This Day in Pop: 'Oops!... I Did It Again' album is released in 2000 (May 16)

[PokemonSpears]

 

 

On May 16, 2000, Britney Spears released in the United States her second studio album, Oops!... I Did It Again. The album had already been released in Japan on May 03, and Austria, Germany and Switzerland on May 15.

Preceded by its lead single of the same name, which came out a month prior, Oops!... I Did It Again debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, getting the #1 in 20 charts around the world, #2 in six other countries and #5 in Italy. It broke the record for the biggest first-week sales by a female artist ever in the US, with 1, 319, 193 copies sold, a record she held until 2015, when Adele released 25. It reportedly sold over 500,000 copies just during the first day. It still holds the record for biggest first-year sales by a female, with 7.89 million copies sold in 2000, landing at #4 in the year-end chart of that year. It also appeared on the year-end chart again in 2001 at #28. Oops!... I Did It Again was also the #6 most sold album of the 00's. It became her second album to receive the Diamond certification from the RIAA.

Much as its predecessor, Oops!... I Did It Again is a teen pop / dance pop album, though it has more influences of funk and R&B, with an overall more mature and aggressive tone. Whereas ...Baby One More Time was filled by mostly bubbly ballads and heartbreak songs, Oops! has a more adult sound with tracks like Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know or Where Are You Now, and its mid-tempos gravitate towards the empowerment, in tunes like Oops!... I Did It Again, Don't Go Knockin' on My Door, What U See (Is What U Get), or the Rolling Stones cover (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, with Stronger even nodding at her debut single by revealing her "loneliness ain't killing her no more". However, it doesn't completely leave aside the sweet melodies that characterized her debut album, with songs like One Kiss from You, Dear Diary or the bonus track Heart.

The album was mainly produced by Max Martin and Rami Yacoub, but it counted with the collaborations of Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, Jake Schulze, Mutt Lange, Per Magnusson, David Kreuger, Steve Lunt, Larry "Rock" Campbell, Kristian Lundin, Rober Jazayeri, Paul Umbach, Timmy Allen, Barry J. Eastmond and Eric Foster White, the latter of which produced You Got It All, a cover from The Jets, which was originally recorded for her debut album.

Most of the producers also provided the lyrics of the tracks, but additional songwriters include Alexander Kronlund, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (for the Satisfaction cover), Shania Twain (for Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know), Keith Scott, Jörgen Elofsson, Andreas Carlsson, Diane Warren (When Your Eyes Say It), Jason Blume, Eugene Wilde, Rupert Holmes (You Got It All) and George Teren. Britney herself co-wrote Dear Diary. 

The album was recorded in 1999 after her ...Baby One More Time Tour finished, most of the recording taking place in November. The recordings took place between New York, Hollywood, Orlando, Sweden and Switzerland. The first songs to be recorded at the Cheiron Studios in Stockholm were Oops!... I Did It Again, Walk on By, What U See (Is What U Get) and Don't Go Knockin' on My Door, followed by Stronger and Lucky, which along with Oops!, weren't finalized until January. Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know was recorded in December at Robert "Mutt" Lange's villa in Switzerland. Girl in the Mirror and Can't Make You Love Me were recorded in mid-January at Parc Studios in Orlando, Florida. She then recorded When Your Eyes Say It and One Kiss from You in New York, along with Dear Diary and Heart. Finally, in late February she recorded (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction at Pacific Recording Studios in Hollywood, California. You Got It All and Where Are You Now were outtakes from her debut album.

 

Four singles were released in order to promote the album: Oops!... I Did It Again, Lucky, Stronger and Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know.

She also embarked on a world tour, the Oops!... I Did It Again Tour, that lasted from June 20, 2000 through January 18, 2001.

 

For the release of the album she held a special presentation in Tokyo and Paris, and she also made several appearances on MTV and other TV shows in the United States.

 

 

 

The day of the release, she appeared on TRL to talk about the record, and she was signing some CD's for her fans.

A week earlier, she recorded the "First Listen" of the album, where they played a preview of each of the tracks.

 

The album was released on vinyl in 2019, and it got a new cassette release in 2020 for its 20th anniversary.

 

 

[PokemonSpears]

YouTube playlist including the bonus tracks

[On_Mah_Raydah]

And she did it again 

[FemmeFataleBrit]

YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH! 

[Blackout2006]

#1in every country except Finland, Italy, Malaysia and of course UK, but its okay

What an era honestly! Truly her peak.

[MrPieceOfMe]

  

All-Time Charts

Chart	Position
United Kingdom (2000-2019 Women)[164]	77
US Billboard 200 (Women)[165]	64

[MrPieceOfMe]

The fact that it debuted with first-week sales of 1,319,193 copies and  held the record for the highest first-week sales by a female artist for 15 years 

[Look But Don't Touch]

34 minutes ago, Blackout2006 said:

Truly her peak

You mean In The Zone

Btw homework is still waiting 

[Blackout2006]

34 minutes ago, Look But Don't Touch said:

You mean In The Zone

 

ITZ is like her 4th biggest era

35 minutes ago, Look But Don't Touch said:

Btw homework is still waiting 

GAHHHH-

[Blackout2006]

36 minutes ago, MrPieceOfMe said:

The fact that it debuted with first-week sales of 1,319,193 copies and  held the record for the highest first-week sales by a female artist for 15 years 

Queen ****

[Crabo Lavender Turmeric]

I  really wish they had released more singles. With the exception of Dear Diary, any song from this album is single material 

[DearBritney00]

She was celebtrating it here (kind of):

 

[Fab britney]

Really wish what u see and dgkomd were 4th snd 5th singles w don’t let me be last to know as 6th :/

[Isla]

Such a good write up! The album is a massive step up from Baby, it has that classic late 90s/early 2000s sound I love.

I hope Spotify uploads the international version of the album at some point with the bonus tracks.

[Jordan Miller]

LEGENDARY

[Jordan Miller]

1 hour ago, Isla said:

Such a good write up!

 @PokemonSpears' TDIP posts are iconic

[Stannedforever]

The album that turned her from superstar to living legend. At the time people were saying that she's already losing steam and she's just a one hit wonder, but she did it again and proved everyone that she was there to SLAY

[JackSProductions]

My forever favourite album of all time

[Malibu.D.Luxx]

I mowed lawns to come up with the money for this. Lol. And I had school that day, so I sent my mom 😂 I told her she had to be there before the store even opened because I didn’t want it to sell out 😂❤️💋

[PokemonSpears]

3 hours ago, JackSProductions said:

My forever favourite album of all time

best album of all time