Britney Spears New Album "Femme Fatale"

Britney's fans will have to wait a little longer than expected to get their hands on the pop star's new album, "Femme Fatale." Jive Records officially confirmed at March 29th release date for the set today (Feb. 8), two weeks after a label source confirmed the accuracy of a leaked one-sheet that stated the album was coming out on March 15th.

The album reunites Spears with two of pop music's biggest producers and songwriters, Max Martin and Dr. Luke. Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald said in late October that though he had not started work on the album at the time, he "wants [the sound] to get harder in some ways, and maybe a little more deep into electronic -- grimier."

The "Hold It Against Me" video directed by Jonas Åkerlund will premiere on VEVO and will air simultaneously in its entirety on MTV right before a new episode of the network's top-rated Jersey Shore and on MTV.com at 9:56 PM EST on February 17th. Special teasers for the "Hold It Against Me"  to video have been airing on BritneySpears.com, and will continue to air up to the premiere.

Following the digital release of "Hold It Against Me" on Monday, 1/10/11, Britney Spears shatters all previous records for the most number of spins for a first or one-day at both Mediabase and BDS, according to one of the radio industry's top analysts Kevin McCabe, founding principal of Musicrunch.

"Top 40 outlets across the country immediately put 'Hold It Against Me' in rotation and received instant-reaction airplay at America's most-influential stations including Z100 and WXRK in New York and KIIS and KAMP in Los Angeles," states McCabe.

Sharon Dastur, program director for New York's Z100, one of the top influential pop radio stations in the country says, "Ever since we played it yesterday, the reaction has been phenomenal. The audience loves it!"

In addition to the overwhelming fan response at radio, the sales story is also impressive; in less than a day of its release, "Hold It Against Me" is the #1 Song on iTunes.

Britney had 619 spins at Mediabase in what was only a partial day of spins for Monday, 1/10/11. At BDS, Britney had 595 first or one-day spins - also on a partial day's worth of airplay. Britney's big one-day powered her onto the BDS one-day building chart at 16* and perhaps even more impressive was her audience debut at 7*.

As expected, Spears is also a trending topic on twitter worldwide.
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