It must be said: Whoever's managing Britney Spears these days is doing a pretty great job. The pop princess, whose extraordinary public meltdown culminated three years ago when she lost custody of her children and was involuntarily committed to the hospital, seems poised to make the unlikeliest of comebacks. As any embattled celebrity can tell you, two things are essential to a successful image revitalization: Be willing to make fun of yourself and look darn good while doing it. On Tuesday night's "Jimmy Kimmel Live," Spears did both.
First, she appeared in a funny skit with Kimmel, in which he revealed his enormous new "Britney Spears" tattoo (see clip above). Then, guest Johnny Knoxville introduced a "deleted scene" from "Jackass 3D," one which involved Spears and a bungee-mounted Porta Potti.
Spears did more than enough to prove herself a good sport. Now there was one final challenge: singing. In the show's final segment, Spears took to the stage to perform her catchy new single, "Till the World Ends." Though the performance may have lacked giant snakes and lesbian kisses, it represented a fine return to form for the singer, and will help many of us erase the memory of her disastrous 2008 VMA performance.
"Here's what people don't realize and here's what I've noticed: She's very, very much in control of what she records, how she sounds, how she portrays herself on the record. There's no grand master puppeteering — that's kind of a myth. She knows what she's going to cut. She's not going to sing anything she doesn't want to and she has this amazing ability when she gets behind the mic. It's like eye of the tiger."
"Here's what people don't realize and here's what I've noticed: She's very, very much in control of what she records, how she sounds, how she portrays herself on the record. There's no grand master puppeteering — that's kind of a myth. She knows what she's going to cut. She's not going to sing anything she doesn't want to and she has this amazing ability when she gets behind the mic. It's like eye of the tiger."
I just want to congratulate Britney on this amazing album!
I LOVED Circus, but never really listened to any of her earlier material.
Gotta say that this is probably a notch above Circus though.
So I will DEFINITELY be buying this album, and maybe even a few extra copies as some gifts.
youtube knows, and they are exactly right 
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Any word yet on international sales? 