Britney Spears is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and dancer. At the age of 20, she was inducted into the
Hollywood Walk of Fame—the youngest artist in the recording industry to be awarded a star.
[1] She has been nominated for eight
Grammy Awards and six
American Music Awards, winning one of each. She has earned twenty-one
Billboard Music Award nominations and won seven, including the
Millennium Award in 2016.Upon their release, Spears's first two studio albums,
...Baby One More Time (1999) and
Oops!... I Did It Again (2000), achieved commercial success and made her the best-selling teenage artist of all-time according to
Guinness World Records. Though both albums received mixed reviews, the former won a Billboard Music Award and a
Teen Choice Award, while the latter won two Billboard Music Awards.In 2001, Spears released her self-titled third studio album,
Britney. The album earned two Grammy nominations—
Best Pop Vocal Album and
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "
Overprotected". The following year, Spears made her feature film debut in a starring role in
Crossroads (2002), which was a box office success. However, the movie received negative reviews from film critics, and Spears won
Worst Actress at the
23rd Golden Raspberry Awards and
Worst Original Song for "
I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman".
[2] Her fourth studio album
In The Zone (2004) included "
Toxic", which won a
Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording, and a
Visual Effects Society Award.
[lower-alpha 2][5]In 2007, Spears released her fifth studio album,
Blackout, for which she won Album of the Year at the
MTV Europe Music Awards and International Album at the
NRJ Music Awards. The album was added to the library and archives of the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
[6] The following year, she released her sixth album,
Circus, which included the lead single "
Womanizer". It won International Video of the Year at the 10th NRJ Music Awards. The song was also nominated for Best Dance Recording at the
52nd Annual Grammy Awards and
Video of the Year at the
2009 MTV Video Music Awards. In 2009, she released the greatest hits album
The Singles Collection, and the song "
3" from the album debuted at number one on the
Billboard Hot 100, making her the seventh female artist
to achieve this milestone. In the same year, she was named the youngest female to have five number one studio albums in the US by Guinness World Records.
[7]At the
2011 MTV Video Music Awards, Spears was awarded the
Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, becoming the third woman to win it. She also won
Best Pop Video for "
Till the World Ends", making her the only artist to receive this award three times. Spears previously held the record for most
Teen Choice Awards with 11 wins before being surpassed by
Taylor Swift in
2011. Spears was awarded the Icon award by the
Teen Choice Awards in
2015,
Music Choice Awards in 2016, and
Radio Disney Music Awards in
2017. She also received a
Vanguard Award at the
GLAAD Media Awards in 2018.