Spears – make it or break it
Britney Spears is numero uno on the radio again. Britney’s latest single “Circus,” off her platinum album of the same name, is the No. 1 song on the Top 40 radio charts. It’s also her fifth No. 1 song overall.
Britney takes the stage on March 3rd at the New Orleans Arena – the opening night of her Circus tour – and the stakes will never be higher. After more than two years of personal drama, the tour will either make or break the professional comeback she began last fall.
The pop star seemed to be back in old Britney form when she sang “Womanizer” on Good Morning America in December, the concert will be her biggest performance since her disastrous, out-of-shape appearance at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards.
“She’s pretty determined,” a friend said. “She missed singing and performing and the freedom of that. It gives her an escape and it’s what she loves to do, so she’s definitely thankful to be doing that again.”
“I’ve got to believe she’s ready and will do a professional show,” Gary Bongiovanni, editor-in-chief of the concert trade magazine Pollstar, says. “If she doesn’t, it’s over. In general, the tickets have sold very well. Some shows are already sold out. Obviously, it means there is significant fan interest in seeing her do her live show. That fact that she’s been off the scene for a while helps with the pent-up demand.”
A friend of the pop star was worried that the tour would be too much for the singer to handle but noted that “it’s what her team thought was best.”
Her ex-husband Kevin Federline is taking the couple’s kids on the road so they can keep up their regular visitation schedule with Mom.
“Having the boys with her is going to make all the difference,” says a source. “They are the reason she can do this.”
