Britney’s latest album “Blackout” was voted the wost album of the year at last night’s NME awards in London. Other ‘nominees’ in this category included Leona Lewis’ debut album.

Oh well, who cares what they think? I’d rather listen to the ‘worst album of the year’ than any of the pretentious indie crap that they promote. At least she won best album of the year at the NRJ awards last month… and will hopefully win more later this year!

A couple of people have asked me this, and it’s a tricky one to answer.

The album has reportedly now sold over 1.6 million copies.  Bear in mind that this figure doesn’t count the sales in all countries, just the majority.  Therefore, the exact number is more than likely quite a bit higher than 1.6 million.

Despite media reports that “Hot As Ice” was Britney’s next single, it now seems that “Break The Ice” will be the song the world will be listening to for the next few months.

A promo CD has been sent out, including the album version and instrumental. Unfortunately, there’s no radio edit, which I think the song needs to be a single.

Another hint that it’s the next single is that the song jumped 201 places in a day to #91 on the Mediabase US radio airplay chart.

Note that the single cover isn’t confirmed, but the one above was added to eBay shortly after the CDS leaked.

“Blackout” won Best International Album tonight at the NRJ Awards in France!

The disc beat out stiff competition from other international stars’ albums such as Amy Whinehouse’s “Back To Black” and Rihanna’s “Good Girl Gone Bad”.

Here’s a demo of a new Britney song, which was probably recorded for “Blackout” last year but rejected.  It samples and covers (in parts) Ace Of Base’s 90s hit “All That She Wants”.

Download it here.

With pup London in hand, Britney Spears headed to the Millennium Dance Complex in North Hollywood on Sunday night to work on a new routine, owner Robert Baker tells PEOPLE.

“She is working on the choreography for her song ‘Hot as Ice,’” Baker said, “She rehearsed an amazing routine with a chair.”

The intense dance session wrapped up a characteristically bizarre weekend, during which Spears invited two photographers back to her home for some late-night champagne. “She was very sweet,” said one of the photographers, adding that Spears pal Sam Lutfi claimed to have “filed a restraining order” against Adnan Ghalib.

Ghalib, the paparazzo who has been Spears’s near-constant companion in recent weeks, shot back, “I am only now becoming aware of what is being said. I hope to be back home in Los Angeles soon and to be in contact with Miss Spears.” (The L.A. police and sheriff’s departments both said no emergency protective order had been issued.)

Spears, 26 – who also dropped by PetCo Sunday afternoon, picking up a birdcage and some dog food – spent nearly three hours working on her moves at Millennium. She emerged at 9:30 p.m. in a white top and Dolce and Gabbana sunglasses, chatting with paparazzi and requesting the presence of Filipe, one of the photographers who had been at her home earlier.

“Britney was in an upbeat mood,” Baker said, adding that despite the impressive workout, the singer still seemed slightly scatterbrained. “I let her use my personal copy of Blackout. She forgot her own CD.”

Source: People Magazine

A new Britney song title has been registered on the ASCAP database, called “Pulse”.

It was written by the writing team GHOST, comprising of  Joe Belmatti, Mich Hedin Hansen, Mikkel Sigvardt and Lorne Alistair Tenant.

The song was probably recorded during the “Blackout” sessions. Who knows if we’ll ever get to hear it, there are already tons of Britney songs we haven’t had the pleasure of listening to…

According to ProMusic Spain, the company that represents the Spanish record labels, the re-release of Britney’s latest album “Blackout” has been pushed back to October 28th.

The re-release had originally been set for June.

The UK release for “Piece Of Me” was originally set for today, before SonyBMG changed it to the 14th.

However, now it appears that the single was released today!  The CDS is now available to buy at all good retailers, so don’t forget to go out and buy it.  It should do quite well this week after all the drama over the weekend.

Thanks a lot to Steve for the info!

Here’s another official remix of “Piece Of Me” - the Mysto & Pizzi Radio Edit.

Click the play button to listen!

The Spanish Promusic website, which is the alliance between all the major record labels, has released a preliminary calendar of 2008 music releases, including a rerelease of Blackout, pencilled in for release on June 17th.

