...Baby One More Time

For the song, see ...Baby One More Time (song).
...Baby One More Time
Studio album by Britney Spears
Released January 12, 1999 (1999-01-12)
Recorded August 1997 — November 1998
Genre Pop, bubblegum pop, teen pop, dance-pop
Length 42:20 (American edition)
60:31 (non-American edition)
Label Jive
Producer Max Martin, Denniz PoP, Rami, Eric Foster White, Kristian Lundin, Jorgen Elofsson, Per Magnusson, David Kreuger, Jay Orpin
Britney Spears chronology
...Baby One More Time
(1999)		 Oops!... I Did It Again
(2000)
Alternate cover
International cover
Singles from ...Baby One More Time
  1. "...Baby One More Time"
    Released: October 23, 1998
  2. "Sometimes"
    Released: April 30, 1999
  3. "(You Drive Me) Crazy"
    Released: August 23, 1999
  4. "Born to Make You Happy"
    Released: November 27, 1999
  5. "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart"
    Released: December 15, 1999[1]

...Baby One More Time is the debut album by American pop singer Britney Spears. The album was released on January 12, 1999 by Jive Records[2] and became a worldwide commercial success, reaching the top five in nineteen countries, and number one in fifteen, including the U.S Billboard 200. The album and its singles helped propel Spears into mainstream popularity.[3]

With the release of the lead single "...Baby One More Time", Spears became a pop phenomenon; the single peaked at number one in the Billboard Hot 100,[4][5] a feat Spears would not repeat for another ten years, in October 2008, when her single "Womanizer" peaked at number one on the chart. Every single released in the United Kingdom charted within the top-five position in the UK Singles Chart and the top-three position in the Eurochart Hot 100.

The album's lyrics, and its music videos maintained the typical virgin image of the late 1990s teen pop revival for Spears. The album is certified 14× Platinum by the RIAA.[6] ...Baby One More Time has sold more than 25 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the most successful albums of all time and is Spears' most successful and best selling album to date.[7][8][9]

Contents

Background

After returning to Kentwood upon the cancellation of The New Mickey Mouse Club, her lawyer Larry Rudolph arranged an audition with senior vice president of A&R of Jive Records, Jeff Fenster. Fenster stated about Spears, "It's very rare to hear someone that age who can deliver emotional content and commercial appeal". After the audition, she briefly joined girl group Innosense, but later quit.[10] The label appointed her to work with producer Eric Foster White. Feeling hopeful about the recorded material in the very first sessions, Spears started promoting the album almost a year before the album was released. Spears flew to Cheiron Studios in Sweden, where half of the album was recorded in March and April 1998, with producers Max Martin, Denniz PoP and Rami, among others.[11] Production on the album wrapped in November 1998 with the recording of the cover version of Sonny Bono and Cher's "The Beat Goes On", produced by the UK band All Seeing I.

The cassette release had the same cover that was later included in "...Baby One More Time" single booklet. The international edition has an alternate cover picture. It is a picture of Spears in white, with her hands in a praying gesture. The picture also resembles the cover artwork of Björk's album Debut.

Composition

Spears had originally not envisioned creating a pop album, she imagined herself singing, in her own words, "Sheryl Crow music, but younger more adult contemporary" but she was happy about going along with pop music stating, "It made more sense to go pop, because I can dance to it -- it's more me."[12] ...Baby One More Time has a euro dance-pop feel that draw comparisons to contemporary pop bands of the 1990s, such as Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync. The album is primarily pop, and the songs have characteristic hooks and draws from pop genres such as bubblegum and teen pop. Like most teen pop albums of the 90s, ...Baby One More Time focuses primarily on teenage themes, such as love, break-up, desire and joy.

"...Baby One More Time", the first single and the first track of the album, became the biggest hit of Spears’ career and reached number one in every country it was released in. Its accompanying music video with Spears as a Catholic school girl exposing her midriff generated controversy.[13] "(You Drive Me) Crazy", the second track, was released as the third single and became an international success. The song was remixed, released as The Stop! Remix, to promote the movie Drive Me Crazy. "Sometimes", the second single of the album and the album's third track, is a pop ballad that is about falling in love, reached the top ten in thirteen countries. "Soda Pop", the fourth track of the album, was warmly received, described as a "delightful bubblegum pop ragga track".[14] "Born to Make You Happy", the fifth track, a mid-tempo bubblegum song, was released as the fourth single in Europe and charted as well as its predecessor. This became her first single to be released only outside the nation, though despite its success Spears asked the song to be rewritten since the lyrics were a bit too sexual for her career at the moment. "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart", a ballad that recalls the loss of first love, was released as the fourth single in the United States and Australia where it peaked at number fourteen and thirty-seven, respectively due to its high sales.

