Britney Spears Beats Jamie Lynn Spears In Ratings Game

Those who proclaimed that the career of Britney Spears was dead and gone after the MTV awards fiasco are looking a bit foolish after the ratings of How I Met Your Mother came in.

Britney cameoed on the show and the Nielsen stats show that her appearance helped boost the viewership by a whopping one million viewers.  How I Met Your Mother scored a a season-high 10.7 million viewers, according to E! Online.

She bested her kid sis Jamie Lynn Spears, whose Zoey 101 debuted to 7.3 million viewers after her announcement that she was pregnant.  The last high-rated television appearance for Britney was that MTV Video Music Awards performance for which she was roundly criticized for giving what could at best be described as a lethargic performance.

However, Ms. Spears cameo on the CBS program was small potatoes compared to Monday’s Dancing With The Stars on ABC.  That one averaged a staggering 20.3 million viewers.