1. Britney Spears Sets New Record with Hit Single Womanizer Makes Meteoric Jump From
No 96 to No 1 on Pop Singles Chart
Highly Anticipated Album Circus Set For Worldwide Release On December 2nd
Britney Spears is making history with her new single, Womanizer. This week, Womanizer makes
an unprecedented leap from No. 96* to claim the No. 1* spot on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles
chart. This is the first time a song has ever made a leap of this magnitude on the singles chart.
Further attesting to the multi-platinum singer's worldwide appeal, Womanizer is the No. 1 song
on iTunes charts in Canada, France, Spain and Sweden.
The song's astonishing climb up the charts comes despite a major glitch that occurred yesterday
when the Womanizer digital track was inadvertently removed and unavailable for sale at iTunes
in the U.S. and in other countries for over a twelve hour period. The track first became available
on iTunes on October 7th, and prior to the technical error, the digital track ranked No.1 there,
selling over 275K units within the first six days of its release. However, the brief lapse did not
slow down the momentum of the super-star's project; currently the digital track is back up on
iTunes and digital sales are expected to quickly recover.
Rounding out a record-setting week, Spears debuted her Womanizer video on ABC's 20/20 news
program this past Friday night; this is the first time a music video in its entirety has ever
premiered during primetime on ABC. Additionally, the news program won the ratings race
during its time slot, coming in No.1 in the coveted 18-35 demographic. The captivating video
was directed by Joseph Kahn, who also directed Spears' riveting Toxic video.
Womanizer is the first single from her forthcoming album, Circus and was produced by the up-
and-coming Atlanta production team The Outsyders. For her latest album, Britney has enlisted a
stellar group of established producers/writers that include Dr. Luke (who wrote and produced the
album's title track, Circus), Danja, Max Martin, Bloodshy & Avant and Guy Sigsworth
(Madonna, Alanis Morissette, Bjork). Her sixth studio album, Circus, is set for release December
2nd, which coincides with Spears' 27th birthday.
Britney Spears is one of the top-selling artists of the last decade and to date; she has sold in
excess of 62 million albums worldwide, that include ...Baby One More Time(1999), Oops!...I
Did It Again (2000), Britney (2001), In The Zone (2003), and Blackout (2007), nine #1
worldwide singles and four consecutive #1 albums.
Source: Jive Records