Updated: All Of Britney's Albums With Interesting Facts And Album Information - All In One Place! (Remix Albums And Rumored Albums Included)

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"Hold It Against Me" was released as the album's lead single on January 11, 2011. Critics praised the song, though some dismissed its lyrical content. The music video for the song premiered on February 17, 2011 on MTV following a two-week teaser campaign and featured Spears as an alien who finds fame on Earth but becomes overwhelmed with her celebrity and breaks down. "Hold It Against Me" became Spears' fourth number one single on the Billboard Hot 100, making Spears the second artist in history to have multiple singles debut at number one. The song also went to number one in six other countries and peaked within the top ten in over twelve countries worldwide.

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"Till the World Ends" was released as the second single, making its premiere on Ryan Seacrest's radio show On Air With Ryan Seacrest. The song received positive reviews from critics, complimenting its catchy appeal and anthemic nature. The music video for "Till The World Ends" was released on April 6, 2011 on VEVO and showcased Spears in an underground dance party. A remix featuring Nicki Minaj and Kesha was also released.  "Till The World Ends" performed well worldwide, topping the charts in Poland and South Korea while peaking inside the top ten in the United States, Australia, Canada and nine other countries. The song also became Spears' biggest radio hit in the United States at the time, reaching a radio audience of ninety-eight million, the highest weekly audience of her career before "I Wanna Go" was released.

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"I Wanna Go" was announced as the third single on May 13, 2011. It was officially released as a single in June 2011. The song received mostly positive reviews from critics who praised the song's hook. The music video for "I Wanna Go" was released on June 22, 2011 and featured Spears daydreaming about different scenarios during a press conference. "I Wanna Go" has so far peaked at number one in South Korea, number eight in Canada, and seven in the United States while also charting in the Top 40 of New Zealand, Turkey, France, Denmark and Australia. After "I Wanna Go" reached number seven in the US,Femme Fatale became Spears's first album to produce three top-ten hits.

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"Criminal" was announced as the album's fourth and final single following the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards on August 28, 2011. Earlier that month, In a poll on Spears's officialFacebook page appeared, asking the fans to vote for the fourth official single from Femme Fatale, the choices being "Criminal", "(Drop Dead) Beautiful", and "Inside Out"."Criminal" won the poll with a lead of 39,160 votes, being released on September 30, 2011 as the final single from the album. The accompanying music video was filmed inStoke Newington, a district of London, England. This would be the second time Spears had teamed up with director Chris Mars Pirello, the first being with "I Wanna Go."

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The first set of promotion included an interview from Ryan Seacrest, then promotion for the album began on March 25, 2011 in a performance that included "Hold It Against Me", "Till the World Ends" and "Big Fat Bass". The performance was filmed at Rain Nightclubinside the Palms Casino Resort and was included in a MTV special titled "I Am the Femme Fatale", which aired on April 3, 2011. Spears manager Larry Rudolph explained the choice of the location for the performances in an interview with MTV, saying, "we chose the Palms because the Palms is where Britney has so much history. We performed here with the Britney album, we did a similar thing. We're doing this eight years later now and we're doing it for the fans." Rudolph also explained that the singer's main goal was to entertain her fans in theFemme Fatale era, and added, "I want them to know — when the fans watch this — I want them to know that Britney is back and better than ever, not that she's ever gone anywhere. But she's back and she's better than ever." The original airing of the special in the United States was viewed by 0.665 million viewers and received a Nielsen rating of 0.3/1 in the key adults 18–49 demographic.

