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Overprotected is the second international single from Britney Spears' third studio album, Britney - released on December 18, 2001 and later in January 2002 across Europe. It was released as The Darkchild Remix in the US and Canada on April 1, 2002. Written and produced by Max Martin and Rami, Overprotected stands as one of only five Britney songs to be nominated for a Grammy. In 2003, it was up for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance - her third and final nomination in the category. Overprotected was a Top 10 hit in 13 countries including #4 in the UK and #1 in Poland, ultimately peaking at #8 on the European Hot 100. The Darkchild Remix peaked at #86 on the US Hot 100 and #22 on the Canadian Hot 100. Overprotected is a global Top 10 peaking at #6 on the United World Chart dated March 9, 2002. It spent 14 weeks in the chart. MUSIC VIDEOS The international version (album version) was directed by Billie Woodruff who also did her 1999 video for Born to Make You Happy and her 2005 video for Do Somethin'. The Darkchild Remix video was directed by Chris Applebaum. Across Asia, the original music video peaked at #3 on the MTV Asia Hitlist. The Darkchild Remix music video spent 14 days at #1 on the TRL (US) countdown and is the era's most successful music video in the countdown - beating I'm a Slave 4 U and Boys (The Co-Ed Remix) which peaked at #1 for 3 days and #1 for 1 day, respectively. Due to popular demand, the Darkchild Remix music video was also serviced to Asia after it's release in the US and Canada. The music video peaked at #2 on the MTV Asia Hitlist besting the original version's peak. The music video for the original version on the BritneySpearsVEVO channel on Youtube is her 22nd music video to cross the 100 million mark. TEEHEE💙💚💛💖💜🧡❤ Roxxy 💋

On May 22, 2016, Britney Spears received the Billboard Millennium Award for her achievements and influence in the music industry. She performed a medley of hits from different albums across her career: Work ***** (Britney Jean) Womanizer (Circus) I Love Rock 'n' Roll (Britney) Breathe on Me (In the Zone) I'm a Slave 4 U (Britney) Touch of My Hand (In the Zone) Toxic (In the Zone)

The Backstreet Boys drop their record breaking pop opus exactly 20 years ago. Millennium debuts May 18, 1999 Over two decades since their debut, the Backstreet Boys are thriving. They might not have hits ruling the Billboard Hot 100, but the business behind the pop collective still works just fine. Courtesy of a successful Las Vegas residency, which has raked in nearly $1 million per night, their catchy hits of yesteryears are the ultimate essence of nostalgia. For our latest installment of This Day In Pop, BreatheHeavy took a look at the band’s 1999 blockbuster release, Millennium, the 12-song set that scored five Grammy Award nominations, becoming one of the biggest selling albums of all-time and cemented their legacy in the boy band hall of fame. At just 46 minutes, the Stateside sophomore release included some of the band’s biggest hits like “I Want It That Way,” “Larger Than Life,” and “Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely.” On paper, the album and its accompanying rollout read like a bulletproof campaign for success, at least in the late 90s. Production credits from Max Martin? Check. Rabid backing from MTV’s TRL? Double check. The competitive marketing to best *NSYNC? No questions asked. Still, the bar was set high for Millennium and the expectations were nothing short of just. Nick Carter, Brian Littrell, Kevin Richardson, A. J. McLean and Howie Dorough had released their self-titled debut album internationally in 1996 and their follow-up international album, Backstreet’s Back, in 1997, (which served as their U.S debut) so the frenetic clusters of adoring teenage fans were spreading and spreading fast. Mass hysteria from Europe had officially made its way to America and Millennium had to pull through like a bonafide success. Otherwise, they easily could’ve joined the ranks of LFO and 98 Degrees. Record executives knew that they had to hit while the iron was hot and wanted to default to a formula used with the group’s first two albums. They wanted an upbeat song to lead the campaign, particularly “Larger Than Life,” but the Backstreet Boys disagreed. And for the Orlando-teenagers, who were still relatively new to the game, they were right to trust their instincts. Despite dealing with business mishaps with their first manager, Lou Pearlman, as well as Littrell’s open-heart surgery in 1998, their redeeming moment arrived with the set’s lead single, “I Want It That Way,” which was released in April 1999, a month before Millennium dropped. They might have butted heads with execs about the rollout, but the machine behind the band was in full-effect and ready to utilize even the most shameless marketing strategies. Cue a teenage Britney Spears offering fans a sneak peak at three Millennium tracks at the end of the first 200,000 copies of …Baby One More Time, and it worked. “I Want It That Way” quickly dominated in the very way that it deserved to dominate. The lyrics didn’t (and still don’t) make much sense, but hearing these five sing an oozy love song with all the shiny tricks and mechanics from the Max Martin machine of the ‘90s was all we needed. On the day of their scheduled appearance on TRL for the release, it was clear the Backstreet Boys had elevated. This was superstardom. Millennium would go on to become the best-selling album of the year and, more notably, one of the best-selling albums of all time with over 30 million copies sold worldwide. Now, fans of the era can capitalize off the milestone release with a new limited-edition vinyl of the album. “That was an amazing time in our lives,” Richardson reflects to ET. “I think it’s safe to say, we can all agree that it’s probably our biggest album to date, as far as successful album sales around the world.” He added: “It was just an incredible time in our lives. Things were moving fast. It was insane how much we were recognized, how many records that sold, how popular our music was, how popular the tour was, and continues to bless us to this day.” Littrell said it was the group’s Thriller (Michael Jackson’s 1982 album), and he’s not wrong. Andreas Carlsson, who co-wrote “I Want It That Way,” recently summed it all up to Billboard, saying, “This album was another level. The floodgates opened, and they became a phenomenon.” We can’t say we disagree. There’s a reason why we’re still singing those nonsensical lyrics 20 years later. Written by James Dinh @JamesExhale for BreatheHeavy.

