{"id":116893,"date":"2024-01-26T21:05:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T21:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/01\/26\/britney-spears-fans-send-her-2011-track-selfish-up-the-charts-as-justin-timberlake-drops-homonymous-song\/"},"modified":"2024-01-26T21:05:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T21:05:30","slug":"britney-spears-fans-send-her-2011-track-selfish-up-the-charts-as-justin-timberlake-drops-homonymous-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/01\/26\/britney-spears-fans-send-her-2011-track-selfish-up-the-charts-as-justin-timberlake-drops-homonymous-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears fans send her 2011 track \u201cSelfish\u201d up the charts as Justin Timberlake drops homonymous song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/01\/M_SelfishBritneySpears_012624.png\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>JIVE Records, a unit of Sony Music Entertainment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Justin Timberlake<\/strong>\u00a0may have just released a new single called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/je0roKRn3nY?si=Ops1NqfOwjIc2-Z6\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Selfish<\/a>\u201d this week, but it\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Britney Spears<\/strong>&#8216; track of the same name that\u2019s just entered the top 5 of the U.S. iTunes Top Songs chart.<\/p>\n<p>Britney fans decided to drive her song, which was released on her 2011 album,\u00a0<em>Femme Fatale<\/em>, up the charts to troll her ex-boyfriend, Justin. The push seems to have stemmed from a Britney stan account, who\u00a0joked about Britney releasing a song, in response to news of JT&#8217;s new track.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBritney Spears will release her new single, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1zOUvxOzxZM\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Selfish<\/a>,\u201d this Thursday, January 25th,\u201d @BritneyTheStan\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BritneyTheStan\/status\/1749486020951777292?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1749486020951777292%7Ctwgr%5E1e756632a1076e7223d1b02e6b03cd94a1b9b3b6%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Few.com%2Fembed%3Furl%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FBritneyTheStan2Fstatus2F1749486020951777292id%3Dmntl-sc-block_1-0-9-iframeoptions%3De303DdocId%3D8550171\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on X<\/a>, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The song has since been climbing the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kworb.net\/charts\/itunes\/us.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes chart<\/a>. At the time of writing, it is currently sitting\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/breatheonmiley\/status\/1750924134597455964\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">at #4<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A Britney fan account known as BritneyxYtube told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/britney-spears-selfish-charts-fans-troll-justin-timberlake-8550171\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em><\/a>\u00a0that this all started as a joke when Justin announced his single.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I still can&#8217;t believe that it became so big, and we see the results we see now,&#8221; they said. &#8220;We are all so happy to see her song making a come back after all these years!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1zOUvxOzxZM?si=LWeN6GzFiDeptpjk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JIVE Records, a unit of Sony Music Entertainment Justin Timberlake\u00a0may have just released a new single called \u201cSelfish\u201d this week, but it\u2019s\u00a0Britney Spears&#8216; track of the same name that\u2019s just entered the top 5 of the U.S. iTunes Top Songs chart. Britney fans decided to drive her song, which was<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/01\/26\/britney-spears-fans-send-her-2011-track-selfish-up-the-charts-as-justin-timberlake-drops-homonymous-song\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}