"WOMANIZER" IS #1 ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100

She finally dit it!!! Britney Spears makes a 96-1 jump with “Womanizer,” returning to the top of the list for the first time since her debut single “Baby One More Time” hit # 1 in January 1999. This is the third time in the past two months that the record for the biggest jump to # 1 has been shattered. On the Hot 100 dated Sept. 6, T.I. soared 71-1 with “Whatever You Like” and last week he broke his own record when he sprinted 80-1 with “Live Your Life.” Spears’ massive leap to # 1 is spurred by first-week digital download sales of 286,000, the biggest opening-week tally by a female artist since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking digital downloads in 2003, besting Mariah Carey’s take for “Touch My Body” by just over 200 units. In between her nearly 10-year gap between # 1s, Spears has placed four other top 10s on the Hot 100, the last being “Gimme More,” the first single from her last album, “Blackout.” That song jumped 68-3 last October with first-week download sales of 179,000. “Womanizer” previews Spears’ sixth studio set “Circus,” due Dec. 2.