On April 16th, 1971, Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla was born. Although the Queen is no longer with us, the 16th is the day to celebrate her life and her music. 😘 RIP and happy birthday. Siempre Selena 💜

On August 18, 2005, Britney Spears released Someday (I Will Understand) as the lead and only single off her EP Britney & Kevin: Chaotic. Spears wrote the song two weeks before knowing she was pregnant with her first child, Sean Preston Federline. A pop ballad, its lyrics refer to a feeling of empowerment as a pregnant woman. A remixed version of the song was included on the 2005 remix compilation, B in the Mix: The Remixes.

On the 30th of June 2010, Australian Pop Queen Kylie Minogue released her eleventh studio album Aphrodite. It peaked at #2 in Australia, beaten by Eminem’s Recovery, but peaked at #1 in the UK earning Kylie a Guinness World Record for achieving the most consecutive decades with top 5 albums in the UK. Aphrodite was also a top 5 album in Belgium, France, Greece, Spain, and Switzerland. The lead single All The Lovers was an instant fan favourite and peaked at #3 in the UK and was a top 10 hit in several countries. To sum up, Kylie was still serving #1 albums, top 10 singles and fan favourite tracks on her eleventh studio album. A pop legend.

"Pretty Girls" is a song recorded by Britney Spears and Australian rapper Iggy Azalea. Azalea co-wrote the song with Maegan Cottone, British girl group Little Mix, and the song's producers, The Invisible Men. The single was released on May 4, 2015, by RCA Records. The music video for "Pretty Girls" premiered on May 13, 2015, and was directed by Azalea and Cameron Duddy. The visuals were inspired by the 1988 film Earth Girls Are Easy, starring Geena Davis. The song was performed live by Spears and Azalea for the first time on May 17 at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards. Later that year, it was added to the setlist for Spears' Las Vegas residency show, Britney: Piece of Me. The collaboration peaked within the top 20 in the United Kingdom, Canada, Hungary, Scotland, and South Korea as well as the top 30 in the United States, France, and Australia. The track also received two nominations at the 2015 Teen Choice Awards. Source: WIkipedia

Britney Spears released her critically acclaimed 9th studio album on this day in 2016.

The video features Spears and her son's watching The Smurfs 2 in a theater and as Gargamel zaps Spears, she finds herself in Smurf village singing and dancing with the smurfs.

