Britney Spears single and album artwork
Single: Baby One More Time
Year: 1999
Official Chart Peak: 1Britney Spears' debut single, Baby One More Time, didn't just launch a then-16-year-old Britney, but it also helped pop producer maestro Max Martin bag his first Number 1.
The song sold a million copies in just five weeks, and has since gone 2x Platinum.
Single: Sometimes
Year: 1999
Official Chart Peak: 3Britney's biggest selling non-Number 1 single, Sometimes has one of the best middle eighths in '90s pop. It's one of four Britney songs that reach Number 3 on the Official Singles Chart.
Single: (You Drive Me) Crazy [The Stop Remix]
Year: 1999
Official Chart Peak: 5Another Britney and Max Martin classic, (You Drive Me) Crazy is only BritBrit's ninth biggest selling song in the UK.
The video for the track featured Sabrina the Teenage Witch herself, Melissa Joan Hart and a very fresh-faced looking Adrian Grenier.
Single: Born To Make You Happy
Year: 2000
Official Chart Peak: 1A Europe-only single, America missed out on the joy that is Born To Make You Happy and its accompanying video. Unfortunately because of that, Britney hasn't performed the song for nearly twenty years.
Album: Baby One More Time
Year: 1999
Official Chart Peak: 2Britney's debut album has gone 4x Platinum in the UK, with sales of over 1.2 million, which ain't half bad. It's her biggest selling album, landing at Number 2 when it was released (Britney, you see, has never had a UK Number 1 album).
Single: Oops I Did It Again
Year: 2000
Official Chart Peak: 1Britney wasted no time getting her second album together. That collection's first single and title track is another Max Martin x Britney hook-up, and, while similar to ...Baby One More Time, is unique for its spoken word interlude. This moment, along with the music video's iconic red PVC catsuit, have made Oops! a signature BritBrit moment.
Single: Lucky
Year: 2000
Official Chart Peak: 5This wouldn't be the first time that one of Britney's songs meditated on the price of fame (You want a piece of me?), but the story of a girl called Lucky was a hit with fans. Britney briefly brought the song out of retirement for her Piece of Me Las Vegas residency, before putting Lucky to bed once more.
Single: Stronger
Year: 2000
Official Chart Peak: 7The honk at the beginning of Stronger, while pretty thrilling, didn't help this absolute banger become one of Britney's biggest hits (it's actually her 14th biggest hit — shame on us all).
Single: Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know
Year: 2001
Official Chart Peak: 12This Britney ballad was co-written by the Queen of Country herself, Ms. Shania Twain. Name a more iconic duo.
Album: Oops! I Did It Again
Year: 2000
Official Chart Peak: 2In the UK, Oops! I Did It Again hasn't quite sold a million copies, although it's not far off (it's sitting comfortably at just over 900,000).
In the US, however, the album's 1.3 million first week sales held the record for the biggest for a female artist for 13 years. It was usurped by Adele's 25.
Single: I'm A Slave 4 U
Year: 2001
Official Chart Peak: 4For the lead single from her third album, Britney showed she was not a girl by teaming up with The Neptunes for a sweaty and hypnotic banger of epic proportions. It became her eighth Top 10 on the Official Singles Chart.
Single: Overprotected
Year: 2002
Official Chart Peak: 4An emancipation anthem, Overprotected saw Britney team up with Max Martin again. The song was given the remix treatment by producer Darkchild. That version of the song even got it's own music video.
Single: I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman
Year: 2002
Official Chart Peak: 2Not only was I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman co-written by Dido (!), but it was the last single that Max Martin would produce for Britney until 2009's If You Seek Amy.
Single: Boys
Year: 2002
Official Chart Peak: 7Most people will probably know Boys from the Co-Ed Remix, which features producer Pharrell Williams and that was released as part of the Austin Powers: Goldmember soundtrack. Classic 2002 behaviour.
Single: I Love Rock N Roll
Year: 2002
Official Chart Peak: 13Britney's first cover version to be released as a single, I Love Rock N Roll tied into her film Crossroads. In the film, Britney and her pals perform the song in order to win a karaoke contest.
Album: Britney
Year: 2001
Official Chart peak: 4In what would be Britney's first eponymous album (she followed it with 2013's Britney Jean), Britney was the singer's first album that didn't spawn a Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart.
Single: Me Against The Music
Year: 2003
Official Chart Peak: 2Me Against The Music saw Britney team up with Madonna. The collab had been on the cards ever since "The Kiss" at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Single: Toxic
Year: 2004
Official Chart Peak: 1Produced by Bloodshy & Avant and co-written by Cathy Dennis, Toxic was initially offered to Ms. Kylie Minogue before it landed with Britney.
Single: Everytime
Year: 2004
Official Chart Peak: 1The release of Everytime was the last time that Britney scored a solo Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart.
Album: In The Zone
Year: 2003
Official Chart Peak: 13For Britney's fourth album, she ditched her usual producers, making it her first album to not feature a Max Martin collaboration.
Single: My Prerogative
Year: 2004
Official Chart Peak: 3Britney's cover Bobby Brown's My Prerogative seemed fitting upon its release after the singer's private life became sport for the tabloids.
Single: Do Somethin'
Year: 2005
Official Chart Peak: 6Do Somthin' was apparently never meant to be a single. Britney, in fact, had to persuade her record company into releasing it and filming a video. There's a lesson here: Britney always knows best.
Album: Greatest Hits - My Prerogative
Year: 2004
Official Chart Peak: 2The release of Greatest Hits - My Prerogative would signal a three-year-hiatus for Ms Spears, who during this period had two children, Sean Preston and Jayden James.
