London, Dec 30: X-factor winner, Leona Lewis has broken her third world record to become the fastest selling female performer of all time.
Her single ‘A moment like this’ reached the number one position and sold 571,253 copies in the first week itself.
“It’s great news for Leona, and the song looks solid at number one for a second week,” The Mirror quoted her spokesperson, as saying.
Lewis’ single smashed Britney Spears record of 464,000 copies of her single ’Hit Me Baby One More Time’.
Leona’s debut song, a cover of a Kelly Clarkson ballad, broke its first record on day one, becoming the fastest selling download with 50,000 copies in the first half hour, and created its second record by becoming the best selling download over the period of a week.
According to controversial gossip website, PerezHilton.com, Britney’s latest fragrance “Midnight Fantasy”, has already outsold all her previous scents!
The perfume has limited availability in the US and isn’t for sale in all stores yet. If you live in America, you can find it at Macys or buy it online at Sephora.com.
The fragrance will be released internationally early in 2007.
The Clutch (consisting of songwriters Balewa Muhammad, Keri Lynn Hilson, Ezekiel Lewis, J. Que & Candice Nelson) have announced they have recorded two songs with Britney for her forthcoming comeback album, saying that they were “just getting back in town from cutting two records with Britney. Yeah, it was funny because she was on the cover of the NY Post or something like that, coming to the studio. So she was coming up there to cut with us, so that’s what we were working on.” The Clutch have recently worked with Pussycat Dolls and Danity Kane, as well as “Take Me As I Am” with Mary J. Blige and “Red Light” with Usher.
A few weeks ago, Britney was spotted holding a Jive Records labeled CD-R acetate; a close-up photo of this CD reveals it to include the “Not Final” tag line. Along with that, it included a date which was 14/11/06, and also included 17 track titles along with the names of writers/producers such as Sean Garrett, Steve Anderson (who co-wrote “Breathe On Me”), Kara DioGuardi (who co-wrote “Brave New Girl”), and possibly “Lil’ Jon.”
Forget the mud-slinging gold-digger and the drunken former Mad Max man – trashy white pop princess Britney Spears has been judged the year’s worst-behaved celebrity by New Zealand star-gazers.
Britney may even have got off lightly. The Herald-DigiPoll survey of 1000 people was taken just before worldwide tut-tutting over her Commando performance in late November (her knickerless exit from a car outside an LA nightclub).
Instead 31 per cent of those polled got in early with their disapproval, voting Britney the worst-behaved star of the year for failing to buckle in her infant son, Sean Preston, in February.
For the uninitiated, she drove straight down Malibu’s Pacific Coast Highway with the four-month-old in her lap. The bimbo sent authorities and child welfare agencies into a spin, but Britney lumped all blame on the paparazzi. Sooo 1996.
Clearly common sense has no currency in Tinseltown.
I’ve just added the Christmas theme to our forums. Unfortunately I didn’t have time to make a whole new layout for BritneySpy.com but hopefully you enjoy the theme on the forums.
According to the UK’s Sun newspaper, Britney is set to do a tell-all interview in US magazine Vanity Fair. The publication cites a source as saying that Britney is going to talk a lot about her marriage to Kevin. This seems unlikely seen as their prenup said neither party can talk about the marriage in any way if they split.
A new interview and photoshoot does seem overdue though, so if it’s not Vanity Fair there will probably be one in another magazine sometime next month.
It has come to my attention that some people were having problems registering with BritneyForums.net. For the time being I have removed the email verification option so people can sign up.
Don’t forget that you can help Britney get back to the topspot in the digital music download charts simply by buying and downloading the Britney track My Only Wish (This Year) today!
If you’re an iTunes user, simply go to the store, search for the track and purchase it. For this to work, though, you must buy it today as 20th December is the selected date. A group of fans set up an initiative to get everyone to download the song today.
Britney appeared on Access Hollywood yesterday, in the USA, inviting a camera into her home to see her decorating her Christmas tree and spraying it with her curious fragrance. She was advertising her fragrances: Curious and Fantasy.
We have 3 promo pictures below for your viewing pleasure.
What do Usher, Chris Brown, Beyonce and Ciara have in common? They’ve all had hits – big hits – with songs written by Sean Garrett.
But his most high-profile client at the moment, at least as far as the tabloids are concerned, is the newly-single Britney Spears.
“Her album’s going to be incredible,” Garrett told The Showbuzz. “I am really excited. She’s been very happy-go-lucky in the studio. Her mindset is great – she seems very focused.”
Garrett said that he is making sure he’s giving her some tracks that are “going to be talked about. Exciting, aggressive, fun. We’re definitely getting back to the basics with her. We’re trying to make the world dance and sing to her beat.”
So far, seven tracks have been confirmed as completed for her forthcoming album.
‘Family Affair’ singer, Mary J. Blige, has spoken out and defended Britney over her recent partying, following her split from husband Kevin Federline.
Blige urged the media to give Britney a break, saying, “I know that at some point in our lives we’ve had a situation like Britney’s, meaning that we all were with someone we thought loved us and actually didn’t.”
“We make mistakes. I’m looking at Britney as a human being just like myself. I messed up big time in my life”, she said.
“I love Britney and I send out all of my prayers and all great energy to her because she’s young and she’s going through it.”
Recently, Britney’s website was updated which contained a note from herself. She stated that she may have taken her new-found freedom a little too far with her partying adventures.