Britney Spears injured her knee while filming the video for “Outrageous” on June 8, 2004. Some consider it the beginning of the end, but however you decide to interpret it, Britney Spears’ knee injury on-set of her music video for “Outrageous” 17-years ago changed the trajectory of the pop titan’s performance offerings for good. It’s a sore subject for all of the B Army, but an important component in understanding one of the many reasons why she does not perform as she did in the past. For our latest installment of This Day In Pop, BreatheHeavy is revisiting the summer night when the singer took to the streets of Queens, New York to film the clip to the hip-hop-charged track and seemingly put a nail in the coffin to the promotional trail for 2003’s In The Zone. For a long time in her early career, due to pop music elitists and general naysayers, it was cool to hate on Britney Spears. In The Zone, more specifically “Toxic,” shifted the perspective on the singer and opened her reach to a wider and more grown audience. Nonetheless, her fourth era of pop superstardom hit a rocupcakes the night she took to the streets to film the video for the R. Kelly-produced track. On the visual front, we had the reliable Dave Meyers, who had previously directed “Lucky” and “Boys (Co-Ed Remix)” as the man in charge. On the campaign front, the song was set be part of the soundtrack to Halle Berry’s superhero film, Catwoman. For a fourth single, the investment was there. Maybe that’s, in part, because the song was rumored to lead the LP until Britney nabbed Madonna for “Me Against The Music.” Regardless, the promotion, press and release came to a halt at 11:30 PM that Tuesday night when a dizzying spin in her routine made her scream and fall under the L Train line as spectators in a pre-social media world watched from the sidelines. Local indie rock band Mo Matching Drapes took advantage of the shoot by filming an amateur music video of them on set of her set. Little did they know they’d capture one of her biggest career mishaps on camera. “She obviously took a wrong step and blew out her knee. It was an old dance injury,” a spokeswoman told Reuters at the time. Immediately following the accident, Spears was carried off set and transported to a local hospital, where doctors conducted an MRI scan, found floating cartilage in her knee and performed arthroscopic surgery on the star. The impact of the injury in Spears’ K-Fed era brought more repercussions than one could have expected at the time. Cue the cancelation of her “Onyx Hotel Tour,” which was scheduled to begin its second North American leg just 14 days later. You try to envision the pop spectacle without choreography. It simply doesn’t work. Earlier in the year, Spears hurt her knee while performing in Illinois, forcing her to cancel some dates, so the validity of the mishap isn’t really up for debate. She was in a thigh brace for six weeks followed by eight to twelve weeks of rehabilitation. Needless to say, it gave her a pass to a much-needed break that she had been yearning at that point in her career. It’d be the last time that we saw Spears dance to such intricate levels that matched her years of experience. As a consolation prize, we were given a short edit of the music video for “Outrageous” with the release of Greatest Hits: My Prerogative, which arrived later that November. Worth it? Absolutely not. Still, as we all know, the worst had yet to come. Written by @Jame***hale for BreatheHeavy | Exhale

Oops!... I Did It Again, the second studio album by Britney Spears, was released on May 16, 2000. As its predecessor, ...Baby One More Time, its music incorporates pop, dance-pop and teen-pop styles, as well as more R&B and funkier sounds. The producers that worked on this album include Max Martin, Rami Yacoub, Per Magnusson, David Kreuger, Kristian Lundin, Jake Schulze, Darkchild, and Robert John "Mutt" Lange. Four singles were released to promote this album: Oops!... I Did It Again, Lucky, Stronger and Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know. Some records and accolades Highest first-week sales by an female artist (broken by Adele after 15 years) First female album to have 1 million sales and more in its first week Sold 9 million by the end of 2000, making it the highest album sales within its first year by a female artist and best selling female album of 2000 sold already 500k In it’s first day of availability in the US Sold 2.5 million copies in its first week WW Second Britney Spears album to hit #1 on the BB200 27 million sales Billboard's Albums Artist of the Year Nominated at the American Music Awards 2001 for Favorite Pop/Rock album Nominated at the Grammy Awards 2001 for Best Pop Vocal Albums Nominated at the Juno Awards 2001 for Best Selling Album

The 1999 World Music Awards were held in Monaco on 5 May 1999. Britney Spears performed ...Baby One More Time and The Beat Goes On. Earlier that day she gave an interview:

On November 13, 2000, Stronger was released by Britney Spears as the third single of her second studio album Oops!... I Did It Again. The song has self-empowerment lyrics about a girl who is tired of her cheating boyfriend and decides to live without him. It received acclaim from music critics, who described the song as both musically and lyrically innovative and considered it the best dance track from the album. Stronger achieved commercial success worldwide, reaching the top five in Austria, Germany and Sweden, while reaching the top ten in Finland, Ireland, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Stronger peaked at number eleven in the United States' Billboard Hot 100, and was later certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for selling over 500,000 units of the single. The B-side of the single was Walk On By.

