Later this summer, Britney Spears’s album Glory will turn 10. The project arrived in late August 2016 and still stands as her most recent full-length. Since then, Spears has lived her life, fought her conservatorship and helped raise her children, while choosing not to return to the studio for another album -- something she has stated she’s not interested in doing.

She has released several one-off tunes with artists including Elton John and will.i.am, but nearly a decade has passed without a new collection. This week in the United Kingdom, it once again becomes clear that listeners in that nation have never stopped consuming the pop icon’s catalog. One of her most successful compilations brings Spears to career milestones on two rankings, reaching a different figure on the two.

Britney Spears’s Compilation Reaches Five Years on the Chart

The Singles Collection, Spears’s most popular and go-to compilation in the U.K. for millions of fans looking to stream her many hits, holds at No. 71 on the Official Albums chart. The project has now spent 260 weeks on the ranking – or, said another way, half a decade.

The collection of singles – as its name states – debuted on the roster in December 2009. It opened at No. 38, only barely giving Spears another top 40 success on the albums chart. That starting position has turned out to be its all-time peak.

The Singles Collection regularly appears on the Official Albums chart, though these days it usually sits beneath the top 40. From time to time, the collection disappears entirely, but it always seems to return, as the British public continues to consume the dozens of familiar tunes featured on its track list.

Britney Spears Has Seen Two Albums Chart for 100 Weeks or More

The Singles Collection is one of only two titles among Spears’s 11 charting projects to score a triple-digit stay on the Official Albums ranking. Her debut set ...Baby One More Time is the only other release in her discography to reach that threshold. The introductory set managed 103 weeks — just under two years — on the tally.

Britney Spears’s Compilation Reaches 300 Weeks

At the same time that The Singles Collection celebrates five years on the Official Albums chart, it reaches a different milestone on the Official Albums Streaming ranking.

The compilation has now spent 300 weeks as one of the 100 most-played projects of any kind in the U.K. on platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music. This frame, it climbs slightly, inching from No. 61 to No. 58.

The Singles Collection debuted on the Official Albums Streaming roster at the lowly position of No. 96 in August 2018, nine years after it first appeared on the main albums ranking. Despite that late start, the compilation has now spent 40 more weeks on the streaming-only tally than on the Official Albums chart. It has also climbed considerably higher than where it began its run, eventually reaching an all-time peak of No. 31.

Britney Spears Has Charted Three Streaming Albums

Spears has pushed only three projects onto the Official Albums Streaming chart throughout her career. She debuted on the ranking in September 2016 with Glory. That album nearly gave the superstar what would be her sole top 10 success on the roster, but it missed the region by one space.

The Singles Collection followed two years later and has become by far her longest-running entry. It has outperformed another Spears compilation, The Essential, which features many of the same songs. The Essential spent one week on the Official Albums Streaming chart in June 2020, where it launched at No. 94. The project has not been seen on the tally since its lowly arrival more than five years ago.

Britney Spears Added One New Hit to the Collection

The Singles Collection is largely remembered for “3,” the one new single included on the project. The catchy dance-pop cut became another major success for Spears when the compilation was released.

“3” climbed inside the top 10 on the Official Singles chart, where it peaked at No. 7. The track performed even better in the United States, hitting at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Spears another leader on the country’s most competitive songs ranking.