Britney

Britney is the third studio album by American pop singer Britney Spears, released on November 6, 2001 on Jive Records. Britney is notable for Spears' increasingly prominent role in the production, and being the transition album away from her bubblegum pop sound and teen pop image from her previous two albums and leaned increasingly toward more hip-hop and R&B-influnced; beats. Although the album was slightly less successful than her previous albu... more

Britney is the third studio album by American pop singer Britney Spears, released on November 6, 2001 on Jive Records. Britney is notable for Spears' increasingly prominent role in the production, and being the transition album away from her bubblegum pop sound and teen pop image from her previous two albums and leaned increasingly toward more hip-hop and R&B-influnced; beats. Although the album was slightly less successful than her previous albums, she assumed some creative control by co-writing five of the album's tracks. The debut of Britney at number one on the Billboard 200 gave the Jive label its eleventh chart-topping album. Spears is responsible for three of those eleven number one discs, the highest total of any act on the imprint's roster. The album became 2001's most successful debut by a female or females, trumping Destiny's Child's Survivor and Janet Jackson's All For You. The album's success made her the first female artist in music history to have her first three albums... less