On July 13, 2000 the music video for Lucky was released by Jive Records. It was directed by Dave Meyers and it was shot on June 12 and 13 of that same year, at the Ren-Mar Studios in Hollywood, California. The video begins with Spears telling a story about a very famous Hollywood actress named Lucky, who's seen wearing a pink nightgown inside a mansion. By the end of the first chorus she opens the door to find a handsome man who takes her in his arms as she faints. The director yells "Cut! We've got it", then Lucky walks off-set into the studio quite annoyed, replying to the director "Finally! We've done it fifty-million times!". The real Britney is seen watching her throughout the scenes, standing unnoticed and being very worried about Lucky. Later we see Lucky at the Academy Awards accepting her award for Best Actress. She looks very happy while she accepts it and then makes her way into her limo, away from her screaming fans. She finds an ornate mirror that was used on the film set and then looks back to the crowd where she sees Britney leaning forward. The limo drives away, leaving Spears behind on the red carpet. The video ends with Lucky crying herself to sleep, her dark mascara dripping down her face., then the curtains close. It landed at #35 on the Top 100 countdown (Los 100 + Pedidos) of MTV Latin America of the year 2000.

Rolling Stone's Dan Reilly highlighted the song's catchiness, writing "now that you've heard it, try and get it out of your head".

Mother Monster changes the face of pop music with her sophomore album. This Day In Pop is a reoccurring piece, where BreatheHeavy examines a monumental anniversary in pop music. Whether it be a blockbuster release, game-changing performance, live mishap, or something in between, we’re here to dig through the archives and highlight some of the biggest moments in pop music history. Lady Gaga released Born This Way on May 23, 2011. Back in late 2010, Lady Gaga told a crowd of screaming fans in Gdsank, Poland that her second studio album, Born This Way, would be “the greatest album of this decade.” Almost 10 years later, the declaration still rings true. The blockbuster LP changed up the game for Mother Monster, elevating her off kilter pop contributions to new degrees of weird cool. In the process, it turned off a few folks, but regardless of whether you championed her creativity or turned your nose at the spectacle, it was certainly an era worth watching. For BreatheHeavy’s latest installment of This Day In Pop, we’re revisiting Gaga’s mega-release as she works steadily on her sixth studio album. By the turn of the ‘10s, Lady Gaga was the biggest thing in pop music. After putting the music video on CPR with the dazzling clips for “Bad Romance” and the Beyoncé-assisted “Telephone,” Mother Monster had already proved that she was much more than a pop singer, but instead a student of the pop music machine. With the release of her debut album, The Fame, and its accompanying re-release in The Fame Monster, behind her, Gaga was riding off some of the very celebrity that she sang about in her previously released tunes and was flooded with inspiration for her next album. “It came so quickly. I’ve been working on it for months, and I feel very strongly that it’s finished right now. Some artists take years. I don’t. I write music every day,” she told The Guardian in June 2010. Unlike the synth-pop sound of her debut, Born This Way saw RedOne and Fernando Garibay honed in on their relationship with the singer to create something with a bigger mission statement. In doing so, she turned a different direction and took a few pages from some of her biggest musical muses: Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen and, of course, Madonna. On the standard version, Born This Way clocked in at 14 songs, including its title track, “Marry the Night,” “You and I” and “The Edge of Glory.” If the public had not fully understood the woman known as Lady Gaga (or her musicianship pre-fame), she made her point loud and clear with a set that showcased as much of her varied talents as it did her levels of extra. She touched on opera, heavy metal, industrial techno, mariachi, disco — you name it. She collaborated with E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons and Queen guitarist Brian May. The set pushed Gaga far passed her musical boundaries at a time when we were all welcoming extreme experimentation. On the promotional end, Born This Way was larger than life and only appropriately matched the persona, attitude and stage styling of the superstar. Sometimes it was a miss. The art cover for both the original and deluxe still raises eyebrows, but I’d argue that the campaign did more positive than negative, particularly with her messaging. Most notably, the LP gave us “Born This Way,” Gaga’s most important single to-date. Minus all the Madonna comparisons, the anthem created something that pop music had not seen in years: wildly explicit embrace for the LGBTQ+ community. It was her freedom song. “I want to write my this-is-who-the-****-I-am anthem, but I don’t want it to be hidden in poetic wizardry and metaphors. I want it to be an attack, an assault on the issue because I think, especially in today’s music, everything gets kind of washy sometimes and the message gets hidden in the lyrical play,” she said in an interview with Billboard. “Harkening back to the early ’90s, when Madonna, En Vogue, Whitney Houston and TLC were making very empowering music for women and the gay community and all kind of disenfranchised communities, the lyrics and the melodies were very poignant and very gospel and very spiritual and I said, ‘That’s the kind of record I need to make. That’s the record that’s going to shake up the industry.’” Born This Way went on to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 after selling 1,108,000 copies in its opening week, in part thanks to a tactical 99-cent Amazon deal, and became the third-best selling album of 2011. But for all the occasions that she did too much during this time, it rarely eclipsed her passion for creating or pleasing her fans. It drove home the idea of what it meant to be a Little Monster and pushed forward a culture of online fandom that thrived for acceptance. Written by @JamesExhale for BreatheHeavy | Exhale

