Britney Spears Biography

Britney Spears Biography

Britney Spears Biography

Conceived 

Britney Jean Spears 

December 2, 1981 (age 39) 

McComb, Mississippi, U.S. 

Occupation 

Artist musician artist entertainer 

A long time dynamic 

1992–present 

Spouse(s) 

Jason Allen Alexander 

​ 

​(m. 2004; ann. 2004)​ 

Kevin Federline 

​ 

​(m. 2004; div. 2007)​ 

Partner(s) 

Sam Asghari (2016–present) 

Youngsters 

2 

Guardians 

Jamie Spears (father) 

Lynne Spears (mother) 

Family members 

Bryan Spears (sibling) 

Jamie Lynn Spears (sister) 

Grants 

Full rundown 

Melodic profession 

Sorts 

Pop dance-pop electropop teenager pop 

Instruments 

Vocals 

Marks 

Jive RCA 

Related acts 

Innosense 

Site 

britneyspears.com

Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American artist, lyricist, artist, and entertainer. She is credited with impacting the recovery of teen pop during the last part of the 1990s and mid 2000s, for which she is alluded to as the "Princess of Pop". Subsequent to showing up in stage creations and TV arrangement, Spears marked with Jive Records in 1997 at age 15. Her initial two studio collections, confirmed jewel in the US, ...Baby One More Time (1999) and Oops!... I Did It Again (2000), were worldwide victories and got two of the best-selling collections ever, alongside making her the top rated adolescent craftsman ever. The former's title track was named the best presentation single ever by Rolling Stone in 2020 and the last held a 15-year record for quickest selling collection by a female craftsman in the United States with first-week deals of over 1.3 million duplicates. 

Lances received more develop and provocative subjects and feel for her next two studio albums, Britney (2001) and In the Zone (2003), and made her component film debut in a featuring job in Crossroads (2002). She turned into the leader maker of her fifth studio album Blackout (2007), which is frequently basically alluded to as her best work.[1] Due to a progression of exceptionally pitched individual battles, advancement for the collection was restricted and she was later automatically positioned in a conservatorship. From that point forward, she delivered the outline beating albums, Circus (2008) and Femme Fatale (2011), the last of which turned into her best period of singles in the US diagrams. She left on a four-year concert residency, Britney: Piece of Me, at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas to advance her next two albums Britney Jean (2013) and Glory (2016). Since 2019, Spears has been associated with a lawful disagreement regarding her conservatorship. 

Lances has scored six number-one collections on the Billboard 200.[2] She likewise has four performance number-one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100: "...Baby One More Time", "Womanizer", "3", and "Blame me for it". As an included craftsman, the "S&M" remix likewise beat the Billboard chart. Different singles, "Oops!... I Did It Again", "Harmful", and "Shout and Shout", beat out all competitors in many nations. With "3" in 2009 and "Blame me for it" in 2011, she turned into the second craftsman after Mariah Carey in the Hot 100's set of experiences to make a big appearance at number one with at least two tunes. Lances' intensely arranged videography is viewed as a point of convergence to the achievement of her vocation, for which she has been granted the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. She has earned numerous awards and honors, including a Grammy Award; thirteen Guinness World Records; six MTV Video Music Awards; seven Billboard Music Awards, including the Millennium Award;[3] the debut Radio Disney Icon Award; and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 

Viewed as a pop symbol, Spears has sold more than 100 million records around the world, including more than 70 million exclusively in the United States, making her one of the world's top rated music artists.[4][5] She was positioned by Billboard as the eighth-greatest craftsman of the 2000s decade.[6] In the United States, she is the fourth top rated female collection craftsman of the Nielsen SoundScan era[7] as well as the top rated female collection craftsman of the 2000s.[8][9][10] In 2004, Spears dispatched a perfume brand with Elizabeth Arden, Inc.; deals surpassed US$1.5 billion as of 2012.[11] Forbes has revealed Spears as the most generously compensated female performer of 2002 and 2012.[12] She has additionally bested the rundown of most looked through big names multiple times in 12 years, a record since the origin of the internet.[13] 

girls moved to a rent condo in New York.[citation needed] 

Lances was recruited for her first expert job as the understudy for the lead job of Tina Denmark in the Off-Broadway musical Ruthless!. She additionally showed up as a hopeful on the mainstream TV show Star Search and was projected in various commercials.[24][25] In December 1992, she was projected in The Mickey Mouse Club alongside Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Ryan Gosling, and Keri Russell. After the show was dropped in 1996, she got back to Mississippi and selected at McComb's Parklane Academy. Despite the fact that she warmed up to the majority of her schoolmates, she contrasted the school with "the initial scene in Clueless with all the cliques. [...] I was so exhausted. I was the point watch on the ball group. I had my beau, and I went to homecoming and Christmas formal. Be that as it may, I needed more

