Britney Spears looked like the epitome of elegance and sophistication on Friday when she delicately glided into a L.A. gas station to purchase a cool, refreshing bottle of Fanta. {Pic Source}

Besides invading gas stations across America with her muscular legs, the Queen B is also working on her next album, which paparazzi gossip site X-17 are exclusively claiming will be “more energetic” than her last album Circus, and like “Blackout times 100″.

“Right after this year’s Grammy Awards, Britney met with all of the producers for her next album to explain the vibe she’s looking to capture. Brit, who is co-writing many of the songs, explained that she’s looking to give the new album a vibe like the song ‘Get Naked’ from Blackout.”

They also mentioned that Britney is working with Blackout producers Bloodshy & Avant, Danja and Corte Ellis so she can recreate the vibe of the album again.

I’d trust X-17 about as far as I could throw them (not very), but I figured I’d put the rumors out there then combine prayer with positive thinking in hopes of making them a reality!

DJ/producer David Guetta is currently in Australia to perform with Kelly Rowland at the Mardis Gras party this weekend, and as usual when the famous Frenchman was interviewed all people wanted to know about were the famous ladies that he’s been clocking up studio time with, and not actually David himself, so it wasn’t a shock when Nine MSN managed to get Davie to spill the tea on a bunch of his upcoming projects, including Madonna’s new single from her upcoming twelfth studio album.

“That’s done, the single will be out very soon and it’s amazing, I’m very happy,” he said about Madge.

And what about Britney Spears?

“We both want to do it I think, we just need the song.”

Alright. So what’s the tea on Rihanna?

“Same. I just need to find the right song for them. I think it’s going to happen.”

OK, so I can breathe a sigh of relief that he hasn’t yet managed to get his increasingly stale claws into the Queen B yet, and as far as Madonna goes I don’t really care what she does as long as I don’t have to stare deep into her vagina of doom again. Lord knows that I’m still trying to recover from that invasive “Celebration” music video.

Britney Spears has ditched the dark brunette hair that she’s been sporting lately, heading to the Nine One Zero salon in West Hollywood on Friday to dye it back to a delicious looking honey blonde.

With the amount of times she’s dyed her hair I’m surprised that it hasn’t all fallen out of her head by now, but I’m actually even more surprised at how beautiful she looks now. See what a difference a shower, a comb and some clean clothes can make Britney?

The Queen B, who earned almost $40 million last year off her music alone, has also rubbished reports that her new album will be released this June, taking to her official website to label the story “bullshit”. She also denied the rumors through her rep who released an exclusive statement to JustJared.

“There is no scheduled release date for a Britney album at all,” her label rep exclusively tells JustJared.com. “There has been zero discussion about it.”

It’s a shame that we’ll have to wait longer for new music, but it’s probably a lot better that she has more time to write and record so nothing is rushed at all.

Billboard today released their list of the top 40 biggest money makers in music for 2009, and it’s come with a few major surprises.

Unlike other earnings lists and rankings, Billboard are only including money made from music, so that includes things like publishing royalties, physical and digital sales, royalties from streaming and touring revenue. It does NOT cover earnings from endorsements, commercials, products etc.

Billboard also only listed the artists actual share of their revenue, and not the total that they grossed.

Coming in at #1 are super group U2 who took home a staggering $108 million dollars, with a lot of that coming from a record breaking tour and a lucrative 360-deal the band have with Live Nation.

The biggest female on the list was of course Madonna who ranked at #3 with $47 million. Just like U2 she also has a deal with Live Nation, which earned her a lot from her Sticky & Sweet tour, as well as money from publishing royalties and physical and digital record sales.

The next top female was Britney Spears at #5 who banked close to $39 million from her top-earning Circus world tour, album sales and extremely strong digital sales (7.5 million downloads in 2009 alone).

Hot on Britney’s heels was pop-rock chick Pink who came in at #6 with earnings of $36 million. Once again most of that came from her Funhouse world tour and record sales and publishing royalties.

Surprisingly much further down the list was Forbes cash Queen Beyonce, who ranked at #13 with $23 million. Most of that money was again from touring, as well as the huge sales of her album I Am… Sasha Fierce which probably would’ve earned her some nice publishing cheques since she’s listed as a songwriter on all her songs.

Whilst Forbes listed Beyonce’s overall earnings between 2008-2009 at $87 million, Billboard proves that Bey’s big bank mainly consists of earnings outside of the music world, such as for her endorsement deals with L’Oréal, Pepsi, Nintendo and even Japanese bottled water brand Crystal Geyser.

You can check out the full list over at Billboard.com which includes Michael Jackson, Miley Cyrus, The Jonas Brothers, Fleetwood Mac, Tina Turner, Brad Paisley, Kings of Leon, Taylor Swift, Cher, Lil’ Wayne, Celine Dion, Nickleback, Bob Dylan, Coldplay and many more.

The lowest person on the list was Bette Midler with $9.4 million, so if your fave isn’t on the list then you know that they made less than that from their music last year!

View Full List Here.

Italian production duo Crookers are due to release their debut album Tons of Friends on March 8, but before you get your hands on it you’ll need to check out their third single “Remedy” which features band Miike Snow, who are made up of production team Bloodshy & Avant and another member.

