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American singer (born 1981) Redirect|Britney|Britney (album)!''Britney'' (album)|other uses Redirect|Brittany Spears|the American basketball player|Brittany Spears (basketball) pp-blp|small=yes Use American English June 2020 Use mdy dates September 2024 Infobox person | name = Britney Spears | image = Britney Spears 2013 (Straighten Crop).jpg | caption = Spears in 2013 | birth_name = Britney Jean Spears | birth_date = Birth date and age|1981/12/02 | birth_place = McComb, Mississippi, U.S. | education = ubl|Professional Performing Arts School|Parklane Academycite book Beth Peters True Brit: The Story of Singing Sensation Britney Spears https://books.google.com/books?id=_F24Fv4hcLgC&pg=PA11 July 10, 2012 July 1, 1999 Random House Digital, Inc. |isbn=978-0-345-43687-0 |pages=11–12 | occupation = hlist|Singer|songwriter|dancer|actress | years_active = 1992–present | spouse = ubl|marriage|Jason Allen Alexander|2004|2004|end=annulled|marriage|Kevin Federline|2004|2007|end=divorced|marriage|Sam Asghari|2022|2024|end=divorced | children = 2 | parents = hlist|Jamie Spears|Lynne Spears|Lynne Bridges | relatives = plainlist| * Bryan Spears (brother) * Jamie Lynn Spears (sister) | works = hlist|Britney Spears discography|Discography|List of songs recorded by Britney Spears|songs|List of unreleased songs recorded by Britney Spears|unreleased|Britney Spears videography|videography | awards = List of awards and nominations received by Britney Spears|Full list | website = URL|britneyspears.com
URL|britney.com | signature = Britney Spears signature.svg | module = Infobox musical artist | embed = yes | genre = hlist|Pop music|Pop|dance-pop|electropop|teen pop | instruments = Vocals | label = hlist|Jive Records|Jive|RCA Records|RCA ''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. Spears has sold over 150 million records worldwide, making her one of the world's best-selling music artists. She has earned List of awards and nominations received by Britney Spears|numerous awards and accolades, including a Grammy Award, 15 Guinness World Records, six MTV Video Music Awards, seven Billboard Music Award|''Billboard'' Music Awards (including the Billboard Millennium Award|Millennium Award, the inaugural Radio Disney Icon Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her heavily choreographed music videos earned her the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. 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 (album)|...Baby One More Time'' (1999) and ''Oops!... I Did It Again (album)|Oops!... I Did It Again'' (2000, are among the List of best-selling albums|best-selling albums of all time and made Spears the best-selling teenage artist of all time. With first-week sales of Lists of fastest-selling albums|over 1.3 million copies, ''Oops!... I Did It Again'' held the record for the fastest-selling album by a female artist in the United States for fifteen years. Spears adopted a more mature and provocative style for her albums ''Britney (album)|Britney'' (2001) and ''In the Zone'' (2003, and starred in the 2002 film ''Crossroads (2002 film)|Crossroads''. She was executive producer of her fifth studio album, ''Blackout (Britney Spears album)|Blackout'' (2007, often referred to as her best work.Cite magazine Sheffield Rob October 30, 2017 Britney Spears' 'Blackout': A Salute to Her Misunderstood Punk Masterpiece https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/britney-spears-blackout-a-salute-to-her-misunderstood-punk-masterpiece-121525/ June 9, 2019 |magazine=Rolling Stone February 3, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200203233431/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/britney-spears-blackout-a-salute-to-her-misunderstood-punk-masterpiece-121525/ live Following a series of highly publicized personal problems, promotion for the album was limited, and Spears was involuntarily placed in a conservatorship. Subsequently, Spears released the chart-topping albums ''Circus (Britney Spears album)|Circus'' (2008) and ''Femme Fatale (Britney Spears album)|Femme Fatale'' (2011, the latter of which became her most successful era of singles in the US charts. With "3 (Britney Spears song)|3" in 2009 and "Hold It Against Me" in 2011, Spears became the second artist in history to debut at number one with two or more songs on the Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100. She embarked on a four-year 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 (Britney Spears album)|Glory'' (2016). In 2019, Spears' Britney Spears conservatorship case|legal battle over her conservatorship became more publicized and led to the establishment of the Britney Spears conservatorship case|#FreeBritney movement.Cite news April 28, 2021 Britney Spears asks to address court over conservatorship case BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56911822 May 6, 2021 May 6, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210506113109/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56911822 live In 2021, the conservatorship was terminated following her public testimony in which