Womanizer
Britney Spears
2008
Annual listening-list association, not an original-release-date field. Original release year reconciled with reviewed recording-specific Artist Essentials evidence in v3.6.
Release: 2008
Release: 2008Source checked
V3.6 reconciles the original release year with the reviewed Artist Essentials entry for this exact retained recording ID. Year precision is used; an album-first release is not silently replaced by a later single, reissue or annual-list year. The original recording is documented in the 2008 release history of Circus. Only year precision is assigned; later singles, charts, remasters and live versions do not establish its first release.
The large badge identifies this listening list, not a newly issued recording. Later reissues and renewed chart popularity do not replace an original release date. How years are assigned.
Owner-supplied release annotations
Reported dates in 2009.html. Not independently established; neighboring dates can reflect album/single or regional differences.
Circus - original RCA/Jive album metadata and track list
Original 2008 album and public track list identify Womanizer, Circus and If U Seek Amy. Radar is an older Blackout recording and is not added as a supposedly new 2008 selection.
Britney Spears - Jive/Legacy original album and career review
Documents the original album years from Oops 2000 through Femme Fatale 2011 and identifies key recordings and collaborations. Its parenthetical 1998 for the debut album conflates the single and album and is rejected in favor of the separate label history and original album metadata. Current reissue dates are not first release dates.
Inspiration and background
Supplied note - not independently verified
This note came with the supplied collection and has not been independently verified.
The song is about a man who manipulates multiple women.
Evidence scope: Attributed owner-supplied note; NOT independently verified songwriter testimony
Sources for this information
Owner-supplied 2009.html, position 40
Original annotation, retained with an explicit unverified label
Other appearances and versions
catalog version unspecified
Textual recording candidate, not an audio fingerprint or pressing-level verification.
An annual chart year and an original release date are different. Similar titles may be covers or different masters; no audio fingerprint has been performed.
Sources and scope
External chart association; scope is limited to the cited chart, not full discographic verification
Editorial artist-repertoire classification
Billboard year-end 2008 table (Wikipedia transcription)
Secondary chart transcription: title, artist and annual association only. Not a complete recording or songwriting review.
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