Britney Spears fans overshadow Justin Timberlake’s ‘Selfish’ as he announces new world tour

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As Justin Timberlake has announced a new world tour, Britney Spears fans have sent her song “Selfish” to the top of the charts — to troll her ex-boyfriend.

Timberlake, 42, dropped his comeback single “Selfish” earlier this week. His The Forget Tomorrow [World] Tour will kick off in Vancouver, Canada on April 29, with tickets going on sale Feb.

2. However, Spears, 42, also has a song of the same name, first released on the deluxe version of Spears’ 2011 album “Femme Fatale.”The song entered the top 40 of the U.S.

iTunes chart on Friday. The Spears fan fan account BritneyxYtube told Entertainment Weekly that this all “started as a joke.” Spears fans rallied to make it happen after Timberlake announced his new single, off his first album in five years, “Everything I Thought It Was,” coming out March 15. “Then we all joined in, saying that Britney Spears was coming back with a ‘brand’ new song,” the fan account said. “I still can’t believe that it became so big, and we see the results we see now.