Britney did very well on Billboard’s Mid-2011 music poll! Congratulations to her!  Here are the titles she won:

First-half MVP
Favorite Hot 100 No. 1 Song: “Hold It Against Me”
Favorite Billboard No. 1 Album: “Femme Fatale”
Best Music Video: “I Wanna Go”
Best Tour: Femme Fatale Tour

“Now listed as featured artist on “S&M,” Spears earns her fifth Hot 100 No. 1 and second this year, following her own “Hold It Against Me” in January. She had previously reigned with her debut single “…Baby One More Time” in 1999 and returned to the summit with “Womanizer” (2008) and “3″ (2009).

source:  Billboard.com

LOS ANGELES, April 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Pop music trendsetter Britney Spears, who has continually captivated crowds around the world with her live music events, today confirms special guest Nicki Minaj will join the Femme Fatale touring event of the summer. The all female line-up includes Jessie and the Toy Boys and Nervo on every tour stop. Spears has prepared an extraordinary show in support of the North American tour that begins on June 16th in Sacramento at the Power Balance Pavilion. Tickets for select markets go on sale beginning April 30th at Ticketmaster.com and LiveNation.com.

”This is the Femme Fatale tour and I’m thrilled to have Nicki Minaj, Jessie and the Toy Boys, and Nervo join me and get everyone on the dance floor,” said Spears. “Can’t wait to take the Femme Fatales on the road.”

Spears continues to influence a generation of pop music fans with the release of her highly acclaimed, seventh studio album, Femme Fatale, which is expected to debut at #1 on tomorrow’s Billboard Album charts, marking her 6th #1 album, and continuing her reign as one of the top-selling artists of the past decade. Spears has sold more than 67 million albums worldwide since her debut in 1999 and has generated more than 24 Top 40 Hits on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 chart.
“Till The World Ends” is the recently released second single from Spears’ new pop epic Femme Fatale and the follow up to the smash debut single, “Hold It Against Me,” which has sold more than a million copies. “Hold It Against Me” also debuted at number one on both the Hot 100 Singles and Hot Digital Songs Chart, it currently ranks #1 on the digital singles charts in 20 markets globally and is the # 1 video on MTV and VH1 in the U.S.
Citi® cardmembers will also have access to presale tickets through Citi’s Private Pass® Program. For complete presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com.

On Sale 4/30:
June 16 Sacramento, CA Power Balance Pavilion
June 18 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion
June 20 Los Angeles, CA Staples Center
June 24 Anaheim, CA Honda Center
June 25 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Garden Arena
July 8 Chicago, IL United Center
July 22 Miami, FL American Airlines Arena
July 28 Detroit, MI The Palace of Auburn Hills
August 2 Uniondale, NY Nassau Coliseum
August 5 East Rutherford, NJ Izod Center
August 13 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre

On Sale 5/7:
June 28 Portland, OR Rose Garden Arena
June 29 Tacoma, WA Tacoma Dome
July 1 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena
July 4 Winnipeg, MB MTS Centre
July 6 St. Paul, MN Xcel Center
July 12 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
July 13 Houston, TX Toyota Center
July 17 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
July 20 Orlando, FL Amway Center
July 26 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena
July 30 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
July 31 Washington, DC Verizon Center
August 8 Boston, MA TD Garden
August 11 Montreal, QC Bell Centre

On Sale 5/14:
July 15 New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena

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LOS ANGELES, CA (March 29, 2011) Britney Spears and Enrique Iglesias, pop music superstars who have shaped pop music for more than a decade, have announced they will come together for the touring event of the summer. Combined they share countless awards, hit albums, hit singles and are known around the world for being two of the most captivating and successful entertainers of all time with their extraordinary live shows. The announcement comes today, the official release day of Spears’ highly acclaimed seventh studio album, Femme Fatale. The Live Nation produced tour is scheduled to begin on June 17th in Sacramento.

Tickets go on sale April 9th in San Jose, CA; Chicago, IL; Houston, TX; Miami, FL; Detroit, MI; Uniondale, NY; East Rutherford, NJ; and Toronto, ON. Tickets will be available at Ticketmaster.com and LiveNation.com. Additional on sale dates will be announced soon. The once in a lifetime event will make a 26 date trek through top arenas across North America.

Citi® cardmembers will also have access to presale tickets through Citi’s Private Pass® Program. For complete presale details visit http://www.citiprivatepass.com.