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On March 27, Spears performed the same set of songs in the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium to a crowd of 5,000 people for a special episode of Good Morning America that aired on March 29. The singer also performed the same three-song set and participated in two skits onJimmy Kimmel Live! on March 29, and made a special appearance at the 2011 Kids' Choice Awards.  She was also scheduled to make several appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on the week of the album's release. In April 2011, Spears appeared in a remix to the song "S&M" by Rihanna, after Rihanna asked her fans via Twitter who they wanted her to collaborate with. The song reached number one in the US in mid-April 2011, giving Spears her fifth number one on the chart. She also served as a guest host at the 2011 Wango Tango concert series alongside Ryan Seacrest on May 14, 2011. Spears made a brief appearance at the 2011 BillboardMusic Awards, performing the "S&M" remix with Rihanna and a short version of "Till The World Ends" alongside Femme Fatale tourmate Nicki Minaj. On August 3, 2011, ABC Family announced that "(Drop Dead) Beautiful" would be available for free download on their website, until the premiere of the Teen Spirit series on August 5, 2011 more promotion for the album stated in the uk on her European leg of the femme fatale tour Britney promoted the album with dozens of interviews and radio pressings as well as a twister commercial which was finished after the femme fatale tour.  "Trouble for Me" was also featured on the main page of BMG's website. "Gasoline" was used in a November 2012 commercial for Spears's perfume "Fantasy Twist".

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On June 16, 2011, Spears embarked on her sixth concert tour to further promote Femme Fatale. It was announced on March 29, 2011 and so far includes 39 dates in North America and 26 dates in Europe. In an interview on Ryan Seacrest's radio show on March 4, 2011, Spears stated she would tour the United States in the "early summer" in support ofFemme Fatale. On March 29, 2011, following her performances on Good Morning America, she announced a co-headlining tour with Enrique Iglesias, starting in June 2011. Hours after the announcement, it was reported by Billboard that Iglesias had pulled out of the tour. Ray Wedell of Billboard speculated that the reason may have been that Spears was deemed by news outlets as the headliner, while Iglesias was considered the opening act.  The first twenty-six North American dates were also announced on March 29, 2011. The opening acts were announced on April 12, 2011. Spears stated, "This is the Femme Fatale tour and I'm thrilled to have Nicki Minaj, Jessie and the Toy Boys, and Nervojoin me and get everyone on the dance floor. Can't wait to take the Femme Fatales on the road." Tickets for select markets go on sale beginning April 30 at Ticketmaster and Live Nation's websites. In March 2011, Spears's manager Larry Rudolph told MTV News that the tour would have a "post-apocalyptic vibe", while commenting that "Till the World Ends" keeps becoming a theme for us." He also confirmed Jamie King as the tour director. The tour opened to positive reviews, with some calling it her best tour in her entire career.

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At Metacritic, Femme Fatale holds an average score of 67 out of 100 (indicating "generally favorable reviews") based on 25 reviews from mainstream music critics. Jody Rosen of Rolling Stone commented that it "may be Britney's best album; certainly it's her strangest".Allmusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine viewed that Spears' presence on the album is overshadowed by its "high-class" production, calling the album "essentially a cleaner, classier remake of the gaudily dark Blackout [...] a producer’s paradise".Robert Everett-Green of The Globe and Mail gave the album three-and-a-half out of four stars and complimented its "grainy, glistening electronic sound", calling it "one of the major guilty pleasures in pop this year". Kitty Empire of The Observer commented that Spears "has turned out the “fierce dance record” she promised".Ailbhe Malone of NME viewed it as her "best work" and wrote that it "brims with the laidback confidence of someone who knows she's back on top."

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MSN Music's Robert Christgau gave the album a B+ rating,  indicating "remarkable one way or another, yet also flirts with the humdrum or the half-assed".Slant Magazine's Sal Cinquemani commented that Spears's lack of involvement makes "the success of a Britney song rest almost entirely on the quality of other people's songwriting and production, and almost every track on Femme Fatale succeeds or fails on that basis". Los Angeles Times writer Carl Wilson felt that the album "finds unity of subject, style and sound by imagining scenarios in which vanishing into anonymity can be comfort and liberation".Tom Gockelen-Kozlowski of The Daily Telegraph felt that, "despite her weak voice and empty lyrics, [spears] has placed herself at the avant-garde of pop with this masterful mixture of über-cool dubstep and sugary pop".The A.V. Club '​s Genevieve Koski wrote that Spears "settles into [the production], game for whatever and confident in the hands of trusted professionals who know how to best utilize her".

