Mother, pop princess and ultimate twitter trending topic Britney Spears has announced the date of her new album Femme Fatale. The album will be released here on March 25, and Spears considers it to be her "best album to date". Not sure if HP believes this assertion too reliably considering the former Mickey Mousekeeter tweeted yesterday saying she was heading to the studio with Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am to create a "mega smasher" with not much more than a month away to release date but we'll put our trust in Brit. In other news, the video for her new single, 'Hold It Against Me' chosen by Celina Murphy as her new 'Single of the Fortnight' will premiere on February 17 and is directed by Jonas Akerlund, the man also behind Lady Gaga's epic 'Telephone' video in 2010.

With Gaga's new single and likely-to-be-overblown Grammy performance coming also in the next week, the showdown is definitely on between these two pop blondes!