she accused her management team and family of abuse. Spears published her first memoir, ''The Woman in Me (memoir)|The Woman in Me'', in 2023, which became a number-one The New York Times Best Seller list|''New York Times'' best-seller in its first week of release.cite web | url=https://about.simonandschuster.biz/news/britney-spears-memoir-2-million-sold/ | title=Gallery Books Reports More than 2 Million Copies Sold of Britney Spears's the Woman in Me | date=January 11, 2024 | access-date=January 12, 2024 | archive-date=January 12, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240112115257/https://about.simonandschuster.biz/news/britney-spears-memoir-2-million-sold/ | url-status=live In the United States, Spears is the fourth best-selling female album artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era,Cite magazine https://www.billboard.com/pro/ask-billboard-britney-spearss-career-sales/ Ask Billboard: Britney Spears' Career Sales |magazine=Billboard December 21, 2021 June 20, 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180620124718/https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6509510/ask-billboard-britney-spearss-career-sales live as well as the best-selling female album artist of the 2000s.Cite web https://www.nielsen.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en/newswire/uploads/2010/01/Nielsen-Music-2009-Year-End-Press-Release.pdf Nielsen SoundScan 2009 End Decade Report (Page 7) Nielsen Soundscan January 11, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190412111503/https://www.nielsen.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en/newswire/uploads/2010/01/Nielsen-Music-2009-Year-End-Press-Release.pdf April 12, 2019 Cite web http://www.mtv.com/news/1632118/beyonce-nsync-outkast-top-decade-end-sales-list/ Beyonce, 'NSYNC, Outkast Top Decade-End Sales List MTV January 11, 2019 January 11, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190111175804/http://www.mtv.com/news/1632118/beyonce-nsync-outkast-top-decade-end-sales-list/ She was ranked by ''Billboard (magazine)|Billboard'' as the eighth-biggest artist of the 2000s. Spears has had six number-one albums on the Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200cite magazine https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/britney-spears-snares-sixth-no-1-on-billboard-200-with-femme-fatale-472190/ Britney Spears Snares Sixth No. 1 on Billboard 200 with 'Femme Fatale' |magazine=Billboard April 6, 2011 December 21, 2021 March 19, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220319203552/https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/britney-spears-snares-sixth-no-1-on-billboard-200-with-femme-fatale-472190/ live and five number-one singles on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100: "...Baby One More Time", "Womanizer (song)|Womanizer", "3", "Hold It Against Me", and "S&M (song)|S&M (Remix)". Other hit singles include "Oops!... I Did It Again (song)|Oops!... I Did It Again", "I'm a Slave 4 U", "Toxic (song)|Toxic", "Gimme More", and "Piece of Me". "...Baby One More Time" was named the greatest debut single of all time by ''Rolling Stone'' in 2020. In 2004, Spears launched a List of celebrity-branded perfumes|perfume brand with Elizabeth Arden, Inc.; sales exceeded $1.5 billion as of|2012|lc=y.cite web Britney Spears 'X Factor' Deal: By The Numbers MTV October 5, 2012 http://www.mtv.com/news/1684879/britney-spears-x-factor-deal-judge/ June 26, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140821051441/http://www.mtv.com/news/1684879/britney-spears-x-factor-deal-judge/ August 21, 2014 ''Forbes'' listed Spears as the Forbes list of the world's highest-paid musicians#Female|world's highest-paid female musician in 2001 and 2012.cite web https://www.mtv.com/news/f5h9k1/beatles-britney-most-powerful-music-artists-forbes-says Beatles, Britney Most Powerful Music Artists, Forbes Says pipe News MTV October 2, 2001 July 27, 2022 July 27, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220727051517/https://www.mtv.com/news/f5h9k1/beatles-britney-most-powerful-music-artists-forbes-says cite web https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/dr-dre-tops-forbes-highest-395716/ Dr. Dre Is Forbes' 2012 Highest-Paid Musician Jason Lipshutz Billboard The Hollywood Reporter November 29, 2012 July 28, 2022 July 27, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220727032647/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/dr-dre-tops-forbes-highest-395716/ live By 2012, she had topped Yahoo!'s list of most searched celebrities seven times in twelve years.cite web https://www.huffpost.com/entry/most-searched-celebrities-past-12-years-britney-spears_n_2244614 Most-Searched Celebrities Of The Past 12 Years: Britney Spears Dominates List |work=HuffPost December 5, 2012 December 21, 2021 April 7, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190407001518/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/most-searched-celebrities-past-12-years-britney-spears_n_2244614 live ''Time (magazine)|Time'' named Spears one of the Time 100|100 most influential people in the world in 2021. Spears placed first in the ''Time'' reader poll.Cite magazine Hilton Paris September 15, 2021 Britney Spears: The 100 Most Influential People of 2021 https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2021/6096086/britney-spears/ November 16, 2021 |magazine=Time (magazine)|Time September 15, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210915132602/https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2021/6096086/britney-spears/ livecite magazine Here's Who Won Time's 2021 Time100 Reader Poll https://time.com/6096468/time-100-reader-poll-results-2021 |magazine=Time December 7, 2021 December 6, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211206230335/https://time.com/6096468/time-100-reader-poll-results-2021/ live
