Britney Spears’ recent song “Hold It Against Me” soared up to a record-setting debut on Billboard’s Pop chart as predicted after its enormous first-day play.

The first single from Spears’ upcoming ninth album hit the survey at no.16 with 4,071 plays. Currently, that is the highest total detections made by a debuting title in the 18-year history of the pop chart.

“Hold It Against Me” ties with Madonna’s “Frozen” for the second-highest launch in the chart’s archives. “Frozen” had soared to no. 16 in March, 1998. Mariah Carey’s “Dreamlover” solely debuted at a higher rank that reached no. 12 in August, 1993.

According to Nielsen BDS, the Pop Songs chart records the most-played songs on 130 mainstream top 40 radio stations.

Spears’ “Hold It Against Me” obtained an airplay on all 130 reporting stations in the chart’s tracking week from January 10-16. Durring its first-week airplay, the song moved to 36.4 million listener impressions, which is the week’s 10th-highest mainstream top 40 audience totals.

Britney Spears has had her ups and downs for over the last decade. However, every time she releases new music, it is an event for the format, the KHOP program director MoJoe Roberts said.

He also added that Spears’ song is one of the rare tracks that he immediately placed into the power rotation after just one listen.

The reaction of the audiences to her new single has been nothing short of stunning. This is another pure pop hit from Ms. Spears, Roberts said.

The song is expected to exceed 400,000 download sales in its first-week based from industry sources. It is likely to make additional historic headlines this week as it is projected to become the 18th song to debut at no. 1 since the Billboard Hot 100 started in 1958.