Tacoma Dome Ready For Britney

The deputy director of the Tacoma Dome expects there will be no repeat Thursday of the smoke problem that interrupted the Britney Spears concert in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Rob Henson says smoking is not allowed inside the dome and air handlers and the ventilation system have been able to handle concerts that use pyrotechnics.

There was a 30-minute interruption in Spears' show Wednesday at GM Place in Vancouver because crew members above the stage became ill due to a ventilation issue.

The Tacoma Dome has sold out more than 21,000 seats for its stop on the "Circus" tour.

Source: Seattle Times

Britney Spears Walks Off Stage During Concert

The following italicized article is from www.people.com:

The show didn't go on in Vancouver Wednesday night after Britney Spears pulled the plug on her sold-out Circus concert 15 minutes and three songs into her performance – departing the stage and leaving the audience in the GM Place in the dark for more than half an hour. Boos ensued.

Cigarette smoke from the crowd was blamed, with a female voice announcing to the crowd, "The building is awfully smoky. It is uncomfortable for everyone on stage, including Ms. Spears. Please extinguish all cigarettes – this is a non-smoking building, and the show will resume when the smoke on the stage is cleared," the Vancouver Sun reports.

Until the agitated crowd settled down, GM Place was filled with piped-in intermission music played at hockey games – which, one concertgoer told PEOPLE, left the fans "really pissed off. The break in the concert ruined it for everyone. The vibe was gone."

When she did return, Spears, 27, delivered a well-received Bollywood take on "Me Against the Music," followed by "Everytime" – during which she asked the crowd "What's up, Vancouver?" before she again left the stage, some 90 seconds before the end of the song.

The concert concluded with Spears singing "Womanizer" and advising the still-restless crowd, "Vancouver, don't smoke weed." Her sign-off was also peppered with a couple of X-rated expletives and a warning to "drive safe."

After the show, a statement was posted on the singer's Web site: "We want to apologize to all the fans who attended our Vancouver show tonight for the brief pause in Britney's set. Crew members above the stage became ill due to a ventilation issue."

Spears kicked off her Circus tour of the North America and England in New Orleans on March 3. Her father and attorneys are exploring the possibility of expanding the tour, says AP.

Source: People

Billboard Chart Update

On the Billboard 200 'Circus' drops 7 spots to #43 in its 18th week on the chart.

On the Billboard Hot 100 'Circus' drops 6 spots to #24 in its 18th week on the chart while Britney's new single 'If U Seek Amy' rises 3 spots to #21 in its 8th week on the chart.

Source: Break The Ice

A Very Smokey Circus Hits Vancouver

Download Day

Mediabase Chart Update

Britney's new single 'If U Seek Amy' is currently at #14 on Mediabase with 4579 spins and 36.1 est. million listeners.

Click here to vote for 'If U Seek Amy' on your local radio station!

Source: Break The Ice

American Idol Top 8: Circus

Check out this hot new Ford commercial featuring the Top 8 contestants of American Idol performing a cover of Britney's "Circus". Also, contestant Adam Lambert says "It's an awesome track. I know all the words! Not gonna lie, I'm a fan of Britney's!"

Check the video out for yourself HERE!

Source: Break The Ice/American Idol

Britney Makes A Quick Trip Home

The following italicized article is from www.x17online.com:

After Monday's show in Edmonton, Alberta Canada, Britney made a quick trip home to Los Angeles. We spotted her at Van Nuys Airport on Wednesday boarding her private jet headed to the next concert stop in Vancouver.

With Britney's super-hot Circus Tour heading into the west coast, we should be seeing more of Brit back in LA between shows.

Welcome home Brit!! We've missed ya!!!

See more pics here!

Source: X17

Statement regarding Vancouver Show

We want to apologize to all the fans who attended our Vancouver show tonight for the brief pause in Britney's set. Crew members above the stage became ill due to a ventilation issue.

Source: BritneySpears.com

Mediabase Update Chart

Britney's new single 'If U Seek Amy' is currently at #15 on Mediabase with 4508 spins and 35.5 est. million listeners.

Click here to vote for 'If U Seek Amy' on your local radio station!

Source: Break The Ice

Franz Ferdinand Covers 'Womanizer'

Source: BritneySpears.com

For The Record Bonus DVD Footage

The UK Has Found 'Amy'

And it was about damn time!

After several weeks 'If U Seek Amy' has finally reached a new peak on the UK iTunes placing at #26 it is also projected to enter the singles chart top 40 at #37 this Sunday.

