In 2001, she released Britney and played the starring role in the film Crossroads. She assumed creative control of her fourth studio album, In the Zone released in 2003, which made her the only female artist of the Nielsen Soundscan era to have her first four albums debut at number one. Her fifth studio album, Blackout was released in 2007. Her sixth studio album, Circus released in 2008, also debuted at number one in the Billboard 200 albums chart.
According to Zomba Label Group and Sony Music, Spears has sold over 85 million records worldwide. She is ranked as the eighth best-selling female recording artist in the U.S. with 32 million copies of her albums certified by the RIAA and is currently the fifth best-selling artist act of the decade in the country, as well as the top-selling female artist. Spears is also ranked by Forbes 2009 issue as the 13th most powerful celebrity, and with earnings of over $35 million dollars in 2009, the 2nd-highest earning young musician of the year
Early life, The Mickey Mouse Club, career debut, and innosense's original 1997 line-up - Spears is shown in the middle with fellow members Amanda Latona, Mandy Ashford, Danay Ferrer and Nicki DeLoach
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In 1997, Spears briefly joined the all-female pop group innosense. Later that same year, she recorded a solo demo and was signed by Jive Records. She began a U.S. concert tour sponsored by American teen magazines, and eventually became an opening act for 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys.
"Everytime" is a song by pop singer-songwriter Britney Spears from her fourth studio album, In the Zone. It was released on May 17, 2004 by Jive Records as the third single from the album. The song was written by Spears and her Dream Within a Dream Tour background vocalist Annette Artani in 2001. Produced by Guy Sigsworth, the song is a tragic ballad.
The track was a big success and topped the music charts in several countries, including Australia, Ireland and the UK, while reaching top ten positions in eleven countries. The controversial music video was directed by David LaChapelle.
Music and lyrics
In her 2003 interview with Diane Sawyer, "Who is the song for?" Spears stated, "I'll let the song speak for itself." Many believe the song was written about ex boyfriend Justin Timberlake. The song is composed in Eb Major and Spears' vocal range runs from an Ab3 - Eb5.
Music video
The controversial music video for Everytime was directed by David LaChapelle. The video begins with Spears and her boyfriend (played by Stephen Dorff) in a limo. They arrive at a building where the paparazzi are awaiting. Spears is hit in the head with a camera, but keeps walking.
When in the lobby, Spears' boyfriend begins throwing some magazines around and pushing photographers. Spears and her beau are escorted out of the room and are taken into hallways which lead them to her room. They have a fight in which her boyfriend throws a vase at the wall. He leaves and Spears begins filling her bathtub and removing her clothes. When she's in the tub, she realizes she's bleeding from the head, suffering a concussion from when she was hit in the head with a paparazzi's cameras. She loses consciousness in the tub. Later, her beau finds her unconscious in her tub and calls rescue.
Unconscious, Spears follows her body to the hospital, not before being shown running towards the camera away from a bright light - a scene often associated with the transition into afterlife. She is also seen walking into a nearby hospital room where a baby girl is being born, implying reincarnation. Near the end of the video, Spears is seen running away (because since you are meant to "walk into the light") from the camera and towards the light--symbolizing a fear of staying on Earth and an embracement of death.
Following these scenes, Spears is shown rising from under the water in the bathtub and resting her head and smiling. This implies that she was imagining the entire scenario and never became unconscious to begin with. This was added to perhaps lessen the severity and controversy of the explicit content of the video.
The video was at number one on MTV's Total Request Live countdown for six days, and it also reached number three on both VH1's Top 20 Countdown and MuchMusic's
Countdown.
The video was #2 on MuchMusic's 50 Most Controversial Videos for the blood, partial nudity, and graphic scenes.
It was premiered in the UK on the MTV show TRL.
In the bath scene, Spears is seen wearing the red string worn by members of the Kabbalah Centre. This comes months after Spears was introduced to Kabbalah by Madonna. The red string was often mistaken for bloody wrists in a suicide attempt.
Covers
This song has been covered by Glen Hansard and Colm Mac Con Iomaire, members of the band The Frames. It was recorded for the "Today FM" CD titled Even Better than the Real Thing Vol. 2 (out of Ireland) which also included a cover of Britney Spears' "Everytime." The melody of Pachebels' "Canon in D" is played at the end of the cover. Taiwanese Mandopop trio S.H.E. covered the song in Mandarin for their album Encore, retitled as Bie Shuo Dui Bu Qi (別說對不起; Don't Say Sorry). However, their version is sometimes considered to be a rendition as opposed to a cover version, since its lyrics are completely different and it only takes on the melody of "Everytime". Also, this song has been covered in the chilean TV show BKN, by the singer and actress Vanessa Aguilera, and it was included in the CD soundtrack of the second season.
Everytime received over 20 awards worldwide proving its major success.
Chart performance
"Everytime" peaked at number fifteen for four consecutive weeks on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 thanks to its top twenty placement on the Hot 100 Airplay. It also reached the top ten on the Hot Digital Tracks chart and Top 40 Mainstream chart. It remained on the Hot 100 for eighteen weeks, was certified gold by the RIAA for shipments of over 500,000 copies and ranked at number eighty-three on the Billboard Hot 100 year-end chart for 2004. It reached number one in the UK, where it stayed in the top forty for eleven weeks, sold 196,000 copies and ranked eighteenth on the 2004 year-end charts. To date, it is her last number-one single in the UK.
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