Tuesday, April 7, 2009
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
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?
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
Monday, April 6, 2009
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!
Saturday, April 4, 2009
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.
Friday, April 3, 2009
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
Nicole Scherzinger Would Be 'Afraid' Of A Britney Spears Dance-Off
The following italicized article is from www.mtv.com:Since March, the Pussycat Dolls have been busy supporting Britney Spears on her Circus tour. Before that, the Dolls had been traveling the world on their own tour, and the ladies wouldn't want it any other way.
"It's been nonstop," Nicole Scherzinger told MTV News. "We were on our Doll Domination Tour all throughout Europe, and now we're on Britney's tour, and after this, we're going to go back on our Doll Domination Tour."
So how do they handle the group's never-ending tour schedule? "It's the PCD gods and angels around us," Scherzinger said.
Nicole could only use one word to describe the hectic atmosphere of touring with someone like Britney: "It's really a circus. It's crazy. I think the tour's been really good for us doing what we do best: singing and dancing. A lot of people have told us the fans' ultimate wish is to have Britney Spears and PCD on tour."
The hectic schedule also means that the Dolls haven't been able to get any time to chill out with Britney. "This is her tour, and I'm sure she's busy, and I'm always doing press right before we get onstage," she said. "We haven't had too much interaction, but we're always planning stuff."
Perhaps the girls will all be able to meet up onstage at some point during the tour. "That would be super fun," she said. "We did that when we were [on tour] with Christina [Aguilera]."
Nicole also hopes that touring with a pop staple like Britney will attract a new fanbase to the Dolls. "Britney's been around so much longer and been around people who might not know us," she said.
For Brit's Circus, the girls decided to do a mini-version of their Doll Domination show. "We kept our same original look. We kept it PCD-style," she said. "We were on tour already, and we picked one outfit from the costume changes. We wanted it to be colorful and fun and sparkly and things that the kids could relate to."
If the ladies ever find time in their schedules, maybe they could squeeze in a Britney-vs.-Dolls dance-off. "I would be afraid. She can throw down. She's got some moves," Nicole said. "If we had a dance-off, maybe it would be more of a collaboration dance or maybe one of the other girls can do it; I'll just stand and watch. She's a great dancer and a great performer."
Source: MTV
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Britney Turns Lotus into a Circus
Here are more exclusive pics from Britney's night of dancing in Dallas. Her 'Circus' friends went out at local hotspot Lotus to let loose after another stellar performance.See more pics here!
Source: BritneySpears.com
Brit's Lawyer: She'll Sing, I Promise
The following italicized article is from www.tmz.com:TMZ has learned the attorney for Britney Spears' conservatorship has guaranteed Britney will meet all her obligations on her concert tour -- and he's putting his money where his mouth is.
We've obtained documents showing attorney Andrew Wallet has given his personal assurance -- to the tune of $1.5 million -- that if Britney flakes out, he'll pay up.
The conservatorship made numerous deals for the tour last year, and vendors wanted to make sure those deals would be honored. It's common practice to get what amounts to a bond when the subject of the contract is under a conservatorship.
The document, which was signed by the court on December 22, 2008, also makes American Contractors Indemnity Company a guarantor.
In short, this means that if Britney goes south, Wallet won't have to open his -- the insurance company will take care of it.
Source: TMZ
Men At A Britney Spears Concert: What Are They Doing There?
The following italicized article is from www.mtv.com:Almost everyone we've spoken with who's seen Britney Spears' Circus Tour has said the same thing: The women in the audience outnumber the men by a huge margin. The gender divide is most obvious in the lines for the rest rooms, which often results in desperate females sneaking into the almost-deserted men's rooms.
While we didn't conduct any restroom interviews at the tour's Pittsburgh stop on Friday, we did corner some of the males in the audience to find out what brought them to the show. Although most guys gave a generic "I'm here with my girlfriend/ wife/ daughter," some men were more than happy to admit they paid top dollar to go to the show and expressed their love for Britney.
"She's so hot! She's every man's fantasy!" enthused 21-year-old Hugh Stumpp.
"A lot of guys like Britney Spears," said Steven Dearth, 19. "They're just afraid to come out and say it. So we're just coming out tonight to enjoy ourselves at the Britney Spears concert because we're not afraid to say that we love Britney Spears!"
Even some of the guys who played arm-candy for the show admitted that they're fans, even if they might not know the lyrics to the Circus album by heart.
"I can honestly say I like Britney Spears," said Joe Franciscus, 20, who joined four of his female friends to the concert. "She's hot! I think she's pretty talented. Even though she's gone through all this stuff, she's still moved on with everything." Belle Peng, 21, said she suspects her boyfriend, Nikita Nesterov, 20, is more of a Spears fan than he might be letting on. "Nikita was more excited about seeing Britney than the girls were," she joked.
Sure, guys escorting girlfriends, wives and family members were represented — but with so many unattended young women around, were any of the guys looking for dates?
"A lot of guys feel uncomfortable," Nesterov said. "If my friends were here they would probably change their minds, because there's a lot of girls here, and the show is pretty good."
