According to Yahoo!, legendary hard rockers WHITESNAKE are set to surpass BRITNEY SPEARS' comeback.

The band's 11th album Forevermore has so-far received 35% more pre-orders on Amazon.co.uk than Britney's latest, 'Femme Fatale'.

A spokesperson for Amazon said: "Britney Spears is one of the most successful global pop acts with a career spanning more than ten years but, even with this pedigree, she is being overshadowed and outsold by the elder statesmen of British rock.

"Whitesnake were already releasing their fourth album in 1981, the year Britney was born, and it is a major achievement to be racking up more pre-orders than the pop princess."