According to Billboard.com, 'Circus' stays #6 on the Billboard 200, selling 40,000 (-37%) copies!'Circus' has now sold a total of 1,209,000 million copies in the U.S.
Congratz Britney!
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
'Circus' Album Stays At #6
According to Billboard.com, 'Circus' stays #6 on the Billboard 200, selling 40,000 (-37%) copies!'Circus' has now sold a total of 1,209,000 million copies in the U.S.
Congratz Britney!
Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake Have Run-In at Restaurant
The following italicized article is from www.usmagazine.com:Awkward alert!
Britney Spears ran into ex Justin Timberlake at Yatai Asian Tapas Bar in West Hollywood Monday night, an eyewitness reveals to Usmagazine.com.
Timberlake was in the middle of a late-night dinner with current girlfriend Jessica Biel when Spears walked through the door with her mom Lynne around 10 p.m.
The witness describes the restaurant as "so small...like the size of a living room," and the situation as "uncomfortable.
"Jessica and Justin looked to be slumping down in their seats to avoid [Spears]. She left 30 minutes later," another source tells Us. "Shortly afterward, Justin and Jessica got in their car and left."
Spears admitted she was "devastated" by her 2002 split from Timberlake in her MTV documentary.
"With Justin, he was part of the magnitude of what I had become," Spears said. "So when he was gone I was like, 'what am I supposed to do with myself?'"
Timberlake told Oprah Winfrey in 2007 that he had "nothing but love" for his ex, whom he met on the set of The New Mickey Mouse Club in the mid-'90s.
Source: US Weekly
Britney Spears Shows Sons Her New House
The following italicized article is from www.people.com:With a new outlook for her life and career, Britney Spears is about to change addresses.
"I just took my babies to our new home and they loved it! I can't wait to move in," the pop star says on her Web site.
Spears, 27, who has visitation rights – including overnights – with her sons Jayden, 2, and Preston, 3, put her six-bedroom, six-bathroom Studio City, Calif., on the market for more than $7 million. There was no official word on where the new house is.
Source: People
Britney At Calabasas Home This Afternoon
The following italicized article is from www.jfxonline.com:Britney Spears and mom Lynne took a drive today to check our her new ‘hood—a gated community in Calabasas, north of L.A. On her website, she posted that her kids saw the house and they loved it. She can’t wait to move in.
See more pics here!
Source: JFX Online
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
"If You Seek Amy" Poses Censorship Problems For Radio
The following italicized article is from www.mtv.com: But what will they do with a new single from a major artist that doesn't actually contain a four-letter word, but rather spells it out in a not-so-subtle way? That dilemma is beginning to dawn on top-40 radio programmers across the country as the third single from album, "If U Seek Amy," starts to make its way to the airwaves.
The cheeky title (try saying it fast) joins the tradition of album titles like Van Halen's 1991 For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. The chorus doesn't even try to make grammatical sense of the phrase: "But all of the boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek Amy."
The spelled-out profanity puts the song into a legal gray area for radio stations.
"It's OK to put in on an album, have fun with it, but we're publicly owned, you know?" said Patti Marshall, program director at Cincinnati's Q102, a pop station in a decidedly conservative Midwestern market. "We have a responsibility to the public ... you put this ... out and act like we're all fuddy-duddies, like we're trying to make moral judgments. It's not about us. It's about the mom in the minivan with her 8-year-old."
Like several programmers we talked to, Marshall said she had not yet been told that "Amy" was the next single from Circus. She's still busy playing the album's title track, which was recently released as the second single. Asked if she would play "Amy" if it came to her as a single, Marshall said likely wouldn't. She likened its chorus (which she has not heard) to "a little boy in sixth grade doing arm farts."
A spokesperson for the Federal Communications Commission did not return calls for comment, and Spears' label confirmed the choice of the single but would not comment on its content or any potential issues at radio.
Sharon Dastur, program director at Z100 in New York, also had not yet heard the song and said she's not sure what the station's plans are for it. She compared its possible problems to those faced by her station in 2005 upon the release of the Black Eyed Peas single "Don't Phunk With My Heart."
"Listeners thought it was the other word, and so we had to change it to 'mess,' " she said. That example was also the first that popped to mind for KIIS FM Los Angeles program director John Ivey, who said he knew he couldn't play the Peas' song as originally recorded but felt that censoring it would make it sound more nefarious, so he asked the group's label for a new version.
"It's a potential issue for every station," Ivey said of the Spears single. "I'm certain that I would run it by my legal department first. My first job is to protect [the station's] license. ... It's better to be safe than sorry."
Asked if he would recut the song to edit out the naughty bits, Ivey said he probably wouldn't because he felt the phrase was included in the song to provoke, so an alteration would change its intention. "[Spears' label, Jive,] might also be just floating it out there to see if they can stir things up a bit."
Source: MTV
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Britney Spears' Confidence Ring
Britney Spears is wearing a 'magic' ring to give her confidence. The 'Womanizer' singer has been spotted wearing a tourmaline band, which claims to boost inner strength and provide a sense of stability.
The rock was given to her by the celebrity designer Dara Dubinet to help her get back on track following her public breakdown last January.
Dara told Life and Style Weekly magazine: 'I made the ring with Britney in mind. When something is made with good intention, it carries that positive energy to the person who ends up wearing it.'
Source: MSN
Mediabase Chart Update
Britney's new single 'Circus' is currently at #15 on Mediabase with 4639 spins and 29.8 est. million listeners!Click here to vote for 'Circus' on your local radio station!