On May 7, 2000, Oops...! I Did It Again landed on top of the UK charts becoming her third #1 in there after ...Baby One More Time & Born To Make You Happy. It was certified platinum in the country for exceeding 600,000 sold copies.

On May 6, 2000 Britney performed at Théâtre de l'Empire in Paris. The set included (You Drive Me) Crazy, Born to Make You Happy, Oops!... I Did It Again, ...Baby One More Time. Enjoy

It's been 20 years today since Eminem released his third studio album.

On June 22, 2011, Britney Spears released the music video for I Wanna Go, the third single off her album Femme Fatale. The music video for "I Wanna Go" was directed by Stewart Hannah and filmed in Los Angeles, California. Spears first contacted Piliero and asked him to put together a concept for the video. The main idea for Marrs Piliero came from the lyric "be a little inappropriate", which stood out for him, but he did not want to make a video about ****** inappropriateness. Piliero wrote the opening press conference scene as a tribute to the film Half Baked (1998), which he is a fan of. He explained, "That scene resonates with everyone as the epitome of the greatest way to quit your job, and just blow people off. [...] I felt like that would just be such a perfect way for her to tell the reporters to eff off." Marrs Piliero first asked actor Kellan Lutz to co-star the clip with Spears; however, Lutz turned down the role, saying that "there were a couple of weird things about the part that didn't make sense", including the scene where he was going to pour milk on himself. Piliero then thought of asking one of the stars of Half Baked, Guillermo Díaz, to be part of the video, explaining that it "would make it come full circle." Piliero watched all of Spears' videos and wanted to pull what he loved from them, but also give it something fresh. Piliero felt that all of her references to the paparazzi in her previous videos had been more of a statement than an action, and for "I Wanna Go", he wanted her to have the opportunity to fight back. Piliero had the concept nearly finished by the time he met with Spears. Both wanted to explore fun ways for Spears to be inappropriate in the video, who had several ideas, such as a cop frisking her. Having seen Spears on How I Met Your Mother and Saturday Night Live, Piliero felt that none of her videos had really taken advantage of her comedic timing, saying, "She never had a music video where she could show her acting chops and have fun with comedy while being super badass. That was my goal from day one: I wanted her to be funny, badass and super cool." During the first day of the shoot, he requested Spears to "have as much fun as possible over these next two days". Pilliero also stated that the Crossroads (2002) reference "is a fun Easter egg for fans. Plus, Die Hard 2: Die Harder is the most ridiculously awesome way to title a sequel. It just felt like the right thing to do. When Britney saw it, she loved it." Source

On June 20, 2000 Britney launched her 3rd tour titled after he 2nd album Oops I Did It Again in Columbia, Maryland! The tour ran till January 18, 2001 and consisted of 88 shows. The most she has done is any of her previous tours at this time. The set list was comprised of 12 songs and a encore, including "(You Drive Me) Crazy" "Stronger" "What U See (Is What U Get)" "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" "Born to Make You Happy" "Lucky" "Sometimes" "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" "The Beat Goes On" "Don't Go Knockin' on My Door" "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" "...Baby One More Time" Encore "Oops!... I Did It Again" I LOVE this tour almost as much as I love DWAD or Oynx! The outfits the hair the LIVE VOCALS!! It gives me LIFE!! Enjoy!