URL|britney.com | signature = Britney Spears signature.svg | module = Infobox musical artist | embed = yes | genre = hlist|Pop music|Pop|dance-pop|electropop|teen pop | instruments = Vocals | label = hlist|Jive Records|Jive|RCA Records|RCA ''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. Spears has sold over 150 million records worldwide, making her one of the world's best-selling music artists. She has earned List of awards and nominations received by Britney Spears|numerous awards and accolades, including a Grammy Award, 15 Guinness World Records, six MTV Video Music Awards, seven Billboard Music Award|''Billboard'' Music Awards (including the Billboard Millennium Award|Millennium Award, the inaugural Radio Disney Icon Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her heavily choreographed music videos earned her the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. 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 (album)|...Baby One More Time'' (1999) and ''Oops!... I Did It Again (album)|Oops!... I Did It Again'' (2000, are among the List of best-selling albums|best-selling albums of all time and made Spears the best-selling teenage artist of all time. With first-week sales of Lists of fastest-selling albums|over 1.3 million copies, ''Oops!... I Did It Again'' held the record for the fastest-selling album by a female artist in the United States for fifteen years. Spears adopted a more mature and provocative style for her albums ''Britney (album)|Britney'' (2001) and ''In the Zone'' (2003, and starred in the 2002 film ''Crossroads (2002 film)|Crossroads''. She was executive producer of her fifth studio album, ''Blackout (Britney Spears album)|Blackout'' (2007, often referred to as her best work.Cite magazine Sheffield Rob October 30, 2017 Britney Spears' 'Blackout': A Salute to Her Misunderstood Punk Masterpiece https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/britney-spears-blackout-a-salute-to-her-misunderstood-punk-masterpiece-121525/ June 9, 2019 |magazine=Rolling Stone February 3, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200203233431/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/britney-spears-blackout-a-salute-to-her-misunderstood-punk-masterpiece-121525/ live Following a series of highly publicized personal problems, promotion for the album was limited, and Spears was involuntarily placed in a conservatorship. Subsequently, Spears released the chart-topping albums ''Circus (Britney Spears album)|Circus'' (2008) and ''Femme Fatale (Britney Spears album)|Femme Fatale'' (2011, the latter of which became her most successful era of singles in the US charts. With "3 (Britney Spears song)|3" in 2009 and "Hold It Against Me" in 2011, Spears became the second artist in history to debut at number one with two or more songs on the Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100. She embarked on a four-year 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 (Britney Spears album)|Glory'' (2016). In 2019, Spears' Britney Spears conservatorship case|legal battle over her conservatorship became more publicized and led to the establishment of the Britney Spears conservatorship case|#FreeBritney movement.Cite news April 28, 2021 Britney Spears asks to address court over conservatorship case BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56911822 May 6, 2021 May 6, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210506113109/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56911822 live In 2021, the conservatorship was terminated following her public testimony in which she accused her management team and family of abuse. Spears published her first memoir, ''The Woman in Me (memoir)|The Woman in Me'', in 2023, which became a number-one The New York Times Best Seller list|''New York Times'' best-seller in its first week of release.cite web | url=https://about.simonandschuster.biz/news/britney-spears-memoir-2-million-sold/ | title=Gallery Books Reports More than 2 Million Copies Sold of Britney Spears's the Woman in Me | date=January 11, 2024 | access-date=January 12, 2024 | archive-date=January 12, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240112115257/https://about.simonandschuster.biz/news/britney-spears-memoir-2-million-sold/ | url-status=live In the United States, Spears is the fourth best-selling female album artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era,Cite magazine https://www.billboard.com/pro/ask-billboard-britney-spearss-career-sales/ Ask Billboard: Britney Spears' Career Sales |magazine=Billboard December 21, 2021 June 20, 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180620124718/https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6509510/ask-billboard-britney-spearss-career-sales live as well as the best-selling female album artist of the 2000s.Cite web https://www.nielsen.