the biz :-)

  • +.Sherwin.+

    Well done, Britney!

    Can’t say anything bad about her at this point. I’m not a total Spears stan or any of that shit, but after seeing her ‘For the Record’ documentary on YouTube I will never have anything bad to say about her ever again, period.

    All I can say is that after all she’s been through, she deserves no less than this. She’s a lot stronger than all of us. Congrats, Brit.

  • http://Shsjdjidhdndx prophet diciple

    u didn’t u post that britney is one of the artists the hav a number one in three consecutive decades?
    yesss

  • http://www.theprophetblog.net The Prophet

    Sherwin <3 <3 <3

  • K

    yeah! living legend, you can look but dont touch!

  • iphonebudz

    i’m neutral to britney, but at people not impressed at 400k+ sales … do you not remember how RAMPANT piracy is!?? hell I hardly buy a song anymore unless I’m not broke and I love the person .. LOL

  • +.Sherwin.+

    Do people here even know what autotune sounds like? Seems to me like they make it more of an excuse to criticize a singer’s work. I know EXACTLY what autotune sounds like and I found very little traces of it in this song. Stop talking the talk if you can’t back it up.

  • iphonebudz

    i know what autotune sounds like, and it can be used very subtly, but honestly its on every part of the song, lol. autotune does not have to sound like T-pain all the time, you are actually supposed to use it very subtly to enhance vocals. i know because i work on songs. a shit load of people use autotune these days–it’s just not disgustingly, indulgently used in HIAM as it is on ke$ha’s music.

  • iphonebudz

    if you compare this song to jlo’s newest + natalia kills mirrors, + other dance vocals you can hear a similarity in the timbre from autotune.

  • Luel14

    Ha @tc23. You my friend speak the truth.com

  • BloodShyBait

    Shut the fuck up GaGa stans – Britney has POWER & always deliver with her music… fix your wigs & wait till her Hold it against me video drop!

  • medyn

    Yup!
    I agree,.. britney has topped the Billboard for three consecutive decades.

    1999-Baby One More Time
    2008&2009-Womanizer & 3
    2011- hold it against me.

    Britney rules for 3 decades, that is fucking amazing!

  • hahaha

    @iceberg yes xtina BEFORE but NOW not anymore

  • LaLa

    Britney kick ass all the Bitchessss!!!!!! (Screaming like crazy)

  • Lips

    Divo: “no wonder Africa is a mess. listen to britney and you’re country’s gonna be great.”

    LMAo i cannot!

  • pussywillow

    @bloodshybait
    how can the gag gag fans fix their wigs if britney’s already snatched them? bitches are BALD now, crying and rubbing their bleeding scalps.

  • Lady Caca

    Sigh, I’m sure Gaga stans are just going crazy with this one. At least Britney has proven herself already, for 10+years.

    Also, at least she’s not a pretentious bitch, who when you listen to closely, is just a mimic to whatever all the other ladies have done. Her stans are probably too young or too ignorant to have missed out on those ladies.

    Just for the record, none of what Gaga has done is trully revolutionary. Face it, it’s pop. If she wants her music to be as weird as her image, she should top Bjork. Even Gwen Stefani at her prime is more palatable than Caca – and she’s beautiful :P

    And definitely, I’ll always take Britney anyday – HIAM is more “innovative” than let’s say, Ace of Base-sounding “Alejandro” – a sound already done 20 years ago. Talk about innovation – or shall we say, rip-off?

    Also, debuting with 400K is a big deal, specially during these times that piracy is rampant. Even other big stars don’t debut with this so often.

    I used to like Caca before, but the behavior of her stans who proclaim she is a messiah of music turned me off – SHE’S NOT.

  • http://ukzn angel

    @divo u dipshit. .im from africa and im one of the biggest britney stans out there and so is many of friends. .HIAM has been banging on our radio stations ever since last week. .britney is huge in south africa and her singles chart much better hea than they do in the U.S, she has much more number ones hea than she does overseas and unlike the U.S her singles stay at number one 4 a very long time.so divo change the gospel station & start listening

  • http://ukzn angel

    . . .2 mainstream radio!

  • Lady Caca

    And those downplaying Britney’s Billboard #1 achievement, it’s not easy to get a number 1 single you know. If it was, your Caca should have had all her singles rise to number 1, or better yet debut at number 1. Caca has how many? Like 2?

    Katy Perry has like 4 in the span of 2 albums? Xtina has 3 of her 4 singles from her debut album go to number 1? Rihanna has like 2-3 per album?

    Rather than downplay someone’s hardwork, maybe just download in droves so Caca’s single also gets to number 1.

    And whoever said “it’s Britney’s fault she doesn’t want to promote” and still get to number 1. Where is your logic? What is being said in the article is she doesn’t even had to lift a finger to go to number one! How is that a fault? If this is a brain of what a gaga stan has, I’m glad I’m way over her.

    Congratulations Britney Fans!

  • The Prophet Lover!

    This is for does people who criticies britney in any way: HOW CAN U COULD BE SO CRUEL AND JUDGE SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN FAMOUS ALL AROUND THE WORLD 12 YEARS AND 25 NATIONALLY (USA).. i think that if she has been all that time WORKING, SHE DESERVES A LITTLE OF R.E.S.P.E.C.T .. she has give ALL OF HER LIFE FOR GIVE PLEASURE FOR THE AUDIENCE and not to have a real private life… When u do something like this .. please CALL ME SWEATY

    PD: cant believe that u cant compare her to other stars that have been famous only 1 year in the world and 3 nationally… THINK BEFORE TALK!

  • tara

    I love this song!! This has made me an even bigger fan of brit brit!! I grew up with her and my fave forever n always aaliyah!! But im so happy for britney shes been thru alot n she has come out stronger and better than ever congrats queen b!!…..so much hate for britney is it because gagme n beysingsinonetone can not get n britneys lane!!? Beyonce is probably in a dark room with lacefront covered walls while crazy n luv echoes n the background crying her hungover eyes out!! Lmao!!……bwaaahaaahaaa keep doing your thing britney!! Xoxo

  • Jake

    Hold It Against Me move down to # 2 buy the single so it goes back up!!!

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