On June 14, 2005, the music video for Someday (I Will Understand) premiered during the fifth and last episode of the reality show Britney & Kevin: Chaotic, titled 'Veil of Secrecy'. The music video features a pregnant Spears lying in bed and walking around a house while singing to her unborn child. It was directed by Michael Haussman. That year, the video landed at #10 in the yearly Top 100 that MTV Latin America used to do.

On this day in 2010, Christina Aguilera released her sixth studio album, {Bi~ΟΠ~iC}. It was a drastic departure from the retro, jazz-influenced sound of Back To Basics into more futuristic electronic music. Consisting of 24 tracks in total, the record combines sassy electropop bangers with personal pop / R&B ballads with some rock, new wave, dancehall and disco sprinkled in. For the record, Christina worked both with established hitmakers, as well as more underground, less-known producers and co-writers. For example, it was the first album by a big pop artist to feature songwriting from Sia and had one of the very first Nicki Minaj guest verses on a song ("Woohoo"), something that's very commonplace now. However, due to many reasons, including a drastic change in sound compared to her previous records, accusations of chasing trends and copying Lady Gaga (spearheaded by Pigrez Perez Hilton), mediocre promotion, a change in the title, a delayed release, no tour, the era being cut short (lasting only 6 months) and Christina's personal problems, {Bi~ΟΠ~iC} underperformed and has been largely forgotten by the general public. Despite this, many consider it a solid record and it has gained newfound appreciation in recent years.

On November 24, 1998, the ...Baby One More Time music video premiered, launching Britney Spears' career and changing the music scene forever. The video was directed by Nigel **** and it was filmed from August 6 - August 8, 1998. The video was originally planned to be completely different from the final product we know: it was supposed to take place in a cartoon-like environment in an attempt to appeal to younger audiences. However Britney was not happy with the idea and argued she wanted the video to reflect the lives of her fans, which would be around her same age, and wanted the video to take place in a school. The original idea was scrapped and they decided to go on with Britney's concept. Nigel's idea for the wardrobe was jeans and a t-shirt but Britney suggested to change it for a schoolgirl outfit. According to Nigel "Every piece of wardrobe in the video came from Kmart, and I was told at the time not one piece of clothing in the video cost more than $17. On that level, it's real. That probably, in retrospect, is a part of its charm."The knotted shirt design was Spears's idea, she recollects saying, "The outfits looked kind of dorky, so I was like, 'Let's tie up our shirts and be cute'".About the experience of shooting her first music video, Spears said, "It was a wonderful experience. All these people there, working for you. I had my own trailer. It was an amazing experience". The music video was shot at Venice High School, the same school used to film the movie Grease.

Greatest Hits: My Prerogative is the first greatest hits album by American singer Britney Spears. It was released on November 9, 2004 through Jive Records and Zomba Recording. The album was released in two different editions, standard and limited, with the latter containing a bonus disc with remixes. A video compilation of the same title, featuring twenty of Spears' music videos, was released to accompany the songs. The album includes three new tracks: a cover of Bobby Brown's My Prerogative, Do Somethin' and I've Just Begun (Having My Fun), which was previously included on the international editions of Spears' fifth video album Britney Spears: In the Zone (2004).

On November 03, 2000 the music video for Stronger was premiered. The music video was directed by Joseph Kahn, who revealed that the concept for the music video was created by Spears herself, by saying "I would like to dance in a chair and drive in a car and break up with [my] boyfriend. [...] Those are your three elements." Kahn ended up creating, according to Jocelyn Vena of MTV, "a semi-futuristic world in which Spears walks into a club, breaks up with her cheating boyfriend and triumphantly walks in the rain, knowing her life is better off without him." Kahn also considered the music video as very sophisticated, saying that it is "definitely a departure from the sort of candy-colored videos she was doing before, so I always thought this was the transition between Britney the teenage pop star and Britney the sort of diva she became." An alternate footage of the video can be found on the DVD of Spears first compilation album Greatest Hits: My Prerogative. Kahn revealed that Spears' referenced Janet Jackson's "The Pleasure Principle" and "Miss You Much" music videos for the video's chair routine, saying her idea was inspired by "Janet Jackson's 'Pleasure Principle' — the iconic chair sequence in that". A review of the video also commented "Ms. Spears gives us her best Janet Jackson impression (“Miss You Much“) with a dizzying chair-dance routine." Two versions of the video exist, one in which at the end of video, Spears stands in mid-air above the spinning chair, and in the other a close up of her singing. The music video received a nomination on the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Pop Video. In MTV Latin America it landed at #71 on the annual Top 100 countdown of the year 2000, and it appeared once again in 2001, this time occupying the #1 position.