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In a mixed review, Andy Gill of The Independent criticized its "single-minded dedication to dancefloor utility" and observed "only the tiniest of rhythmic variants or differences in electronic tones distinguishing one producer's work from another's". Jon Caramanica of The New York Times commented that "much of the music on this album feels flat and redundant, no more invigorating than the average European dance-pop album of five years ago".The Guardian '​s Alexis Petridis wrote that Spears' "voice is as anonymous as ever, a state of affairs amplified by the lavishing of Auto-Tune" Evan Sawdey of PopMatters wrote that "Spears' worldview is completely self-contained" and described Femme Fatale as "just a big dumb club album".Rich Juzwiak of The Village Voice wrote that her "voice doesn't add much to the conversation", writing that her lack of presence is "problematic for an album whose subject matter is hedonism and how being hot facilitates it"

 

Femme Fatale won its first awards on Billboard's 2011 Mid-Year Music Awards, where she was nominated in five categories, First-Half MVP, Favorite Hot 100 No. 1 Song ("Hold It Against Me"), Favorite Billboard 200 No. 1 Album (Femme Fatale), Best Music Video ("I Wanna Go"), and Best Tour (Femme Fatale Tour), which she all won. There was also a list of Billboard's Mid-Year sales of 2011, on which Spears was named twice. Femme Fatale reached number 12 with 590,000 sold units, and her second single "Till the World Ends" number 18 with 1,989,000 million sold units. The singer was also awarded Best Pop Video for "Till The World Ends", as well the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award and a special tribute for her contributions to music videos and pop culture during the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards. Spears considered the tribute "an honor", and continued, "It was really crazy. I had no idea what to expect. The kids were amazing and so entertaining, and it was a really fun night. It was really cool. I was like, 'Wow, that's really sweet!'"

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Despite receiving mostly positive comments from critics, Femme Fatale did not receive any nomination on the 2012 Grammy Awards. John Mitchell of MTV criticized the award show and stated that "Till the World Ends" should have won a nomination on the Best Dance Recording category. Robbie Daw of Idolator also stated that the singer should have been nominated, commenting, "she had a #1 album that yielded a trio of hits. So what gives?"^[  Ed Christman of Billboard noted that Femme Fatale was "overlooked" by the Grammy voters. James Montgomery also of MTV, however, noted that the singer has "never been considered a Grammy artist, and has won just once during her entire career."

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Femme Fatale debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 276,000 copies. This gave Spears her sixth debut at the top of the charts and leaves her in a three way tie for third most number one albums for a female artist, tied with Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson. However, the first-week sales are Spears' second-lowest sales start with a studio set. Only her 1999 debut effort, ...Baby One More Time, began with a smaller figure (121,000 copies). In its second week, the album fell to number two, with sales plummeting 73 percent to 75,000, giving it a two-week total of 351,000 sold in the United States.  The album spent five consecutive weeks in the Billboard 200 top ten. As of January 2013, the album has been certified platinum and sold over 769,000 copies. In Mexico, the album debuted at number one upon its release, spending three weeks inside the top ten before falling to number thirteen.  AMPROFON has certified the album Gold and according to Sony Music México the album has gone on to sell over 40,000 copies in the country.

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The album debuted at number eight on the UK Albums Chart, selling 31,650 copies in its first week, becoming her lowest-charting studio album in the United Kingdom since In the Zone, which peaked at number thirteen in December 2003. In Germany, the album debuted at number ten making it her seventh top-ten studio album in a row, and her eighth top-ten album with the inclusion of the compilation albumGreatest Hits: My Prerogative (2004), which peaked at number four. Femme Fatale debuted at number eight in Denmark, selling 1,009 copies in its first week. On April 4, 2011 Femme Fatale debuted at number one in Australia, making it Spears' first number one album in the country. It was also certified gold in during its debut week for shipments over 35,000 copies.

