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Britney Spears 'Circus' Tops Billboard Charts

by Jarrett Martineau | December 10, 2008 at 09:02 am

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If nothing else, Britney Spears is back on top of her album-selling game, as her latest album Circus will debut at #1 on next week's Billboard album charts.

Her Circus album will debut at #1 on next week's Billboard albums Chart, selling just under 505,100 copies of her Circus album. It's Spears' fifth album to debut at #1 on the chart, and it sold nearly twice as many copies as last year's Blackout album, which was denied the top spot on the chart by the Eagles' Long Road Out of Eden.

Circus' first-week sales total is certainly big, but it's only the sixth biggest opening of 2008, behind albums like Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III, AC/DC's Black Ice, Coldplay's Viva la Vida, Taylor Swift's Fearless and T.I.'s Paper Trail. Still, it outpaced the first-week numbers of some of Brit's pop peers, including Beyoncé's I Am ... Sasha Fierce, Mariah Carey's E = MC2 and Miley Cyrus' Breakout.

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at 07:53 on December 11th, 2008

She has a lot of talent. If she can manage to control her personal life she could be one of the best ever.

Amy Judd

at 19:01 on December 11th, 2008

I'm actually kind of interested to hear this album, as it has been a while since her last and so much has happened in between then and now.

theonyxhotel

at 14:15 on January 7th, 2009

This a a home made tribute for britney. I made it with so much love and admiration and Im glad to see her making a succesful music career cause I love her music!

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