"I Will Be There", the seventh track, is about joy and friendship. "I Will Still Love You", a duet with Don Phillip, tells the story of eternal love. The ninth track "Thinkin’ About You", is an uptempo pop song. "E-Mail My Heart", the tenth song, received negative reviews and was deemed as one of the most forgettable songs of the album. The closing track "The Beat Goes On", is a cover from Sonny & Cher’s In Case You’re in Love (1967). On early pressings of the album prior to May 1999, there is a commercial by Britney after this song. In the message, Spears advertises her label mates the Backstreet Boys' [ Millennium album], and playing snippets of the singles from their album. The running time of "The Beat Goes On" with the special message at the end is 5:53.[15] Britney covered "I'll Never Stop Loving You" from '90s singer J'Son. The song is included as B-side to the first single ...Baby One More Time and also a bonus track off the album. She also wrote her first song, called "I'm So Curious", it's a B-side to the single "Sometimes".

Reception

Critical

 Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[16]
Robert Christgau (1/3 stars honorable mention)(1/3 stars honorable mention)(1/3 stars honorable mention)[17]
Entertainment Weekly (B-)[18]
NME 1/10 stars[19]
Rolling Stone 2/5 stars[20]

...Baby One More Time received mostly mixed reviews. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic gave the album four out of five stars,[16] writing that "Baby One More Time has the same blend of infectious, rap-inflected dance-pop and smooth balladry that propelled the New Kids on the Block and Debbie Gibson." Erlewine further complimented the quality of the singles, particularly "...Baby One More Time"", "(You Drive Me) Crazy", "Soda Pop" and "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart".[16] Entertainment Weekly gave it a mildly positive review, yet wrote that "Spears sounds remarkably like the Backstreet Boys' kid sister".[18] Rolling Stone gave the album two stars out of five, praising the "beefy hooks" but nothing that the "shameless schlock slowies... are pure spam."[20]

Commercial

...Baby One More Time debuted at the top of the U.S. Billboard 200 selling 120,500 units,[21] knocking off three-week chart-topper DMX's Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood.[21] In its second week, the album was displaced for another two weeks by Silkk The Shocker and Foxy Brown selling more than 181,594 units during the last sales period, pushing it past the 500,000 mark in four weeks, according to Nielsen SoundScan sales data.[22] In its fourth week, the album landed at number one, with sales soaring to more than 229,300 for the week and more than 804,200 in its first five weeks on the chart.[23] The following week, the album garnered the top spot of the chart again, giving it a total of four weeks at number one, with sales of more than 197,500, according to Nielsen SoundScan data.[24] Weeks after dropping from the number-one position, the album continued to peak at the top spot, with sales of 167,900, according to SoundScan data release.[25] The return to the summit gave Spears a total of five weeks at the top. By then, ...Baby One More Time had sold more than 1.8 million copies in its first two months of release.[25] After that, the album held the top spot again for the second consecutive week and giving it a sixth week total at the top position, and having sold more than a total of 3 million copies.[26] In its 47th week on the Billboard 200 the album held strong, peaking at number-three, just giving the album a total of 10 million copies and it was later certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America.[27] The album experienced its best sales week in December 1999 when 318,000 copies were sold, peaking at number four in the Billboard 200, thus holding the record for the longest debut album to chart in the top 10 position. All together the album exited the top 10 on Billboard for 51 weeks.[28] "...Baby One More Time" has spent a total of 51 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart, after exiting the top-ten.[29] In the US Billboard 200 chart, the album spent a total of 103 weeks, 19 weeks on the Catalog Albums Chart, and 47 weeks on the Canadian Albums Chart.[30]

