Britney Spears Tickets : Spears Became An International Pop Culture Icon After Her Recording Career

Britney Spears has sold over 100 million records worldwide. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), she is the eighth top-selling female artist in the United States, with 33 million certified albums.

Spears is also recognized as the best-selling female artist of the first decade of the 21st century, as well as the fifth overall. She was ranked the 8th Artist of the 2000s by Billboard.In June 2010, Spears was ranked sixth on Forbes list of the 100 Most Powerful and Influential celebrities in the world; she is also the third most mentioned musician on the internet, according to Forbes.

In March 2011, Spears released her seventh studio album Femme Fatale.[124] Max Martin and Dr. Luke executive produced the album and the album's first single "Hold It Against Me". The single debuted at number-one on the Billboard Hot 100.

This gave Spears her fourth number-one single on the chart, and made her only the second artist in history to have two consecutive singles debut at number-one, after Mariah Carey. The album peaked at number one in the United States, Canada, and Australia and peaked inside the top ten on nearly every other chart. The album's peak in the United States ties Britney for the third-most number ones among women with Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson.

In April 2011, Spears appeared in a remix to the song "S&M" by Rihanna after Rihanna asked her fans via Twitter who they wanted her to collaborate with. The song reached number one in the US in mid-April 2011, giving Britney her fifth number one on the chart. In early May, Spears' second single from Femme Fatale, "Till The World Ends", reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and had eighty-seven million audience impressions on the Billboard chart, granting Spears the highest weekly audience of her 12-and-a-half-year chart career.

In June 2011, Femme Fatale's third single "I Wanna Go" reached the top forty on the Billboard Hot 100. Among females in the last thirteen years, Spears now has the third-most top forty hits, with twenty-one.On March 4, 2011, Spears announced that she would tour throughout the United States during summer 2011, her first tour in two years.

At first, Enrique Iglesias was to be a co-headliner, but he pulled out just hours after the announcement was made. Rapper Nicki Minaj was quickly named as the replacement opening act for the North American leg of the tour. The Femme Fatale Tour opened June 16 at the Power Balance Pavilion in Sacramento, California to positive reviews.

Many critics noted that Spears sang more of the concert live in response to lip-synching accusations during The Circus Starring Britney Spears, and that the dancing is some of her best in years. Despite the positive reviews, some of the venues have not sold out, and many tickets have been sold at a discounted price.

On June 15, 2011, it was announced by Billboard that the RCA/Jive Label Group would be splitting, with Jive Records going to a restructured Epic Records, and RCA Records staying intact. Some Jive artists, like Usher and P!nk, will be moved to Epic Records, while Spears "will likely" stay with RCA Records.

Spears became an international pop culture icon immediately after launching her recording career. Rolling Stone magazine wrote: "One of the most controversial and successful female vocalists of the 21st century," she "spearheaded the rise of post-millennial teen pop ... Spears early on cultivated a mixture of innocence and experience that broke the bank".

Britney is listed by the Guinness World Records as having the "Best-selling album by a teenage solo artist" for her debut album ...Baby One More Time which sold over thirteen million copies in the United States.Melissa Ruggieri of the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported, "She's also marked for being the best-selling teenage artist. Before she turned 20 in 2001, Spears sold more than 37 million albums worldwide".