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Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer. Referred to as the "Princess of Pop", she has had a significant cultural impact on music in the 21st century, having been recognized as one of the first musicians credited with reviving the teen pop genre. Spears has sold over 150 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists in history.

Born in McComb, Mississippi, Spears began her professional career in 1992 as a cast member for the Ruthless! musical and The All-New Mickey Mouse Club television series. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her first single in September 1998. In the early 2000s, she developed a more mature style for the albums Britney (2001) and In the Zone (2003) and would star in the 2002 comedy-drama film Crossroads. Her 2007 album Blackout, which Spears executive produced, earned her the greatest acclaim as a solo artist.

Facing lifelong public scrutiny and personal struggles by the late 2000s, Spears was placed under a controversial conservatorship in 2008, during which she began a series of new albums for Jive and then for RCA Records. In 2019, Spears withdrew from regular concert touring to focus on her conservatorship case, leading to the #FreeBritney movement and the release of the documentary Framing Britney Spears (2021). The conservatorship was dissolved in 2021 after she publicly testified against her management team and family of abuse. Her 2023 memoir, The Woman in Me, debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list.

Spears has charted 35 times on the American Billboard Hot 100 charts; her highest-peaking singles there are "...Baby One More Time" (1998), "Womanizer" (2008), "3" (2009), and "Hold It Against Me" (2011). Her most commercially successful albums, ...Baby One More Time and [[Oops!... I Did It Again (album)|Oops!... I Did It Again, were certified diamond in the United States and rank among the best-selling albums of all time. She is the fourth best-selling female album artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era, as well as the best-selling female album artist of the 2000s. She was listed as the world's highest-paid female musician in 2001 and 2012 by Forbes. Spears received numerous industry awards including one Grammy Award, fifteen Guinness World Records, six MTV Video Music Awards, and seven Billboard Music Awards (including the Millennium Award). Spears has launched numerous products, with her 2005 fragrance Fantasy with Elizabeth Arden, Inc. generating over $1.5 billion in sales by 2011.