Britney Spears has released a new single, and with her empire finally fixed at the top, it will be no surprise to see "3" at the top of the charts this week. The new single featured on her greatest hits collection The Singles Collection premiered on September 29th to New York radio stations. The single was produced by her collaborator Max Martin, who helped Spears see success with her first hit a decade ago "...Baby One More Time" as well as the more recent "If you Seek Amy." The single, much like everything else Spears has been doing since her good girl gone bad school girl outfit in "...Baby One More Time," will likely cause a media uprising as its content discusses matters of the heart in an unconventional manner.



The single is currently posted on New York radio's Z 100's website and features her signature sound and a dance beat as she sings "1, 2, 3/ not only you and me/ got 180 degrees/ and I'm caught in between." The song is the only new hit to appear on the album that celebrates her 10 years in the business. It is her third greatest hits compilation in four years, following 2005's My Prerogative and 2006's B in the Mix: The Remixes.

The newest compilation will appear in two forms: the first will feature 17 of her biggest hits, including ...Baby One More Time, the album that spent 103 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart and has sold 10,554,000 copies (according Nielson SoundScan); the second will be an 'ultimate fan box set' with all 29 of her singles, a DVD of her music videos and a booklet featuring classic images, reports Billboard. If you want to hear the single performed live, then get Britney Spears tickets from http://www.stubhub.com/britney-spears-tickets.

Spears has been out of the tabloids recently, instead making the cover of Rolling Stone and other music magazines for her Circus tour. Though the tour closed at the end of September, Spears has remained in the headlines for her custody case with former husband and backup dancer Kevin Federline. The couple has two children, Sean Preston and Jayden James, and recently learned that they will be splitting custody through the end of the year, according to TMZ.

The instruction is an extension of the already preexisting arrangement that had been ordered while Spears was on tour that enabled the boys to travel with their mom. The plan now allows Spears to travel with her sons outside of California, however she must provide Federline with room and board, as well as an extra $5,000 a month (making the grand total in child support $25,000).

Britney Spears was born in a small town in Louisiana, and she took to the stage at a young age, performing for her family before appearing on the nationally televised Star Search and The New Mickey Mouse Club. After her second season as a Mouseketeer the show was cancelled, so the young star moved to New York and began recording demo tapes, some that eventually landed in the hands of Jive executives who signed the 15-year-old to a recording deal that had her working with producers and writers of established fame (Eric Foster White and Max Martin). Once she was paired up with Jive and Martin, the success came easily, skyrocketing the small town girl into pop star fame that has yet to quell over a decade later.