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By Becky Justin is invariably better than the movies he’s in. Southland Tales, Black Snake Moan and (shudder) The Love Guru aren’t exactly top-notch resume fodder, but Justin’s acting had very little to do with their awfulness. It takes a pretty good entertainer to rise out of the muck and still rem...

By Robbie 5. Favorite Music Collaboration: Cobra Starship and Leighton Meester (”Good Girls Go Bad”), Lonely Island and T-Pain (”I’m on a Boat”); T.I. and Rihanna (”Live Your Life”); Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat (”Lucky”); Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West (”Run This Town”)

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By Becky Says Britney: Short, but sweet. Brevity is the soul of wit, after all (and I’m sure Britney knows that, being a massive scholar in the works of Shakespeare) but I have a sneaking suspicion that Brit’s die-hard fans weren’t the only ones attending her show.

By Becky Britney Spears: The Opera? New Kids on the Block: The Musical? Could these fake jukebox musicals really become a reality? Well, considering how much influence pop music has on Broadway already… Britney Spears: The Opera? New Kids on the Block: The Musical? Could these fake jukebox musi...

By Becky Which Britney Spears phase is your fave? Naughty schoolgirl? Snake charmer? Frappuccino-guzzling, umbrella-wielding, British-speaking babymama? (Personally, mine is the under-appreciated trucker-hat-adorning, K-Fed dating era.) Well, today you can celebrate all of Brit’s h...

By Chris Molanphy Justin Timberlake, “What Goes Around…Comes Around” (2007)* Timberlake scored three Hot 100 chart-toppers from his second solo album, but only this one failed to get appreciable urban-radio airplay; both “SexyBack” and “My Love” were big R&B/Hip-Hop chart hits.)

By Maura This week’s installment in the sorta-halfhearted scuffle between songs that are biding time at the top of the Hot 100 until the Black Eyed Peas return to the No. 1 slot for the kajillionth week this year: Jay Sean’s “Down” reclaimed the top spot after last week’s No. 1, Britney Spears’ Real Do...

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By Maura Reigning American Idol Kris Allen played a Cincinnati-area concert benefiting breast cancer charities last night, and in addition to covering Michael Jackson and Kanye West, he performed a bit of Britney Spears’ “…Baby One More Time.” Or rather, he performed a bit of the sleepy version...

By Maura I also dig “Why Wait,” which takes the opening of Britney Spears’ “Gimme More” and forces the track to grow up, take a trip to the Middle East, and ditch all that self-deprecating “bitch” talk. And Shakira was on Dancing With The Stars last night; there she performed another track from the al...

By Chris Molanphy That would be Britney Spears’ “3,” which leads iTunes’ best-seller list as of this writing. Our commenters have been predicting all week that this PG-13 ode to ménages a trois would be the next No. 1 single, and depending on how explosively it sells this week, it could reach the top. Jive Recor...

By Maura And in the continued tradition of artists having their songs ruined by the SNL sound tech, here’s GaGa’s performance of “Paparazzi” from the show: Saturday Night Live: Deep House Dish [Hulu] Lady GaGa - Paparazzi - Live on SNL [October 3, 2009] [YouTube]

By Maura R. Kelly has released the remix of his sex-as-chart-topper single “Number One,” which features T-Pain and Keyshia Cole, and lest you think that T-Pain was totally giving up on digitally manipulating his voice for the purpose of topping the charts, the new track is an AutoTune-drenched a...

By Maura Britney Spears’ new Max Martin-assisted single “3″ premiered this morning, and what do you know, it’s a song about engaging in a ménage à trois that has an awkward reference to folk trio Peter, Paul, & Mary and a beat that sounds like it was inspired after way too many listens to Flo Rida...

By Maura In addition to the cavalcade of new albums coming out tomorrow, we’re also going to have debuts of new singles by Britney Spears (the Max Martin-assisted, cryptically titled “3″), the newly penitent Chris Brown (”Transformer,” which had better not have a Brian Austin Green reference)...

By Maura Abe Sauer at The Awl visits Britney Spears’ show in Grand Forks, N.D., where the pop star has an $850,000 taxpayer-funded guarantee, and turns out a very good read on the concert business, the classist overtones that Spears mockery tends to have, and the betrayal of Bruce Springsteen. Recom...

By Maura Choice Music: Hook Up Ciara ft. Justin Timberlake,” Love Sex Magic” Lady GaGa ft. Colby O Donis,” Just Dance” Jason Mraz ft. Colbie Caillat,” Lucky” Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em ft. Sammie,” Kiss Me Thru The Phone” T.I. ft. Rihanna, “Live Your Life”

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By Maura Saturday night, 20-year-old Kyle King decided to make his night at Britney Spears’ concert in Uncasville, Ct., even more special by running onstage during the finale performance of “Womanizer,” unnerving the singer and getting himself arrested. King probably won’t plead “not guilty”...

By Maura Johnston 3. The prospect of Britney Spears hiring an army of ghostwriters to pen her autobiography, thus keeping at least a few music journalists employed for a while. OK, this is something of a pipe dream. But I like to think of it as a philanthropic fantasy! Brit Brit is apparently getting around $14 m...