Source: Break The Ice

Update: The Circus Hits Edmonton

Most Expensive Music Videos Of 2008

01. “Womanizer” - Britney Spears ($236.000,00)

02. “4 Minutes” - Madonna feat. Justin Timberlake & Timbaland ($197.000,00)

03. “Feedback” - Janet Jackson ($186.000,00)

04. “When I Grow Up” - The Pussycat Dolls ($167.000,00)

05. “WOW” - Kylie Minogue ($152.000,00)

06. “Poker Face” - Lady GaGa ($149.000,00)

07. “Human” - The Killers ($124.000,00)

08. “Damaged” - Danity Kane ($119.000,00)

09. “Lollipop” - Lil Wayne ($117.000,00)

10. “The Fear” - Lily Allen ($108.000,00)

Source: U Britney

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'Poker Face' costed that much? How the hell...what did they spend it on? Retouching to make GaGa look like a woman?

Britney Goes Down ... Under

The following italicized article is from www.tmz.com:

Britney Spears' conservatorship hearings are usually tedious arguments about money -- but today's hearing could mean Britney Spears is taking her tour Down Under. G'day, y'all!

Lawyers today raised the idea of expanding Brit's tour to include dates in Australia and parts of Europe. Currently Britney's tour dates are in the U.S. and Canada, with a few dates in London in June.

Nothing was decided upon today. They are due back in court April 14.

Source: TMZ

The Netherlands, The Netherlands, The Netherlands, The Netherlands..get it Britney?

Fan Dancing To 'Circus'

Mediabase Chart Update

Britney's new single 'If U Seek Amy' is currently at #16 on Mediabase with 4454 spins and 35.1 est. million listeners.

Click here to vote for 'If U Seek Amy' on your local radio station!

Source: Break The Ice

Billboard Chart Update

On the Billboard 200 'Circus' drops 14 spots to #36 in its 17th week on the chart.

On the Billboard Hot 100 'Circus' drops 1 spot to #18 in its 17th week on the chart while Britney's new single 'If U Seek Amy' rises 2 spots to #24 in its 7th week on the chart.

Source: Break The Ice

For The Record DVD Released Today

Britney's 90-minute documentary with MTV, For The Record, has been released on DVD today!.

The DVD features the documentary itself along with bonus footage you didn't see in the original broadcast and 6 new remixes of Britney's latest hits 'Womanizer' and 'Circus'.

You can order For The Record on Amazon by clicking here!

Mediabase Chart Update

Britney's new single 'If U Seek Amy' is currently at #17 on Mediabase with 4244 spins and 33.4 est. million listeners!

Click here to vote for 'If U Seek Amy' on your local radio station!

Source: Break The Ice

Club Employees Threatened To Keep Silent on Britney

The following italicized article is from www.radaronline.com:

As pictures have surfaced of Britney Spears hitting a club with some dancers and tour members during a recent stop in Dallas, the employees of the hot spot she spent the night dancing away at are still feeling the heat from her presence. RadarOnline.com has learned that the staff is under strict non-disclosure orders and will be fired if anyone slips up and gives any details from Spears’ night out.

“We’ve all been instructed to say no comment,” a source at Lotus night club tells RadarOnline.com.

With the attention on Spears as strong as ever, it would be understandable if certain club employees felt tempted to spill the beans. But with the threat of losing their job in a depressed economy looming large, it’s doubtful anyone will say a peep.

Says the source: “I can’t say anything or I’ll lose my job.”

Source: Radar Online

And they should keep their mouths shut...there's a thing called privacy ya know.

Hollywood's Top Ten Best Beach Bodies

#2 - Britney Spears

"Britney is the ever changing kitty. here she is curvy with the abs that all men just wan to touch, and her abs show strength and firmness."

Source: Radar Online

Lily Allen and Lindsay Lohan Do Something To ‘Womanizer’

I was gonna say 'cover Womanizer' but anyone who listens to the audio knows I would be lying if I said that...

Britney Spears' Comeback -- It's The Real Deal

The following italicized article is from www.insidebayarea.com:

There have been points over the last five years when the chances of Britney Spears mounting a successful comeback seemed about as likely as George W. Bush being elected mayor of Berkeley.

At other moments, the odds looked even worse.

The former teen dream had spent the last five years becoming the ultimate tabloid queen. Her sad tale unfolded before us at the supermarket checkout lanes, as headlines screamed out the latest misadventures of the former "Mickey Mouse Club" sweetheart; with each paparazzi payday it seemed like Spears was taking another step toward the point of no return.

Connecting with the public

Yet a funny thing happened on the way to the land of pop culture has-beens: Spears somehow managed to turn things around, at least professionally. Her new album, "Circus" debuted at No. 1. Her concert tour is doing strong business. She's turning out to be one of 2009's most convincing comebacks.

How did this happen when things, not so long ago, seemed so bleak? Some point to the surprisingly good quality of her 2007 album "Blackout," which, ironically, was a commercial failure. But an even larger element seems to be that she was able to turn all her messy trials and tribulations into a legitimate connection with the public. We really wanted her to turn things around

As fans prepare for Spears' three Northern California concerts — Saturday at Arco Arena in Sacramento, April 12 at HP Pavilion in San Jose and April 22 at Oracle Arena in Oakland — it seems apropos to look back at Spears' recent rollercoaster ride of a career and hopefully shed some light on why Britney has succeeded in an area where so many others have failed.

