Biography of Britney Spears

Britney Spears 

Birth name : Britney Jean Spears
Born : December 2, 1981 (age 31)  McComb, Mississippi, U.S.
Origin : Kentwood, Louisiana, U.S.
Genres : Pop, dance-pop, electropop
Occupations : Singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, record producer, author, fashion designer, video director, entertainer
Instruments : Vocals, piano
Years active : 1992–present
Labels : Jive, RCA
Associated acts : The New Mickey Mouse Club, Innosense
Website : britneyspears.combritney.com

Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, she performed acting roles in stage productions and television shows as a child before signing with Jive Records in 1997. During her first decade in the music industry, she became a prominent figure in mainstream popular music and popular culture, followed by a much-publicized personal life. Spears's first and second studio albums ...Baby One More Time (1999) and Oops!... I Did It Again (2000) became international successes, with the former becoming the best-selling album by a teenage solo artist. Title tracks "...Baby One More Time" and "Oops!... I Did It Again" became international number one hits and broke sales records. In 2001, Spears released her third album Britney and played the starring role in the film Crossroads. She assumed creative control of her fourth studio album, In the Zone (2003), which yielded chart-topping singles "Me Against the Music", "Toxic" and "Everytime".

After the release of two compilation albums, Spears's personal struggles sent her career into hiatus. Despite receiving little promotion, her fifth album Blackout (2007) spawned hits "Gimme More" and "Piece of Me". In 2008, Spears's erratic behavior and hospitalizations caused her to be placed under a conservatorship. Later that year, she released her sixth album Circus, which included global chart-topping lead single "Womanizer" and hits "Circus" and "If U Seek Amy". Her supporting tour The Circus Starring Britney Spears was the highest-grossing global concert tour in 2009. Later that October, chart-topping single "3" became Spears's third single to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Her seventh album Femme Fatale (2011) became her first to yield three top ten singles in the United States: "Hold It Against Me", "Till the World Ends" and "I Wanna Go". The same year, she gained her fifth number one single as the featured artist on the remix of Rihanna's "S&M". In 2012, Spears was featured on the single "Scream & Shout" off will.i.am's album #willpower (2013). The track became a global success, topping the charts in over eighteen countries. Spears also served as a judge during the second season of the American version of The X Factor.

Spears was established as a pop icon and credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s. She became the 'best-selling teenaged artist of all time' before she turned 20, garnering her honorific titles such as "Princess of Pop". Her work has earned her numerous awards and accolades, including a Grammy Award, six MTV Video Music Awards including the Lifetime Achievement Award, nine Billboard Music Awards, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2009, Billboard ranked her as the 8th overall Artist of the Decade, and also recognized her as the best-selling female artist of the first decade of the 21st century, as well as the fifth overall. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) named Spears as the eighth top-selling female artist in the United States, with 34 million certified albums. Nielsen SoundScan ranked her the tenth best-selling digital artist of the country, with more than 28.6 million digital singles as of January 2012. She has sold over 100 million albums worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Rolling Stone recognized her instant success as one of the Top 25 Teen Idol Breakout Moments of all time, while VH1 ranked her eleventh on their "100 Greatest Women in Music" list in 2012, and Billboard named her the sexiest woman in music. Forbes reported that Spears was the highest paid female musician of 2012, with earnings of $58 million, having last topped the list in 2002.


Note :

ü 11 years ago Britney was a member of the Mickey Mouse Club and ditadirkan would-be-stars, including Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera .. even Ryan Gosling. At that time he was considered too young when entering the club because the club entered a new age of 8 years, and he got a good job at playing a musical drama as Tina, with Natalie Portman.

ü He was a great break from the international music world and from Jive Records in the late 1990's. The classic hit single 'Baby One More Time "topped the charts in 15 countries, and sell up to 10 million copies when Britney was 18 years old. When the first day the song came out, the album has been getting 500,000 copies.

ü Britney never become an icon of good, he always wore revealing clothes and short skirt, on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine Spears ever nude without any clothes. According to The AFA (American Family Association) says "the god of love and the America we should boycott the sales of CD albums from Britney". But unfortunately it is still not working. Oops! .. I Did It Again was released in May 2000 and sold up to 25 million copies sold worldwide.

ü Britney prefers to dye her hair blonde. He said that blondes more fun, and when he made a moment in the spring, the young singer's controversial queen of pop Madonna kiss at the MTV awards 2003.

ü A year later he married his friend named Jason Allen Alexander, but the marriage was annulled after 55 hours. Even shorter than Kim Kardashian marriage. She just stay silent and wait and all incidents which take care of the wedding manager.