Britney Jean Spears 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. Spears has sold over 100 million records worldwide, including over 70 million solely in the United States. Since 2019, Spears has been involved in a legal dispute over her conservatorship.
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Britney Jean Spears 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. Spears has sold over 100 million records worldwide, including over 70 million solely in the United States. She has earned numerous awards and accolades, including a Grammy Award; thirteen 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. Since 2019, Spears has been involved in a legal dispute over her conservatorship. Spears was born on December 2, 1981, in McComb, Mississippi, the second child of Lynne Bridges and James Parnell Spears. Her maternal grandmother, Lillian Portell, was one of the great-great-grandfathers of James and Bryan James Lynn Spears. She was baptized as a Southern Baptist and sang a church choir as a child. At age three, she started attending dance lessons in her hometown of Kentwood, Louisiana, and was selected to perform as a solo artist at the annual recital. She made her stage debut at age five, singing at the local recital of “What Is This? Child Is This?” She has four solo number-one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100: \”… Baby One More Time, \”Womanizer\”, \”3\”, and \”Hold It Against Me\”. As a featured artist, the \”S&M\” remix also topped the Billboard chart.
In 2004, Spears launched a perfume brand with Elizabeth Arden, Inc. ; sales exceeded US$1.5billion as of 2012. Forbes has reported Spears as the highest-paid female musician of 2002 and 2012. She has topped the list of most searched celebrities seven times in 12 years, a record since the inception of the internet. In 2011, she became the second artist after Mariah Carey in the Hot 100’s history to debut at number one with two or more songs. With \”3\” in 2009 and \” hold it Against Me\” in 2011, Spears became the first female artist in Hot 100 history to have two songs debut at No. 1 with two different artists. In 2012, she was awarded the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award in honor of her provocative boundaries-pushing art in young female entertainment. In 2013, Spears was named the fourth best-selling female album artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era as well as the best-sellers female albumArtist of the 2000s in the U.S. She became the executive producer of her fifth studio album Blackout, which is often critically referred to as her best work. In 2014, she embarked on a four-year concert residency, Britney: Piece of Me, at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas to promote her next two albums Britney Jean and Glory. Since then, she released the chart-topping albums, Circus and Femme Fatale, the latter of which became her most successful era of singles in the US charts.
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