 

Music critics, despite giving favorable reviews, noted Spears' apparent lack of input on Femme Fatale. Singer-songwriter Ryan Tedder defended her, stating that "[Frank] Sinatra didn't write a song, Garth Brooks barely wrote anything, George Strait has had I think 51 No. 1's and he has yet to write a song. Rascal Flatts are one of the biggest country acts in the world, and all of their hits are written by other people." Spears responded to further criticism of her performing abilities, "I don’t really have anything to prove at this point. I just do it for fun and see what happens."

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Executive producer Dr. Luke stated that " Britney kind of has her own genre: If you look at songs like "Toxic" and "Piece of Me" and "Oops!... I Did It Again", they all were sort of influential and led the way [...] She wanted to keep on with that and do stuff that was 'forward-thinking', So we put some dubstep stuff in there, in bridges; snuck it in different places."^[  Jocelyn Vena of MTV noted that "for the first time in a while, she seemed comfortable being the pop megastar that she is." Spin named Femme Fatale the 50th best album of 2011 and also placed it at number 3 in their "20 Best Pop Albums of 2011" list. Digital Spy ranked the album at number 11 at their year ends list. "Till the World Ends" was named the third best song of 2011 by Rolling Stone and the third best single of 2011 by Billboard, who described it as "Britney's most immediate single since 'Toxic'." Sam Lansky of PopCrush considered "Till the World Ends" the best pop song of 2011. Digital Spyalso considered the track as the best song of 2011, naming it "Britney's best track since 'Toxic'" and "her most underrated hit."

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Sales:

~ Femme Fatale Era ~

Album

Worldwide: approximately 2,000,000
US: 755,000

Singles

Hold It Against Me

Worldwide: +3,000,000
US: 1,520,000

Till The World Ends

Worldwide: approximately 4,000,000
US: 2,700,000

I Wanna Go

Worldwide: approximately 2,500,000
US: 1,600,000

Criminal

Worldwide: approximately 700,000
US: about 300,000

Total Records In Era: +12,200,000

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Alternative album covers:

 

 

http://www.mybritneycollection.com/search/label/Femme%20Fatale

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Singles:

 

 

Hold it Against Me:

 

 

Music Video:

 

 

http://youtu.be/-Edv8Onsrgg

 

Till The World Ends:

 

 

Music Video:

 

 

http://youtu.be/qzU9OrZlKb8

 

 

http://youtu.be/vAyLPNLxB9U

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I Wanna Go:

 

 

Music Video:

 

 

http://youtu.be/T-sxSd1uwoU

 

Criminal:

 

 

Music Video:

 

 

http://youtu.be/s6b33PTbGxk

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Animated Album:

 

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On the Way:

Britney Jean

Greatest Hits

Singles Collection

B in the Mix 1 and 2

Unreleased albums..

 

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BRITNEY JEAN:

 

Album Cover:

 

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Interesting facts:

 

The original plan for the album was to focus on a Blackout 2.0 – in fact Britney even tweeted about this.

 

Many of the Blackout team – including Danja worked on many tracks – and even released some of the snippets – however Will.I.Am decided on going another route.

 

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Many fans were left disappointed – as a former Britney Spears fan site claimed that Britney would be performing and promoting Britney Jean in a desert – only to find out that this was in fact a Vegas promotion. Very little promotion has been done for Britney Jean, possibly contributing to low sales.

 

 

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William Orbit worked with Britney on Alien – which made fans believe they were on the path to a Ray of Light album – exciting many fans. However only one William Orbit track was released.

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It is rumoured that Will.I.Am went more of an EDM route – due to the major success  of Scream and Shout. However fans were not so receptive to the sound and this is the lowest Britney selling album to date.

 

Britney Jean is the only album to not debut at the top 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 – entering in at 4. This is also the lowest Debut for Britney in the UK – this did not even make the top 10.