Posted December 4, 200717 yr Britney Spears Advent Calender http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q299/matt1291/bsadvent.jpg Each day a something Britney related will be posted in here. We'll start from now, we missed a couple of days, but Xmas will understand ;) Oh! and it's not just me who will do it, anyone who is their first can post anything Britney related, but only 1 per day, so if someone beats you, please edit your post :P Tuesday 4th December BRITNEY SPEARS: BLACKOUT http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/88697190732.JPG PEAK-#2 {2}-13-36-50-70>(4 weeks) TOTAL SALES - 83,500+ Blackout is the fifth studio album by American pop singer Britney Spears. It was released on October 27, 2007 in Australia, October 29, 2007 in the U.K. and October 30, 2007 in the U.S., and around the world. It is her first studio album of new material since In the Zone in November 2003. SONGS: "Gimme More" (Nate Hills, James Washington, Keri Hilson, Marcella Araica) – 4:11 "Piece of Me" (Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg, Klas Åhlund) – 3:32 "Radar" (Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg, Henrik Jonback, Balewa Muhammad, Candice Nelson, Ezekiel "Zeke" Lewis, Patrick J. Que Smith) – 3:49 "Break the Ice" (Nate Hills, James Washington, Keri Hilson, Marcella Araica) – 3:16 "Heaven on Earth" (Michael McGroarty, Nick Huntington, Nicole Morier) – 4:52 "Get Naked (I Got a Plan)" (Corte Ellis, Nate Hills, Marcella Araica) – 4:45 "Freakshow" (Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg, Henrik Jonback, Ezekiel "Zeke" Lewis, Patrick "J.Que" Smith, Britney Spears) – 2:55 "Toy Soldier" (Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg, Magnus Wallbert, Sean Garrett) – 3:22 "Hot as Ice" (T-Pain, Nate Hills, Marcella Araica) – 3:17 "Ooh Ooh Baby" (Kara DioGuardi, Farid Nassar, Erick Coomes, Britney Spears) – 3:28 "Perfect Lover" (Nate Hills, James Washington, Keri Hilson, Marcella Araica) – 3:03 "Why Should I Be Sad" (Pharrell Williams) – 3:10 Singles: "Gimme More" is the first single from Blackout. Spears performed the song at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards on September 9, 2007. It was released earlier to radio stations on August 30, 2007 and as a digital download on iTunes on September 27, 2007. Written by James Washington, Keri Hilson, Marcella Araica and Nate Hills, "Gimme More" became Spears's highest chart peak since "...Baby One More Time", having reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100. "Piece of Me" is the confirmed second single from Blackout. The music video was shot on November 27, 2007 at Los Angeles restaurant and night club Social Hollywood. In the first week of the release of Blackout in the U.S., "Piece of Me" debuted at number sixty-five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart mostly due to digital download sales. It climbed to number thirteen on the iTunes chart, but soon dropped down to number forty-two. In the past week however, sales and airplay have been picking up bringing the song from number eighty to number sixty-three on the Billboard Hot 100. It currently sits at number thirty-two on Mediabase with 1,249 spins, and at numbe nineteen on U.S. iTunes. It also debuted in Canada at number thirty-seven as well as climbing to number number ninety-one in the UK Singles Chart.
December 5, 200717 yr Good idea! This is nominated for a pin, and will recieve one if it proves to be popular among members! Thanks for posting!
December 5, 200717 yr Author Wednesday 5th December PERFUME Curious http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/Curiousposter.jpg/439px-Curiousposter.jpg Curious is a women's fragrance from Elizabeth Arden, and is the first perfume to be endorsed by Britney Spears, preceding "Fantasy." Spears reportedly earned $12 million USD from the endorsement. The ads for "Curious", featuring Spears (with actor Eric Winter), include the tagline "Do you dare?" "Curious" was released in September 2004, and was very successful internationally. It was the number one fragrance of 2004 in department stores, and in 2005, "Curious" was honored by the Fragrance Foundation as Best Women's Fragrance. The Scent The fragrance is a white floral scent. Its notes are Louisiana magnolia, golden Anjou pear, lotus flower, tuberose, star jasmine, pink cyclamen, vanilla-infused musk, sandalwood and blonde woods. Products "Curious" is an eau de parfum, and is available in 50 and 100 mL bottles. The bottle is light blue in colour, and is accented with two dangling pink hearts. The 100 mL bottle includes a spray atomizer. Apart from these bottles of perfume, there are also: "Deliciously Whipped!" 200 mL Body Soufflé "Lather Me Up!" 200 mL Shower Gel "You're So Smooth!" 200 mL Body Polish "Totally Ticklish!" 20 g Body Shimmer "Write On!" 14 g Perfumed Shimmer Stick "Two Tempting!" 