Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American
recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and
raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child,
landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She
signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album
...Baby One More Time in 1999. During her first decade in the music
industry, she became a prominent figure in mainstream popular music
and popular culture, followed by a much-publicized personal life.
Her first two albums established her as a pop icon and broke sales
records, while title tracks "...Baby One More Time" and "Oops!... I
Did It Again" became international number-one hits. Spears was
credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late
1990s. In 2001, she released her third studio album Britney and
expanded her brand, playing the starring role in the film
Crossroads. She assumed creative control of her fourth studio
album, In the Zone (2003), which yielded chart-topping singles "Me
Against the Music", "Toxic" and "Everytime". After the release of
two compilation albums, Spears experienced personal struggles and
her career went into hiatus. Her fifth studio album, Blackout, was
released in 2007 and despite receiving little promotion, it spawned
hits "Gimme More" and "Piece of Me". In 2008, her erratic behavior
and hospitalizations caused her to be placed in a conservatorship.
The same year, her sixth studio album Circus was released, with the
global chart-topping lead single "Womanizer". She embarked on her
highest-grossing global concert tour, The Circus Starring Britney
Spears, in 2009. Her seventh studio album Femme Fatale, released in
2011, has become the first of her albums to yield three top ten
singles in the United States. Spears has sold over 100 million
records worldwide. According to the Recording Industry Association
of America (RIAA), she is the eighth top-selling female artist in
the United States, with 33 million certified albums.Spears is also
recognized as the best-selling female artist of the first decade of
the 21st century, as well as the fifth overall.She was ranked the
8th Artist of the 2000s by Billboard. In June 2010, Spears was
ranked sixth on Forbes list of the 100 Most Powerful and
Influential celebrities in the world; she is also the third most
mentioned musician on the internet, according to Forbes.
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