On June 18, 2010, Miley Cyrus unleashed 'Can't Be Tamed.' It debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 with 102K.

On May 22, 2011, Britney Spears was featured as a guest performance of both Rihanna's and Nicki Minaj's performances at the Billboard Music Awards. With Rihanna she performed S&M. The previous month, a remix of S&M had been released, and it featured Britney. Later that year, Britney would include the song on her Femme Fatale Tour in a medley with her classic hit ...Baby One More Time. With Nicki Minaj, after she finished her performance of Super Bass, she started rapping her part from the Till the World Ends (Femme Fatale Remix) released on April 22, which also featured Ke$ha. Britney joined her onstage to perform a shortened version of her song.

On May 13, 2000 Britney performed Oops!... I Did It Again and Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know on SNL. I love the outfits! Enjoy

The day the world was taken by storm by the Legendary Britney Jean Spears' debut single; which is still regarded as one of the most iconic pop songs of all time.

On October 18, 2018 THE Announcement happened. Britney Spears' second Las Vegas residency Domination was announced starting on February 2019.

On October 12, 2018, Britney Spears appeared on Ellen to announce an announcement that would occur on October 18.

(You Drive Me) Crazy is a song recorded for Britney Spears’ debut studio album Baby One More Time. It was written and produced by Max Martin, Per Magnusson and David Kreuger with additional writing by Jörgen Elofsson. The remix released as the albums third single was released on August 21,1999 and received additional remixing by Martin and Rami Yacoub. It was a commercial success and peaked in the top 10 of 17 countries and in the United Kingdom became her third consecutive single to peak inside the top five. It peaked at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100, one of her most streamed songs on Spotify and it’s music video currently has 124 million views on Youtube.

On June 22, 2009 Britney Spears released Radar as the fourth and final single from her album Circus. The song was originally released as part of Blackout (2007) and was even intended to be released as the fourth single off that album. However, it was cancelled and ended up being included as a bonus track on Circus It peaked at #88 on the BBH100 and at #30 on the Pop Songs chart.

Following a poll on her official website, Britney Spears released I Wanna Go as the third single of her album Femme Fatale on June 13, 2011. The song was written and produced by Max Martin and Shellback, with additional writing of Savan Kotecha. It peaked at #7 on the BBH100.

On June 12, 2015, Giorgio Moroder released his fourteenth studio album Déjà Vu. It featured artists like Britney Spears (Tom's Diner), Kylie Minogue (Right Here, Right Now) and Sia (Déjà Vu) It reached #1 on the US Billboard Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart.

On June 5, 2000 Britney's special Britney In Hawaii premiered! The setlist consisted of 8 songs including: "(You Drive Me) Crazy" "Sometimes" "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" "Born to Make You Happy" "Oops!... I Did It Again" "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" "The Beat Goes On" "...Baby One More Time" I LOVEEEEEE EVERYTHING about this special!! Except for her calling that girl her #1 fan when clearly it is me;) I remember when this premiered and recorded on a VHS and watched it over and over again! Now I'm showing my age LOL!! Enjoy

On June 3, 2017 Britney begin a short tour in Asia consisting of the songs she did for her Las Vegas Residency Piece of Me titled Britney: Live in Concert. The tour started in Tokyo ending in Tel Aviv on July 3, 2017 . The tour consisted of 11 shows. The setlist was comprised with 20 songs and a encore including: "Work *****" "Womanizer" "Break the Ice" / "Piece of Me" "...Baby One More Time" "Oops!... I Did It Again" "Me Against the Music" "Gimme More" "Boys" "Do You Wanna Come Over?" "I'm a Slave 4 U" (contains elements of "Get Naked (I Got a Plan)") "Make Me..." "Freakshow" "Do Somethin'" "Circus" "If U Seek Amy" "Breathe on Me" "Slumber Party" "Touch of My Hand" "Toxic" "Stronger" / "(You Drive Me) Crazy" Encore "Till the World Ends" Enjoy!

