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Britney Spears scores sixth US No. 1

Published Wednesday, Apr 6 2011, 17:08 BST | By Robert Copsey | 3 comments

Britney Spears has scored her sixth US number one album with Femme Fatale.

The record - Spears's seventh in total - sold 276,000 copies to top the tally, fending off competition from Wiz Khalifa's Rolling Papers, which shifted 197,000 units at number two.

The feat ties her with Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson for the third-most number one albums for a female artist, behind Barbra Streisand and Madonna.

However, the sales figure marks the singer's second-lowest opening-week sales to date, ahead of her debut ...Baby One More Time, which entered with sales of 121,000.

Elsewere, Adele's 21 remains at number three, Chris Brown's F.A.M.E dips from one to four, and charity record Songs For Japan completes the top five.

Other new entries arrived from Radiohead, whose latest effort The King Of Limbs enters at six, Snoop Dogg's Doggumentary at eight, and Mary Mary's Something Big at ten.

Earlier today Spears unveiled the music video for Femme Fatale's latest single 'Till The World Ends'.