By Dan Gibson FRIDAY: Basement Jaxx/Pavement/Nine Inch Nails SATURDAY: Primal Scream/The Killers/Paul McCartney SUNDAY: Franz Ferdinand/Blur/Kings of Leon Britney Spears to perform at Coachella Music Festival! [ohnotheydidnt] Confirmed: Paul McCartney Takes On Coachella [LAist]

By Chuck Eddy Ten years ago this month—Nov. 3, 1998, to be exact—Jive Records released Britney Spears’ debut single “Baby One More Time” (b/w “Autumn Goodbye”) in CD and 12-inch vinyl configurations. Metal Mike Saunders—the most entertaining teen-pop critic of this decade if not human history, not t...

By Mike Barthel ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: Welcome to middle-period Britney. I kind of figured that Circus was never going to be as good as Blackout, and the presence of a ballad in the No. 3 slot here would seem to confirm that. Sure, "Out From Under" is a pretty fantastic ballad, and one of only three on the disc. But C...

By Dan Gibson After a unsuccessful attempt at crossing over to American audiences in New York City, Laka headed back to Bosnia, making his big comeback with his solo album Zec, and his Eurovision run. Now, nominated for a MTV EMA, Laka—and someone who might be either his sister or wife, I'm not entirely c...

By Chris Molanphy Hot 100 1. T.I., "Whatever You Like" (LW No. 1, 12 weeks) 2. T.I. feat. Rihanna, "Live Your Life" (LW No. 2, 5 weeks) 4. Pink, "So What" (LW No. 3, 10 weeks) 5. Britney Spears, "Womanizer" (LW No. 4, 4 weeks) 6. Katy Perry, "Hot N Cold" (LW No. 5, 13 weeks) 7. Kevin Rudolf feat. Lil Wayne, "Let It Rock" (LW No. 7, 9 weeks)

By Chris Molanphy “...Baby One More Time” (No. 1, 1999) “Oops!...I Did It Again” (No. 9, 2000) “Lucky” (No. 23, 2000) “Stronger” (No. 11, 2000) “I'm a Slave 4 U” (No. 27, 2001) “Toxic” (No. 9, 2004) “Everytime” (No. 15, 2004) “Gimme More” (No. 3, 2007) “Piece of Me” (No. 18, 2007) “Womanizer” (No. 1, 2008)

By Maura Johnston • "Britney bombs a year ago (although that opening was infinitely more entertaining than the one she did this time) and gets rewarded for it. Hooray for her. But you know what? MTV is just as far up its own ass as any pop star if it thinks that giving out three meaningless statues to Britney Spear...

By Maura Johnston Internet-unsavvy Presidential candidate John McCain is steamed at Madonna, whose Sticky + Sweet Tour kicked off over the weekend in the UK. Apparently an image of the Straight Talk Express' driver is flashed during a video montage of baddies that also includes Zimbabwean dictator Robe...

By Maura Johnston 2001 (5 albums) 7. The Blueprint, Jay-Z 34. Is This It, The Strokes 71. Rock Steady, No Doubt 90. Toxicity, System of a Down 97. Britney, Britney Spears 2006 (2 albums) 31. FutureSex/LoveSounds, Justin Timberlake 80. Back to Basics, Christina Aguilera

By Maura Johnston 21. Five 20. James Blunt 19. N Sync 18. S Club 7 17. Busted 16. Mika 15. Take That 14. Pink 13. Jennifer Lopez 12. Madonna 11. Panic At The Disco 10. Avril Lavigne 9. My Chemical Romance 8. Backstreet Boys 7. Shakira 6. Christina Aguilera 5. Spice Girls 4. Justin Timberlake 3. Kelly Clarkson 2. McFly 1. Britney Spears

By Dan Gibson Now and again, we round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. This installment covers probably the most talked about music news of the day, for better or worse: Britney Spears' career-rehabbing stint on last night's episode of How I Met...

By Anono-Critic 2. Kevin Federline is known amongst his bros as "Meat Pole" (Gross reports that Federline called his brother after his first night with his bride-to-be, remarking "you're not going to believe whose back I broke"). 3. Paris Hilton refers to Spears as "The Animal."

By mjohnston Ed. note: We usually save "The Last Word"--where we collect reactions on a new album--for the Monday or Tuesday of that album's release week, but for some reason, writeups of Britney Spears' Blackout have started coming in in over the past 24 hours. (Perhaps the dailies are saving their pri...

By mjohnston A group of Britney Spears' "concerned friends and former associates" have started a MySpace campaign to help the troubled paparazzi target, saying that she should follow the example of Lindsay Lohan and get out of the public eye for awhile. (But not too long, apparently.) They're also ask...

By jharv ARTIST: Britney Spears TITLE: Blackout WEB DEBUT: Oct. 12, 2007 RELEASE DATE: Oct. 30, 2007 The best news: First Britney album ever without a sickly Diane Warren-style ballad. "Keep the beats aggressive," as Raphael Saadiq might say.