5 mL Fragrance Roller Ball and Lip Gloss Duo Limited As Curious was extremely successful worldwide, a limited edition was released in 2006. The new fragrance, entitled In Control hit the stores in some countries, including the United States, Canada, Japan and Europe. Its bottle looks like the original, however is black instead of blue. Fantasy http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ec/Fantasy.jpg Fantasy is a women's fragrance from Elizabeth Arden, and is the second perfume to be endorsed by Britney Spears. The ad's tagline is "Everybody has one." It was released in the U.S. on September 15, 2005, following the successful previous perfume from Spears, "Curious", which made over $30 million in sales in the first three months of its launch. "Fantasy" was created by Jim Krivda, and its notes are red lychee, golden quince, kiwi, cupcake accord, jasmine petals, white chocolate orchid, musk, orris root and sensual woods. It has been described as initially smelling fruity, then very sweet, showing the promised smells of cupcake and white chocolate, with a very light floral smell. Midnight Fantasy A spin-off fragrance entitled Midnight Fantasy was released in December 2006, in some department stores, and January 2007 everywhere else. The bottle is a dark blue version of the original pink bottle. Midnight Fantasy is described as having a black cherry accord. The perfume initially sold well in December. However, events in Spears' personal life in January affected sales of the perfume, with analysts reporting that people were returning holiday perfume gift sets to stores in larger numbers than expected. Sanders observed that "the timing couldn't be worse" for such a downturn in sales of the perfume, because the craze for celebrity perfumes was already declining across all fragrances, having fallen 17% to USD140million in 2006. Sales have since reportedly started to rebound according to Macy's. In April 2007, Spears set out a paparazzi contest with the aim of promoting the perfume. In an electronic mail message sent to her fans, she asked them to "share what happens to you when the clock strikes 12", by photographing their friends. Commentators observed that Spears' requirement that photographs not contain "nudity, obscenity, or violent depictions" would rule out several photographs taken of Spears herself that contained nudity. Britney Spears Beauty Links http://www.britneyspearsbeauty.com/ http://www.midnightfantasybritneyspears.com/ http://www.fantasybritneyspears.com/
December 6, 200717 yr My mum and sister both have curious each, and I have to get my mum a bottle of Midnight Fantasy for xmas. :rofl:
December 6, 200717 yr Author Thursday 6th December Toxic http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/BS-Toxic.jpg "Toxic" is a dance-pop song written by Bloodshy & Avant, Cathy Dennis, and Henrik Jonback for Britney Spears' fourth studio album In the Zone (2003). The song describes having an affair with a married man.[1] It was released as the album's second single in early 2004 (see 2004 in music). "Toxic" enjoyed international success, topping many singles charts. The song was chosen as the second favorite song of the world (all time) in a global survey made by Sony Ericsson, in which 700,000 music fans of 66 countries contributed, behind "We Are the Champions" by Queen.In 2005 it won the Grammy Award for best dance recording.[2] It has been covered by The BossHoss, Local H, the Chapin Sisters, Juliet Turner, Nickel Creek, Hurra Torpedo, The Zoo, Mark Ronson and Hard-Fi. Marillion played it during their Marillion Weekend in February 2007 in the Netherlands, and their performance was released (in audio only) on the DVD version of the single "Thankyou Whoever You Are / Most Toys" in June 2007. Monsters From Mars has released an instrumental surf version. The song's cowriter, Cathy Dennis, recorded the demo for the song. Chart Facts Toxic" became one of Spears' biggest U.S. hit since "...Baby One More Time", and her first top-ten single on the Billboard Hot 100 since 2000's "Oops!...I Did It Again". Until 2007 it was Britney Spears' highest charting single reaching number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2007 Spears released "Gimme More" which charted at number 3. "Toxic" is Spears' fourth top-ten single in the U.S. reaching #9 on the Hot 100 chart. The single also experienced strong downloads, and became her first number one on the Hot Digital Tracks (it was the 4th most legally downloaded song of 2004); The single ranked at forty-eight on the Billboard Hot 100 Year-End chart for 2004. On Top 40 radio, the song reached number one for four weeks on the Mainstream Top 40 and number two on the Top 40 Tracks. "Toxic" also reached the top twenty on the Rhythmic Top 40. "Toxic" became one of the biggest worldwide hits of 2004, and reached the top five or number one in nearly every country it charted in. On the ARIA Chart in Australia, it went to number one, knocking Jamelia's "Superstar" off the top and being replaced by "Yeah!" by Usher. It ended up being one of the best-selling singles of the year there. The single also became a huge success in the UK, selling 105,000 copies in its first week of release and debuting at number one, charting ahead of Kylie Minogue's "Red Blooded Woman" which entered the chart at #5. The chart battle between the two divas was highly popularized in the UK. Ironically, the song had originally been offered to Kylie for inclusion on her 9th studio album Body Language, but she turned it down. "Toxic" sold a total of 268,000 copies in the UK and became the 9th best selling single of 2004. In the United States the single sold over 800,000 downloads and has been certified platinum. The single has sold worldwide 5,355,000 copies. The single ended the year as the 26th most played song in Latin America. Music Video The song's music video was directed by Joseph Kahn. It shows Spears as a flight attendant, who after receiving a phone call, pushes an overweight man into the lavatory and French