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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.”
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