Britney Spears Blackout debuts at #2
Britney Spears Blackout did not debut as the #1 album in America today as was previously expected. Due to a revised policy by Billboard, The Eagles Long Road Out of Eden topped the charts with 711,000 albums sold versus 290,000 for Britney. The revised policy allows exclusive albums available through limited retailers to appear on the Billboard 200 list of bestselling albums (Long Road Out of Eden is only available at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores). In other news, the US Census Bureau issued an apology today for miscounting the total number of mentally handicapped individuals in the 2000 Census by 290,000.
Britney Spears Blackout controversy
Britney Spears' new album Blackout has been on sale for ~8 hours and it's already causing controversy. The Catholic Church is up in arms over some pictures in the album booklet that show Britney seducing a priest in a confessional. Bill Donohue, president of the New York-based Catholic League, told the New York Daily News:
"This is all the puzzle pieces coming together. This girl is crashing. She's not even allowed to bring up her own kids because she's not responsible enough. Now we see she can't even entertain." (Source)
Very shrewd move by Britney to piss off the Catholic Church and its millions of followers. Because you can't have an ol' fashioned CD burning if you don't buy the CD first. You ever wondered why there were so many Jewish pop stars on the Billboard charts of the early '40s? Hitler used to hold CD burnings in the town square every weekend. Launched many a career.
Britney Spears Blackout on sale today
Britney Spears new album Blackout officially goes on sale today. The deluxe edition will set you back $12.97 on Amazon.com but that does include a rib bib and a"reachin' fork" which, according to Britney is "good fer reachin'!"
NOTE: Here's Britney as a sexy pirate last night in LA. I'm not gonna say this is the worst costume I've ever seen but I could probably come up with something better if you gave me some math homework.