The reason that Miike Snow is listed as a feature on “Remedy” is because the song heavily samples a tune from the band called “In Search Of” which appears on Miike Snow’s 2009 self-titled debut.

As I mentioned before Miike Snow consist of Bloodshy & Avant, who are arguably best known for producing a number of songs for Britney Spears. One of the many songs the pair worked on with Britney is a trancey dance-ballad called “Unusual You” from her 2008 Circus LP, which also happens to share some similarities to “In Search Of”.

Now we’re left with three different songs that all have very similar instrumentals. Who do you think did the best? I like Miike Snow’s version the best, but if Britney had put her vocals over the “In Search Of” beat it would’ve been the perfect song.

Check them out below.

It’s been a while since I updated you on Britney Spears seventh album so here you go!

The Queen B is working with K. Briscoe of The Outsyderz again, who produced her #1 comeback single “Womanizer”. Briscoe also recently worked on Timbalands Shock Value II album on “Lose Control” with JoJo and “The One I Love” with Keri Hilson, which further hints that Britney’s new album will have more urban influences.

Also contributing to the new album is songwriter Corte Ellis of the Soul Diggaz, who co-wrote “Get Naked” from Blackout and has previously worked with Fantasia and Monica.

And finally dance DJ David Guetta confirmed that he’s already finished the song with Britney that he was scheduled to work on.

Right now the new album is due in June and other producers attached include Danja, Max Martin, Darkchild, Sean Garrett and many more, but who actually manages to make the final cut will be a different story.

It sounds to me that she’ll be doing pop that has urban crossover potential. What do you think?

The top-selling digital artist in music history Taylor Swift has just broken Britney Spears record for the best first-week download sales by a female artist, with her new soundtrack single “Today was a Fairytale” shifting 325k to beat Britney’s 2008 hit “Womanizer”.

Unfortunately though for Taylor those big numbers still aren’t enough to topple Ke$ha’s “TiK ToK” which is set to remain at #1 on the Hot 100 for its sixth-consecutive week, meaning that Taylor will have to settle for #2. {source}

When this song first leaked I made a sarcastic remark about how it was going to sell some ridiculous amount of copies in it’s first week, and now it’s actually come true!

My loyal reader Yumm showed me this article yesterday, but I held off on posting it because at the time I had already done two Ryan Tedder posts in a row.

Anyways Ryan Tedder is back at it again, this time discussing Cheryl Cole’s upcoming US debut album which he has been heavily involved in, revealing that he’s anxious to get an Alicia Keys leftover song from The Element of Freedom in Cheryl’s hands

“There’s a song I did with Alicia Keys that was finished too late for her album and I’m convinced it’s the perfect song for Cheryl Cole,” he told Digital Spy.

“I’m desperately trying to get the demo out of her label’s grasp so I can play it for Cheryl. It’s a ballad in my sense, so it’s got massive drums and it really moves, and it’ll give you goosebumps when you hear it.”

It’s a ballad in “my sense”? So I assume we’ll be getting another recycled Halo/Already Gone beat then?

Continuing on, Tedder further discussed the sound he was after for Cheryl Cole; and made sure to take a stab at Britney Spears in the process.

“Cheryl likes something real,” he said. “I had a long meeting with the head of her label and he said she doesn’t want kitschy throwaway dance anthems – basically if Britney would sing it, she doesn’t want it.”

If Britney’s songs are so kitschy then why are so many of her hits considered pop classics that are continually covered by more ‘credible’ artists such as Lily Allen, Kate Miller-Heidke, Hard-Fi, The Dresden Dolls and countless others? You can justifiably call Britney untalented and manufactured if you so choose, but at the end of the day she wouldn’t have reached her phenomenal success without at least having great songs.

First Tedder made catty remarks about Hilary Duff, then he roasted Kelly Clarkson and now Britney. Who’s next?

Anyways Alicia Keys was obviously smart enough to not hold onto Tedder ballad, so hopefully Cheryl has enough sense to do the same.

Looking happy for once Britney Spears was snapped by the paps today in Calabasas indulging in a little retail therapy, stopping to get her nails done before heading to a Barnes & Nobel bookstore and then a jewelry store where she purchased something.

Britney was scheduled to attend court for a hearing regarding her conservatorship, but news of her arrival caused a media frenzy at the courthouse and the date had to be postponed till next week.

According to TMZ both Britney and her father Jamie are keen to end the conservatorship, so let’s hope that they sort it out before her next album drops later this year.

Britney Spears looked beautiful yesterday as she showed off her Blackout era dark hair on a shopping trip in Beverley Hills.

The Circus singer’s shopping spree followed a session at a recording studio in Wilshire, where she could have possibly been recording material for her new album which is due out in the first half of this year.

Speaking of her new album, producer Marcella Araica hinted on Twitter that she may possibly be attached to the upcoming project.

In case you don’t know who Marcella is, she worked with Britney on Blackout, co-writing, recording, mixing and programming several of the albums tracks including “Gimme More”, “Break The Ice”, “Perfect Lover”, “Get Naked” and the bonus song “Outta This World”.

I’m loving the black hair almost as much as I love all the people she’s collaborating with on this new album. It’s sounding like we might get urban Britney back after all!