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On This Day in 2000, Britney Spears Set Records With an Iconic Album Inspired by Titanic, Shania Twain, and More

If you were a teen girl or had a sister in the year 2000, chances are Oops!…I Did It Again was a permanent fixture in your CD player.

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It’s been 26 years since Britney Spears upended pop culture with her second album, Oops!…I Did It Again. It was released on May 3, and by May 28 had topped almost every global album chart. By the end of the year, it charted in the Top 5 in nine countries.

Oops!…I Did It Again was massively successful and remains one of the best-selling albums of all time. In its first week, it sold 1.3 million copies, holding the record for fastest-selling album by a female artist for 15 years. That record was finally surpassed when Adele released 25 in 2015.

But Spears’ second album remains a cultural touchstone of the new millennium. Its success at the time had much to do with the release timeline, dropping only a year and a half after Spears’ debut, …Baby One More Time. Her fanbase was huge, but young, with wavering attention spans. Releasing a second album right after the commercially successful debut was just good planning.

According to Britney Spears, Her Second Album Featured a More Mature, Confident Sound

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