Britney Spears

Britney Spears  (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer and actress.  Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, 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.  Spears was established as a pop icon and credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s.  She became the ‘best-selling teenaged artist of all time’ and garnered honorific titles including the “Princess of Pop”.  The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) named Spears the eighth top-selling female artist in the United States, with 34 million certified albums.  She has sold over 100 million albums worldwide and over 100 million singles making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time.  According to Billboard, Spears has sold about 22.38 million singles in digital downloads in US and is the fourth best-selling female artist since Nielsen SoundScan began.  (More from Wikipedia)