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December 11, 2002
Britney Spears Seeks Restraining Order
Pop singer Britney Spears asked Monday
to have a restraining order imposed against a 41-year-old Japanese man she
claims has been stalking her since September.
According to a petition filed in Los
Angeles Superior Court, Masahiko Shizawa of Yokohama, Japan, has "tracked
and attempted to contact" Spears at her home in Los Angeles, as well as
at her second residence and one of her parent's homes, both outside
California.
Those attempts have ranged from
sending photos of himself along with notes reading, "I'm chasing
you," to showing up at Spears' home and refusing to leave when he was
ordered off the property, the complaint alleges.
Spears' attorney, Joel Strote, asked
to have Shizawa barred from coming within 1,000 feet of the 21-year-old singer
and from contacting her in any way.
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Britney Spears is 2002's #1 Woman Online
For an incredible fourth year in a row,
Britney
Spears reigns as the most popular female of the Internet according to
searches by Lycos users.
Like Britney, many of the other top women online
have been in our Web's Most Wanted every year since 1999. But this year, the
regulars are joined by an international star arriving in America, a couple of
young singers who go against the teen queen grain, and a strange Asian
scandal.
Here are the Top 20, with last year's rank in
parentheses:
1. Britney Spears (1)
2. Pamela Anderson (2)
3. Anna Kournikova (4)
4. Chu Mei-Feng (-)
5. Jennifer Lopez (3)
6. Shakira (-)
7. Brooke Burke (10)
8. Martha Stewart (9)
9. Christina Aguilera (8)
10. Oprah Winfrey (1)
11. Aaliyah (12)
12. Halle Berry (-)
13. Avril Lavigne (-)
14. Pink (-)
15. Carmen Electra (6)
16. Kylie Minogue (-)
17. Ashanti (-)
18. Anna Nicole Smith (16)
19. Madonna (5)
20. Angelina Jolie (7)
50.lycos.com
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Britney In The Guiness Book of World
Records 2003
Britney has two records in The Guiness
Book of World Records 2003!
Best Selling Album by a Teenage Solo Artist
"Released in 1999, Baby One More Time by Britney Spears sold 13million
copies in the USA alone in less than two years."
Best Selling Teenage Artist
"Before she turned 20 years old on 2nd December 2001, Britney Spears had
sold over 37 million albums around the world"
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Britney To Work With Rodney Jerkins
Again
For her fourth album, Britney Spears is drawing on
past inspirations while looking ahead to some out-of-this-world production and
help from a couple of punks.
Phoning in to "TRL" on Friday, Spears said she'll again work with
producer Rodney Jerkins for the follow-up to last year's Britney.
Jerkins, the hitmaking mastermind behind tunes by the Backstreet Boys, Brandy
and Destiny's Child, produced the Britney cover of "I Love Rock
'n' Roll," an Arrows song made popular by Joan Jett.
The pop princess also told trade magazine The Hollywood Reporter that
she had taken meetings while in Europe with producer William Orbit (Madonna,
Blur) and electronic duo Daft Punk about possible collaborations. Her working
with Orbit was suspected in November, but Spears wouldn't spill.
"I can't tell you. Then it won't be cool when it comes out," she
said.
Although she proclaimed a hiatus in July, following her Dream Within a Dream
tour, Spears began dabbling with new ideas a few weeks later. She plans to
work in earnest on the LP in January.
And like Pink and more recently Nick Carter, Spears might to go more rock on
her next venture and perhaps delve deeper into hip-hop, according to The
Hollywood Reporter. But it can't be forced, she told the magazine — it's
got to be an organic evolution.
"It should just happen naturally from the way you feel. ... I'm in the
studio just doing my thing and letting it flow. Whatever happens,
happens."
mtv.com
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This Week: Britney On The World Charts
Charts & Ratings weekly world charts update for Britney.
