Britney Spears' Femme Fatale tops Billboard chart

Singer Britney Spears must be on cloud nine, as her new album Femme Fatale has stormed to the top of the Billboard 200 chart. The album received lots of accolades from the critics and its first week sales was 276,000.

With Femme Fatale topping the charts, Britney is now the third on the list of most number one records by a female artiste after Madonna and Barbra Streisand, who boast of nine chart topping albums. The the way to the top of the charts, she has beaten Wiz Khalifa's 'Rolling Papers', Radiohead's 'King Of Limbs', Snoop Dogg's 'Doggumentary', Mary Mary's 'Something Big', songwriter Adele, controversial R&B star Chris Brown, soul singer Jennifer Hudson and Kirk Franklin.

Britney Spears has announced tour of U.S and Canada, which will start on June 17 and end on August 13. She is expected to perform at Portland, Chicago, New Orleans, Miami, Washington, Boston and Toronto Air Canada Centre.