Barely every week after the discharge of her tell-all memoir, Britney Spears has promised that Vol.2 of The Girl in Me is coming in 2024. Nonetheless, the ebook is just not at present within the works.
Spears wrote on Instagram, “Humor is the remedy to the whole lot. Play on. Quantity 2 shall be launched subsequent yr. Prepare!”
Britney’s memoir, The Girl in Me, was formally launched on October 24. Based on the pop star, the tell-all ebook is ‘the highest-selling celeb memoir in historical past.’
Every week earlier than launch, the memoir was a #1 best-seller on Amazon. Regardless that the writer — Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster — and booksellers have but to formally launch precise gross sales knowledge, Spears’ ‘highest-selling’ declare is bolstered by the truth that The Girl in Me is main Amazon’s listing of most learn and bought non-fiction books.
The singer’s declare would additionally imply that The Girl in Me has outsold Prince Harry’s Spare to set a brand new Guinness World File, which the Prince set in January when his memoir turned the fastest-selling non-fiction ebook ever.
For The Girl in Me, full gross sales knowledge shall be launched later this week.
Spears’ followers preordered tens of millions of copies within the weeks main as much as the discharge — however the hype snowballed into one thing a lot larger for the pop star.
When The Girl in Me was confirmed in July, Spears’ 2003 monitor ‘Poisonous’ abruptly hit one billion streams on Spotify. Luminate reported that streams for Spears’ complete catalog climbed 24% within the week main as much as the memoir’s launch. By October 25, Spears had acquired about 16 million streams.
On the earnings entrance, 41-year-old pop star pocketed between $12-15 million from the public sale of publishing rights to Simon and Schuster. Even higher, Spears stands to gather not less than 1 / 4 of the income from her tell-all ebook.
In a press launch, Simon and Schuster stated the memoir is ‘a courageous and astonishingly shifting story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, religion, and hope.’ The writer additionally added that the ebook ‘illuminates the enduring energy of music and love — and the significance of a girl telling her personal story, on her phrases.’
Spears’ memoir is at present retailing at $22.38, and $16.99 for Kindle readers. The audio CD is promoting for $29.69, and whereas Spears herself recorded the intro to her memoir, the audiobook is narrated by Michelle Williams.
A number of the most attention-grabbing excerpts from the ebook pertain to the singer’s then-relationship with Justin Timberlake, whom she dated between 1999 and 2002, and a Spears-eye-view into the singer’s controversial 13-year conservatorship.
Talking concerning the ebook, Spears took to social media to confess that ‘writing the ebook was so arduous,’ however ‘I’ve moved on, and it’s a fantastic clear slate from right here.’