Britney (Album)

Occupation

• Song: Britney Spears

Production

• Max Martin
• Rami Yacoub
• Darkchild
• The Neptunes
• Wade Robson
• Justin Timberlake

Britney is the third studio album by American pop singer Britney Spears. It was released on 5 November 2001 worldwide and on 6 November 2001 in the USA and Canada and on 12 November 2001 in Japan, in each case on the label Jive Records. It is attributed to the genres of pop, dance-pop, pop- rock and R 'n' B. Spears supported the promotion of the album with its Dream within a Dream Tour.

Music style & Criticism

Britney has been consistently well received by most critics and regarded as a further development of the artist. So All Music Guide gave the album 4.5 out of 5 stars with the statement that the singer apparent with this album their personality, adult WOULD while she herself was. For the first time Spears tried with other music genres, as are two of the coupled- songs, I'm a Slave 4 U as the first single and later Boys, classified in the R & B field, both produced by American hip - hop duo The Neptunes.

Commercial success

Britney rose in the first week in both Canada and the U.S. at number one one, before Michael Jackson's new studio album Invincible damaligem. In the U.S. Britney alone sold in the first week over 746,000 times. This Spears first introduced the record on which they themselves later broke again: None of the female performers succeeded one after another to enter with three studio albums in the U.S. Billboard 200 at rank one. By Dato Britney sold in the U.S. alone 4.9 million times, a commercial success and at the same time is a break in sales, compared with Spears' two previous albums.

Title list

Bonus Tracks (International)

Limited Edition

Bonus DVD

Chart success

Singles

A total of six singles from Britney were ausgekopplelt. The first single of the produced by The Neptunes R & B hit I'm a Slave 4 U was released worldwide in September 2001. With this song and the accompanying video Spears went in a completely different direction: The singer showed the audience much more mature, adult and wicked. The second and third singles Overprotected and I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman was released, the former was used as the second single in Australia and the United Kingdom, and the latter in the U.S. and the rest of Europe. Both singles symbolized for critics of the "return to pop", for the Spears decided first. Overprotected was also chosen as the third single for the U.S., but not published in the German-speaking countries, but first remixed by Rodney Jerkins and thus as Overprotected ( Darkchild Remix) with new video. I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman, also the title song of Spears first movie Crossroads - Cross Roads, now appeared as the third single in the UK and other countries. Between the two songs so there was a single split.

This was followed by I Love Rock 'n' Roll, a cover of the band Arrows and at the same soundtrack of Spears' movie, and Boys, which was in turn remixed (from The Neptunes ) and as Boys ( The Co- Ed Remix) appeared, now a collaboration with Pharrell Williams. As a sixth single Jive Records Anticipating published only in France and Brazil instead I Love Rock 'n' Roll. This single from the album was the first and so far last " test release"; the record company wanted to address with the 80 's inspired music to a different audience, which it did, as the single in both countries had a decent success and succeeded in entering the charts.