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Britney Jean Spears (McComb (Mississippi), 2 december 1981) is een Amerikaanse popzangeres en danseres. Ze brak op haar zeventiende door met het nummer ...Baby One More Time en is sindsdien een van de bestverkopende artiesten ter wereld. Ze wordt ook wel de Princess of Pop genoemd. Spears speelde daarnaast in enkele films, waaronder Crossroads uit 2002. In 2021 werd ze door Time genoemd als een van de honderd meest invloedrijke personen ter wereld. Sinds 2022 was Spears getrouwd met Sam Asghari, maar in 2023 zijn ze gescheiden. Ze heeft twee kinderen met haar ex-man Kevin Federline. Ze is de oudere zus van actrice Jamie Lynn Spears.

Aanvankelijk maakte Spears voornamelijk dancepopmuziek en had ze een grote invloed op de heropleving van het teen pop-genre. Na verloop van tijd ontwikkelde ze een meer volwassen stijl en begon ze te experimenteren met verschillende genres binnen de popmuziek. Haar vijfde album, Blackout uit 2007, wordt beschouwd als een keerpunt in haar carrière en werd geprezen door critici als haar beste album.

Naast haar succesvolle carrière kampte Spears met persoonlijke problemen. Ze werd onder andere beschuldigd van slechte zorg voor haar kinderen. Van 2008 tot 2021 stond ze onder curatele van haar vader en een curator, die niet alleen haar financiële zaken regelden, maar ook beslissingen namen over haar persoonlijke leven. Ondanks deze situatie bleef ze optreden en bracht ze meerdere albums uit. Het bewind over Spears leidde tot publieke verontwaardiging en resulteerde in de #FreeBritney-beweging, evenals een debat over bewindvoering in de politiek. Er zijn meerdere documentairefilms gemaakt over haar persoonlijke leven.

Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer. Referred to as the "Princess of Pop", she has had a significant cultural impact in the 21st century, having been recognized as one of the first musicians credited with reviving the teen pop genre. She is known for her stage performances and for exploring musical genres ranging from pop to contemporary rhythm and blues, electropop, and adult contemporary.

One of three children, Spears was born in Mississippi. She developed an interest in music from an early age and began her professional career in 1992 as a cast member for the Ruthless! musical and the final two seasons of The All-New Mickey Mouse Club television series before signing with Jive Records in 1997. She debuted with the best-selling albums ...Baby One More Time (1999) and Oops!... I Did It Again (2000). The 1998 single "...Baby One More Time" reached number one in the US and became one of the best-selling singles in history. In 2001, Spears released her third album, Britney, one the best-selling albums of the 21st century, and made her film debut in Longshot before co-starring in Crossroads the following year. Her next two albums, In the Zone and Blackout, were released in 2003 and 2007, respectively.

Facing lifelong public scrutiny and struggles with her mental health by the late 2000s, Spears was placed under a controversial conservatorship in 2008, during which she recorded Circus that year followed by Femme Fatale (2011) for Jive, and then Britney Jean (2013) and Glory (2016), for RCA Records. By the late 2010s, she had performed on more than two dozen US Top 40 songs, including the number-ones "Womanizer" (2008), "3" (2009), and "Hold It Against Me" (2011). In 2019, Spears withdrew from regular concert touring to focus on her conservatorship case, leading to the #FreeBritney movement and the release of the documentary Framing Britney Spears (2021). The conservatorship was dissolved in 2021 after she publicly testified against her management team and family for abuse. Her 2023 memoir, The Woman in Me, debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list.

With over 150 million records sold worldwide, Spears is one of the best-selling music artists in history, with Nielsen SoundScan ranking her the fourth best-selling female album artist of their era. Forbes listed her as the world's highest-paid female musician twice in 2001 and 2012. Spears received numerous industry awards including one Grammy Award, six MTV Video Music Awards, and seven Billboard Music Awards (including the Millennium Award). Outside of music, Spears has launched numerous products over the years, with her 2005 fragrance Fantasy with Elizabeth Arden, Inc. generating over $1.5 billion in sales by 2011.