Britney Spears

Britney Spears

Person from United States

Genres: dance-pop, electro house, electropop, pop, teen pop

About Britney Spears

Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer. Referred to as the "Princess of Pop", she is recognized as one of the first musicians credited with reviving the teen pop genre and is widely regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 21st century. Spears has sold over 150 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears' formative influences include Madonna, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey. She began her professional career in 1992 as a cast member for the Ruthless! musical and The All-New Mickey Mouse Club television series. After signing with Jive Records in 1997, Spears released her first studio albums, ...Baby One More Time (1999) and Oops!... I Did It Again (2000), both of which rank among the best-selling albums of all time. She developed a more mature style for her next two albums and starred in the 2002 comedy-drama film Crossroads. Her fifth album Blackout (2007), which Spears executive produced, earned her the greatest acclaim as a solo artist. Facing lifelong public scrutiny and personal struggles, Spears was placed under a controversial conservatorship in the late 2000s to improve her mental health. Her first professional comeback spawned the albums Circus (2008) and Femme Fatale (2011), as well as the 2013–2017 concert residency Britney: Piece of Me. In 2019, Spears withdrew from regular concert touring to focus on her conservatorship case, leading to the #FreeBritney movement and the release of the documentary Framing Britney Spears (2021). The conservatorship was dissolved in 2021 after she publicly testified against her management team and family of abuse. Her 2023 memoir, The Woman in Me, debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list. Spears has charted 35 times on the American Billboard Hot 100 charts; her highest-peaking singles there are "...Baby One More Time" (1998), "Womanizer" (2008), "3" (2009), and "Hold It Against Me" (2011). She is the fourth best-selling female album artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era, as well as the best-selling female album artist of the 2000s. She was listed as the world's highest-paid female musician in 2001 and 2012 by Forbes. Spears received numerous industry awards including one Grammy Award, fifteen Guinness World Records, six MTV Video Music Awards, and seven Billboard Music Awards (including the Millennium Award). Spears has launched numerous products, with her 2005 fragrance Fantasy with Elizabeth Arden, Inc. generating over $1.5 billion in sales by 2011.

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