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The Bestseller Charts Analysis
The Official UK Top 50 Spears’ celebrity overwhelms competition
Title £38.6m TCM value
WEEK ON WEEK +16.2%
Britney Spears brushes aside the scribes as her memoir hits a novel number one
Tom Tivnan @tomtivnan
T
he top story of this week’s charts is everyone’s favourite Mickey Mouse
Club children’s performer turned pop megastar. No, not Christina Aguilera but Britney Spears, whose “bombshell memoir” (as the tabloids would have it) easily scored the Official UK Top 50 number one.
The 90,656 units The Woman
in Me shiſted through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market is Simon & Schuster’s biggest week for a non-fiction title since records began, only betered by the just under 121,000 copies Colleen Hoover’s novel, It Starts with Us, sold in its launch week last October. Additionally, the audio version—narrated by A-lister Michelle Williams—was
14 3rd November 2023
1 The Woman in Me 2 No Brainer 3 The Secret 4 Be Useful
5 A Curse For True Love 6 The Last Devil To Die 7 The Blunders
8 The Forest Grimm
9 Guinness World Records 2024 10 The Christmas Book Club 11 King of Greed
12 Lessons in Chemistry 13 Really Good, Actually
14 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... 15 A Thimble for Christmas 16 Wildfire
17 Simply Lies 18 Rambling Man
19 Diddly Squat: Pigs Might Fly 20 5 Ingredients Mediterranean 21 Ghosts: The Button House... 22 A Christmasaurus Carol
24 Shakespeare: The Man Who... 25 Funnybones 26 Keira & Me 27 Loyalty
28 The Pumpkin Spice Café 29 The Running Grave Unruly
30
31 The Chateau: Forever Home 32 After the Forest
33 The Bullet That Missed 34 Christmas by Candlelight TV
35
36 The Harry Potter Wizarding... 37 The Hike
38 Making It So 39 The Twat Files 40 The Exchange 41=The Baddies 41=Murdle 43 Space
44 It Starts with Us Babel
45
46 The Thursday Murder Club 47 Dormouse Has a Cold 48 It Ends With Us 49 23½ Lies
50 Jewel Art Fun Sparkly Art...
Author; Illustrator Britney Spears Jeff Kinney
Imprint
Lee & Andrew Child Bantam Arnold Schwarzenegger Ebury Edge Stephanie Garber Richard Osman
Hodder Viking
Magpie ISBN TCM total Volume
Simon & Schuster 1398522527 90,687 90,656 Puffin
0241583135 38,237 38,096 1787633773 35,297 35,241 1529146530 36,611 19,405 1529399288 16,145 16,068 0241512449 328,230 15,192
D Walliams; A Stower HarperCollins 0008305840 50,893 14,796 Kathryn Purdie -
Sarah Morgan Ana Huang
Bonnie Garmus Monica Heisey Gabrielle Zevin Dilly Court
Hannah Grace David Baldacci Billy Connolly
Jeremy Clarkson Jamie Oliver
Mat Baynton et al
Piatkus Penguin
1848459205 10,062 0349436357
1529115543 261,683 1529062045 9,797 1804990926 424,537
Fourth Estate 0008511760 44,480 Vintage
HarperCollins 0008580759 40,977 Simon & Schuster 1398525719 49,640 Pan
Two Roads Michael Joseph 0241674895 1526669902 T Fletcher; S Devries Puffin Allan & Janet Ahlberg Puffin
Professor N Fitzpatrick Seven Dials M Cole & J Rose Laurie Gilmore Robert Galbraith David Mitchell
Headline
One More... Sphere
D & A Strawbridge Kell Woods
Richard Osman Karen Swan Peter Kay
Patrick Stewart Dawn French John Grisham
Penguin Pan
1399802574 25,586 8,314
Michael Joseph 0241431160 92,584 Bloomsbury
8,126 0241595879 29,886
23 We’re Going on a Ghost Hunt M Mumford; C Zamazing Bloomsbury... 1526660404 55,609 Judi Dench
Michael Joseph 0241632178 7,459
0140565812 566,968 1399610308
7,153
1472249456 27,633 0008610678 28,221 1408730942 88,631
Michael Joseph 1405953177 54,417 Seven Dials Titan
1399603140 1803361352
5,961 5,852
0241992388 356,682 1529084290
HarperCollins 0008623319 42,026
J K Rowling; P Goes et al Bloomsbury... 1526646712 19,270 Lucy Clarke
HarperCollins 0008462468 38,516 Simon & Schuster 1398512948 20,966 Michael Joseph 0241477489 18,926 Hodder
1399724821 15,486
J Donaldson; A Scheffler Alison Green 0702325069 30,986 G T Karber Tim Peake
Souvenir Century
Colleen Hoover R F Kuang
Richard Osman
1800818026 67,915 1529913507
5,619
Simon & Schuster 1398518209 182,947 HarperVoyager 0008501853 24,135 Penguin
J Donaldson; A Scheffler Macmillan... Colleen Hoover
J Patterson & M Paetro Penguin -
Bookoli
0241988268 1,488,663 1035006908 35,005
Simon & Schuster 1471156267 1,234,197 1529160185 18,216 1802490466 37,393
Week ending 28th October 2023. Key New Up Same Down Unless otherwise stated, charts use data from Nielsen BookScan Total Consumer Market, representing print book sales through around 6,500 retailers. Any title discounted by more than 74.5% is ineligible for inclusion.
5,561 8,362 0008588311 11,849 11,848
Guinness World... 1913484385 50,618 10,927 HQ
9,960 9,065 8,903 8,640 8,622 8,438 8,352 8,347 8,317 8,291 8,096 8,087 7,906 7,788 7,447 7,133 7,011 6,612 6,538 6,163 6,007 5,956 5,785 5,743 5,530 5,316 5,232 5,054 5,015 4,864 4,849 4,847 4,847 4,804 4,713 4,710 4,671 4,497 4,487 4,421 4,396
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