On May 31, 1999 Britney performed Baby One More Time in Italy for the Festivalbar. Enjoy

On May 17, Britney Spears and Iggy Azalea performed live Pretty Girls for the first time, at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards, from the Axis Theater at Planet Hollywood resort, where Britney used to headline her Piece of Me residency. The performance received mostly positive reviews from viewers and critics. People Magazine said that Spears and Azalea proved they are more than just "pretty girls". Stating "From the moment they touched down on stage, the duo kept the crowd cheering with a fun, colorful performance." Entertainment Weekly also said that "Spears gave one of her most energetic televised performances in years."

On This day in (May 2, 1987) “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)” was released as the first single from Whitney Houston's second studio album, Whitney. It was released on May 2, 1987 by Arista Records. It was produced by Narada Michael Walden, and written by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam, of the band Boy Meets Girl, who had previously written the number-one Whitney Houston hit "How Will I Know." The song received mixed reviews from critics, who praised her vocal but critiqued musical arrangement comparing it to her own "How Will I Know" and Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." The song won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 30th Grammy Awards. The single was a commercial success, topping the charts in 13 countries including Australia, Italy, Germany and the UK. In the US, it became her fourth consecutive number one single and sold over one million copies, making it her first platinum single in the US; and her biggest hit in that country at the time. It was eventually surpassed by her version of "I Will Always Love You", five years later in 1992.

On May 1, 2000 in a rare performance Britney performed Oops!... I Did It Again on Pop Jam. Enjoy

29 years ago Paula Abdul topped the Billboard hot 100 with Rush, Rush. The first single from 1991's Spellbound was a very big caculated Risk. Paula was originally known for her dance pop hits. Such as straight up, Cold hearted,etc. However Forever your Girl housed only one Ballad Next to You.. However Spellbound was a more mature and sophisticated album. She also jettsoned every producer on Forever your girl. Saying it was the wisest decision. I could've played it safe and Made Forever your Girl, Pt. 2. But that would be playing safe. Nobody likes a safe artist. Especially credit to Madonna who made it known change your producers and sound and image each time a new album is out. The track was huge and defined the summer of 91 as the summer of Love and Romance. As the biggest hits of that Sumner was Paula Abdul's Rush, Rush and Bryan Adams Everything I do (I do it for you). Also at that Rush, Rush was the biggest female hot 100 #1 since Madonna's Like A Virgin which led a six week reign on top. Stream the classic 1991 album to hear her work with the family stand, Prince and a few others. Plus even the legendary Stevie wonder on will you marry me?. Which Paula Abdul herself is updating a video by including her LGBT fans since that's her biggest fan base.

Okay it's been a dramatic few days BUT #JusticeForBlackout is now happening June 15th! We are streaming the Standard Version on Spotify and US iTunes Some say Blackout doesn't need a justice campaign but if there's a chance it will make Britney happy and even hit the #1 spot it was robbed of originally, what harm is there in doing it I repeat: THIS NO LONGER CONFLICTS WITH THE JUSTICE FOR BIONIC CAMPAIGN #JusticeForBlackout

On May 8, 2020, Britney Spears unexpectedly released a new album cover for Glory (2016) as a token of gratitude to her fans after they pushed it to the #1 position on the iTunes Pop Chart the previous week. The standard version of the album was uploaded to all digital platforms in both Explicit and Censored versions with the new cover. The picture comes from the same photoshoot by David LaChapelle from which the single cover of Make Me... comes from as well The original cover for the album released in 2016 was negatively received by most fans since the beginning due to many different reasons, ranging from its aesthetics and composition to the fact that it's a shot taken from the music video of Make Me... directed by Randee St. Nicholas. The album, however, had already received an alternate cover in 2017, when the Japan Tour Edition was released to promote her Asian tour of that year, Britney: Live in Concert.

Katya Purina has the audacity to diss Britney on the red carpet of the 59th Annual Grammy Awards by making an insensitive comment about her mental health struggles. We hate to see it.