She's just there because of her name, not because of her talent, which is quite sad really.

you dont think britney is talented?? what?

and I find her cute and funny on xfactor.

I didn't take it like that. I thought the poster was saying they hired her because she's Britney, not because of her talent.

She's very talented. Anytime someone says she "can't sing", I'll just point them to her on Star Search. Or to her early career performances when her dancing was incredible.

We all joke about Britney not having credibility to judge a singing competition. But this isn't just about "the voice" - it's about "The X Factor" and if Britney didn't have that factor she wouldn't have become the icon she is today. Like it or not, she had / has something.

:yes

Fantasy Twist commercial :)

^love the commercial!

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.n...61085715_n.jpg
she looks great in both ways

I don't think that I have ever agreed with you more.

Also, as a perfume freak I need to smell these new fragrances. The bottles are too cute!

EDIT: I just Googled it and its really just a rehash of past perfumes. Disappoint.

Britney's gorgeous. Might buy the new fragrance. I've never bought anyone's before.

The top Britney looks like a mess
The bottom one is haut x100

that commercial was amazing. I cant wait to get this, looks so cute and those are my favs from her.

Wow, this pic is amazing!

She's been looking really good lately
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc...zi2jo1_500.gif
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n...04197492_n.jpg

Awww, she's cute^-^

Lol. the first picture looks like she got surprised.

Lol it's an animated gif but it freezes after a few play-throughs on the first frame.

This ***** must be taking a break from music huh...these American singers, I tell you...

I know, I need a new album so bad :(. But she's featured on a Will.I.Am song that's coming soon, she even shot a video for it. Well I'm not expecting not because it's Will but still

Song with Will.I.Am

sounds hot but still big fat bass much better than this.

Actually I really love this song! It's cool how they sampled the "It's Britney, *****!" part!!

In love with Scream & Shout. Can't wait to see this debut at #1!

I think it's a perfect song for clubbing!

I guess I'm the minority, because I didn't care for it at all. Too generic, even for Britney.

An interview with will.i.am and Britney : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed_dG...layer_embedded

Scream & shout already in the top 20. hopefully it will shoot to #1. very addictive

^dat ass is hawt.

Scream & Shout really makes me appreciate Femme Fatale.

Scream & Shout is the usual will.i.am crap.

<3

It isn't supposed to be a masterpiece. It is made to be a club song, and I think it works.

How anyone can dance to this junk in a club is beyond me. It's just noise - it's the same non-melodic garbage on loop. I'll never understand why the world is obsessed with house...

Britney has done so, so much better with equally generic Dance pop/Club tracks though.

Britney's verses sound god awful.
She sounds like a British man now.

:yes:yes:yes:yes:yes

the song is selling well because of her name.
it isnt really what I expected but kinda addictive. IMO Till the world ends still much better and deserved to be #1.

Yeah, but this isn't her song, she's just featured.

All she has to do is say "It's Britney *****" in a song now, and it sells millions...or well....just put her NAME on it.

^ it's kinda funny that Britney only sounded like herself in the song when she said 'its Britney b****'

I really don't like the song. Like, I really love Britney... but I just can't get into it :no

Britney looks absolutely gorgeous in the video! :heart

but the song is so bad. i wouldn't even dance to it with a couple drinks in my system. :P

Wow, she looks super hot and gorgeous in the video!

I don't think any of her songs are this generic...

I just turn off the song and watch the video. I can't resist how pretty she is in the video.

"I like big butt, and I cannot lie."

Well, we all know that it's all will i am's doing.
He wants a hit so he gets britney to feature.
It helped rihanna with S&M too.

oh will i am. trying to help his flop career. Britney can only help you so much...

I'd rather listen to Rebecca Black than have to listen to that monstrosity ever again.

In other news, Britney should make another song like "Trip to Your Heart". I love me some dreamy trance music.

I eat, breathe, and sleep trance music. And Trip To Your Heart was such a letdown.

Till the world ends...
thats an amazing track. i could use more of that in my life.

:( Then I guess I don't know good trance music. Wanna PM me some good dreamy trance songs? :)

i'm with you. Trip to your heart is one of my top 10 playlist.

anyway will she be able to shoot to #1? she's been #1 since the video released?

I like most of her songs in her last album.

Nope probably not. Billboard changed their rules recently so it's a lot harder to debut at #1.

just saw it debuted at #12.

how did they do that?

Um well it used to be like 50% sales and 50% radio. Now they reduced sales, which only counts like 35% now, and made streaming count much more. So stupid tbh

Best songs on Femme Fatale were Seal It With a Kiss, Hold it Against Me and Trouble for Me

so you dont even have to buy the track to get a number 1 anymore?
thats ridiculous. lol

Was never the case in America :/

^ if your talking about the hot 100. that was based on sales.

Eh? Why should fans buy something then? If it's not for showing support and the possibility of getting a No.1... stupid -.-

^How about buying it for the sake of having it?

A chart should show how popular a track is, and sometimes sales have very little to do with it, for example:

- In 2001 Mariah's Loverboy reached #2 on charts because once the label noticed she was flopping, they lowered the price to 49 cents and her fans started to buy several copies of it... still, the weak airplay prevented the song from reaching #1

- From 2008 to 2009 Mylene Farmer got 5 consecutive #1 singles, becoming the artist with most #1 on the french charts and breaking her own record single after single... This after +20 years career. Was she going through a peak? Not really, actually, none of those singles got much airplay or were successful outside of her fanbase... To the point of debuting in #1 and fastly going out of the charts... But her fans are older, they still buy physical copies when nobody else's fanbase did, so, even if her sales weren't anything special, the singles got good position.

If the goal is to show who is selling the most copies, airplay and streaming aren't relevant. But if the goal is to show how popular a track is, Billboard done the best move possible.

^I mostly buy all the stuff from my favourite artists just for the sake of having it. But sometimes I just buy something from not very known artists just to show support, but if it doesn't count why should I? In this case streaming would be better.

I disagree. Sales determine what the public likes. No fanbase is big enough alone to make a song go #1. Of course radio can still count but more than sales? Thats the reason why Gangnam Style got blocked from #1 for 7 weeks by a song that wasnt even close to being as popular. Shows how much power radio has. Not to mention labels can just pay them to play your song

Thats not true. People hardly even bought singles before the digital era. Radio counted even more back then.

agree!

Don't forget you are on AHS, the forum dedicated to the singer that broke the record for consecutive #1 in 2010 without having any real hit since 2006. You don't have to sell a lot to get a weekly #1, you only need to sell more than the other people are selling on that week... If they sell bad, you only need to sell a little "less" bad.

And even If I agree that selling milliosns of copies of a single shows it is a really popular song, you can sell millions with small numbers each week and never actually reach the #1, or even top 5, on the same way a strong fanbase can buy a massive number of copies once the song debut, and after that she song fall hard because very little people out of that fanbase actually cared.

I think it's kinda dumb to compare the japanese market to the US one, considering singles and albums don't usually have any longevity in Japan. Plus Oricon is based on physical sales only. No singles chart is really relevant anymore in Japan tbh.

The only thing that actually makes singles chart relevant on Billboard is that they actually take airplay and streaming in consideration, so, they actually can measure a song popularity, not only how many times the fanbase bought the audio file.

Also, the longevity in Japan depends a lot of the artist and on how much casual listeners they atract... Most Avex pop projects like Ayu, Koda, Ai, or most idols don't have much, you are right about that... But acts known out of the idol realm, like Hikki, tend to have pretty good longevity, as they actually atract casual listerners.

Hm, I am so confused. What is what now ?

Okay she's definitely working on a new album/recording

And he tweeted

Elijah Blake ‏@SirElijahBlake
@Zankou_212 I've definitely had the pleasure of starting on something I think is going to be big with her

and her manager followed Diplo today :thud

YAY!!! I hope for an early 2013 release, in March or so. Would be perfect! Ah, I still remember how excited I was about Femme Fatale! I want this feeling back!!! <3<3<3

im ready for her to have a new album!

yeah Britney I'm so ready for new album. probably by mid 2013

New album? I hope that Brit contributes more to the tracks this time around. Her last album she only co-wrote a a bonus track for the Japanese version. I want more Everytimes.

Everytime was amazing, I would love more songs from her!

I hope Britney sounds more like a human on the next album.

she can said whatever she wants to as long as its good. lol

Will we ever be blessed with another song that sounds like Everytime? I really miss songs like that from her.

I guess not... v_v

I can't wait for the album but please god don't let her collaborate with will.i.am. My poor heart won't be able to take it.

Scream and Shout enters the US top 10 at #8 this week and passes the million mark in sales :D

Hot Digital Songs
4. will.i.am & Britney Spears "Scream & Shout" (203,000) (1,123,000)

that's good! :D

She also tweeted about the new album the other day

Britney Spears ‏@britneyspears

I'm seeing so much chatter about new music out there. Glad to see you're all paying attention ;) Lot of work to do in 2013! LETS GO!

her manager too

Adam Leber ‏@AdamLeber

I will say @britneyspears had an incredible session recently with @esterdean and @hit_boy. Great start....
Details

A track with Ester Dean? Hmm...hopefully it's good.

Excited! Can't wait for new material

Yes.

I've never been a big Britney fan but she's just so above people like will I am.

I thought she couldn't dance anymore but apparently she still can. The video was probably from the Circus era. She didn't dance like that on The Circus or Femme Fatale tours! Now I feel somehow cheated.

^I wanna see her dance like this on stage again!

Hoping for a fall release for album 8.

poor Brit, she broke up with Jason

^Did she wrote this on twitter?

It's official: Britney Spears and Jason Trawick have called it quits.

"Britney Spears and Jason Trawick have mutually agreed to end their one-year engagement," her rep Jeff Raymond tells PEOPLE exclusively. "As two mature adults, they came to the difficult decision to go their separate ways while continuing to remain friends."

Spears and Trawick confirmed their parting in a statement her rep released to PEOPLE.

"Jason and I have decided to call off our engagement," Spears says in the statement. "I'll always adore him and we will remain great friends."

Adds Trawick: "As this chapter ends for us a new one begins. I love and cherish her and her boys and we will be close forever."

The former The X Factor judge, 31, and Trawick began dating in 2009 and got engaged on Trawick's 40th birthday in December of 2011.

http://www.people.com/people/article...657207,00.html

:(

At least they still respect and like each other, hopefully they are able to stay friends, that would be nice.

Aw, BritBrit :(

man, 4 years down the drain... that sucks.
I never understood why people favored long relationships over shorter ones. I mean, Britney spent 4 years with this guy and then in the end, they decided to break it off...
sad... what a waste.

True love. You hope the relationship will last.

Well if they broke up it obviously wasn't the real thing...

On a lighter note Scream & Shout is #1 in UK & Germany this week!