Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer,

songwriter, dancer, and actress. She is credited with influencing the

revival of teen pop during the late 1990s and early 2000s, for which she is
referred to as the "Princess of Pop". After appearing in stage productions
and television series, Spears signed with Jive Records in 1997 at age 15.
Her first two studio albums, certified diamond in the US, ...Baby One
More Time (1999) and Oops!... I Did It Again (2000), were global
successes and became two of the best-selling albums of all-time, along
with making her the best-selling teenage artist of all time. The
former's title track was ranked at number one by Rolling Stone in 2020 as
the greatest debut single of all time[1] and the latter held a 15-year record
for fastest-selling album by a female artist with over 1.3 million copies
sold in its first week in the U.S. alone.
Spears adopted more mature and provocative themes and aesthetics for
her next two studio albums, Britney (2001) and In the Zone (2003), and
made her feature film debut in a starring role in Crossroads (2002). She
became the executive producer of her fifth studio album Blackout (2007),
which is often critically referred to as her best work.[2] Due to a series of
heavily publicized personal struggles in the public eye, promotion for the
album was limited and she was later involuntarily placed in
a conservatorship. Since then, she released the chart topping
albums, Circus (2008) and Femme Fatale (2011), the latter of which
became her most successful era of singles in the US charts. She embarked