Life and career 1981–1997: Early life and career beginningsīritney Jean Spears was born on December 2, 1981, in McComb, Mississippi, the second child of James "Jamie" Parnell Spears and Lynne Irene Bridges.
On November 12, 2021, the conservatorship was terminated following her public testimony in which she accused her management team and family of abuse. In 2019, Spears's legal battle over her conservatorship became more publicized and led to the establishment of the #FreeBritney movement. 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 (2013) and Glory (2016). 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.
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Following a series of highly publicized personal problems, promotion for the album was limited, and Spears was involuntarily placed in a conservatorship.
Spears was executive producer of her fifth studio album Blackout (2007), often referred to as her best work. Spears adopted 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 15 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. Īfter appearing in stage productions and television series, Spears signed with Jive Records in 1997 at age 15. Regarded as a pop icon, Spears has sold nearly 150 million albums worldwide as of 2020, including over 70 million records solely in the United States, making her one of the world's best-selling music artists. 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". Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and dancer.