{"id":31643,"date":"2020-06-02T07:22:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T14:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/?p=31643"},"modified":"2020-06-02T07:25:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T14:25:58","slug":"britney-spears-releases-her-first-new-song-in-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/concerts\/britney-spears-releases-her-first-new-song-in-four-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears Releases Her First \u2018New\u2019 Song in Four Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mood Ring (By Demand)\" width=\"860\" height=\"645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IvkWMFzwJKY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/britney-spears-tickets\">Britney Spears<\/a> has rereleased a song that was previously unavailable to most fans, &#8220;Mood Ring (By Demand)&#8221;. This makes it her first &#8220;new&#8221; single in four years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Mood Ring&#8221; originally appeared on the Japanese deluxe version of Spears&#8217;s 2016 album <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Glory<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then, it received positive reviews from critics and reached No. 3 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, thanks to the efforts of her fans, the album hit the top of the iTunes Pop Charts in early May.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a thank you for their dedication, Spears rereleased the album with brand new cover art, as well as the addition of &#8220;Mood Ring.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Repurposed this since we didn\u2019t use it:<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You folks wanted a new album cover \u2026.. ta da there you go!!!!&#8221;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Spears tweeted. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;What was requested next is out now\u2026.. I hope you turn #MoodRing up sooooooo loud.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mood Ring co-writers Melanie Fontana and Jon Asher admitted they were shocked that the song has topped the charts four years after the album was released.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fontana told Billboard:<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> &#8220;As I awoke to Britney&#8217;s Mood Ring being No. 1, I was instantly catapulted backwards in my mind, landing in the middle of my childhood bedroom, watching the little version of me sitting on a carpeted floor covered in unfolded album inserts, my old Sony headphones on, researching all the names behind the artists I love.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Asher added: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI had literal tears and chills when I found out! The success of Mood Ring is truly a grassroots effort on behalf of the Britney Army and fans across the world.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They gave this song the breath of life and took it to where it is right now.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recently Spears also celebrated 20 years of her hit album <em>Oops!&#8230; I Did It Again<\/em>, and she has thanked her fans for sticking with her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The legendary album was released on May 16, 2000 and it held the record for 15 years for the biggest sales week ever for an album by a female artist.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britney Spears has rereleased a song that was previously unavailable to most fans, &#8220;Mood Ring (By Demand)&#8221;. 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