Trip To Your Heart

Trip To Your Heart

Femme Fatale is the seventh studio album by American recording artist Britney Spears, released on March 25, 2011, by Jive Records. It became her final album with the label following its closure in October 2011. Spears wanted to make a "fresh-sounding" and "fierce dance record", incorporating pop and dance styles with elements of dubstep, techno, and trance. She began working on the album during the second leg of The Circus Starring Britney Spears, while also working on her second compilation. Contributions to its production came from a variety of producers and songwriters, including long-time collaborator Max Martin in addition to Dr. Luke, William Orbit, Fraser T Smith, Rodney Jerkins, will.i.am, and StarGate.

Upon its release, Femme Fatale received generally favorable from music critics, who complimented its production and dance-pop style, but noted Spears' supposed lack of involvement and heavily-processed vocals. Some stated that Spears was no longer the center of the album and found a trade-off to be real personality. Singer-songwriter Ryan Tedder defended her, saying that Frank Sinatra and Garth Brooks were huge artists who didn't write most of their songs. The album debuted atop of the charts in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Russia, South Korea and the United States, and peaking inside the top ten in twenty-four countries. In the United States, she earned her sixth number one album and has sold 769,000 copies.

Four singles were released from the album. It became Spears's first album to have three top 10 singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, with "Hold It Against Me", "Till the World Ends", and "I Wanna Go" peaking at numbers one, three, and seven, respectively. The fourth single "Criminal" peaked at number one in Brazil and in the top twenty in five countries. Spears promoted the album with television performances, the Femme Fatale Tour, and collaborations with Kesha, Nicki Minaj, Travis Barker, and Rihanna.