Britney Spears

Britney Jean Spears born December 2 1981 is an American singer Often referred to as the Princess of Pop she is credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s and early 2000s After appearing in stage productions and television series Spears signed with Jive Records in 1997 at age fifteen Her first two studio albums Baby One More Time 1999 and Oops I Did It Again 2000 are among the bestselling albums of all time and made Spears the bestselling teenage artist of all time With firstweek sales of over 13 million copies Oops I Did It Again held the record for the fastestselling album by a female artist in the United States for fifteen years Spears adopted a more mature and provocative style for her albums Britney 2001 and In the Zone 2003 and starred in the 2002 film Crossroads Spears was executive producer of her fifth studio album Blackout 2007 often referred to as her best work Following a series of highly publicized personal problems promotion for the album was limited and Spears was involuntarily placed in a conservatorship Since then she released the charttopping albums Circus 2008 and Femme Fatale 2011 the latter of which became her most successful era of singles in the US charts She embarked on a fouryear concert residency Britney Piece of Me at Planet Hollywood Resort Casino in Las Vegas to promote her next two albums Britney Jean 2013 and Glory 2016 In 2019 Spearss legal battle over her conservatorship became more publicized and led to the establishment of the FreeBritney movement In 2021 the conservatorship was terminated following her public testimony in which she accused her management team and family of abuse Regarded as a pop icon Spears has sold over 100 million records worldwide including over 70 million in the United States making her one of the worlds bestselling music artists She has achieved six numberone albums on the Billboard 200 and four numberone singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 Baby One More Time Womanizer 3 and Hold It Against Me The SM remix also topped the Billboard chart Her singles Oops I Did It Again Toxic and Scream Shout topped the charts in most countries With 3 in 2009 and Hold It Against Me in 2011 Spears became the second artist after Mariah Carey in the Hot 100s history to debut at number one with two or more songs Her heavily choreographed videos earned her the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award She has earned numerous other awards and accolades including a Grammy Award 15 Guinness World Records six MTV Video Music Awards seven Billboard Music Awards including the Millennium Award the inaugural Radio Disney Icon Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame