Britney Spears
Oct 17, 2011
Femme Fatale is the seventh studio album from Britney Spears. The album was released on March 25 by Jive Records (Sony Music). Wanting to stray away sonically from her previous material, Spears experimented with various styles of dance music including dubstep, which was used in various songs on the album. The album also features production from will.i.am, Fraser T. Smith, Rodney Jerkins and StarGate among others.
Upon its release, Femme Fatale received mostly positive reviews from critics, who complimented the album's production and Spears' continued forward-thinking. Commercially, the album has become successful, debuting at number one in the United States with sales of 276,000 (breaking Spears's previous record for the youngest female artist with five number one albums), giving her a sixth number one album. The album also debuted at number one in six other countries while peaking inside the top ten in every other country except one, a feat Spears had not accomplished in over a decade since the release of her second album, Oops!... I Did It Again, in May 2000.
"Hold It Against Me" was released as the lead single from the album and peaked atop the charts in seven countries, including the United States and Canada, while peaking inside the top five in over seven others. The album's second single, "Till the World Ends", reached number one in South Korea, Poland and Russia while reaching number three in the US and peaking inside the top ten positions in sixteen countries worldwide. It became Spears's best-performing song on US radio in her entire career. In August 2011, after becoming Spears's third album with three top-twenty singles, Femme Fatale became her first album to produce three top-ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart when "I Wanna Go" peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100.
Spears is back with her fourth single, "Criminal," which was released to radio on September 14th and is climbing up the charts now on its way to another #1 single for Britney.