Single: Gimme More
Year: 2007
Official Chart Peak: 3Does any song have more of an iconic intro than Gimme More's computerised "It's Britney, bitch"? Probably not.
Gimme More, the lead single from Blackout, saw Britney team up with Timbaland protege Danja for the first time. Their work together is often cited as being Britney's best.
Single: Piece Of Me
Year: 2007
Official Chart Peak: 2Despite Britney doing absolutely no UK appearances during this era, her profile around the world was big enough that Piece Of Me managed to peak at Number 2.
If you listen carefully to the song, you may also be able to hear Swedish singer Robyn, who co-wrote the song, on background vocals.
Single: Break The Ice
Year: 2008
Official Chart Peak: 15Unfortunately for us, Break The Ice never got a proper video. Instead, the clip for the song was animated. It was also the last single to be taken from Blackout.
Album: Blackout
Year: 2007
Official Chart Peak: 2Fun fact: Blackout was the first, and so far only, Britney album to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The album spent 31 weeks in on the Official Albums Chart.
Single: Womanizer
Year: 2008
Official Chart Peak: 3Dubbed "The Comeback", Womanizer is actually Britney's fifth best-selling song in the UK.
Single: Circus
Year: 2008
Official Chart Peak: 13Despite reaching Number 13 on the Official Singles Chart, Circus is actually Britney's thirteenth best-selling single in the UK.
Single: If U Seek Amy
Year: 2009
Official Chart Peak: 20We've always wondered what Britney could have meant when she sung: "All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek Amy." We guess we'll never know...
Single: Radar
Year: 2009
Official Chart Peak: 46Radar was, in fact, intended to be released as a single from Blackout. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, that never happened. Instead, Britney stuck the song on the follow-up Circus and released it then.
Album: Circus
Year: 2008
Official Chart Peak: 4Circus, like Blackout, spent 31 weeks on the Official Albums Chart. Unlike it's predecessor, however, they weren't consecutive weeks.
Single: 3
Year: 2009
Official Chart Peak: 73 saw Britney team up again with Max Martin, and was a one-off release to accompany her second greatest hits, The Singles Collection. The song is Britney's 16th best selling single in the UK.
Album: The Singles Collection
Year: 2009
Official Chart Peak: 38Sadly, The Singles Collection didn't reach the lofty heights of Britney's previous greatest hits collection, My Prerogative.
Single: Hold It Against Me
Year: 2011
Official Chart Peak: 6The lead single from Britney's seventh studio album Femme Fatale, Hold It Against Me was released as part of an experiment by record labels to release singles simultaneously around the world rather than staggering their release. It would take a few years before that became an industry standard, however.
Single: Till The World Ends
Year: 2011
Official Chart Peak: 21Till The World Ends might have only peaked at 21, but it's become a proper Britney classic, closing out both her Femme Fatale world tour and her Piece of Me Las Vegas Residency.
Single: Till The World Ends [Femme Fatale Remix]
Year: 2011
Official Chart Peak: N/AFor this star-studded remix, Britney teamed up with Nicki Minaj and Kesha, who co-wrote Till The World Ends.
Single: I Wanna Go
Year: 2011
Official Chart Peak: N/AWhile it was officially released as a single in the UK, I Wanna Go, unfortunately, never charted.
Single: Criminal
Year: 2011
Official Chart Peak: N/ACriminal was selected as a single after Britney's fans voted for the song to be selected. The video was shot in Hackney, east London.
Album: Femme Fatale
Year: 2011
Official Chart Peak: 8If you look closely at the album artwork for Femme Fatale, you may see a number seven. That's because this album was Britney's seventh studio album.
Single: Scream & Shout with will.i.am
Year: 2012
Official Chart Peak: 1In what was the second of a number of collaborations with will.i.am, Scream and Shout signals the last time that Britney scored a Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart (for now...).
Single: Ooh La La
Year: 2013
Official Chart Peak: 72Britney recorded this song of The Smurfs 2 soundtrack because her two boys, Sean Preston and Jayden James, were big fans of the little blue people.
Single: Work Bitch
Year: 2013
Official Chart Peak: 7Unjustly, Work Bitch, while now an iconic Britney staple, has so far proved to be the singer's last visit to the Top 10 on the Official Singles Chart.
Single: Perfume
Year: 2014
Official Chart Peak: N/APerfume was the last single to be released from Britney's second eponymous album, Britney Jean. The song was co-written by Sia.
Album: Britney Jean
Year: 2013
Official Chart Peak: 34Britney Jean marks Britney Spears' worst performing studio album on the Official Singles Chart. It was, however, released before the performer's highly successful Vegas residency, so we're not sure she minded.
Single: Pretty Girls
Year: 2015
Official Chart Peak: 16Pretty Girls features Aussie rapper Iggy Azalea. The track was briefly added to Britney's Piece of Me Vegas residency.
Single: Make Me ft. G-Eazy
Year: 2016
Official Chart Peak: 42Despite being heralded as a return to form by fans, Make Me stalled at Number 42 on the Official Singles Chart. Britney would perform Make Me on The Jonathan Ross Show, making her first UK TV performance since 2008.
Single: Slumber Party ft. Tinashe
Year: 2016
Official Chart Peak: N/AThis track, co-written by Justin Tranter and Julia Michaels, has one of Britney's best music videos in years.
Album: Glory
Year: 2016
Official Chart Peak: 2Britney made her return to the Official Albums Chart Top 10 with her ninth studio album, Glory.