Britney Spears - Britney

Britney Spears' diamond-selling third studio album!

Jive Records/Legacy Recordings reissuing Britney's first eight studio albums on vinyl!

Features the hits "I'm A Slave 4 U," "Overprotected" and "I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman"

Jive Records/Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, are reissuing nine vinyl titles from international pop icon Britney Spears' best-selling discography.

Britney's first eight studio albums — ...Baby One More Time (1998), Oops!...I Did It Again (2000), Britney (2001), In the Zone (2003), Blackout (2007), Circus (2008), Femme Fatale (2011) and Britney Jean (2013) will all be repressed on LP alongside the 2004 collection Greatest Hits: My Prerogative (2004).

Taken together, these albums represent a seismic shift in pop music from the end of one millennium to the start of another. Britney's cutting-edge pop collaborations and ever-evolving musical style have made her a cultural icon whose every move has influenced generations. In total, all of these albums peaked within the Top 5 of the Billboard 200 — with five of them reaching No. 1 — and have been certified more than 34x platinum-selling by the Recording Industry Association of America. They also boast a total of 20 singles that reached the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100.

With her third album Britney, Spears took things in a grittier, R&B-influenced direction, including collaborations with celebrated producers The Neptunes ("I'm a Slave 4 U," "Boys") and Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins (an edgy cover of Joan Jett and The Blackhearts' "I Love Rock & Roll," as featured in her 2002 film debut Crossroads).

Spears began to embrace a significantly more mature sound with Britney. The record incorporates genres of pop and R&B with influences of EDM and occasionally dips into disco, hip hop, rock, and electronica. Its lyrical themes address the subjects such as coming of age, adulthood, control, and sexuality. Contributions to its production came from a variety of collaborators, including Max Martin and Rami Yacoub. Spears herself assumed a more prominent role in the album's development, co-writing six of its tracks.

Side A

I’m A Slave 4 U

Overprotected

Lonely

I’m Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman

Boys

Anticipating

Side B

I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll

Cinderella

Let Me Be

Bombastic Love

That’s Where You Take Me

What It’s Live To Be Me

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