'Til death do us part'

During the first half of her career, Spears seemingly could do no wrong. She rose to stardom with the 1998 single —...Baby One more Time" and released hit album after hit album, becoming the first female performer to have four consecutive discs debut atop the charts. She did all this while managing to maintain a highly marketable public image that, for the most part, successfully married teen idol and sex kitten. She also had a storybook romance with another emerging Mouse Club alum, Justin Timberlake. It seemed the young princess of pop would someday marry her equally attractive prince in a wedding that would be the grandest since Prince Charles wed Diana.

Instead, they broke up. And if one had to nail down a date for when it all began to unravel for Spears, one might point to Jan. 3, 2004, the day she surprised the world by marrying childhood friend Jason Allen Alexander at a Las Vegas chapel. The fact that the marriage only lasted 55 hours before being annulled gave the impression that the starlet didn't have a firm grasp on her personal life.

From there, things began to snowball. She married a second time, to little-known dancer Kevin Federline, who abandoned his girlfriend and their two out-of-wedlock children to take up with Britney. Spears had two children with K-Fed, did things that made mothers-at-large cringe, then divorced her second husband and fought for custody of their children.

Living la vida loco

Spears become a constant fixture on the celeb night life scene, and revealing photos of her (such as that infamous panty-less shot), once considered the Holy Grail for Web-browsing peeping Toms, became as ubiquitous on the Internet as ads to refinance your home.

She shaved her head, for no apparent reason, and was hospitalized for psychiatric evaluation, for very apparent reasons. There was talk of drug use, and her career was stalling: Her fifth disc, 2007's "Blackout," became her first not to top the Billboard album charts.

As late as February 2008, Rolling Stone magazine ran a cover story titled "The Tragedy of Britney Spears," which summed up the public perception of the fallen star. The whole thing was like some grandiose Greek tragedy, starring a former Mouseketeer from Mississippi, and oddly enough people couldn't get enough of it. Or, perhaps, the appeal wasn't so weird after all.

What Spears had succeeded in doing, with all her personal failures, was to create a celebrity image that felt far more "real" than nearly anything the public had ever seen (with a downfall that rivaled Lindsay Lohan's for media access). It's hard for regular folks to truly identify with a megastar who's on top of the world and selling millions of albums, but it's not hard to connect with one going through breakups, child custody battles and financial woes. Spears was unable to do something that she was never able to do before 2004: She made us feel like she was one of us.

Now, seemingly every celebrity is attempting to accomplish something similar. Countless pop culture icons, who once nurtured the image of being different from the public at-large, are going out of their way to come across like Average Joes and Janes. They use their blogs and Twitter to keep fans up to date on everything from what they had for breakfast to how their relationships are going. Think John Mayer and Pete Wentz. None of them, however, have consistently given us more of interest, without seemingly trying, than Britney.

The public might be fascinated with a "crash and burn." But people love a comeback. Spears certainly qualified for the former, and she showed enough resilience to give watchers hope that she might also make it to the latter.

'Circus' comes to town

By Britney standards, "Blackout" was a commercial disappointment, though many critics (including this one) thought it was her best record to date. And it plays a big role in Britney's comeback. It propelled Spears to a big night at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 7, 2008. The CD's key single, "Piece of Me," would garner trophies for Best Female Video, Best Pop Video and Video of the Year. Suddenly, Britney was getting good press.

Spears' record label, Jive, capitalized by quickly releasing the first single from her forthcoming sixth CD to radio. The track, a contagious dance ditty called "Womanizer," shot to the top of the charts by mid-October and — surprise, surprise — Britney found herself with one of the biggest hits of her career.

When the album "Circus" was released at the end of November, it debuted at No. 1. It's one thing to persuade a fan to drop $15 on a CD (or download), but it's quite another to get people to spend hundreds of dollars on concert tickets. Spears proved up to that challenge as well.

The singer's road show is turning out to be one of the year's top tickets. That's definitely the story in Northern California, where the tour — the singer's first major outing in five years —is expected to see nothing but full houses during its three stops.

"Anytime an artist is away from the scene for awhile, you have to wonder if their audience will still be around," says Gary Bongiovanni, editor-in-chief of the concert industry trade publication Pollstar. "Obviously, Britney has a legitimate fan base that still wants to see her perform live."

That fan base is also willing to pay top dollar for the opportunity. Tickets for her local concerts run as high as $750. That's a lot of dough to drop in these tough economic times, especially for an artist who has seemingly given her fans every reason in the world to stop caring.

Yet, if anything, they seem to care even more than ever.

"I want my kids to see her succeed," says Castro Valley resident Arlene Chaves, who is spending some $2,000 to take her family to the Oakland concert. "I'm excited, personally, to see the show, because I really feel bad for her. I feel bad for what she's been through, and it makes me feel good to see her come back."

Source: Inside Bay Erea