By the end of the year, ...Baby One More Time had sold 8,358,619 units and became the second best-selling album in the U.S., only behind the Backstreet Boys' Millennium, which sold 9,445,732 copies.[31] Additionally, it is listed as the seventeenth-highest-selling album of 2000.[32] On July 19, 2004, the album was certified fourteen-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.[6] Also, the album landed at number-three on BMG Music Club all-time best-sellers list with 1.6 million units, behind Shania Twain's Come on Over (1.99 million) and the Backstreet Boys' Backstreet Boys (1.72 million).[33] As of July 2009, the album has sold 10,534,000 copies in the U.S. according to Nielsen SoundScan, which does not count albums sold through clubs like the BMG Music Service.[34] Combined, "...Baby One More Time" has sold over 12,134,000 copies in the U.S.[note 1] The album also debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart and spent nine non-consecutive weeks at the top.[36] On December 12, 1999, the Canadian Recording Industry Association certified it diamond for sales in excess of 1 million units.[37]

The album spent two weeks at number-two on the European Top 100 Albums and went on to sell over four million copies within the continent, being certified four-times platinum by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.[38][39] ...Baby One More Time reached number-four in the United Kingdom,[40] in France[41] and number-one in Germany,[38] and was certified three-times platinum by the British Phonographic Industry,[42] double platinum by the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique[43] and three-times gold by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry,[44] denoting shipments to retailers of 900,000 units, 600,000 copies and 750,000 respectively.

Additionally, ...Baby One More Time debuted at number-nine in May 1999 on the Australian Albums Chart, nine weeks later it peaked at number two, behind the Dawson's Creek soundtrack.[45] The album became the seventh highest-selling of 1999 in the country and was certified four-times platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association the following year after shipping 280,000 copies to retailers.[46][47] ...Baby One More Time opened at number-three on the New Zealand charts, behind Shania Twain's "Come on Over" and The Corrs' "Talk on Corners".[48] The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand certified it three-times platinum.[48]

Singles

Promotion

In early 1998, Spears' did several promotions including the "Hair Zone Mall Tour" was a 1999 shopping mall tour. Spears did small sets in malls and food courts around the US, mostly in larger cities. Her set was around 30 minutes, and she had two female dancers with her on the stage. Her label, Jive Records, has said that this tour was created to promote Spears' for her debut album (...Baby One More Time) and prepare for her first major tour. This tour is also known as the L'Oreal Mall Tour, because it was sponsored by L'Oreal. Spears made many promotional appearances including talk shows and live performances all around the world to help promote the album. On December 1998, Spears' first showed up on MTV's and the Box's most-requested video charts.[53] Spears' also poised numerous media appearances weeks before the release of her debut album, most notably on the Ricki Late Show, the "Howie Mandel Show", and as a presenter at the American Music Awards on Jan. 11. 1999.[53] She has also appeared live appearance of MTV's Spring Break and (was replaced by a pre-taped segment), and an appearance on the 100th episode of Nickelodeon's All That. In addition, Britney was forced to rescheduled appearances on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno and Live With Regis And Kathie Lee.[54]

Before the ...Baby One More Time Tour, Spears' was making guest appearances on a number of television shows, including The Tonight Show With Jay Leno on April 25, Nickelodeon's 12th Annual Kids Choice Awards on May 1, MTV's FANatic on May 12, Live With Regis & Kathie Lee on May 3, and The Rosie O'Donnell Show on May 25.[26] She also appeared on German talk show Wetten, dass..? and on Top of the Pops on June 25, 1999, This Morning, CD:UK & National Lottery in the United Kingdom, she also visited a Japanese music variety show called Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ in Japan to help promote the album. She also performed at the Festival Bar in Italy. Meanwhile, Spears' also played herself in the season of the ABC television sitcom, Sabrina, The Teenage Witch.[55] Spears was returning a favor to actress Melissa Joan Hart, who had a cameo in Spears's video for "(You Drive Me) Crazy," according to People magazine.[55] The episode featuring Spears' was aired on September 24, 1999.[55] She also performed at the 27th Annual American Music Awards, which will be telecast on Jan. 17.[29] Then she performed in the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards, which was televised live on CBS Feb. 23.[29] On late 1999, Spears was equally busy, as she performed on The Rosie O'Donnell Show on Sept. 27. On Sept. 28, she visited Carson Daly over at MTV's Total Request Live at 3:30 p.m. (ET).[56] She also had a mini Disney concert titled "Britney Spears & Joey McIntyre In Concert", Spears and Joey McIntyre performed live in the taped concert event.[57]