“Till The World Ends” is the recently released second single from Spears’ new pop epic Femme Fatale and the follow up to the smash debut single, “Hold It Against Me,” which has sold more than a million copies. “Hold It Against Me” also debuted at number one on both the Hot 100 Singles and Hot Digital Songs Charts, it currently ranks #1 on the digital singles charts in 20 markets globally and is the # 1 video on MTV and VH1 in the U.S.

During her 12-year career, Spears has had five albums debut in the No. 1 position on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart and she’s had 24 Top 40 hits on Billboard’s Mainstream Top 40 chart. Globally, Britney Spears is one of the top-selling artists of the past decade, dominating charts with her albums, selling an astonishing 67 million albums worldwide. Her previous albums include: …Baby One More Time (1999); Oops!… I Did It Again (2000); Britney (2001); In The Zone (2003); Blackout (2007); Circus (2008); and The Singles Collection (2009).

Iglesias is in the midst of an acclaimed European tour in support of his latest hit album, Euphoria, where he has performed to dancing and singing crowds at every stop, and recently received an astounding 14 Billboard Latin Music Awards nominations. Mega-platinum recording artist Enrique Iglesias recently made history with the most No. 1’s on the Billboard Dance Chart by a male artist, surpassing Prince and Michael Jackson with his double-platinum-selling single “Tonight” featuring Ludacris, his eighth single to reach #1 on Billboard’s Dance chart. Enrique also made headlines by simultaneously hitting No. 1 on both the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 Chart (with “Tonight”) and the Latin Charts (with “No Me Digas Que No” featuring Wisin and Yandel). Both tracks appear on Euphoria, a star-studded affair featuring guest appearances by Akon, Juan Luis Guerra, Nicole Scherzinger, Usher and Wisin & Yandel and produced by RedOne (Lady Gaga, Mary J. Blige), Mark Taylor (Nelly Furtado, Britney Spears) and Enrique’s long-time collaborator, Carlos Paucar. It’s the first Enrique Iglesias album to feature songs in both Spanish and English.

With more than 58 million copies sold worldwide, 23 Billboard No. 1’s, unbeatable records, countless awards and thousands of sold-out concerts around the planet, Iglesias continues to be one of the most successful artists in modern music.

BRITNEY SPEARS AND ENRIQUE IGLESIAS – NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES

June 17 Sacramento, CA Power Balance Pavilion
June 18 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion
June 20 Los Angeles, CA Staples Center
June 24 Anaheim, CA Honda Center
June 25 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand
June 28 Portland, OR Rose Garden Arena
June 29 Tacoma, WA Tacoma Dome
July 1 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena
July 4 Winnipeg, MB MTS Centre
July 6 St. Paul, MN Xcel Center
July 8 Chicago, IL United Center
July 12 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
July 13 Houston, TX Toyota Center
July 15 New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena
July 17 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
July 20 Orlando, FL Amway Center
July 22 Miami, FL American Airlines Arena
July 26 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena
July 28 Detroit, MI Palace of Auburn Hills
July 30 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
July 31 Washington, DC Verizon Center
August 2 Uniondale, NJ Nassau Coliseum
August 5 East Rutherford, NJ Izod Center
August 8 Boston, MA TD Garden
August 11 Montreal, QC Bell Centre
August 13 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre

Additional dates to be announced soon. Complete ticket and tour information is available at BritneySpears.com, EnriqueIglesias.com or LiveNation.com. 

Jody Rosen of Rolling Stone reviewed Femme Fatale and here’s her quoted reaction:

“Britney Spears is pop music’s stealth avant-gardist. For years, critics have dismissed her as a cipher with a wisp of a voice. But from the minute she burst on the scene — heralded by the keyboard power chords of “. . . Baby One More Time” — her music has steered bubblegum into weirder, woollier territory. “Toxic” was a mélange of Bollywood and spy-movie guitar; “Piece of Me” was an essay on 21st-century tabloid infamy crooned over 22nd-century club rhythms. Then there’s this year’s “Hold It Against Me,” which dissolves into a furious dubstep breakdown — easily the most assaultive beat on the Hot 100 right now.

