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Originally posted by hellocory
Are you dumb? Blackout didn't have a tour because Britney was literally in a hospital under psychiatric evaluation. Britney performed a song 1 time and then acted like she didn't even have an album out. She never mentioned it, never gave interviews, etc. She didn't care.
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Actually she did have an interview, it was with Ryan Seacrest and naturally a hot mess. Again, should Lady Gaga not promote because Brit went off the deep end? Gaga promotes her material, and it does well, better than Blackout as the year-end lists show. It's highly unlikely a Blackout tour would have made what artRAVE did, considering Brit needed massive planned comeback promo to push her touring capacity up for Circus, where it fell right away again after that era. But it doesn't matter, because it didn't happen.
ARTPOP > Blackout in terms of commercial success.
And let's be real, Britney wasn't hiding away even though she wasn't promoting. X17 (who she had a deal with to promote
), TMZ, Perez, National Enquirer, NYPost, Hollywood.TV, etc. all followed her around Western Los Angeles all night, every night.