Commercial Performance
Femme Fatale debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 276,000 copies. This gave Spears her sixth debut at the top of the charts and leaves her in a three way tie for third most number one albums for a female artist, tied with Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson. However, the first-week sales are Spears' second-lowest sales start with a studio set. Only her 1999 debut effort, ...Baby One More Time, began with a smaller figure (121,000 copies). In its second week, the album fell to number two, with sales plummeting 73 percent to 75,000, giving it a two-week total of 351,000 sold in the United States. The album spent five consecutive weeks in the Billboard 200 top ten. As of November 2012, the album has been certified platinum with shipments of 1,000,000 copies in the US. The album debuted at number eight on the UK Albums Chart, selling 31,650 copies in its first week, becoming her lowest-charting studio album in the United Kingdom since In the Zone, which peaked at number thirteen in December 2003.
In Mexico, the album debuted at number one upon its release, spending three weeks inside the top ten before falling to number thirteen. AMPROFON has certified the album Gold and according to Sony Music México the album has gone on to sell over 40,000 copies in the country. On April 4, 2011 Femme Fatale debuted at number one in Australia, making it Spears' first number one album in the country. It was also certified gold in during its debut week for shipments over 35,000 copies. In Germany, the album debuted at number ten making it her seventh top-ten studio album in a row, and her eighth top-ten album with the inclusion of the compilation album Greatest Hits: My Prerogative (2004), which peaked at number four. Femme Fatale debuted at number eight in Denmark, selling 1,009 copies in its first week.
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