Britney Jean Spears
Britney Jean Spears was
born in December 2, 1981 is an American recording artist, singer-songwriter,
entertainer, dancer, actress, and occasional author. 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. 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" broke
international sales records. In 2001, Spears released her third albumBritney and
played the starring role in the film Crossroads. She assumed creative control
of her fourth album In the Zone (2003), which yielded the
worldwide success "Toxic".
In 2007, Spears's
much-publicized personal struggles sent her career into hiatus. Her fifth
record Blackout was released
later that year, and spawned hits "Gimme More"
and "Piece of Me".
Her erratic behavior and hospitalizations continued through the following year,
at which point she was placed under a conservatorship.
Spears's sixth album Circus (2008) included global
chart-topping lead single "Womanizer".
Its supporting tour The Circus Starring Britney Spears was
the highest-grossing global concert tour in 2009. Later that October,
"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".
In 2012, Spears was featured on will.i.am's
single "Scream & Shout", which topped charts
in over 24 countries. She also served as a judge during the second season of the American version of The X Factor. Spears' eighth studio album
is scheduled for release in the fourth quarter of 2013.
Spears was established
as a pop icon and
credited with influencing the revival of teen popduring
the late 1990s. She became the 'best-selling teenaged artist of all time'
before she turned 20, and garnered honorific titles including the "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
thebest-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.
கருத்துகள் இல்லை:
கருத்துரையிடுக
Thanks For Visiting