Britney Spears‘ memoir The Woman in Me is big. But it’s not the biggest. First week sales reports indicate the memoir has sold 1.1 million copies in the U.S.
alone through its first week. The sales figures include pre-orders, print sales, e-books, and audiobooks. Print accounted for 418,000 copies, according to Circana, which tracks the publishing market. “I poured my heart and soul into my memoir, and I am grateful to my fans and readers around the world for their unwavering support,” Spears said in a statement released Wednesday by Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster.
The Woman in Me was released Oct. 24. On the day of publication, Spears posted on Instagram that her book had become “the highest-selling celebrity memoir in history.” So far, it’s not even the highest selling memoir of 2023.
Not helping the cause is Spears’ refusal to do interviews in support of the book. The Woman in Me is lagging behind Prince Harry’s memoir, Spare, which came out in January and sold 1.6 million U.S.
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