kisses him. Spears pulls the face of the man off, revealing a man portrayed by model Matt Felker, and steals his wallet and a key. Spears is then shown in Paris, in a black pleather catsuit and with wavy red hair, and is picked up by Tyson Beckford on a Ducati 999. The pair drives to the "Toxic Industries" factory, where she uses the key to steal a toxin and passes through a series of security measures. Spears then scales a building, now in a superhero-style costume and with black hair, and enters the apartment of a former lover, played by actor Martin Henderson. They make out and Spears pours the toxin in his mouth, killing him. After planting a kiss on him, she jumps off the balcony, landing back in the airplane in her original attire, and winks at the camera before returning to her duties as a flight attendant. The video closes as it began, with birds flying behind the aircraft. The video is intercut with sequences of Spears with hundreds of diamonds glued to her body, wearing only a G-string. It took nearly four hours for makeup artists to glue the diamonds to her body. During filming of the sequence, only director Joseph Kahn was there to shoot; other crew members had to leave the room. The music video debuted at number three on MTV's Total Request Live. It spent sixteen days at the top of the countdown and was retired after ten weeks on the program.The video was nominated in 4 categories at the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards, including Video Of The Year, but didn't win any of them. Nevertheless "Toxic" was chosen as the Video of the Year in MTV's TRL and other TV music countdown shows. K84ySmoUUdk Remixes These are (official) remixes and other versions of "Toxic" Album Version 3:24 Instrumental 3:24 Peter Rauhofer Reconstruction Mix 8:01 Peter Rauhofer Reconstruction Mix Edit 6:44 Peter Rauhofer Reconstruction Mix Radio Edit 4:31 - only available on B in the Mix: The Remixes Deluxe Edition Bloodshy & Avant's Intoxicated Remix 5:34 Felix Da Housecat's Club Mix 7:12 Felix Da Housecat Remix 7:01 Lenny Bertoldo Mixshow Edit 5:46 Lenny Bertoldo Radio Mix 3:32 Armand Van Helden Remix 9:34 Armand Van Helden Remix Edit 6:25 Armand Van Helden Radio Edit 3:46 Yiannis Outstanding Tribal Mix Wave Group/Shoichiro Hirata Remix 1:52 - Cover of the original featured in beatmania, a music simulation game on the American PS2 game console The b**ch Virus' $h!t Mix 3:33 There is also a mix by DJ Sat One going around featuring a rap by Bahamadia (who some confuse with P. Magnet) which is considered by some to be official; however, it's not a commissioned release. There are a further 2 remixes, the first nicknamed "Toxic Rhythm" released in the UK on the club circuit and is still doing the rounds, which involves rap style lyrics. This is an unofficial remix produced by Edinburgh DJ John Marr [www.JOHNMARR.co.uk]and as such can only be found on p2p networks although due to its success in the clubs it is surprising it has not been actually released. The official title for this remix is John Marr - Toxic Rhythm. The second was released on MTV Mash Up and is a mix of Usher - Yeah with Britney Spears - Toxic Mark Ronson uses a sample of Spears' "Toxic" in his own hip-hop version of the song (titled simply "Toxic"). It features Ol' Dirty bast*rd, Tiggers and Nick Catchdubs and is on his album "Version" Rapper Tony Yayo sampled Toxic for his song "Love My Style" from his album Thoughts of A Predicate Felon. Although in the album's liner notes the sample is not credited, if you listen closely to the beginning of the song, you can hear Tony Yayo say "this $h!t is Toxic." Israeli singer Shiri Maimon has made her own version of this song in Hebrew, a video was also produced. Covers The Jerusalem-based indie rock band missFlag (The Official website) regularly covers the song in concert missFlag performing Toxic live in concert and has a newer version on their MySpace page missFlag's official MySpace Indie band Hard-Fi covered the song for the Radio 1. Established 1967. The song is fused with The Clash's Brand New Cadillac. Lead singer Richard Archer is quoted as saying their cover will "send Britney mad". The song was covered by alternative rock band Local H and is available for free by clicking on the picture here The song was covered live by progressive rock band Marillion during their 2007 convention and is available as a b-side on their DVD-single Thankyou Whoever You Are/Most Toys. The PlayStation 2 video game Karaoke Revolution Volume 2 has a cover of the song, covered by WaveGroup Sound. The WaveGroup cover was remixed by Shoichiro Hirata for another PS2 game, beatmania. Alternative bluegrass group Nickel Creek is known to cover the song in concert, with mandolinist Chris Thile imitating Spear's dance moves at select parts of the song. The song was covered by producer Mark Ronson on his second album Version. The song was covered by Norwegian band Hurra Torpedo and is found on their album "Kollossus of Makedonia." Their version is played at roughly half speed on a variety of kitchen appliances. Trivia Toxic was voted number 100 in the Video Hits Australia Top 100 Video Clips of the past 20 years in 2006. ...Baby One More Time was also in the countdown at number 69. Chart Runs {1}-2-2-4-6-7-9-11-20-27-18-24-30-34-50-63-72->(17 weeks)
December 6, 200717 yr Author :wub: Lovin' This :D Thanks :wub: And when Xmas is over, you could just call it a random Britney fact thread :lol:
