peaked at #8 in the UK and only 9 weeks in the charts.

It didn't.

For an artist who sold 100 million records, it's quite disappointing

Every artist has its peak. Then its fans grow up and either move on to someone younger or stop listening and buying as much music. She had her peak 10 years or so ago. Why the surprise?

She could have had two UK number 1 singles from this had the UK & Europe for that matter got some decent promo.

I think its better than Born This Way myself. Yet Gaga overshadowed her.

Laziness. God she is lazy. Does she ever promote? I saw her live last November and damn, she couldn't give a shit. She needs shaking up and told to pull her finger out!

With every passing album I become less hopeful of her ever being a success in the UK again.

No effort was put into the release of it in the UK, no radio support, no interest in her.

I don't think she cares about her international career any more. She did almost no promo for the entire album. The singles were very impressive and could have been big hits here if she promoted it properly....I can't even remember the last time she did a televised interview that wasn't pre-recorded on the set of her tour or something in this country...

Either that or she's just plain lazy, but either way I'd say the promo was to blame as the music from this album was good. I think her reputation has been damaged a lot from her X Factor performance though....

Because she's America's Cheryl Cole.

Because it was tragically generic, samey and had robot sounding vocals throughout that anyone could've done.

The last UK interview I can remember is Graham Norton back when Toxic came out

She did this morning last year with Alison Hammond.

It was just total lack of promo on her and her managements part gone are the days when she would do Graham Norton etc to promote

Its simply down to promo, in that it was virtually non-existant, in the U.S she had 3 top 10's off the album and the album went platinum, she could have had similar success here if she'd done a few performances, the song Till the world ends still sold over 300,000 copies here, and it didnt even get into the top 20, so it shows she is still relevant, she is just more of a singles artist these days, plus there is always illegal downloading, I think i remember the album leaking about 2/3 weeks before the release so thats something to consider.

Hardly a flop. Because she had hit singles and a successful tour despite low sales. I very much doubt she lost her label money.

Where?

Her music is so trashy now, that's why. I can't believe some are saying she could have had some huge hits off this album had she promoted, she really couldn't have!

Her songs are now completely autotuned, generic club trash. And to be honest there are younger, more motivated, fresher stars doing exactly the same thing and although they're songs are still generic, they're still better than anything Britney has put out in recent years.

I used to love Britney back in the day, but she lost whatever it was she used to have. I know she went through a lot and I respect her for coming out fighting, but I don't think she will ever experience the success she used to again.

I thought that 1 year after its release, we would be able to move on now... Anyway.

'FF' didn't flop, it underperformed. I understand that its chart performance was underwhelming, but a top 10 album that sold about 1,4 million ww cannot be labelled as a total flop. The reason why it underperformed is that the era was a mess, mostly due to the label being on the verge of shutting down and merging with RCA.

'HIAM' had a decent amount of momentum, but they killed it by releasing it pre-maturely in the UK when the airplay was not strong enough. Had they waited to release the single the week after the video's release, it would have been a top 3 hit, which would have given her more buzz and would have secured a better commercial reception for its follow-up too. The video should have been released a little earlier too

Then, they rush-released 'TTWE' because it leaked IIRC and they delayed the video for that song too. Since they weren't willing to promote it, it was dead on arrival internationally.

And finally it all fell apart when she started promoting ( well, her promo tour only lasted 5 days and was focused on US TV, but anyway). The main source of buzz and interest for a Britney era is the idea of "THE comeback" and this is what gave her so much momentum in the beginning (Her choreographer saying she was ready to dance hard, her interviews reading "the b*tch is back and better than ever" ). When people saw that she hadn't made any considerable progress since the 'Circus' campaign ( I love her, but it's true), they just gave up on her and the album. And since there was no further promo to at least keep her in the public eye, interest fizzled out and the album started descending in the charts.

I hope the next era is a comeback of sorts, because, as a fan, I'd like to see that

Maybe she did but in America they were playing her music too and all 3 singles were overplayed. Meanwhile, Gaga only had BTW and TEOG that were only radio overplayed really not Judas really but You and I did get some support but not really overplayed.

Good points maybe she'll make more progress. Its a work in progress. But I will say that didn't I hear one time that she said she felt she had nothing to prove no more now she does this for fun. Maybe that's why now that she's an icon already.

This

This is true. She just doesn't care. Millions would kill to have the advantage she does, but I mean miming on tour and not giving a damn when you charge around 70 bob...WTF?

Can I just say to the person who called her America's Cheryl Cole - how insulting to Britney! I don't think they're anything alike, but if you're going to compare the two - surely you'd call Cheryl the British Britney

I can really see people's problem with her sometimes, but it's for the very same reason that I love and admire her.

She literally does **** all and still sells really well and is one of the biggest stars in the world.

Thats the thing though. She doesn't sell well. At least not as well as she could be. Femme Fetale only sold about 1.5 million last year. Compared to other artists with her level of fame, that is peanuts.

Rihannas Talk That Told sold more then that and it was only released for about 6 weeks of the year.

Yes but in the present context Rihanna is where Britney was At Baby/Oops time and Britney whilst huge like Kylie her album sales average at around 300,000+ and she hasyet to ave a #1 album but in all honesty she needs to promote and raise he profile