Britney Spears fans snapped up tickets on Tuesday to three Southern California concerts by an obscure band known as The M+Ms on rumors that the oft-troubled pop diva would stage a surprise performance at one of the shows.

A publicist for Spears was not immediately available for comment. A spokesman for Live Nation, the concert promotion company that recently bought the House of Blues chain where the M+Ms were to appear, would not comment on the rumors of a Spears show.

The M+Ms shows were to take place on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Spears’ singing career has remained dormant since her marriage to Kevin Federline in 2004, after she shot to fame as a teenager in 1999 and selling an estimated 70 million records.

Both celebrity Web site TMZ.com and MSNBC cited the Spears concert rumor. MSNBC reported that the “current buzz” was that Spears will make a surprise appearance at one or more House of Blues clubs this week after canceling a show she had planned for Wednesday at a Los Angeles club called Forty Deuce.

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