In June 1997, Spears was in talks with manager Lou Pearlman to join the female pop group Innosense. Lynne asked family companion and diversion lawyer Larry Rudolph for his assessment and presented a tape of Spears singing over a Whitney Houston karaoke melody alongside certain photos. Rudolph concluded that he needed to pitch her to record marks, for which she required an expert demo made. He sent Spears an unused melody of Toni Braxton; she practiced for a week and recorded her vocals in a studio with a sound engineer. Lances went to New York with the demo and met with heads from four names, getting back to Kentwood the exact day. Three of the names dismissed her, saying that crowds needed pop groups, for example, the Backstreet Boys and the Spice Girls, and "there would not have been another Madonna, another Debbie Gibson, or another Tiffany."[27] 

After fourteen days, heads from Jive Records returned calls to Rudolph.[27] Senior VP of A&R Jeff Fenster said about Spears' tryout that "it's exceptionally uncommon to hear somebody that age who can convey enthusiastic substance and business appeal...For any craftsman, the inspiration—the 'eye of the tiger'— is critical. Furthermore, Britney had that."[22] Spears sang Houston's "I don't have anything" (1992) for the chiefs, and was hence endorsed to the label.[28] They named her to work with maker Eric Foster White for a month, who allegedly formed her voice from "lower and less poppy" conveyance to "particularly, indisputably Britney."[29] After hearing the recorded material, president Clive Calder ordered a full collection. Lances had initially imagined "Sheryl Crow music, yet more youthful; more grown-up contemporary." She had a sense of safety with her name's arrangement of makers, since "It appeared well and good to go pop, since I can move to it—it's more me."[22] She flew to Cheiron Studios in Stockholm, Sweden, where a big part of the collection was recorded from March to April 1998, with producers Max Martin, Denniz Pop and Rami Yacoub, among others.[22] 

1998–2000: ...Baby One More Time and Oops!... I Did It Again 

After Spears got back to the United States, she set out on a shopping center special visit to advance her impending introduction collection. Her show was a four-melody set and she was joined by two back-up artists. Her first show visit followed, as an initial demonstration for NSYNC.[30] Her debut studio album, ...Baby One More Time, was delivered on January 12, 1999.[22] It appeared at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 and was confirmed two-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America after a month. Around the world, the collection beat out everyone else in fifteen nations and sold over 10 million duplicates in a year.[31] It turned into the greatest selling collection ever by a high school artist.[23] 

2001–2002: Britney and Crossroads 

In January 2001, Spears proceeded as a unique visitor in the Super Bowl XXXV halftime show headlined by Aerosmith and NSYNC.[55] In February 2001, Spears marked a $7–8 million limited time bargain with Pepsi, and delivered another book co-composed with her mom, titled A Mother's Gift.[23] Her self-named third studio album, Britney, was delivered in November 2001. While on visit, she felt roused by hip jump specialists such as Jay-Z and The Neptunes and needed to make a record with a crazier sound.[56] The collection appeared at number one in the Billboard 200 and arrived at top five situations in Australia, the United Kingdom and terrain Europe and has sold 9 million duplicates worldwide.[37][57][58] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic called Britney "the record where she endeavors to extend her persona, making it more grown-up while still conspicuously Britney. [...] It seems like crafted by a star who has now found and refined her voice, bringing about her best record yet."[59] The collection was respected with two Grammy selections—Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Overprotected"— and was recorded in 2008 as one of Entertainment Weekly's "100 Best Albums from the Past 25 Years".[60][61] The collection's first single, "I'm a Slave 4 U", turned into a best ten hit worldwide.[62] Spears' presentation of the single at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards featured a confined tiger (fought by Bhagavan Antle) and a large albino python draped over her shoulders.[63] It was cruelly gotten by basic entitlements organization PETA, who asserted the creatures were abused and rejected designs for an enemy of hide announcement that was to include Spears.[51] Jocelyn Vena of MTV summed up Spears' exhibition at the function, saying, "hanging herself in a white python and crawling around a hot nursery setting – encompassed by artists in zebra and tiger outfits – Spears made quite possibly the most striking visuals in the 27-year history of the show."[64] 