Here is my translation from Spanish:

“Special edition of Britney’s latest critically acclaimed album “Blackout”. Includes the original album plus 4 new tracks, remixes and a DVD about the  production of the most risky project in Britney’s career make up this collectors boxset. June 17th 2008.”

Billboard.com asked visitors to divulge their favorite album of 2007 and we received a huge response. Over 16,000 votes were cast and Britney Spears came out on top by a huge margin. Thirty-eight percent of voters hailed “Blackout” as the best album of the year. Here are the top ten albums of 2007, according to Billboard.com readers:

1. Britney Spears, “Blackout” (Jive/Zomba)
2. Bruce Springsteen, “Magic” (Columbia/Sony)
3. RBD, “Empezar Desde Cero” (EMI)
4. Backstreet Boys, “Unbreakable” (Jive/Zomba)
5. Kelly Clarkson, “My December” (RCA)
6. Ashley Tisdale, “Headstrong” (Warner Bros.)
7. Vanessa Hudgens, “V” (Angel)
8. Josh Groban, “Noel” (143/Reprise/Warner Bros.)
9. Avril Lavigne, “The Best Damn Thing” (RCA/RMG)
10. Josh Groban, “Awake” (143/Reprise/Warner Bros.)

Source: Billboard

In its fifth week on the Billboard 200, Britney Spears’ Blackout sits at no. 41, three spots behind Nickleback’s All the Right Reasons (in its 113th week on the chart) and one spot ahead of comedian Larry the Cable Guy’s Christmastime In Larryland. That’s pathetic … and sad, since Blackout happens to be Britney’s best album.

There are hits here, people! Along with the excellent “Piece of Me,” “Radar” is the second most obvious potential smash off the record, a bubblegum-electro dance floor jam with a hook most pop stars would kill for. On it, Britney sets her sights on a random hot guy. The lyrics read like a personal ad — “confidence is a must, cockiness is a plus” — and Britney sorta comes off like a desperate single girl here: “Tryin’ to make you understand you’re on my radar,” she pleads.

And just as the singer can’t rely on her superstar stature alone to snag the hot dude here, her tabloid omnipotence isn’t going to make people buy her LP. So, while Britney is seemingly on everyone’s radar nowadays, her Billboard popularity is careening off the map. Given the bevy of ace tunes found on Blackout, there’s reason to believe one high-quality (non-stripper-themed) video could change that.

Source: Blender

Rolling Stone magazine has published a list of their top 100 songs of 2007, and “Piece Of Me”, is placed at #15!

They said, ” Britney gets a pissed-off synth rocker to match her shaved head as she eviscerates the tabs one by one. Proof that she’s got a soul — and the right producers to construct it for her.”

There’s no sign of “Gimme More”, and the rest of the list leaves a lot to be desired…

Check out the rest of the best songs, according to Rolling Stone, by clicking the read more link!

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Britney’s latest studio effort, “Blackout”, was featured in the latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine’s 50 Top Albums Of The Year section, coming in at #50.

Are they deaf? The album is deserving of a much higher position than that!

On a sidenote, if you haven’t voted for “Blackout” at the Virgin Media Music Awards yet, vote here.  (You can vote again if you wait a few hours)

Here’s another official remix of the new single “Piece Of Me”.  It’s the Mike Rizzo Radio Edit.

Check it out by clicking play!

After 5 weeks on the official UK albums chart, “Blackout” is continuing to drop due to a lack of promotion.  This week it dropped 10 places to #80.

“Gimme More” has finally started to fall on the official singles chart too.  It dropped 12 places this week to #30.

You can vote for Britney’s latest album “Blackout” now at the Virgin Media Music Awards.  It’s nominated in the Best Album category and is winning so far.

Vote here. 

Here is the second official remix of “Piece Of Me” that has surfaced, the Bimbo Jones Radio Edit. You can hear the first one I posted here.

SonyBMG UK are offering you the chance to be a ‘piece of Britney’ by appearing in a special mosiac fan cover for her new single, “Piece Of Me,” released in the Uk on 7th January 2008. The cover will be available for download around the same time as the UK CD release date, and will be compiled of fan photographs; to submit your photo, send a photo of yourself (you must own the copyright to the photograph), sized 200×200pixels here, with the subject line, “Britney Piece Of Me” - spaces are first come, first served!

Source: UKBritney.TV