After Britney's debut album, "...Baby One More Time," made an international star out of her, she continued to release album after album, including her second successful studio album "Oops!...I Did It Again" in 2000.
A third, "Britney," followed in 2001 and "In The Zone" in 2003, from which she won her the first Grammy Award for the breakout single, "Toxic." She took a break and released "Blackout" in 2007.According to the Recording Industry Association of America, she is ranked as the eighth best-selling female artist in American music history, selling over 83 million records worldwide and 31 million albums in the US.
Not content to rest on her laurels, Britney branched out into film and television, including a starring roll in the movie "Crossroads" (2002) and guest appearances on television programs.
In 2002, Forbes Magazine ranked her as the world's most powerful celebrity. She was 21 at the time. That same year, her performances began to get edgy. In her third consecutive performance at MTV Video Music Awards, she used caged animals in her performance of "I'm a Slave 4 U" and danced erotically with a large albino python draped over shoulders. That episode got plans for an anti-fur campaign that was to feature her cancelled by PETA, who claimed the animals used in her performance were mistreated.
Not content to rest on her laurels, Britney branched out into film and television, including a starring roll in the movie "Crossroads" (2002) and guest appearances on television programs.
In 2002, Forbes Magazine ranked her as the world's most powerful celebrity. She was 21 at the time. That same year, her performances began to get edgy. In her third consecutive performance at MTV Video Music Awards, she used caged animals in her performance of "I'm a Slave 4 U" and danced erotically with a large albino python draped over shoulders. That episode got plans for an anti-fur campaign that was to feature her cancelled by PETA, who claimed the animals used in her performance were mistreated.