To help the collection, Spears set out on the Dream Within a Dream Tour. The show was basically adulated for its specialized advancements, the pièce de résistance being a water screen that siphoned two tons of water into the stage.[65][66] The visit earned $43.7 million, turning into the second most noteworthy netting visit through 2002 by a female craftsman, behind Cher's Farewell Tour.[67] Her profession achievement was featured by Forbes in 2002, as Spears was positioned the world's most impressive celebrity.[68] Spears likewise handled her initially featuring job in Crossroads, delivered in February 2002. Albeit the film was generally panned, pundits commended Spears' acting and the film was a film industry success.[69][70][71] Crossroads, which had a $12 million spending plan, proceeded to net more than $61.1 million around the world

In June 2002, Spears opened her first eatery, Nyla, in New York City, yet ended her relationship in November, refering to blunder and "the executives' inability to keep her completely apprised".[72] In July 2002, Spears declared she would require a six-month break from her vocation; nonetheless, she returned into the studio in November to record her new album.[73] Spears' relationship with Justin Timberlake finished following three years. In December 2002, Timberlake delivered the tune "Cry Me a River" as the second single from his solo debut collection. The music video highlighted a Spears resemble the other the same and energized the gossipy tidbits that she had been faithless to him.[74][75] As a reaction, Spears composed the anthem "Everytime" with her support entertainer and friend Annet Artani.[76] The same year, Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst said that he was involved with Spears. Be that as it may, Spears denied Durst's cases. In a 2009 meeting, he clarified that "I simply surmise at the time it was untouchable for a person like me to be related with a lady like her."[77] 

2003–2005: In the Zone and relationships 

In August 2003, Spears opened the MTV Video Music Awards with Christina Aguilera, performing "Like a Virgin". Part of the way through they were joined by Madonna, with whom the two of them kissed. The occurrence was exceptionally plugged. In 2008, MTV recorded the presentation as the main opening crossroads throughout the entire existence of MTV Video Music Awards,[78] while Blender magazine refered to it as one of the 25 hottest music minutes on TV history.[79] Spears delivered her fourth studio album, In the Zone, in November 2003. She accepted more imaginative control by composing and co-creating a large portion of the material.[23] Vibe called it "A remarkably sure dance record that likewise shows Spears' advancement as a songwriter."[80] NPR listed the collection as one of "The 50 Most Important Recording of the Decade", adding that "the decade's set of experiences of flawlessly made pop is composed on her assemblage of work."[81] In the Zone sold more than 609,000 duplicates in the United States during its first seven day stretch of accessibility in the United States, appearing at the highest rated spot, making Spears the main female craftsman in the SoundScan period to have her initial four studio collections to make a big appearance at number one.[23] It additionally appeared at the highest rated spot in France and the best ten in Belgium, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands.[82] In the Zone has sold 6 million duplicates worldwide.[83] The collection delivered four singles: "Me Against the Music", a joint effort with Madonna; "Poisonous"— which won Spears her first Grammy for Best Dance Recording; "Everytime", and "Outrageous".[23] 

In January 2004, Spears wedded beloved companion Jason Allen Alexander at A Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The marriage was annulled 55 hours after the fact, following a request to the court that expressed that Spears "needed comprehension of her actions".[84] 

In March 2004, she set out on The Onyx Hotel Tour in uphold of In the Zone.[85] In June 2004, Spears fell and harmed her left knee during the music video go for "Silly". Lances underwent arthroscopic medical procedure. She had to stay a month and a half with a thigh support, trailed by eight to twelve weeks of recovery, which made The Onyx Hotel Tour be canceled.[86] During 2004, Spears got associated with the Kabbalah Centre through her fellowship with Madonna.[87] 

In July 2004, Spears got drawn in to American dancer Kevin Federline, whom she had met three months prior. The sentiment got serious consideration from the media, since Federline had as of late said a final farewell to actress Shar Jackson, who was as yet pregnant with their second youngster at the time.[23] The phases of their relationship were chronicled in Spears' first reality show Britney and Kevin: Chaotic, which debuted on May 17, 2005 at UPN. Lances would later allude to the unscripted TV drama in a 2013 meeting as "presumably the most exceedingly awful thing I've done in my career".[88] They held a wedding service on September 18, 2004, however were not lawfully hitched until three weeks after the fact on October 6 because of a postponement concluding the couple's prenuptial agreement.[89] Shortly after, she delivered her first fragrance with Elizabeth Arden, Curious, what broke the organization's first-week net for a perfume.[23] In October 2004, Spears took a profession break to begin a family.[90] Greatest Hits: My Prerogative, her first most noteworthy hits compilation collection, was delivered in November 2004.[91] Spears's cover version of Bobby Brown's "My Prerogative" was delivered as the lead single from the collection, arriving at the highest rated spot in Finland, Ireland, Italy and Norway.[92] The second single, "Do Somethin'", was a best ten hit in Australia, the United Kingdom and different nations of territory Europe.[93][94] In August 2005, Spears delivered "Sometime in the future (I Will Understand)", which was devoted to her first kid, a child, who was brought into the world the accompanying month.[95] In November 2005, she delivered her first remix compilation, B in the Mix: The Remixes, which comprises of eleven remixes. 

