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Britney Spears is showing she can still move markets. After securing an eight-figure advance last year, her new memoir, The Woman in Me, has hit the top of the Amazon bestseller list a week before publication. Advance sales are being fuelled by leaks of stories it contains, including an alleged abortion from a surprise pregnancy during her relationship with Justin Timberlake.The book, for which she was paid an advance of around $15 million, has the potential to be the fastest selling non-fiction book of all time. To break the current record held by Prince Harry’s book Spare she will need to sell more than 1.4 million copies on the first day of publication. Before Harry’s tell all the record for fastest selling non-fiction book was for Barack Obama’s The Promised Land, which took the title from his wife Michelle. The Obamas signed a joint deal for $65 million in 2017, the biggest book deal of all time.
