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Throughout her career, American singer Britney Spears has received substantial recognition as a cultural figure, receiving recognition for her impact on pop culture and within the music industry. Spears is heavily referred to as the "Princess of Pop".[1][2]

In the late 1990s, Britney Spears burst onto the scene with her debut single "…Baby One More Time"; her success with "…Baby One More Time" showcased mass success worldwide, changing the trajectory of pop music and bubblegum pop.[3][4]

Spears's music videos have played a significant role in shaping pop culture and being credited in several other artists work. In 2011, she received the Lifetime Achievement award, MTV Video Vanguard Award, for her "outstanding contributions" and "profound impact" on music videos and pop culture.[5]

Spears is one of the best-selling artists of all time, garnering commercial success through Billboard charts with five number-one singles, "…Baby One More Time", "Womanizer", "3", "Hold It Against Me", "S&M Remix" and six number-one albums, …Baby One More Time, Oops!… I Did it Again, Britney, In the Zone, Circus and Femme Fatale.[6]

Throughout her career, Spears has earned accolades including the Hollywood Walk of Fame at the age of 21[7], 15 Guinness World Records and was Inducted in the Young Hollywood Hall of Fame (Music Artist category).

Creative inspiration

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Influence

Throughout her career, Spears's impact on popular culture has inspired and influenced numerous recording artists and acts. Various artists include: Addison Rae[8]

Commerical success

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Billboard achievements

Spears has set numerous Billboard achievements being named the top female artist in 1999 by the magazine.[47] Billboard ranked her the eighth overall Artist of the Decade, and also recognized her as the best-selling female album artist of the 21st century's first decade, as well as the fifth overall. [48][49] Additionally, the Recording Industry Association of America recognized Spears as the ninth best-selling female artist in the United States. [50] Spears serves as one of the few artists in history to have a number-one single and studio album in each of the three decades of their career—1990s, 2000s, and 2010s.[51]

Spears is one of the best-selling music artists of all time and one of the best-selling female artists of all time, selling over 150 million record worldwide.[52] Britney has amounted a number of successful singles worldwide.

...Baby One More Time

On January 12, 1999, Spears released her debut album ...Baby One More Time, which was a huge commercial success and broke many records. The singer became the first new female artist to have a number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one album on the Billboard 200 at the same time[53]; the first new artist (male or female) to have a single go to the number one spot the same week that the album debuted at number one[53]; and the first new female artist to have the first single and first album at number one the same week[53]. Spears is also the youngest female in Billboard history to have a simultaneous single and album at number one in the same week, and became the fifth artist under the age of 18 to top the Billboard 200.[53]

...Baby One More Time spent a total of six non-consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard 200, and sold over 1.8 million copies in the US within its first two months, an impressive number for a debut artist. In its 47th week on the Billboard 200, the album held strong at number three, and reached the ten-million sales mark in the country. The album was certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on December 9, 1999[54][55], less than a year after its release, making Spears the youngest artist to receive that certification, at 18 years old, breaking the record held by Alanis Morissette, who was 21 when her album Jagged Little Pill (1995) was certified diamond[54]. It became the 14th album since 1991 to sell over ten million copies in the US[56], and Spears became the best-selling female artist of 1999[54]. ...Baby One More Time spent a total of 51 weeks within the top ten on the Billboard 200, being the second best-selling album of 1999 in the US, only behind Millennium by the Backstreet Boys, and spent a total of 103 weeks on the chart. The album was ranked at number 41 on the all-time US Billboard 200 chart[57], and at number 16 on the Billboard 200 albums by women.[58]

Worldwide, the album was also a huge commercial success, charting at number one in seven countries. It is also the best selling album by a teenage female artist of all time, according to the Guinness World Records, and one of the best-selling albums of all time, selling an estimated 25 million copies worldwide.[59] The album is also credited for being the forefront of the female teen pop explosion starting in 1999 and extending through the 2000s, leading the pack of Christina Aguilera[60], Jessica Simpson[61][62], and Mandy Moore[63]. All of these performers had been developing material in 1998, but the market changed dramatically in December 1998 when Spears' debut single and video were charting highly. RCA Records signed Aguilera and rushed her debut single to capitalize on Spears' success, despite her desire of recording producing the hit single "Genie in a Bottle" in May 1999 and Aguilera's eponymous debut studio album in August, which was also a commercial success. Simpson consciously modeled her persona as more mature than Spears; her single "I Wanna Love You Forever" charted in September 1999, and her album Sweet Kisses followed shortly after. Moore's first single, "Candy", hit the airwaves a month before Simpson's single, but it did not perform as well on the charts.

Additionally to the album's commercial success, its debut single was also a worldwide hit, topping the charts in over 20 countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, where it earned quintuple and triple-platinum certifications from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), respectively, and was the latter's best-selling single of 1999. The song is one of the best-selling singles of all time, with over 10 million copies sold. Its accompanying music video, directed by Nigel Dick, was voted the third most influential video in the history of pop music, in a poll held by Jam!, and was voted by Billboard, in 2011, to be the best music video of the 1990s. In 2020, Rolling Stone named "...Baby One More Time" as the greatest debut single of all time.[64] In 2021, the song was ranked at number 205 on the list of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[65]

Oops!... I Did It Again

Spears released her second album Oops!... I Did It Again on May 3, 2000 and was also a massive commercial success worldwide, debuting at number one in over 20 countries. In the United States, the album reportedly sold 500,000 copies in its first day of release[66], and it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 1,319,193 million copies[67], holding the record for the fastest-selling album by a female artist and the largest first-week sales for a female album for 15 years, until being surpassed by Adele's 25 (2015), which sold over 3.38 million copies in its first week.[68] In the following weeks, the album spent 15 consecutive weeks at number two.[69][70] By its fifth week of availability, Oops!... I Did It Again had already sold over three million copies and had passed five million copies by August.[71] On its seventeenth week on the chart, it was certified 7x Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments of seven million units[72], being certified Diamond on January 24, 2005[73], becoming the youngest artist of all time to have multiple diamond albums. Oops!... I Did It Again became the third best-selling album of 2000 in the United States, selling 7,893,544 albums according to Nielsen SoundScan[74] and fourth best-selling album according to Billboard Year-End of 2000[75]. The album spent eighty-four weeks on the Billboard 200 and was ranked at number number 16 on the Billboard 200 albums by women.[58]

According to Billboard, Oops!... I Did It Again is one of the 15 best-performing 21st-century albums without any of its singles being number-one hits on the US Billboard Hot 100 as of 2022[76]; its only top-ten hit was its lead single Oops!... I Did It Again, which reached number nine on the Billboard Hot 100, which was considered a minor disappointment by Jive Records at the time. However, the song was a commercial success worldwide, peaking atop the charts in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The song also became one of Spears' signature hits.[77]

Worldwide, the album debuted at number one in 20 countries and in the top 10 of all countries it charted, having selling 15 million copies worldwide by the end of 2000. In Europe, it sold over four million copies, being certified four-times Platinum by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.[78] It was the best-selling female album and 3rd best selling album of 2000.[79] The album has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, being one of the best-selling albums of all time.[80]

Fame and stardom

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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 is one of the best-selling music artists of all time[81], and has released 9 studio albums, and several successful singles[82]. Britney has been noted by authors and journalists of her impact in the music industry[83][84]. Journalists like Billboard have cited Britney as one of the greatest artists of all time, placing her at number 6 on the list[85].

Honourifics

Billboard ranked Spears eighth overall as one of the greatest artists of the 2000s decade, and the fifth female overall.[86]

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