Source: Break The Ice
Billboard 'Circus' Review
Call it a comeback. After a No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200 with "Circus" and the chart-topping peak of the first single, "Womanizer," the title track from Britney Spears' sixth album is her first top five start on the Billboard Hot 100. Besides the image overhaul with a return to the Spears of old, Brit has recorded her most mature, musical album to date, with hook-heavy tunes and, more important, fully engaged pop vocals with little vocoder assistance. "Circus" finds Spears in the more-than-capable hands of producer Dr. Luke (Pink, Katy Perry), who surrounds her with an electronic cyberpop landscape, while Spears spits out lines like, "There's only two types of guys out there/Ones that can hang with me and ones that are scared." Gotta love it. While her life has often resembled a circus -- to which the public has ringside access -- it appears Spears is now the ringleader instead of the main attraction.Source: Billboard
Britney Spears Cell Phone Confiscated By Dad: “She Has Zero Freedom”
The following italicized article is from www.popcrunch.com:Just days after the California legal system made his conservatorship over Britney Spears’ affairs permanent, pop Jamie Spears is pulling no punches when it comes to keeping unsavory characters away from his famous daughter.
After Jamie caught Britney secretly texting a former flame, the tough as nails dad “confiscated” the pop star’s cell phone and deleted her list of contacts.
“Brit has zero freedom,” an insider explains in the January 19 issue of Star.
Source: Pop Crunch
Oh, so that's why we always see her on her cellphone...
Friday, January 9, 2009
Mediabase Chart Update
Britney's new single 'Circus' is currently at #16 on Mediabase with 4509 spins and 29.776 est. million listeners!Click here to vote for 'Circus' on your local radio station!
Source: Break The Ice
Tour Choreographers Revealed
Britney's back and going on tour to promote her new album Circus! Congratulations to Jamie King who is the tour's director. MSA is also excited to have Simon Ellis as the Musical Director, JaQuel Knight and Tony Testa as Contributing Choreographers, and Dreya Weber as the Aerial Choreographer.Source: MSA Agency
New Report: Britney To Attend The Grammy's
The following italicized article is from www.contactmusic.com:Jewellery designer DARA DUBINET has designed a $27,000 (GBP18,000) black Chinese agate rock ring for BRITNEY SPEARS to wear to the Grammy Awards in February (09).
Dubinet started work on the huge gem after she spotted Spears wearing a Tourmaline ring she had created and sent to the pop star when she appeared on U.S. morning show Good Morning America on her 27th birthday in December (08).
The designer tells Life + Style magazine she was told Spears "loved" her birthday gift.
And a source tells the publication, "She's worn it several times, She says it has a positive energy, and it just makes her smile."
Source: Contact Music
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Did Britney Trick Little Kids Into Swearing With A "Naughty" Song?
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The following italicized article is from www.examiner.com:Apparently, a group of parents in Australia are upset after they bought the new Britney Spears cd, "Circus," for their young children, because it contains a song that includes hidden swearing.
The song is titled "If You Seek Amy" and is actually a sound alike of "F-*-*-K Me". The line in the song that is causing all the trouble is
"All of the boys and all of the girls are beggin’ to/If You Seek Amy."
Leonie Barsenbach told the Australian news website Undercover.com that she bought the album for her five and seven year old kids, and now she feels duped. "I got them the Circus album because little kids are Britney fans, but there was no warning on the album and none of the songs listed had F-*-*-K in the title. Listening to it, it is extremely blatant and offensive. I feel I have been deceived into believing that this was acceptable content for children but instead it is objectionable."
Honestly, it is hard to feel too bad about someone getting "duped" after buying a Britney Spears cd for an elementary school kid. What could she possibly be expecting? Britney has not been hiding her sexual content- in fact, it has been a key part of her comeback. First, step back and consider whether you should be buying the "Circus" cd for a five year old, then we can talk about whether Britney is trying to get something over on you.
Source: The Examiner
'Circus' Album #1 On United World Chart
For the 3rd week in a row Circus has placed at #1 on the United World Chart selling 163.000 copies this week worldwide.It has now sold a total of 2.216.000 million copies worldwide.
Congratz Britney, again!
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Britney Spears Announces Controversial Third Single
The following italicized article is from www.accesshollywood.com:“If You Seek Amy” will be the third single from Britney Spears’ “Circus,” the pop princess announced on her Web site on Wednesday.
In December, fans chose the controversial track as the song she should chose for her next single in a poll on the site, with “Amy” winning 26 percent of the vote.
Many parents are up in arms over the song’s chorus, “All of the girls and all of the boys are looking to… If you seek Amy,” which could be heard as “F*** me.”
“I was astonished and totally taken aback when I heard my 5 and 7-year-old kids walking around the house singing ‘F-U---K,” one parent has complained, according to Rolling Stone.
“When I asked them what it was, they told me it was Britney Spears. I was horrified.”
The first two singles from “Circus” were “Womanizer,” which topped the charts, and the album’s title track.
Brit took a break over the holidays from promoting the album to celebrate the wedding of her brother, Bryan, who was married on New Year’s Eve in New Orleans.
Source: Access Hollywood
'If U Seek Amy' Is The 3rd Single
It's official: 'If U Seek Amy' is the third single off Circus to be released. No other info is available in terms of video, cover art, etc. at this time.Source: BritneySpears.com
Mediabase Chart Update
Britney's new single 'Circus' is currently at #17 on Mediabase with 4062 spins and 31.0 est. million listeners!Click here to vote for 'Circus' on your local radio station!
Source: Break The Ice
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