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. 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 (1999) and Oops! … I Did It Again (2000), is among the best-selling albums of all time and made Spears the best-selling teenage artist of all time.
Spears is regarded as a pop superstar and is among the best-selling musicians in the world with over 100 million records sold globally, including over 70 million in the US. She has six albums that have debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart as well as four songs that have reached the top spot on the US Billboard Hot 100: “…Baby One More Time,” “Womanizer,” “3,” and “Hold It Against Me.” The Billboard chart was also topped by the “S&M” remix. In most nations, her single “Oops!… I Did It Again,” “Toxic,” and “Scream & Shout” were at the top of the charts. Spears, who debuted at number one with two or more singles in the Hot 100’s history, became the second artist after Mariah Carey to do so with “3” in 2009 and “Hold It Against Me” in 2011.
According to Billboard, Spears was the eighth-biggest musician of the 2000s. She is the best-selling female album artist of the 2000s and the fourth best-selling female album artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era in the US. In 2020, Rolling Stone selected “…Baby One More Time” as the greatest debut single of all time. With Elizabeth Arden, Inc., Spears created a perfume line in 2004; as of 2012, sales had surpassed $1.5 billion.