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NEU WEE TEE<br />
PHOTO: TPGNEWS/CLICKPHOTOS<br />
8 DAYS<br />
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$468 $568 to<br />
How much the majority of the tickets to Britney Spears’ month ago. The cheapest tickets ($188 and $268 tix<br />
first gig on our shores cost. Netizens are up in arms over get you a view of an ant-sized Brit-Brit or a partiallyblocked<br />
view in odd corners and uppermost decks of<br />
what they deem as overpriced tickets, which account for<br />
more than half the venue’s capacity (the Indoor Stadium the stadium respectively) were sold out in under half<br />
can accommodate anything from 7,000 to 10,000 an hour. We’re guesstimating that about 70 per cent of<br />
concert-goers). You’d think that the gig would sell out tickets are left unsold (at press time). Kids, there’s still<br />
in record time — fans’ excitement has been palpable time to save up if you really wanna see her in the flesh<br />
on social media since promoters dropped hints over a on <strong>June</strong> 30.<br />
How long it took for all the tix to Ed Sheeran’s Nov 11 gig to be snapped up. A second show on<br />
40 MINUTES Nov 12 was subsequently added and tix for that were wiped out in less than two hours.<br />
How long it took for other successful concerts held in Singapore to sell out:<br />
UNDER 2 HOURS: Coldplay (Mar and Apr) | 2 DAYS: Harry Styles (Nov 23) | 3 DAYS: Mayday (Dec 2016)<br />
3 55 hours<br />
Age that Britney started<br />
attending dance lessons.<br />
Besides attending<br />
gymnastics and voice lessons,<br />
the young superstar-to-be had<br />
also won a string of state-level<br />
competitions and children’s<br />
talent shows, and made her stage<br />
debut at five, singing Christmas<br />
carol ‘What Child Is This’ at her<br />
kindergarten graduation.<br />
US$8mil (S$11.1mil)<br />
How much Pepsi paid the pop<br />
princess for an advertising deal in<br />
2001. Ironically, her investment<br />
portfolio revealed that she had<br />
invested in Coca-Cola in 2012 —<br />
she sold 574 Coke shares for a<br />
modest profit of US$3,000. Tsk tsk.<br />
Brit’s other investments in Chevron,<br />
Microsoft, Heinz, Facebook and<br />
Google, among others, netted her<br />
US$97,883 that year.<br />
How long Britney’s 2004 marriage to childhood friend<br />
Jason Allen Alexander lasted. That’s one-1274th as long<br />
as the average American marriage that ends in divorce. The twice-married and<br />
now single celebrity recently said she’s “done with men” on James Corden’s<br />
Carpool Karaoke segment. “I think I might not ever go to men again. I don't<br />
think I'm going to do the whole men thing, or get married.” Sorry, guys.<br />
US$1.5 billion (S$2.08 billion)<br />
How much Britney’s fragrances grossed worldwide as<br />
of 2012. Her perfume earnings pushed her to become<br />
the highest paid female musician in 2012 at US$58mil<br />
(S$80.4mil), beating Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga to the<br />
top spot. Her wildly successful perfume business started<br />
in 2004, when she released ‘Curious’, which earned a<br />
whopping US$100mil in just five weeks. It was estimated<br />
in 2013 that a bottle of a Britney Spears fragrance is sold<br />
every 15 seconds worldwide.<br />
1<br />
How many singers Britney launched to fame by rejecting a song originally<br />
written for her. Rihanna’s ‘Umbrella’ was meant for Brit, but she turned<br />
it away, sending it to Mary J. Blige (who turned it away too). In a twist<br />
of fate, Riri recorded and released the hit, which got so many downloads it<br />
crashed iTunes in 2007. And the rest, as they say, is history.<br />
Britney Live in Singapore is on Jun 30 at the Indoor Stadium, 8pm.<br />
Tix from Sportshubtix.
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