 
Britney Jean Spears was born in McComb, Mississippi
on December 2, 1981 and raised in Louisiana. Her
first bought with fame came at the age of 11 with the
Mickey Mouse Club as a cast member of The
New Mickey Mouse Club (Britney had been turned down 3 years
earlier because she was too young). For a short time
Britney joined the female group 'Innosense.' From
there, Britney took her solo talents to the pop
charts with a smash debut LP. Although Britney has
never been noted for her singing voice, her fame rose
as her provocative and controversial performances led
her from teen pop star to young female vocalist.
Tabloids followed her every move including a rocky
marriage, questions of substance abuse, and erratic
behaviors.
 # 83
Singles Artist of the Year
The single "...Baby One More Time" was released and hit the
Top 40.
"...Baby
One More Time"
certified was gold and hit the Top 10.
 # 3
Singles Artist of the Year (# 1 Female
Artist of the Year)
Britney's solo debut, Baby
One More Time, was released and debuted at #1 on the
Billboard 200 Albums chart where it spent 6 weeks. Baby
One More Time eventually sold over 25 million copies
worldwide.
The single "...Baby One More Time" was certified platinum
and went #1 for 3 weeks (and topped the
Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks and the Billboard Hot
100 Singles Sales chart for 4 weeks).
 Baby
One More Time was certified 2x platinum.
Britney hit #1 for 3 weeks with "...Baby One More Time."
Britney started touring outside the US but was
sidelined from a TV appearance when she twisted a
knee while rehearsing (which resulted in minor
surgery a month of recovery).
Britney hit in the UK with "...Baby One More Time.
Baby
One More Time was certified 3x platinum.
"...Baby
One More Time"
topped the UK Singles chart for 2 weeks.
Britney appeared on the cover of Rolling
Stone and
suggestive photos resulted in Britney's camp having
to deny rumors of the 17 year old getting breast
implants.
 Baby
One More Time was certified 4x platinum,
Britney hit the Top 40 with "Sometimes."
Britney hit the Top 10 with "Sometimes" and embarked on a North
America concert tour starting in Florida.
Baby
One More Time was certified 5x platinum.
Baby
One More Time was certified 6x platinum.
Britney won a 'Teen Choice Award' for Single of the
Year ("...Baby One More Time").
Britney was nominated for 3 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Female Video, Best New Artist, and Best Choreography ("...Baby One More Time").
Britney hit the Top 40 with "(You Drive Me) Crazy."
Britney won a MuchMusic Video Award for People's
Choice International Artist.
Baby
One More Time was certified 7x platinum
making it the best-selling LP by a female teenager.
Baby
One More Time was certified 8x platinum.
Britney hit the Top 10 with "(You Drive Me) Crazy."
 Baby
One More Time was certified 9x platinum.
Britney won 4 MTV Euro Awards including Best Female
Artist, Best Pop Artist, Best Breakthrough, and Best
Song ("...Baby One More Time").
Britney hit #1 for 1 week with "(You Drive Me) Crazy."
Baby
One More Time was certified 10x platinum.
Britney topped the Billboard Year-End Chart-Toppers as the Top Pop Artist - Female
(singles & albums), Top New Pop Artist, Top
Billboard 200 Album Artist - Female, and Top Hot 100
Singles Artist - Female.
 # 4
Singles Artist of the Year
Britney won an American Music Award for Favorite
Pop/Rock New Artist and was nominated for Favorite
Pop/Rock Female Artist and Favorite Pop/Rock Album.
Baby
One More Time was certified 11x platinum.
Britney was listed on the infamous yearly "Worst
Dressed Women" list.
Britney hit the Top 40 with "From The Bottom Of My Broken
Heart."
Britney hit in the UK with "Born To Make You
Happy.
Britney was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance ("...Baby One More Time"). Britney performed
"From The
Bottom Of My Broken Heart" and "...Baby One More Time" at the Grammys, but went
home empty-handed - losing the Best New Artist award to Christina
Aguilera.
Britney topped the Billboard Hot 100 Single Sales
chart with"From The Bottom Of My Broken
Heart."
Britney hit the Top 10 with "From The Bottom Of My Broken
Heart."
Britney topped the U.K. charts with "Born To
Make You Happy."
Britney had to get 4 stitches in her head after a
piece of equipment hit her during a video shoot. for
the single "Oops!... I Did It Again."
Baby
One More Time was certified 12x platinum.
Britney hit the Top 40 with "Oops!... I Did It Again."
Britney won a Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Female
Singer.
Oops...
I Did It Again was released. The LP contained
the hit title track and a cover of the Rolling
Stones'
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." She told
WallOfSound: "I have no clue how it's going to
sound. I like the song and I think it would be a
really cool combination..."
"Oops!...
I Did It Again"
hit the Top 10 and #1 for 5 weeks.
"Oops!...
I Did It Again"
topped the charts in the UK and Canada.
Britney hit the book stores with a book written with
her mom called Britney
Spears' Heart To Heart.
At the World Music Awards, Britney walked away with
Best Selling Female Artist.
Oops...
I Did It Again topped the Canadian LP charts.
Britney appeared on the cover of Rolling
Stone for
a second time.
Britney topped the Billboard Top 40 Mainstream chart
with "Oops!...
I Did It Again."
Britney began the month with Oops...
I Did It Again debuting at #1 on the Billboard LP
charts and selling over 1.3 million copies in its
first week making it the biggest one-week sales by a
female artist.
By mid-month, Oops...
I Did It Again was certified 4x platinum and topped
the Billboard Internet Album Sales chart for 1 week.
