The shocking number of books sold for Britney Spears’ memoirs in its first week

The shocking number of books sold for Britney Spears’ memoirs in its first week

November 2, 2023 – 11:38

“The Woman in Me” was released on October 24 and has been officially available for just over a week.

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The long-awaited memoirs of Britney Spears, “The Woman in Me”which details her fight for freedom and her tumultuous relationships with the men in her life, have sold 1.1 million copies in their first week in print, pre-sale, e-books, and audiobooks in the United States.

“The Woman in Me” was released on October 24 and has been officially available for just over a week. According to the book’s publisher, Gallery Books (a division of Simon and Schuster), Spears was quoted as saying: “I put my heart and soul into my memoir, and I am grateful to my fans and readers around the world for their unwavering support.” . “

The publisher also said it has reprinted for a fourth printing of the book, bringing the total number of hardcover copies in print to more than 1.4 million. These sales figures represent the huge demand to hear Spears’ side in her heavily publicized fight to get out of her 13-year-old conservatorship.

On Amazon.com, it was the number one book on their list of most read and best-selling nonfiction titles before the memoirs of Matthew Perry “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing” They will occupy the place after his death on October 28.

What “The Woman in Me” by Britney Spears is about

The memoir is 275 pages long and was also published as an audiobook narrated by the actress. Michelle Williams. The book featured a wide variety of revelations addressing Spears’ career, family, conservatorship, and high-profile relationships. Among them, Spears revealed that she and her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake had had abortions and also claims that Timberlake cheated on her with anonymous celebrities. Elsewhere, Spears reflects on her acting career, from “Crossroads” until his loss of the main role in “The Notebook” and Rachel McAdams.

Spears landed the massive tell-all publishing deal last February, just months after her conservatorship ended. Simon & Schuster acquired the rights to Spears’ book last year after a bidding war involving several publishers, although the financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. A person familiar with Spears told Variety that the deal is “record-breaking.” Reports at the time said the deal was worth up to $15 million.

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