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en/newswire/uploads/2010/01/Nielsen-Music-2009-Year-End-Press-Release.pdf Nielsen SoundScan 2009 End Decade Report (Page 7) Nielsen Soundscan January 11, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190412111503/https://www.nielsen.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en/newswire/uploads/2010/01/Nielsen-Music-2009-Year-End-Press-Release.pdf April 12, 2019 Cite web http://www.mtv.com/news/1632118/beyonce-nsync-outkast-top-decade-end-sales-list/ Beyonce, 'NSYNC, Outkast Top Decade-End Sales List MTV January 11, 2019 January 11, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190111175804/http://www.mtv.com/news/1632118/beyonce-nsync-outkast-top-decade-end-sales-list/ She was ranked by ''Billboard (magazine)|Billboard'' as the eighth-biggest artist of the 2000s. Spears has had six number-one albums on the Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200cite magazine https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/britney-spears-snares-sixth-no-1-on-billboard-200-with-femme-fatale-472190/ Britney Spears Snares Sixth No. 1 on Billboard 200 with 'Femme Fatale' |magazine=Billboard April 6, 2011 December 21, 2021 March 19, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220319203552/https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/britney-spears-snares-sixth-no-1-on-billboard-200-with-femme-fatale-472190/ live and five number-one singles on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100: "...Baby One More Time", "Womanizer (song)|Womanizer", "3", "Hold It Against Me", and "S&M (song)|S&M (Remix)". Other hit singles include "Oops!... I Did It Again (song)|Oops!... I Did It Again", "I'm a Slave 4 U", "Toxic (song)|Toxic", "Gimme More", and "Piece of Me". "...Baby One More Time" was named the greatest debut single of all time by ''Rolling Stone'' in 2020. In 2004, Spears launched a List of celebrity-branded perfumes|perfume brand with Elizabeth Arden, Inc.; sales exceeded $1.5 billion as of|2012|lc=y.cite web Britney Spears 'X Factor' Deal: By The Numbers MTV October 5, 2012 http://www.mtv.com/news/1684879/britney-spears-x-factor-deal-judge/ June 26, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140821051441/http://www.mtv.com/news/1684879/britney-spears-x-factor-deal-judge/ August 21, 2014 ''Forbes'' listed Spears as the Forbes list of the world's highest-paid musicians#Female|world's highest-paid female musician in 2001 and 2012.cite web https://www.mtv.com/news/f5h9k1/beatles-britney-most-powerful-music-artists-forbes-says Beatles, Britney Most Powerful Music Artists, Forbes Says pipe News MTV October 2, 2001 July 27, 2022 July 27, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220727051517/https://www.mtv.com/news/f5h9k1/beatles-britney-most-powerful-music-artists-forbes-says cite web https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/dr-dre-tops-forbes-highest-395716/ Dr. Dre Is Forbes' 2012 Highest-Paid Musician Jason Lipshutz Billboard The Hollywood Reporter November 29, 2012 July 28, 2022 July 27, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220727032647/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/dr-dre-tops-forbes-highest-395716/ live By 2012, she had topped Yahoo!'s list of most searched celebrities seven times in twelve years.cite web https://www.huffpost.com/entry/most-searched-celebrities-past-12-years-britney-spears_n_2244614 Most-Searched Celebrities Of The Past 12 Years: Britney Spears Dominates List |work=HuffPost December 5, 2012 December 21, 2021 April 7, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190407001518/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/most-searched-celebrities-past-12-years-britney-spears_n_2244614 live ''Time (magazine)|Time'' named Spears one of the Time 100|100 most influential people in the world in 2021. Spears placed first in the ''Time'' reader poll.Cite magazine Hilton Paris September 15, 2021 Britney Spears: The 100 Most Influential People of 2021 https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2021/6096086/britney-spears/ November 16, 2021 |magazine=Time (magazine)|Time September 15, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210915132602/https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2021/6096086/britney-spears/ livecite magazine Here's Who Won Time's 2021 Time100 Reader Poll https://time.com/6096468/time-100-reader-poll-results-2021 |magazine=Time December 7, 2021 December 6, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211206230335/https://time.com/6096468/time-100-reader-poll-results-2021/ live
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