Britney Spears’ Decade-Old Album Track Hits A New High

NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 26: Britney Spears visits The SiriusXM Studios on August 26, 2016 in New York ... [+] City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

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Britney Spears is back on the Billboard charts, but she hasn’t released anything newâ€"though she’s already teasing something. The pop singer’s song “Selfish” has become a surprise win as fans rushed to support her track in the wake of her famous ex releasing a tune by the same name.

“Selfish” returns to the Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales chart this week. The tune has now spent just two frames on the ranking of the bestselling songs in the U.S. classified by Billboard as dance or electronicâ€"or usually both.

This frame, the cut reappears on the list at No. 9. That’s a new high point for “Selfish,” and it reaches that position nearly 13 years after the track debuted. Back in April 2011, Spears sent her album cut to the Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales chart, but it fell off the list just one frame later.

Spears has now accrued nine top 10 hits on the Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales chart throughout her career. Four of those tunes have reached No. 1, including last year’s “Mind Your Business” with Will.I.Am. The singer has earned 24 placements on the ranking in total.

“Selfish” surged suddenly and somewhat unexpectedly on sales platforms like iTunes last week after fans collectively began buying the tune once again. Spears die-hards chatted on social media and began snapping up the decade-plus-old cut after Justin Timberlake released a new single by the same name. His “Selfish” did sell much better than Spears’, however. This week, Timberlake’s new track opens at No. 5 on the all-genre Digital Song Sales chart.

Spears released “Selfish” in 2011, but it was never promoted as a single. The track was featured on her album Femme Fatale, which was another major win for the star thanks to its numerous smashes. While the title became a minor sales win, it never broke out and managed more than a momentary presence on the Billboard chartsâ€"until now.

While fans of Spears were quick to attempt to troll Timberlake and his newfound success, the singer herself doesn’t seem to align with their thinking. Spears took to Instagram to apologize to people she’d hurt with the release of her memoirâ€"likely including her ex-boyfriendâ€"but also to applaud his new music. “I also wanted to say I am in love with Justin Timberlake’s new song, ‘Selfish,’” she wrote in her caption, adding, “It is soo good.”

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