Chris Hink, 19, went to the concert with friends and even bought a Spears T-shirt, even though they didn't come in men's sizes.
Despite the small number of males at the show, most audience members agreed that the men sitting at home were definitely missing out on a great show.
"I'm sure there are a lot of guys out there that are Britney fans that just didn't want to come to the concert," said Natalie Nilon, 27, who attended the show with her husband, Shaun. "Maybe they didn't have a girlfriend to take, but I'm thinking there are guys out there that wish they were there tonight."
Source: MTV
Britney's Fight to Win Back Kevin
The following italicized article is from www.ok-magazine.com:After burning up the stage of the Air Canada Centre on March 19, Britney Spears worked up a sweat with one of her male dancers at the Hazelton Hotel Toronto.
“They kissed in the elevator,” a source says. “He went back to her suite.”
Things got steamier the next night in Montreal, where the pair hooked up at The Circus Starring Britney Spears Tour’s afterparty at Tribe Hyperclub.
“She sat on his lap and they kissed,” an eyewitness tells OK!.
The duo then reportedly went into the bathroom and the door was blocked by bodyguards. “Nine minutes later, they came out,” the eyewitness says.
Looks like the singer is in love again — but insiders say it’s not her dancer whom she desires: Britney has fallen for her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, and is trying to rebuild their broken family.
In fact, she’s even going so far as fighting to steal him from his new girlfriend, Victoria Prince, and trying to make him jealous by flaunting her love affairs in public.
“She’s giving him a taste of his own medicine,” the source tells OK!.
With Kevin along on the tour to take care of their sons, Preston, 3, and Jayden, 2, the former spouses are spending more time together than they have since their November 2006 split.
“They are seeing each other every day,” a tour source tells OK!. “When Kevin’s had the boys for the day, they greet their mom with hugs and kisses, and their dad fills Britney in on how they spent their time. It’s just like any other family when one of the parentscomes home from work.”
The cozy family scene is one that Britney, 27, wants to make permanent with Kevin, 31.
“They have such a complicated history, but Britney has never stopped caring about him,” a Federline family member tells OK!. “Now that she has put most of her problems behind her and is making an impressive concert comeback, she’s feeling like she, Kevin and the boys could have a fresh start.”
Source: OK Magazine
Former Attorney For Jamie Spears Testifies Britney Wanted Ex-Manager Jailed
The following italicized article is from www.accesshollywood.com:Britney Spears asked for her former manager, Osama “Sam” Lutfi, to be jailed, a former attorney for the pop star’s father said in a Los Angeles courtroom earlier today.
Jamie Spears has been seeking a permanent restraining order for his daughter against Lutfi, and the hearing in Los Angeles, which saw testimony from Jamie’s former attorney, Blair Berk, was at the request of his current counsel.
According to City News Service, Berk recounted the pop star’s request regarding Lutfi to the court.
“She repeatedly asked if I could get him arrested for what he’d done to her and get the court to order him to stay away from her,” Berk said, according to CNS.
Berk also reportedly claimed Lutfi threatened to release embarrassing information about the pop star and her dad if Berk did not stop such information being released about him.
Additionally, Berk spoke about Britney Spears’ lack of relationship with attorney Jon Eardley, who once challenged the conservatorship Britney is currently under. Berk testified that the pop star previously told her she did not know Eardley and she did not want him as her lawyer.
Lutfi’s lawyers claim there is no evidence that proves he caused Britney Spears emotional distress, according to CNS. They are fighting the restraining order.
Source: Access Hollywood
Britney goes clubbing in Dallas
On Tuesday night, Britney made the dance floor her stage at Lotus in Dallas, Texas. All of Britney's dancers, band, circus performers, hair and makeup artists, management, tour management and more joined her to relax and celebrate their hard work on the tour. From the pics below, it looks like they had a great time!See another pic here!
Source: BritneySpears.com
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Lutfi Sis -- I Set Up Brit and Sam's Secret Phone
The following italicized article is from www.tmz.com:Sam Lutfi's sister (who knew he had one) testified in court today that she played middle man to help Britney Spears stay in touch with Sam -- and her version of the story sounds like a James Bond movie.
During a hearing in L.A. Superior Court regarding the temporary restraining order (TRO) against Sam, Christina Lutfi said Britney called her in mid-January. According to Christina, Britney said she wanted Sam to get her a new lawyer, and a pre-paid cell phone.
Presumably, that would allow Brit to circumvent the TRO and talk to Sam without her dad Jamie's knowledge.
Now imagine this scene: Christina says she met Brit on January 16 in the sauna at a posh Beverly Hills hotel to deliver the cell phone. She claims the drop went down while Brit's mom and bodyguards were nearby in the hotel.
Lutfi also testified that Britney said she "felt like a prisoner," was "afraid of her father" and that he was threatening to take away her kids.
Despite the testimony, the judge refused to lift the TRO. The hearing was continued to April 21 when closing arguments will be heard.
Source: TMZ
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