Tour

Main article: ...Baby One More Time Tour

In April 1999, it was announced that Spears was scheduled to hit the road in June to kick off her ...Baby One More Time Tour, in support of the album.[26] Although the tour would be Spears's first time as a headliner, she had an extensive background of live performances.[26] Spears has opened up shows for teen pop icons 'N Sync, appeared on the TV shows Dawson's Creek and Sabrina The Teenage Witch.[26] Tommy Hilfiger's Tommy Jeans company was sponsoring the tour, and Spears continued to be a model for the company.[26]

Tracklisting

# Title Writers Time
1. "...Baby One More Time" Max Martin 3:30
2. "(You Drive Me) Crazy" Jörgen Elofsson, Per Magnusson, David Kreuger, Max Martin 3:17
3. "Sometimes" Jörgen Elofsson 4:05
4. "Soda Pop" Mikey Bassie, Eric Foster White 3:20
5. "Born to Make You Happy" Kristian Lundin, Andreas Carlsson 4:03
6. "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" Eric Foster White 5:11
7. "I Will Be There" Max Martin, Andreas Carlsson 3:53
8. "I Will Still Love You" (Featuring Don Phillip) Eric Foster White 4:02
9. "Deep in My Heart" (International Bonus Track) Per Magnusson, David Kreuger, Andreas Carlsson 3:34
10. "Thinkin' about You" Mikey Bassie, Eric Foster White 3:35
11. "E-Mail My Heart" Eric Foster White 3:41
12. "The Beat Goes On" Sonny Bono 3:43 / 5:521

1 On early pressings of the U.S. edition of the album, a bonus message from Britney Spears was included at the end of "The Beat Goes On". In it, Spears thanks fans for buying the album, and advertises the Backstreet Boys' album, Millennium. Snippets from several of the songs are played, and before the final snippet, Spears says thanks again for buying the album, and that she hopes to see everybody on her tour real soon.

Australian/iTunes Deluxe Edition

# Title Writers Time
13. "I'll Never Stop Loving You" (B-Side to (You Drive Me) Crazy [The Stop! Remix]) Jason Blume, Steve Diamond 3:41
14. "Autumn Goodbye" (B-Side to ...Baby One More Time) Eric Foster White 3:42
15. "...Baby One More Time" (Davidson Ospina Radio Mix) Max Martin 3:24
16. "...Baby One More Time" (Boy Wunder Radio Mix) Max Martin 3:29
00. "I'm So Curious" (B-Side To "Sometimes") Britney Spears, Eric Foster White 3:34

Enhanced Section

# Title
1. "...Baby one More Time" Music Video
2. Backstage at the set for the Music Video
3. Photo Gallery
4. Scrapbook

Special Edition Bonus CD

# Title Writers Time
1. "(You Drive Me) Crazy" (The Stop Remix!) Jörgen Elofsson, Per Magnusson, David Kreuger, Max Martin 3:43
2. "(You Drive Me) Crazy" (Spacedust Dark Dub) Jörgen Elofsson, Per Magnusson, David Kreuger, Max Martin 9:15
3. "(You Drive Me) Crazy" (Spacedust Club Mix) Jörgen Elofsson, Per Magnusson, David Kreuger, Max Martin 7:20
4. "Autumn Goodbye" Eric Foster White 3:42

UK Minidisc

In the UK a minidisc was released, with the original tracklisting.

Album Cover & Disc Design

There are different artworks for the album:

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1999) Peak
Position
Australian ARIA Albums Chart[45] 2
Austrian Albums Chart[63] 2
Belgian Flemish Albums Chart[64] 2
Belgian Walloon Albums Chart[65] 2
Canadian Albums Chart[66] 1
Dutch Albums Chart[67] 3
European Top 100 Albums Chart[38] 2
French SNEP Albums Chart[41] 4
Finnish Albums Chart[68] 4
German Albums Chart[38] 1
Hungarian Albums Chart[69] 4
Japanese Oricon Albums Chart[70] 9
New Zealand RIANZ Albums Chart[71] 3
Norwegian Albums Chart[72] 5
Swedish Albums Chart[73] 10
Swiss Albums Chart[74] 1
UK Albums Chart[40] 2
U.S. Billboard 200[66] 1

