Femme Fatale is the seventh studio album by American recording artist Britney Spears, first released on March 25, 2011, by Jive Records. Spears began working on the album during the second leg of The Circus Starring Britney Spears, while also working on her second compilation. Spears worked with record producer and long-time collaborator Max Martin. Along with Dr. Luke, Martin wrote several tracks, including "Hold It Against Me", a track that was originally planned for Katy Perry, but they later decided that "it definitely wasn't a Katy Perry record." Musically, Femme Fatale is a dance-oriented album that incorporates elements of various genres, such as dubstep, techno and trance.
Spears explained that she "wanted to make a fierce dance record where each song makes you want to get up and move your body in a different way." She wanted to stray away sonically from her previous material, and worked with different producers over the course of two years, such as William Orbit, Fraser T. Smith, Rodney Jerkins, will.i.am and StarGate. Several collaborations were made with high-profile artists for the album's promotion such as Kesha, Nicki Minaj, Travis Barker, and Rihanna. Spears stated that Femme Fatale is her best album so far, and also a "fresh-sounding" record for clubs. It was also Spears's final album with Jive following the label's closure in October 2011.
Upon its release, Femme Fatale received generally positive reviews from music critics, who complimented its production and dance-pop style. However, some criticized it for Spears' supposed lack of involvement and heavily-processed vocals, while stating that the singer was no longer the center of the album and found a trade-off to be real personality. Singer-songwriter Ryan Tedder defended Spears, saying that Frank Sinatra and Garth Brooks were huge artists who didn't write most of their songs. Commercially, Femme Fatale has become successful, debuting atop of the charts in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Russia, South Korea and the United States, and peaking inside the top ten in twenty-four countries. In the United States, she earned her sixth number one album and has sold over 755,000 copies.
Four singles were released from the album: "Hold It Against Me", "Till the World Ends", and "I Wanna Go" became worldwide hits, and reached top ten positions in the United States, making it Spears' first album to have three top ten hits in the country. The fourth single "Criminal" turned out as a moderate hit, peaking inside the top twenty in five countries. However, it reached number one in Brazil. To promote Femme Fatale, Spears performed the songs in a number of television appearances and also embarked on the Femme Fatale Tour in 2011. Joe Jonas, Nicki Minaj and Nervo served as the opening acts for most shows of the tour.Femme Fatale is the seventh studio album by American recording artist Britney Spears, first released on March 25, 2011, by Jive Records. Spears began working on the album during the second leg of The Circus Starring Britney Spears, while also working on her second compilation. Spears worked with record producer and long-time collaborator Max Martin. Along with Dr. Luke, Martin wrote several tracks, including "Hold It Against Me", a track that was originally planned for Katy Perry, but they later decided that "it definitely wasn't a Katy Perry record." Musically, Femme Fatale is a dance-oriented album that incorporates elements of various genres, such as dubstep, techno and trance.
Spears explained that she "wanted to make a fierce dance record where each song makes you want to get up and move your body in a different way." She wanted to stray away sonically from her previous material, and worked with different producers over the course of two years, such as William Orbit, Fraser T. Smith, Rodney Jerkins, will.i.am and StarGate. Several collaborations were made with high-profile artists for the album's promotion such as Kesha, Nicki Minaj, Travis Barker, and Rihanna. Spears stated that Femme Fatale is her best album so far, and also a "fresh-sounding" record for clubs. It was also Spears's final album with Jive following the label's closure in October 2011.
Upon its release, Femme Fatale received generally positive reviews from music critics, who complimented its production and dance-pop style. However, some criticized it for Spears' supposed lack of involvement and heavily-processed vocals, while stating that the singer was no longer the center of the album and found a trade-off to be real personality. Singer-songwriter Ryan Tedder defended Spears, saying that Frank Sinatra and Garth Brooks were huge artists who didn't write most of their songs. Commercially, Femme Fatale has become successful, debuting atop of the charts in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Russia, South Korea and the United States, and peaking inside the top ten in twenty-four countries. In the United States, she earned her sixth number one album and has sold over 755,000 copies.
