She was executive producer of her fifth studio album, Blackout (2007), often referred to as her best work. Spears adopted a more mature and provocative style for her albums Britney (2001) and In the Zone (2003), and starred in the 2002 film Crossroads. I Did It Again held the record for the fastest-selling album by a female artist in the United States for fifteen years. With first-week sales of over 1.3 million copies, Oops!. I Did It Again (2000), are among the best-selling albums of all time and made Spears the best-selling teenage artist of all time. Her heavily choreographed videos earned her the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award.Īfter appearing in stage productions and television series, Spears signed with Jive Records in 1997 at age fifteen. She has earned numerous awards and accolades, including a Grammy Award, 15 Guinness world records, six MTV Video Music Awards, seven Billboard Music Awards (including the Millennium Award), the inaugural Radio Disney Icon Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Spears has sold over 150 million records worldwide, making her one of the world's best-selling music artists.
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. Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer.
