“The Circus Tour Starring Britney Spears”, her first tour in five years, has been selling out all over the country and now the singer is adding more shows to accommodate the demand for tickets. Livedaily reports that the tour will begin March 3 in New Orleans and will stretch across the US and Canada through May. The Pussycat Dolls will be the opening act.
Spears put Oakland, Calif., and Columbus, Ohio, on the itinerary recently and added a second night to her gig in Uncasville, Conn. There are also two-nights of shows in Newark, N.J.; Uniondale, N.Y.; Anaheim, Calif.; Los Angeles; Toronto; and Chicago.
She will also perform an astounding eight shows at London’s O2 Arena after the North American leg of the tour is completed.
“Circus” was released on Dec. 2 and sold 505,000 copies in its first week, landing it in the No. 1 spot. It was her fifth album to hit the top. The first single, “Womanizer”, made a historic jump on The Billboard Hot 100 when it went from No. 96 to No. 1.
The new single “Circus” and another song, “Kill the Lights” are already being placed on many music charts. Spears has sold more than 62 million albums worldwide, as per her record label Jive.
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