Britney Spears will give her first major public performance in this year's MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday.
MTV said on Thursday that Spears will be performing her new song "Gimme More" at the awards show in Las Vegas.
Spears released "Gimme More," her first new song in years, on the Web last week. The song is a clubby dance track produced by Danja, a protege of hit-maker Timbaland, and opens with the line "It's Britney, bitch!" MTV said it is a track from an album due to be released on Nov. 13.
"After weeks of mind-blowing media speculation, MTV confirms today that Britney Spears will be opening the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards," MTV said in a statement that billed the performance as her "long awaited comeback."
The singer, 25, put her performing career on hold for marriage in 2004 and two children in swift succession. But her personal life careened downhill after she filed for divorce from husband Kevin Federline in November 2006 and was frequently spotted partying at Hollywood nightspots.
In the past 12 months, she has been photographed without panties under her miniskirts, shaved her head bald, attacked a car with an umbrella, and entered rehab in Malibu.
Her divorce from Federline was finalized in July but the pair remain embroiled in a custody battle.
In 2002 Spears was ranked as the most powerful celebrity in the world by Forbes magazine. Her first album was 1999's "... Baby One More Time," which featured hit songs like "Sometimes." Her most recent album of original music was 2003's "In the Zone." Her long-awaited new album is due for release Nov. 13 on Jive Records.
Source: Xinhua/agencies
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