A Britney Spears Museum was created in her Louisiana
hometown.
Britney hit the Top 40 with "Lucky."
Oops...
I Did It Again was certified 5x platinum.
In Germany's InStyle magazine, Britney
addressed her 'sexy image': "I only wear these
crop tops because other clothes would make me sweat
when I dance. I never wanted this sexy image."
 Oops...
I Did It Again was certified 6x platinum.
Britney won 2 Teen Choice Awards for Choice Female
Artist and Female Hottie of the Year.
Britney hit the Top 10 with "Lucky."
Videos by Britney were nominated for 4 MTV Video Music Awards including Best Female Video and Viewer's Choice ("Oops!... I Did It Again") and Best Dance Video and Best
Pop Video
("(You
Drive Me) Crazy").
Oops...
I Did It Again was certified 7x platinum.
 Rolling Stone & MTV: 100
Greatest Pop Songs includes "Oops!... I Did It Again" at # 25.
Britney hit the Top 40 with "Stronger."
Oops...
I Did It Again was certified 8x platinum and Baby
One More Time was certified 13x platinum.
Britney hit the Top 10 with "Stronger."
Britney topped Billboard Year-End Charts as the Top Billboard 200
Artist and Top Billboard 200 Artist - Female.
 # 25 Singles
Artist of the Year
Britney co-hosted the American Music Awards, performed "Stronger," and was nominated for Favorite
Pop/Rock Female Artist and Favorite Pop/Rock Album (Oops...
I Did It Again).
Britney topped the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales
chart for a week with "Stronger."
Britney topped Mr. Blackwell's "Worst-Dressed
List."
Britney was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards including Best Female Pop Vocal Performance ("Oops!... I Did It Again") and Best Pop Vocal Album (Oops...
I Did It Again).
The single "Stronger" was certified gold.
Britney struck a multi-million dollar deal with
Pepsi-Cola for sponsorship and advertising.
Oops...
I Did It Again was certified 9x platinum.
Britney won a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for
Favorite Female Artist - Pop and was nominated for
Favorite Female Artist and Favorite CD.
Britney won a Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Female
Singer and was nominated for Favorite Song ("Oops!... I Did It Again").
Britney hit the Top 40 with "Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know."
VH1: 100 Greatest Videos includes "...Baby One More Time" at # 90.
Britney won a Teen Choice Award for Choice Female
Artist.
Britney's video for "Stronger" was nominated for a MTV Video Music Award for Best
Pop Video.
Britney lip-synched her new single "I'm A Slave 4 U" at the ceremony, dancing scantily
clad with a giant snake. Britney came under some
controversy when People For The Ethical Treatment of
Animals (PETA) was not happy with Britney's plans to
perform at the ceremony with 4 cheetahs on stage.
Britney could be heard on the All-Star
Tribute benefit single "What's Going On" (with proceeds going to AIDS and
9/11 charities).
Britney appeared on the cover of Rolling
Stone.
Britney hit the Top 40 with "I'm A Slave 4 U."
Britney began touring North America, starting in
Miami (after a delayed beginning due to the flu).
Britney canceled a promotional tour of Europe and
South America due to safety concerns related to
recent terrorist actions.
Britney released her 3rd LP, Britney.
Britney topped the Billboard 200
Albums chart for a week becoming her 3rd LP to debut
at #1. The LP sold over 740,000 copies in its 1st
week in the US. The LP also topped the Billboard
Internet Album Sales chart for a week.
Britney hit the Top 10 with "I'm A Slave 4 U."
Britney gave a "live" concert performance
from Las Vegas on HBO - Britney
Spears Live From The MGM Grand Las Vegas. TV Guide said of the
special: "Spears' use of recorded tracks was
even more obvious, giving her Nov. 18 HBO special the
occasional look of a Japanese monster movie."
Britney was certified 4x platinum.
Britney had the Billboard Top Music Video of the year
with Time
Out With Britney Spears.
Readers of Rolling
Stone
voted Britney as Best Female Performer of the Year.
 # 33 Singles
Artist of the Year
Britney hit the Top 40 with "I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman."
Britney starred in her first movie Crossroads which opened with over $12
million gross its first week.
Britney started a partnership with a New York
restaurant, 'Nyla'. She terminated the partnership 8
months later.
Britney hit the Top 40 with "Overprotected."
Britney resumed touring with the 'Dream
Within A Dream' tour.
Britney's tour hit a bump when a Texas show had to be
cancelled after a power outage.
Britney was named the 'world's most powerful
celebrity' by Forbes magazine.
Britney had a cameo appearance in in Austin
Powers: Goldmember and contributed a remixed track to the
film's soundtrack Austin
Powers: Goldmember - "Boys" (Co-ed Remix).
Britney stirred controversy in Mexico - first giving
the middle finger to photographers as she arrived to
the country, and then abruptly leaving a concert
performance after 4 songs during her final show in
Mexico. The departure was later blamed on the
weather.
Britney hit the Top 40 with "Boys."
Britney won a Teen Choice Award for Choice Female
Artist.
Britney's video for "I'm A Slave 4 U" was nominated for 3 MTV Video Music Awards including Best Female Video, Best Dance Video, and Best Choreography (Wade J. Robson).
VH1: 100 Sexiest Artists included Britney at # 8.
Britney Spears In Concert aired on
pay-per-view - the concert was a 2 year old
performance in London.
Britney filed a lawsuit against the footwear company,
Skechers USA for $1.5 million for breach of contract.
Britney's Britney:
The Videos
topped the Billboard year-end Top Music Video Sales
chart.
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