"Boys" on the single charts:
France #60
Argentina #62
Austria #66
"I Love Rock and Roll" on the single charts:
Ireland #15
UK #44
charts.boom.ru
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Britney And
Ben Got It On
Britney Spears
had a steamy two-year affair with actor Ben Affleck, according to reports.
The relationship was the real reason
why Britney's ex-lover Justin Timberlake dumped her last year, the Daily Star
credits US magazine Star as saying.
Timberlake, the NSync singer, was
'heartbroken and furious' when he found out that Britney had betrayed him with
Affleck, who starred in the film Pearl Harbor.
Britney is reported by the magazine
as saying: "I am totally hooked on Ben - he's so hot.
"It started with heavy-petting,
but became a full-blown romance. Justin heard rumours but he didn't believe
it," an insider told Star.
Affleck's publicist called the
allegations "rehashed bulls...".
Britney is due to start recording her
new album next month. The singer has said that it will be more 'hip-hop'.
sky.com |
Britney Party Celebrating Stages
This past Friday night, Britney rented
out the second floor of the Planet Hollywood in Times Square for a party
celebrating the release of Stages. She arrived at a kind of side entrance and
was in a black corset-like shirt and a black mailboy hat. She was very nice
and shook people's hands. There was a decoy Britney in the store and it was
the front-page article in The Daily News on Sunday.
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Britney Eyeing Orbit, Daft Punk For
Next Album
Although there's no schedule set
for her fourth Jive studio album, Britney Spears has already taken meetings
with producer William Orbit (Madonna, Blur) and French electronica duo Daft
Punk with an eye on future collaborations. "I've been off, but I've still
been working, too," she says in an exclusive interview with the Hollywood
Reporter. "The main thing is I've just been going on my [own] schedule.
I've been going in the studio, I've been working, I've been dancing, but it
hasn't been someone saying, 'You have to do this at this time.' It's really
been on my own time."
"I would go crazy if I didn't do anything," Spears continues.
"I always have to do something. When I first got off the [Dream Within a
Dream] tour, I was going to try and chill out for a couple of months, but
there's no way I could've done that. So after two weeks, I just started
recording and playing around. We haven't really been taking it that seriously,
but we are going to start taking it serious in January. Mainly, I've just been
having meetings with people to hear their stuff to see if I want to work with
them in January. I met up with some really hot producers, William Orbit and
Daft Punk, overseas."
Spears stretched her sound on her 2001 album "Britney," which
featured collaborations with such producers as the Neptunes, Rodney Jerkins,
and Max Martin. "Musically, I seriously think I am going to do a little
bit more rock, hip-hop and just play with it," the artist reveals.
"That's the direction I'm in now, but who knows? A month from now, it may
change, and I could come up with this amazing, amazing song, and then
everything just kind of shifts."
Asked if she feels any pressure to reinvent herself amid ever-shifting popular
tastes, Spears says, "No. Anyway, it's not something you should try to do
-- it should just happen naturally from the way you feel. When people say,
'I'm going to do this,' or 'I'm going to do that' or they plan something,
that's when it doesn't really come out. Right now, I'm in the studio just
doing my thing and letting it flow. Whatever happens, happens."
"Britney" debuted in November 2001 at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 and
has sold 4 million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan. Spears'
three sets have sold a combined 23.4 million copies in the U.S. to date.
billboard.com
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"Britney" On The Billboard
200: Week 54
"Britney" has re-entered
Billboard 200 Album Chart this week at #186. This is the 54th week on the
chart.
BILLBOARD 200 HISTORY: Britney
week (54) ending 11.30.02 #186
week (53) ending 11.16.02 #196
week (52) ending 11.09.02 #188
week (51) ending 11.02.02 #186
week (50) ending 10.26.02 #183
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week (05) ending 12.15.01 #4
week (04) ending 12.08.01 #5
week (03) ending 12.01.01 #3
week (02) ending 11.24.01 #2
week (01) ending 11.17.01 #1 (debut)
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