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The troubled pop singer, Britney Spears seems to get lucky finally. After a long period in which she had to overcome court presentations in her child custody battle and media oppression her final album seems to be the best thing happened to her in the last four years.

Her new album “Blackout”, released on Tuesday is expected to hit No. 1 on next week’s Billboard Top 200 CD chart, after 124,000 copies were sold on its first day. That means more than double that of the current chart-topper Carrie Underwood’s “Carnival Ride” in the same period (49,000 copies). Jive Records expects the album to sell between 330,000 and 350,000 copies in its first week.

Spears ‘last album “In the Zone” released in 2003 sold 609,000 copies in its first week and a total of 2.96 million units, according to Nielson SoundScan.

“We're looking positively at a Britney #1. At this point, we're talking about first-day sales, and based on her first-day sales, it's sold 124,000, which is pretty comprehensive, but not completely. The next nearest person behind that is Carrie Underwood, and that was 49,000 [in sales for her latest, Carnival Ride], so Britney's first day was more than twice that of her nearest competitor, on that one day.” said Jessica Letkemann, editor of Billboard.com.

Despite Britney’s poor performance at this year VMAs, “Gimme More” has reached the third place in Billboard Hot 100 and sold 179,000 downloads. The music video of “Gimme More” was premiered in October on US iTunes store.

“Blackout” includes the songs “Heaven on Earth”, “Radar”, “Piece of Me” and “Break the Ice.”