Britney Spears' Resurrection Complete, 'Circus' Tops Charts

Posted at 9:37 AM Dec 10, 2008

By Kenny Herzog



It's been a week since the apocalypse was announced under the guise of Lil Wayne's Grammy-field-leading eight nominations for the annual music-awards ceremony. And now Britney Spears has asserted the final piece in the puzzle of her world domination, debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard charts with more than half a million copies sold of Circus.

We've of course been diligently reporting each step in the mega-star-turned-trainwreck-turned-reconstructed-icon's metamorphosis. But in case you've been paying attention to your rapidly shrinking bank account instead, Spears is basically the pop world's Humpty Dumpty, except with creepy music-industry handlers like Larry Rudolph instead of king's men (but were there a king, ohhhhh were there a king).

But Rudolph and camp deserve kudos, as it's hard to imagine a precedent for this kind of successfully strategized celebrity redemption, especially with such quick turnaround (although that's a must in an era where fans are oversaturated 24-7 with reminders of famous flubbers' indiscretions). However, it is our job to point out that until she disappears for almost two decades to work on a bloated vanity project that she releases with no fanfare in one retail outlet, and still sells a quarter mil upon the album's release, she's still no Axl motherfuckin' Rose.