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Britney’s Going to Be Early For Something

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She’s late for rehearsals. She’s late for performances. She’s late for drug tests and visitations and court dates.

But Britney Spears’ latest album?

It’s going to be early.

Britney’s album — the aptly named Blackout — was originally supposed to be released on November 13. Her label has pushed the release date up to October 30, ostensibly because so much of it has leaked online already.

“Due to these numerous unauthorized online leaks, the label is doing everything possible to prevent and avoid any further illegal distribution of songs including moving up the release date of the album to Oct. 30,” a rep for Jive Records says in a statement.

Yeah, right.

Jive doesn’t want Britney to go head-to-head with Celine Dion, who’s releasing her highly anticipated new album (which probably doesn’t suck) on November 13.