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The first single from Britney’s seventh album, due out in March, has gone up on iTunes New Zealand a whole day ahead of it’s world premiere.
Fans in New Zealand have already successfully purchased Hold It Against Me (legally) from the iTunes store.
More news as it comes to hand, however this would suggest that Sony Music will now rush release the single in a couple of hours.
Story developing…
UPDATE#1:
The single has now leaked onto the illegal internet via links from fans on Twitter and fansites.
Sony Music are aware of the leak and are actioning.
Source: Gimme Britney
Note: I will not post the link to it however you can easily find it on YouTube.
More incredible news. Britney has just been announced as Australia’s 6th top selling artist from the last three decades (80′s, 90′s & 00′s).
Britney is also the 3rd biggest selling female artist in this country – beating out the likes of Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, Rihanna, Delta Goodrem, Beyonce and Pink. The female artists that beat Britney to the top spot are Australia’s own Kylie Minogue and the Queen Of Pop, Madonna.
In so many ways, Britney Spears has defied everything that we know about pop music. Childhood stars are never popular beyond their first few years. Cross. Personal controversies affect music sales. Cross. A performer who blatantly mimes during her live performances loses much of her fan base. Cross. It’s a bit of an odyssey, really, but no matter how good or bad Britney’s life is, her musical career has reflected an amazing consistency that even outdoes Madonna.
In 1999, a fresh-faced Britney Spears with a few more teenage years to get through yet, was topping the charts all over the world. “…Baby One More Time” was the smash the 90′s were waiting for. Amongst all the novelty, the ballads, and that Elton John song, Britney’s pop debut would be the highest seller of her genre during the decade, and signal what was in store for us in the 2000′s.
While Hanson may have woken the world up to a new wave of teenage artist in 1997, it was Britney Spears who would really spearhead the new arrivals. 1999 also saw the debut for Christina Aguilera and Mandy Moore, and then joined by Jessica Simpson, Samantha Mumba, and so on and so on. Perhaps that is way she has remained the favourite, she was the first. It’s funny to think that Britney Spears is a relative old hand when it comes to music these days, and still in her late 20′s, would be one of the oldest acts to grace the charts of recent years, both career-wise, and age-wise.
Britney Spears has an appeal that has obviously crossed over from her original fan base, to a new generation of music lovers. I mean, seriously, would those 20 year olds who bought “…Baby One More Time” really been the same ones who bought “3″ 10 years later? But one thing is for sure, Britney has a good 30,000 to 50,000 fans in this country to consistenly have her singles go Gold at the very least. In fact, only three Britney Spears singles have failed to be accredited. Sure she hasn’t had anything as big as “…Baby”, or for that matter, the second release, “Sometimes”, but those steady sales of the following 23 singles are the reason Britney Spears finds herself in the Top 10 of the Biggest Singles artists of the last 30 years.
So where’s Britney at 11 years after “…Baby One More Time”? I reckon she’s sitting pretty good at the moment. I mean, Britney can literally count to 3 in a song, and bingo, another Top Ten hit. Maybe that’s why she’s so popular. Australia loves an underdog, and Britney would seem to be the epitimy of that. I think Britney’s career will only get better before it gets worse again, as her “legendary” status is starting to shine through. It may not be “legendary” for all the right reasons, but Britney Spears has certainly brought something different and exciting to the charts, and for that, we applaude.
In the Top 5 are Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Elton John, Michael Jackson & Black Eyed Peas.Source: Gimme Britney
We didn’t see this one coming, but congratulation to our girl who has this week achieved triple platinum status in Australia for her album ‘Circus‘.
Sony Music have let us know that the album has now sold in excess of 210,000 copies across Australia.
Anyone interested in Britney’s previous albums’ sales listen up! The Singles Collection is Gold, Blackout is currently 2 x Platinum, My Prerogative is Gold, In The Zone is Platinum, Britney is 2 x Platinum, Oops! is 3 x Platinum and Baby One More Time is Britney’s highest selling Australian album still with a certification of 4 x Platinum.
Tally that all up, and Brit has sold well over a million records in this country.Source: Gimme Britney
That's all. Have fun. And remember...be responsible when you're cutting off their heads. You don't want to injure yourself, now do you?
The story behind the tease on our site is simple. We had received word from a very reliable source a few weeks ago within Sony Music about a new Britney release coming in September, with an album release for November (09.10.11.10 referred to this) and an announcement being made approximately around the 27th of August. This information was from the same source that provided us with the information on The Singles Collection and also the Circus single cover. The exclusive info, coupled with what Darkchild had said himself and MTV reporting the same, has made us believe that this information is true and that a tweet from Britney's manager was to throw everyone off the scent of the new music coming "not right now", but soon.
There is also strong indication from other places that something big from Britney is coming. The Glee episode, the release of her new perfume, two magazine features...not to mention pre-orders for a new Britney album have popped up everywhere.
We have decided to cease counting down as a mark of respect to all Britney fans, and to stop speculation on what is already out there from various sites. We do not want to mislead fans into thinking that we know more than what UBritney.com, or any other site had posted. We might have known it first, but at the moment we don’t know any more than they do – Britney’s camp is being extremely tight-lipped on anything music related at the moment. We have never intentionally posted false information to risk our reputation, which is more than what can be said about BreatheHeavy.com – one of their articles was posted as B.S on Britney’s official site just this week. No mention of B.S on gimmeBRITNEY.
gimmeBRITNEY's standing point on this right now is there is a STRONG indication that something is still coming next month, and we are thinking very positively. A new album release is still not on the Sony Music release schedule (as we reported earlier), however there are massive signs of promotion there which cannot be explained as to why Britney would do so much for nothing. But there is now doubt in what we've heard from BreatheHeavy.com - and although we don't believe it, we must acknowledge that it was posted from a "source", and write you guys - the fans - this note.
See it for yourself here! Source: Gimme Britney
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The first single from Britney’s seventh album, due out in March, has gone up on iTunes New Zealand a whole day ahead of it’s world premiere.