Certifications

Country Providers Certification Sales or
Shipments
Argentina CAPIF Platinum[75] 60,000[75]
Australia ARIA 4× Platinum[47] 280,000[76]
Austria IFPI Platinum[77] 30,000[76]
Belgium IFPI 3× Platinum[78] 150,000
Brazil ABPD Gold[79] 100,000[80]
Canada CRIA Diamond[37] 1,000,000[76]
Europe IFPI 4× Platinum[39] 4,600,000[81]
Finland IFPI Gold[82] 37,865[76]
France SNEP 2× Platinum[43] 600,000[76]
Germany IFPI 3× Gold[44] 750,000[83]
Japan RIAJ Platinum[70] 279,700[70]
Mexico AMPF 2× Platinum/Gold[84] 375,000[76]
Netherlands NVPI 3× Platinum[85] 150,000
New Zealand RIANZ 3× Platinum[48] 45,000[76]
Norway IFPI Platinum[86] 40,000[76]
Poland ZPAV Platinum[87] 100,000+
Sweden IFPI Platinum[88] 60,000[76]
Spain PROMUSICAE 2× Platinum[89] 200,000[90]
Switzerland IFPI 2× Platinum[91] 100,000[91]
United Kingdom BPI 4× Platinum[42] 1,200,000[76]
United States RIAA 14× Platinum (Diamond)[6] 14,000,000[note 1]

Chart procession and succession

Preceded by
Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood by DMX
Chyna Doll by Foxy Brown
FanMail by TLC		 Billboard 200 number-one album
January 30 - February 5, 1999
February 20 - March 12, 1999
April 10–23, 1999		 Succeeded by
Made Man by Silkk The Shocker
FanMail by TLC
I Am… by Nas
Preceded by
Big Shiny Tunes 3 by Various Artists
Grammy Nominees by Various Artists
Sogno by Andrea Bocelli		 Canadian Albums Chart number-one album
January 30 - February 5, 1999
February 20 - March 12, 1999
April 10–23, 1999		 Succeeded by
Grammy Nominees by Various Artists
Sogno by Andrea Bocelli
Come on Over by Shania Twain
Preceded by
Open by Gotthard
Sogno by Andrea Bocelli		 Swiss Albums Chart number-one album
March 28 - April 11, 1999
April 25 - May 2, 1999		 Succeeded by
Sogno by Andrea Bocelli
Bury the Hatchet by The Cranberries

Awards

Year Ceremony Award Result
1999 Billboard Music Awards Female Album of the Year[92] Won
2000 Juno Awards Best Selling Album - Foreign or Domestic Nominated
2000 American Music Awards Favorite Pop/Rock Album Nominated

Personnel

  • Britney Spears – vocals, background vocals
  • Daniel Boom – engineer
  • Jimmy Bralower – drum programming
  • Larry Busacca – photography
  • Andreas Carlsson – background vocals
  • Tom Coyne – mastering
  • Nikki Gregoroff – background vocals
  • Nana Hedin – background vocals
  • Andy Hess – bass
  • Tim Latham – engineer, mixing
  • Tomas Lindberg – bass
  • Per Magnusson – keyboards, programming, producer
  • David Kreuger – producer
  • Max Martin – keyboards, programming, background vocals, producer, engineer, mixing
  • Charles McCrorey – assistant engineer
  • Andrew McIntyre – electric guitar
  • Jackie Murphy – art direction, design
  • Dan Petty – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
  • Doug Petty – keyboards
  • Don Philip – featured vocals
  • Albert Sanchez – photography
  • Aleese Simmons – background vocals
  • Chris Trevett – engineer, mixing
  • Eric Foster White – bass, arranger, electric guitar, keyboards, producer, engineer, drum programming, mixing

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 As of January 2010, the album has sold 14,000,000 copies in the U.S. according to Nielsen SoundScan,[35] with additional 1,600,000 sold at BMG Music Clubs.[33] Nielsen SoundScan does not count albums sold through clubs like the BMG Music Service, which were significantly popular in the 1990s.[34]

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