Britney’s back and going on tour to promote her new album Circus! Congratulations to Jamie King who will be the tour’s director.  Simon Ellis will be the Musical Director for the tour.

Source: MSA Agency

Jamie has previously worked with Britney for the “Me Against The Music” choreography (amazing!) and her the Oops!.. I Did It Again tour in 2000.

Due to overwhelming demand, four more Britney concerts have been scheduled at the o2 arena in London next June.  Britney is extending her Circus tour after over 100,000 people in the UK alone registered interest on her official website.

Here are all the UK dates (so far):

Wed 03/06/09
18:30 The O2
London, GB Britney Spears

Thu 04/06/09
18:30 The O2
London, GB Britney Spears

Sat 06/06/09
18:30 The O2
London, GB Britney Spears

Sun 07/06/09
18:30 The O2
London, GB Britney Spears

Wed 10/06/09
18:30 The O2
London, GB Britney Spears

Thu 11/06/09
18:30 The O2
London, GB Britney Spears

Presale starts tomorrow morning. General sale starts Friday.

Britney’s 2009 arena tour has been announced, with tickets available on presale from today!  This is Britney’s first arena tour in five years.

March 3 - New Orleans Arena, New Orleans LA
March 5 - Phillips Arena, Atlanta GA
March 7 - American Airlines Arena, Miami FL
March 8 - St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa FL
March 11 - Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale NY
March 13 - Prudential Center, Newark NJ
March 16 - TD Banknorth Garden, Boston MA
March 18 - Air Canada Centre, Toronto ON
March 20 - Bell Centre, Montreal Qu
March 24 - Verizon Center, Washington DC
March 26 - Mohegan Sun, Uncasville CT
March 27 - Mellon Arena, Pittsburgh PA
March 30 - Toyota Center, Houston TX
March 31 - American Airlines Center, Dallas TX
April 2 - Sprint Center, Kansas City MO
April 3 - Target Center, Minneapolis MN
April 6 - Rexall Place, Edmonton AL
April 8 - GM Place, Vancouver BC
April 9 - Tacomadome, Tacoma WA
April 11 - Arco Arena, Sacramento CA
April 12 - HP Pavilion, San Jose CA
April 14 - EnergySolutions, Arena Salt Lake City UT
April 16 - STAPLES Center, Los Angeles CA
April 19 - Honda Center, Anaheim CA
April 24 - Jobing.com Arena, Phoenix AZ
April 25 - MGM Grand Garden, Las Vegas NV
April 28 - Allstate Arena, Chicago IL

Buy tickets HERE.

US singer Britney Spears is to play two concerts at the O2 arena in London next June - the only European shows on her forthcoming world tour.

Tickets for the dates on 3 and 4 June will go on general sale on 5 December - although fans who register with her website can buy them 24 hours earlier.

“It’s going to be very special,” said Rob Hallett of tour promoter AEG.

The concert, he said, would take its theme from her latest album The Circus, which is released next week.

“We’re creating a musical circus,” he said. “Expect to see jugglers, dancers, tattooed ladies and acrobats.”

According to the promoter, the concerts will be Spears’ only dates in Europe “for the foreseeable future”.

Spears last performed in the UK in 2004 when her Onyx Hotel tour visited Birmingham, Glasgow, Belfast, Manchester and Wembley Arena in London.

‘Radiant’

The 26-year-old will be in the capital this weekend to appear on ITV1 talent show The X Factor.

Before that she will travel to Germany to attend the annual Bambi entertainment awards in Offenburg.

The singer will be named best international pop star after achieving what organisers have called a “stunning comeback from an absolute low point”.

“Britney Spears is back,” said host Hubert Burda. “Radiant and better than ever, the erstwhile idol has reclaimed her throne.”

In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, the performer admitted she felt “like an old person” now her much-documented troubles are behind her.

“I go to bed at, like, 9.30 every night and I don’t go out or anything,” she is quoted as saying. “I just feel like an old fart.”

Spears’ mother Lynne, meanwhile, has been telling the BBC how happy she is that her daughter has got her life back on track.

“Britney wants to do it right,” she told Radio 5 Live’s Colin Paterson, attributing her recent turnaround to having “good people around her” and “lots and lots of prayer”.

Source: BBC

Another date has been added to Britney’s “Circus” promo tour, which is in France!  Britney will be performing on Star Academy in France on November 28th.

So far Britney’s promo tour is looking like this:

Star Academy, France - November 28
X Factor, United Kingdom - November 29
Good Morning America, USA - December 2

BRITNEY SPEARS is planning to hit the stage in Australia during a “top-secret” worldwide comeback tour, according to one of her closest friends, Australian choreographer Wade Robson.

Robson, 26, who is directing the tour — which is expected to make or break Spears in the music industry — says he and the pop singer want the shows to be “great and classy and elegant and exciting”.

“We want to present her in a way that is her but a way that has never been seen. It’s another side,” said Robson, the Brisbane boy who is one of the hottest choreographers in the US.

Not only is Robson the creative director but his wife, Amanda, is co-artistic director on the tour, which is expected to generate a wide level of interest because of Spears’s breakdown last year.

Robson confirmed that Spears was hoping to bring the show to Australia, most likely towards the end of 2009. Spears’ new album, Circus, will be released on December 2.

Source: The Age

Britney Spears will begin a tour next spring, produced by AEG Live, Billboard can exclusively reveal. Sources say the trek will likely hit arenas and be international in scope, as were recent AEG Live-produced outings by Bon Jovi and Justin Timberlake.

Spears last toured in 2004, grossing more than $34 million, according to Billboard Boxscore.

The artist will be out in support of her new album, “Circus,” due Dec. 2 via Jive. First single “Womanizer” is expected to leap into the upper reaches of the Billboard Hot 100 this week after first-week download sales are factored into the chart.

Source: Billboard