Four singles were released from the album: "Hold It Against Me", "Till the World Ends", and "I Wanna Go" became worldwide hits, and reached top ten positions in the United States, making it Spears' first album to have three top ten hits in the country. The fourth single "Criminal" turned out as a moderate hit, peaking inside the top twenty in five countries. However, it reached number one in Brazil. To promote Femme Fatale, Spears performed the songs in a number of television appearances and also embarked on the Femme Fatale Tour in 2011. Joe Jonas, Nicki Minaj and Nervo served as the opening acts for most shows of the tour.false2025-11-07 23:17:01Femme Fatale20112011-04-062011-04-0662Dance-PopPop111282211028881b1415b-028c-4716-8e18-f7f54f791c7e45a663b5-b1cb-4a91-bff6-2bef7bbfdd76a7e9d7d2-3c60-472f-b2ba-829de5034179/media/data/media5/Music/Britney Spears/Femme Fatale/folder.jpgBritney SpearsBritney Spears feat. SabiBritney Spears feat. will.i.amBritney SpearsBritney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer. Often referred to as the "Princess of Pop", she is credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Regarded as a pop icon, Spears has sold nearly 150 million records worldwide, including over 70 million in the United States alone, making her one of the world's best-selling music artists.After appearing in stage productions and television series, Spears signed with Jive Records in 1997 at age fifteen. Her first two studio albums, ...Baby One More Time (1999) and Oops!... I Did It Again (2000), are among the best-selling albums of all time and made Spears the best-selling teenage artist of all time. With first-week sales of over 1.3 million copies, Oops!... I Did It Again held the record for the fastest-selling album by a female artist in the United States for fifteen years. Spears adopted a more mature and provocative style for her albums Britney (2001) and In the Zone (2003), and starred in the 2002 film Crossroads. Spears was executive producer of her fifth studio album Blackout (2007), often referred to as her best work. Following a series of highly publicized personal problems, promotion for the album was limited, and Spears was involuntarily placed in a conservatorship. Since then, she released the chart-topping albums, Circus (2008) and Femme Fatale (2011), the latter of which became her most successful era of singles in the US charts. She embarked on a four-year concert residency, Britney: Piece of Me, at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas to promote her next two albums Britney Jean (2013) and Glory (2016). In 2019, Spears's legal battle over her conservatorship became more publicized and led to the establishment of the #FreeBritney movement. In 2021, the conservatorship was terminated following her public testimony in which she accused her management team and family of abuse.Spears has achieved six number-one albums on the Billboard 200 and four number-one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100: "...Baby One More Time", "Womanizer", "3", and "Hold It Against Me". As a featured artist, the "S&M" remix also topped the Billboard chart. Her singles "Oops!... I Did It Again", "Toxic", and "Scream & Shout" topped the charts in most countries. With "3" in 2009 and "Hold It Against Me" in 2011, Spears became the second artist after Mariah Carey in the Hot 100's history to debut at number one with two or more songs. Her heavily choreographed videos earned her the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. She has earned numerous other awards and accolades, including a Grammy Award, 15 Guinness World Records, six MTV Video Music Awards, seven Billboard Music Awards (including the Millennium Award), the inaugural Radio Disney Icon Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Spears was ranked by Billboard as the eighth-biggest artist of the 2000s. In the United States, she is the fourth best-selling female album artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era as well as the best-selling female album artist of the 2000s. "...Baby One More Time" was named the greatest debut single of all time by Rolling Stone in 2020. In 2004, Spears launched a perfume brand with Elizabeth Arden, Inc.; sales exceeded $1.5 billion as of 2012. Forbes has reported Spears as the highest-paid female musician of 2002 and 2012. By 2012, she had topped Yahoo!'s list of most searched celebrities seven times in twelve years. Time named Spears one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2021, while also winning the reader poll by receiving the highest number of votes.