2008–2010: Conservatorship and Circus

In January 2008, Spears wouldn't give up care of her children to Federline's agents. She was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after police that had shown up at her home noted she seemed, by all accounts, to be affected by a unidentified substance. The following day, Spears' appearance rights were suspended at a crisis court hearing, and Federline was given sole physical and lawful care of their kids. She was focused on the mental ward of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and put on 5150 compulsory mental hold under California state law. The court put her under a conservatorship led by her dad, Jamie Spears, and lawyer Andrew Wallet, giving them unlimited oversight of her assets.[23][118] She was delivered five days after the fact 

In December 2008, Spears' 6th studio album Circus was delivered. It got positive surveys from critics[126] and appeared at number one in Canada, Czech Republic and the United States, and inside the main ten in numerous European nations.[113][127] In the United States, Spears turned into the most youthful female craftsman to have five collections debut at number one, procuring a spot in Guinness World Records.[128] She likewise turned into the solitary demonstration in the Soundscan period to have four collections debut with at least 500,000 duplicates sold.[127] The collection was one of the quickest selling collections of the year,[129] and has sold 4 million duplicates worldwide.[130] Its lead single, "Womanizer", turned into Spears' first outline clincher on the Billboard Hot 100 since "...Baby One More Time". The single additionally beat out all competitors in Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Norway and Sweden.[131][132] It was likewise designated for the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording.[133] 

In January 2009, Spears and her dad acquired a limiting request against her previous director Sam Lutfi, ex Adnan Ghalib, and lawyer Jon Eardley–every one of whom had been professed to contrive to oversee Spears' affairs.[134] Spears set out on The Circus Starring Britney Spears tour in March 2009. With a gross of U.S. $131.8 million, it turned into the fifth most elevated earning visit through the year.[135] In November 2009, Spears delivered her second most noteworthy hits album, The Singles Collection. The collection's lead and just single, "3" turned into her third number-one single in the U.S.[136] In May 2010, Spears' delegates affirmed she was dating her representative, Jason Trawick, and that they had chosen to cut off their expert association to zero in on their own relationship.[137] Spears planned a restricted version attire line for Candie's, which was delivered in stores in July 2010.[138] In September 2010, she made a cameo appearance on a Spears-themed recognition scene of the TV series Glee, named "Britney/Brittany"; the scene drew the arrangement's most noteworthy ratings.[139][140] 

2011–2012: Femme Fatale and The X Factor 

In March 2011, Spears delivered her seventh studio album Femme Fatale.[141] The collection crested at number one in the United States, Canada, and Australia, and topped inside the main ten on practically every other diagram. Its top in the United States tied Spears with Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson for the third-most number ones among women.[2] It has sold 1 million duplicates in the United States, and has been guaranteed platinum by the RIAA 

The collection's lead single, "Blame me for it" appeared on the Billboard Hot 100, turning into Spears' fourth number-one single on the diagram and making her the second craftsman in history to have two sequential singles debut at number one, after Mariah Carey.[143] The second single "Till the World Ends" crested at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 in May,[144] while the third single "I Wanna Go" arrived at number seven in August. Femme Fatale became Spears' first collection in which three of its melodies arrived at the best ten of the outline. The fourth and last single "Criminal" was delivered in September 2011. The music video started contention when British legislators condemned Spears for utilizing reproduction firearms while recording the video in a London zone that had been severely influenced by the 2011 England riots.[145] Spears' administration momentarily reacted, expressing, "The video is a dream story including Britney's beau, Jason Trawick, which in a real sense plays out the verses of a tune composed three years before the uproars ever happened."[146] In April 2011, Spears showed up in a remix of Rihanna's tune "S&M".[147] It arrived at number one in the US later in the month, giving Spears her fifth number one on the chart.[148] On Billboard's 2011 Year-End list, Spears was positioned number fourteen on the Artists of the Year,[149] thirty-two on Billboard 200 specialists and ten on Billboard Hot 100 artists.[150][151] Spears co-stated "Whiplash", a melody from the album When the Sun Goes Down (2011) by Selena Gomez and the Scene

