{"id":221820,"date":"2025-10-18T08:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T08:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/221820\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T08:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T08:38:11","slug":"britney-spears-fans-have-been-waiting-years-to-turn-one-song-into-a-bestseller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/221820\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears Fans Have Been Waiting Years To Turn One Song Into A Bestseller"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Britney Spears\u2019 \u201cScary,\u201d once a Japan-only bonus track, finally becomes available to buy and stream globally, and the Femme Fatale cut becomes a bestseller in America. SAN FRANCISCO, CA – MARCH 27: Britney Spears performs at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on March 27, 2011 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Araya Doheny\/WireImage)<\/p>\n

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Britney Spears\u2019<\/a> musical hiatus continues and shows no sign of ending. The pop star walked away from the music industry almost a decade ago and has only shared a few cuts with fans in the years since she vowed not to return. <\/p>\n

One tune diehard Spears fans have known about for years \u2014 but which has been difficult to acquire legally \u2014 has finally become available just in time for Halloween. Spears\u2019 \u201cScary\u201d has been made widely accessible for the first time, and fans in the United States are showing their love once again by snapping up copies as the singer makes headlines amid renewed tension with her ex-husband Kevin Federline<\/a>, who reportedly claims he\u2019s worried about the star in his new book.<\/p>\n

Britney Spears Reaches the Top 40 with \u201cScary\u201d<\/p>\n

Spears\u2019 \u201cScary\u201d<\/a> arrives on the iTunes Top Songs chart, the ranking of the bestselling tracks on the platform in America. As of the time of writing, \u201cScary\u201d quickly becomes a top 40 hit, debuting at No. 31.<\/p>\n

What Album Did \u201cScary\u201d by Britney Spears Appear On?<\/p>\n

\u201cScary\u201d isn\u2019t really new, as fans who have closely followed the Grammy winner\u2019s career have known about it for well over a decade. The tune was originally released as a bonus track only on the Japanese deluxe edition of her 2011 album Femme Fatale. Until now, that was the sole way the cut could be heard. It can now be purchased on all major platforms and streamed globally for the first time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Did Britney Spears\u2019 Femme Fatale Reach No. 1?<\/p>\n

Spears released Femme Fatale in the spring of 2011. The project received largely favorable reviews as public opinion of the singer began to shift, with many finally recognizing her artistic achievements. The singer was emerging from a period of personal turmoil, and the full-length brought her back to the top of the charts and helped her regain her crown as one of the most successful women in pop music history. Femme Fatale brought Spears to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and has since been certified platinum by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) for shifting one million units.<\/p>\n

What Singles Were Featured on Britney Spears\u2019 Femme Fatale?<\/p>\n

LOS ANGELES, CA – MARCH 29: Britney Spears performs on Jimmy Kimmel Live on March 29, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jean Baptiste Lacroix\/WireImage)<\/p>\n

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\u201cScary\u201d was never pushed as a single from Femme Fatale, even in Japan, the only territory where it was technically available, until now. The album was introduced with \u201cHold It Against Me,\u201d which gave Spears another No. 1 on the Hot 100. Follow-up singles \u201cTill the World Ends\u201d \u2014 initially released as a solo cut, though a successful remix was later credited to Spears, Nicki Minaj, and Kesha \u2014 and \u201cI Wanna Go\u201d also broke into the upper region of the Hot 100.<\/p>\n

Britney Spears\u2019 Recent Song Releases<\/p>\n

Spears has not released an album in nearly a decade, as her most recent full-length, Glory, arrived in August 2016. Since then, the singer has only doled out a handful of tunes, most of them collaborations. Before \u201cScary,\u201d Spears\u2019 most recent solo releases came in 2020, when \u201cMood Ring\u201d and \u201cSwimming in the Stars\u201d were both added to an extended version of Glory, years after the set dropped. Neither made much of a commercial impact, though the tracks did quickly surge on iTunes, as \u201cScary\u201d is at the moment.<\/p>\n

Britney Spears\u2019 Collaborations with Backstreet Boys and Elton John<\/p>\n

Alongside \u201cMood Ring\u201d and \u201cSwimming in the Stars,\u201d Spears also teamed up with the Backstreet Boys in 2020 for \u201cMatches.\u201d Like the other Glory additions, that track was recorded years prior but finally surfaced due to continued demand from fans. <\/p>\n

In 2022, Spears earned her most recent top 10 hit on the Hot 100 with Elton John\u2019s \u201cHold Me Closer,\u201d a mash-up of several of his classic songs. The duet followed the format John used with Dua Lipa on \u201cCold Heart,\u201d which had topped charts worldwide a year earlier.<\/p>\n

Britney Spears\u2019 Lackluster Recent Single<\/p>\n

Spears\u2019 most recent new piece of music (before this week) arrived in 2023, when frequent collaborator and Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.I.Am released \u201cMind Your Business,\u201d which also features the pop icon. While the song performed well for a short time on Billboard\u2019s dance and electronic rankings, it failed to crack the Hot 100 and received mixed-to-negative reviews. So far, it has not been connected to any larger project, and likely never will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britney Spears\u2019 \u201cScary,\u201d once a Japan-only bonus track, finally becomes available to buy and stream globally, and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[106535,106537,106538,106539,106542,106541,106543,106544,106536,106540,49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-221820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-britney-spears-billboard-charts","9":"tag-britney-spears-femme-fatale","10":"tag-britney-spears-glory","11":"tag-britney-spears-hold-it-against-me","12":"tag-britney-spears-hold-me-closer","13":"tag-britney-spears-i-wanna-go","14":"tag-britney-spears-matches","15":"tag-britney-spears-mood-ring","16":"tag-britney-spears-scary","17":"tag-britney-spears-till-the-world-ends","18":"tag-ca","19":"tag-canada","20":"tag-entertainment","21":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}