2009 marks the tenth anniversary of the single which catapulted Britney Spears into the public eye… but since that iconic Hit Me Baby… One More Time video hit our screens, a lot has happened in with world of miss Spears.
In honour of these release of her new compilation album, Britney Spears - The Singles Collection, FemaleFirst takes a look back over her impressive career, which has seen 83 million albums sold, 7 worldwide blockbuster albums and 8 worldwide #1 hits.
There is no denying that Britney Spears is quite possibly the most successful female artist of the last ten years thanks to making a name for herself on Disney’s ‘The New Mickey Mouse Club’ alongside Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake.
She is listed by the Guinness World Records as having the "Best-selling album by a teenage solo artist" for her debut album ...Baby One More Time which sold over thirteen million copies in the United States and the words 'Britney Spears' has been Yahoo!'s most popular search term for the last four consecutive years, seven times in total.
Take a look at some of the key moments in Britney’s career below;
15/02/99 - ‘Baby, One More Time’ is released in the UK and goes straight to no.1
07/01/00 – Britney scores her second UK no.1 with ‘Born To Make You Happy’
01/05/00 – ‘Oops I Did It Again’ goes to no.1 in the UK
06/09/01 – MTV Awards NYC, Britney unveils ‘Slave 4 U’ coming onto the stage wearing a live snake
29/03/02 – Britney makes her film debut in Crossroads and contributes ‘Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman’ to the soundtrack
26/07/02- Britney makes a cameo in Austin Powers: Goldmember and contributes Boys feat Pharrell Williams to the soundtrack
28/08/03 – Another MTV performance that got everyone’s tongues wagging including Britney’s when she shares a kiss with Madonna as she and Christina Aguilera sing ‘Like A Virgin’
01/03/04 – ‘Toxic’ tops the UK chart
26/04/04 – The Onyx Hotel tour comes to the UK
14/06/04 – ‘Everytime’ is released and goes to no.1
29/10/07 – The album ‘Blackout’ is released to critical acclaim and spawns the top 5 hits ‘Gimme More’ and ‘Piece of Me’
01/12/08 – ‘Circus’ the album is released in the UK and becomes Britney’s fastest selling studio album to date
06/03/09 – The Circus tour arrives in London
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