# The Woman in Me (audiobook)

> Gallery called it its fastest-selling audiobook; Apple US ranked it No. 1 in nonfiction.

- Owner: Britney Spears / Simon & Schuster Audio
- Kind: Book
- Sector: Entertainment
- Seed date: 2023-10-24
- Peak date: Week of Oct 24, 2023
- Date basis: Dates use the stated precision; chart positions are date anchors.
- Spread Score: 49 (Notable, provisional), v1.2
- Mechanics: Response chain, Creator relay, Platform jump, Press loop, Controversy

## Summary

Listeners shared Michelle Williams’s Timberlake impression on X, and press covered the clips. SNL parodied narrator auditions. Gallery called it its fastest-selling audio release; it led Apple’s US nonfiction audio list for 2023.

## Timeline

- 2023-10-13 — Simon & Schuster Audio (Press) — The publisher announced Michelle Williams as narrator, with Spears reading the introduction.
- 2023-10-24 — Simon & Schuster Audio (Audio) — The audiobook launched alongside the memoir’s other editions.
- 2023-10-24 — @joshcharles_21 (X) — Joshua shared Williams’s reading of the Timberlake and Ginuwine encounter.

The full timeline, metrics and sources are on the case page, or via the Pro API (https://howitspread.com/developers).

Canonical URL: https://howitspread.com/cases/the-woman-in-me-audiobook

Cite as: How It Spread (2026). “The Woman in Me (audiobook).” Case HIS-00694. Spread Score v1.2: 49/100. Updated 2026-10-14. https://howitspread.com/id/HIS-00694