In June 2011, Spears set out on the Femme Fatale Tour.[153] The initial ten dates of the visit netted $6.2 million, handling the fifty-fifth spot on Pollstar's Top 100 North American Tours list for the midpoint of the year.[154] The visit finished on December 10, 2011 in Puerto Rico after 79 performances.[155] A DVD of the visit was delivered in November 2011.[156] In August 2011, Spears got the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards.[157] The one month from now, she delivered her second remix album, B in the Mix: The Remixes Vol. 2.[158] In December 2011, Spears got connected with to her long-lasting beau Jason Trawick, who had previously been her agent.[159] Trawick oversaw Spears as his life partner and turned into a co-conservator, close by her dad, in April 2012 

2013–2015: Britney Jean and Britney: Piece of Me 

Lances started work on her eighth studio album, Britney Jean, in December 2012,[168] and enlisted will.i.am as its leader maker in May 2013.[169] In January 2013, Spears and Jason Trawick finished their commitment. Trawick was additionally eliminated as Spears' co-conservator, reestablishing her dad as the sole conservator.[170][171] Following the separation, she started dating David Lucado in March; the couple split in August 2014.[172] During the creation of Britney Jean, Spears recorded the tune "Ooh La" for the soundtrack of The Smurfs 2, which was delivered in June 2013.[173] On September 17, 2013, she showed up on Good Morning America to report her two-year show residency at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, titled Britney: Piece of Me. It started on December 27, 2013, and incorporated a sum of 100 shows all through 2014 and 2015.[174][175] During a similar appearance, Spears declared that Britney Jean would be delivered on December 3, 2013, in the United States.[176][177] It was delivered through RCA Records due to the disbandment of Jive Records in 2011, which had framed the joint RCA/Jive Label Group (initially known as BMG Label Group) somewhere in the range of 2007 and 2011.[178] Britney Jean became Spears' last venture under her unique chronicle contract with Jive, which had ensured the arrival of eight studio albums.[179] The record got a low measure of advancement and had minimal business sway, apparently because of time clashes including arrangements for Britney: Piece of Me.[180] Upon its delivery, the record appeared at number four on the U.S. Billboard 200 with first-week deals of 107,000 duplicates, turning into her most reduced cresting and least selling collection in the United States.[181] Britney Jean debuted at number 34 on the UK Albums Chart, selling 12,959 duplicates in its first week. In doing as such, it turned into Spears' most minimal diagramming and least selling collection in the country 

Generosity 

Lances established The Britney Spears Foundation, an altruistic element set up to help youngsters out of luck. The way of thinking behind the Foundation was that music and amusement has a recuperating quality that can profit children.[436] The Foundation likewise upheld the yearly Britney Spears Camp for the Performing Arts, where campers had the chance to investigate and build up their talents.[437] In April 2002, through the endeavors of Spears and The Britney Spears Foundation, an award of $1 million was made to the Twin Towers Fund to help the offspring of formally dressed assistance legends influenced by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, including New York City Fire Department and its Emergency Medical Services Command, the New York City Police Department, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the New York State Office of court Administration and other government offices.[438] However, it was accounted for in 2008 that the Foundation had a deficiency of $200,000.[439] After the artist experienced conservatorship, her dad and attorney Andrew Wallet focused out the exertion, prompting its conclusion in 2011.[440] 

On October 30, 2001, Spears, alongside Bono and other well known account specialists under the name "Craftsmen Against AIDS Worldwide", delivered a collection comprising of different forms of Marvin Gaye's "What's Happening", with the aim to profit AIDS programs in Africa and other devastated regions.[441] In the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2006, Spears gave $350,000 to Music Rising.[442] Later in 2011, the vocalist raised $200,000 during An Evening of Southern Style at a private home in Beverly Hills to profit the St. Bernard Project, with the assistance of a few superstars, including Hilary Duff, Selena Gomez, Kelly Osbourne, Kellan Lutz and Kim Kardashian.[443] Spears has additionally helped a few causes during her profession, including Madonna's Kabbalah-based Spirituality for Kids,[444] cancer good cause Gilda's Club Worldwide,[445] Promises Foundation, and United Way, with the last two zeroed in on giving families from different hindered circumstances new expectation and stable establishments for what's to come