Britney Jean Spears is an American singer, songwriter, and dancer who was born on December 2, 1981. She is recognized with influencing the resurrection of adolescent pop in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and is known as the “Princess of Pop.” Spears, who is regarded as a pop legend, has sold about 150 million records worldwide, including more than 70 million in the United States alone, making her one of the best-selling music artists in the world.
Spears signed with Jive Records in 1997 at the age of 15 after participating in theater shows and television series. …Baby One More Time (1999) and Oops!… I Did It Again (2000), Spears’ first two studio albums, are among the best-selling albums of all time, making her the best-selling teenage artist of all time. Oops!… I Did It Again held the record for the fastest-selling album by a female artist in the United States for 15 years, with first-week sales of over 1.3 million copies. For her albums Britney (2001) and In the Zone (2003), Spears embraced a more mature and daring style, and she starred in the 2002 film Crossroads.
Spears oversaw the production of her fifth studio album, Blackout (2007), which is widely described to as her “best” record.
…Baby One More Time (1999) and Oops!… I Did It Again (2000), Spears’ first two studio albums, are among the best-selling albums of all time, making her the best-selling teenage artist of all time. Oops!… I Did It Again held the record for the fastest-selling album by a female artist in the United States for 15 years, with first-week sales of over 1.3 million copies. For her albums Britney (2001) and In the Zone (2003), Spears embraced a more mature and daring style, and she starred in the 2002 film Crossroads.
Spears oversaw the production of her fifth studio album, Blackout (2007), which is widely regarded as her best work.
Following a series of highly publicized personal issues, album promotion was limited, and Spears was unable to promote the album.
Britney: Piece of Me, a four-year residency at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, was launched to promote her next two albums, Britney Jean (2013) and Glory (2014). (2016). Spears’ court battle over her conservatorship became increasingly well-known in 2019, resulting in the #FreeBritney movement. Following her public testimony in which she accused her management team and relatives of abuse, the conservatorship was terminated in 2021.
Spears has six Billboard 200 number-one albums and four Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles: “…Baby One More Time,” “Womanizer,” “3,” and “Hold It Against Me.” The “S&M” remix also topped the Billboard chart as a featured artist. “Oops!… I Did It Again,” “Toxic,” and “Scream” are her singles.
Spears was recognized as the eighth-biggest artist of the 2000s by Billboard. She is the fourth best-selling female album artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era[9] and the best-selling female album artist of the 2000s in the United States. In 2020, Rolling Stone selected “…Baby One More Time” the greatest debut single of all time. Spears collaborated with Elizabeth Arden, Inc. to produce a perfume line in 2004, with sales exceeding $1.5 billion as of 2012. Between 2002 and 2012, Forbes ranked Spears as the highest-paid female musician. In the 12 years leading up to 2012, she had topped Yahoolist !’s of most searched celebrities seven times. In 2021, Time named Spears one of the world’s 100 most important people, with her topping the reader poll by a large margin.