Femme Fatale may be Britney’s best album; certainly it’s her strangest. Conceptually it’s straightforward: a party record packed with sex and sadness. Max Martin and Dr. Luke, the world’s two biggest hitmakers, are responsible for seven of 12 songs: big melodies and bigger Eurodisco thumps. But other producers go nuts, tossing the kitchen sink at Britney. The Bloodshy-helmed “How I Roll” is sputtering, oddly beautiful techno. In “Big Fat Bass,” Will.i.am turns Britney into a cyborg obsessed with low-end. (“The bass is getting bigger!” she exults.) On nearly every track, Britney’s voice is twisted, shredded, processed, roboticized. Maybe this is because she doesn’t have much of a voice; it’s certainly because she, more than almost any other pop diva, is simply game. Femme fatale? Not so much. But say this for Britney: She’s an adventuress.”

via Britney.com

For Immediate Release:
March 3, 2011

Britney Spears Launches New Song “Till The World Ends”
From Her Upcoming “Femme Fatale” Album
In Stores March 29th

New York, NY – Britney Spears’ next single from her highly anticipated seventh studio album, Femme Fatale is the upbeat, “Till The World Ends”. Produced by Dr. Luke and Max Martin, it’s the follow-up to the million plus-selling infectious first single, “Hold It Against Me,” which debuted in the No. 1 position on both the Hot 100 Singles and the Hot Digital Songs charts. “Hold It Against Me” ranked No. 1 on digital singles charts in 20 markets worldwide, and the video clip is currently the #1 video on MTV and VH-1 in the U.S.

Femme Fatale is in stores and available at digital retailers on March 29th.

In her current V Magazine cover story, Spears says, “I think ‘Femme Fatale’ speaks for itself… I wanted to make a fierce dance record where each song makes you want to get up and move…”

Acknowledging today’s leak of her newest song, Britney just announced via twitter that she will formally premiere “Till The World Ends” on Ryan Seacrest’s show tomorrow morning, Friday, March 4th in the 7AM PST/10AM EST hour. Spears is confirmed to do a very special performance on Good Morning America from San Francisco, airing March 29th.

“Femme Fatale” Track Listing:
1. Till The World Ends (Produced by Dr. Luke, Max Martin and Billboard)
2. Hold It Against Me (Produced by Dr. Luke, Max Martin and Co-produced by Billboard)
3. Inside Out (Produced by Dr. Luke, Max Martin and Billboard)
4. I Wanna Go (Produced by Max Martin and Shellback)
5. How I Roll (Produced by Bloodshy, Henrik Jonback and Magnus)
6. (Drop Dead) Beautiful featuring Sabi (Produced by Benny Blanco, Ammo, JMIKE and Billboard)
7. Seal It With A Kiss (Produced by Dr. Luke, Max Martin and Dream Machine)
8. Big Fat Bass featuring will.i.am (Produced by will.i.am)
9. Trouble For Me (Produced by Fraser T Smith)
10. Trip To Your Heart (Produced by Bloodshy, Henrik Jonback and Magnus)
11. Gasoline (Produced by Dr. Luke and Benny Blanco)
12. Criminal (Produced by Max Martin and Shellback)

The Deluxe version of “Femme Fatale” will include four additional tracks:
13. Up N’ Down (Produced by Max Martin, Shellback and Oligee)
14. He About To Lose Me (Produced by Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins)
15. Selfish (Produced by Stargate, and Sandy Vee)
16. Don’t Keep Me Waiting (Produced by Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins)

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — The jury in Britney Spears’ trial for driving without a valid license ended their first day of deliberations without reaching a verdict, according to court officials.

Jurors will resume deliberations at 9am (1600 GMT) on Monday following a two-day trial that pop diva Spears, 26, was not required to attend.

The trial went ahead after the singer rejected a plea deal that would have seen her fined 150 dollars and given one year’s probation.

The case stems from an August 2007 incident when paparazzi trailing the singer caught her bumping a car in a parking lot and driving away.

Prosecutors say Spears was later discovered not to have a valid California license. She is charged with a misdemeanor — punishable by jail or a fine — but for a first offense Spears is unlikely to receive a custodial sentence.

Spears’ defense argued the star held a valid Louisiana license at the time of the incident and was not legally required to hold a California permit because she was not living permanently in the state at the time.

Spears — who hit rock bottom in January when she was twice rushed to hospital for psychiatric treatment after losing custody of her two young sons — appears to have got her career back on track.

Her new single “Womanizer” went to the top of Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart this week, her first No.1 on the ranking since 1999′s “Baby One More Time.”

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