Britney Jean Spears born December 2, 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 s and early s. Spears has sold over million records worldwide, making her one of the world's best-selling music artists.
After appearing in stage productions and television series, Spears signed with Jive Records in at age fifteen. Her first two studio albums, Baby One More Time and Oops! I Did It Again , are among the best-selling albums of all time and made Spears the best-selling teenage artist of all time. With first-week sales of over 1. 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 and In the Zone , and starred in the film Crossroads. She was executive producer of her fifth studio album, Blackout , often referred to as her best work.
Subsequently, Spears released the chart-topping albums Circus and Femme Fatale , the latter of which became her most successful era of singles in the US charts. With " 3 " in and " Hold It Against Me " in , Spears became the second artist in history to debut at number one with two or more songs on the Billboard Hot In , Spears' legal battle over her conservatorship became more publicized and led to the establishment of the FreeBritney movement. In the United States, Spears is the fourth best-selling female album artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era, [ 6 ] as well as the best-selling female album artist of the s.
Other hit singles include " Oops! In , Spears launched a perfume brand with Elizabeth Arden, Inc. Spears placed first in the Time reader poll. Born in the Bible Belt , where socially conservative evangelical Protestantism is a particularly strong religious influence, [ 22 ] she was baptized as a Southern Baptist and sang in a church choir as a child. There is nothing to believe in anymore.
