...Baby One More Time is the debut studio album from American pop singer Britney Spears. It was released on January 12, 1999, in the U.S. and was produced by Denniz PoP, Max Martin and Rami. The title track is generally considered Spears' signature song. It is her best-selling album both in the U.S. and internationally and propelled the then-seventeen-year-old to superstardom during the year of its release. The album also spent an impressive fifty-one weeks in the top ten of the Billboard 200 and sixty weeks in the top twenty. With this, it became the second best-selling album of 1999 in the United States, only behind Backstreet Boys's Millennium. It stayed on the Billboard 200 for two years until being moved to the Pop Catalog chart. This album, its lyrics, and its music videos maintained the typical virgin image of the late 90's teen pop revival for Spears. ...Baby One More Time can be counted as the highest selling debut album by a female artist in the United States, because Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill was technically her third released album, though it was her first international release. The song, ...Baby One More Time became a US #1 hit from this album, however of the singles from this album, only the title track has topped the Hot 100. The rest are either Top 10 or Top 20 hits.
Release
The album was first released as a promo cassette with five snippets of demo songs on January 2, 1998. The cassette had the same cover that was later included in "...Baby One More Time" single booklet, although some editions, like the Australian edition, have an alternate cover picture, 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. The album was then meant to be named just "Britney Spears", but due to the debut single success the title was changed to make the album more recognized in the public. In the very early releases of the album, there is a hidden message after "The Beat Goes On". It had Britney Spears promoting some of the songs from the Backstreet Boys' album Millennium.
Track listing
- "...Baby One More Time" (Max Martin) – 3:30
- "(You Drive Me) Crazy" (J. Elofsson, P. Magnusson, D. Kreuger, M. Martin) – 3:17
- "Sometimes" (J. Elofsson) – 4:06
- "Soda Pop" (M. Bassie, E. Foster White) – 3:20
- "Born to Make You Happy" (Kristian Lundin, Andreas Carlsson) – 4:03
- "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" (E. Foster White) – 5:11
- "I Will Be There" (Max Martin, Andreas Carlsson) – 3:53
- "I Will Still Love You" (with Don Philip) (E. Foster White) – 4:02
- "Deep in My Heart" [Non-US edition only] (P. Magnusson, D. Kreuger, Carlsson) – 3:35
- "Thinkin' About You" (M. Bassie, E. Foster White) – 3:35
- "E-Mail My Heart" (E. Foster White) – 3:41
- "The Beat Goes On" (S. Bono) – 3:45
- "I'll Never Stop Loving You" [Int'l edition only] (J. Blume, S. Diamond) – 3:43
- "Autumn Goodbye" [Int'l edition only] (E. Foster White) – 3:42
- "...Baby One More Time" (Davidson Ospina Radio Mix) [Int'l edition only] – 3:26
- "...Baby One More Time" (Boy Wonder Radio Mix) [JInt'l edition only] – 3:27
Chart performance
Although the critical response to the album was lukewarm, ...Baby One More Time was a huge commercial success. It debuted at number one in both the U.S. and Canada, and reached the top ten in many other countries. The record has been certified 14x Platinum in the United States. It is the highest selling album by a teenager both in the US and worldwide. Spears also made history by being the only female artist to have both album and single go number one at the same time, as well as the youngest to do so.
In France, the record debuted at number twenty-four, after thirty-eight weeks in the chart peaked at number-four, it has sold over 545,000 copies and has been certified 2x Platinum. In the United Kingdom ...Baby One More Time debuted at number two, after one year in the UK Albums Chart earned 4x platinum certification (1.2 million units sold).
Britney Spears is the second artist to have three number-one singles from the same album chart-topping the United World Chart ("...Baby One More Time", "(You Drive Me) Crazy" and "Born to Make You Happy"). The first was Madonna's with "True Blue", "Open Your Heart" and "La Isla Bonita" from the album True Blue. Later in 2004, she broke the same record with In the Zone.. The album has sold 28 million copies around the world as of 2007.
Singles
United States, Latin America, Canada and Oceania
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Europe and Canada
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Charts and certification
| Chart | Provider(s) | Peak position | Certification | Sales/ shipments |
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| U.S. Billboard 200 | Billboard/RIAA | 1 | 14x platinum (Diamond) | 14 million |
| U.S. Billboard Top Internet Albums | 1 | |||
| European Albums Chart | IFPI | 1 | 4x platinum | 4.6 million+ |
| Australian Albums Chart | ARIA | 2 | 4x platinum | 280,000+ |
| Austrian Albums Chart | Media Control Europe | 2 | Platinum | 40,000+ |
| Brazilian Albums Chart | ABPD | — | platinum | 420,000+ |
| Canadian Albums Chart | Nielsen SoundScan | 1 | Diamond | 1.2 million |
| Dutch Albums Chart | NVPI/Megacharts | 1 | 3x platinum | 210,000+ |
| Finnish Albums Chart | GLF | 11 | Platinum | 40,000+ |
| French Albums Chart | SNEP/IFOP | 4 | 2x platinum | 545,000+ |
| German Albums Chart | Media Control | 1 | Platinum | 500,000+ |
| Japanese Albums Chart | Oricon | 9 | Platinum | 279,700 |
| Mexican Albums Chart | AMPROFON | 1 | 2x platinum/gold | 375,000 |
| New Zealand Albums Chart | RIANZ | 3 | 2x platinum | 30,000+ |
| Norwegian Albums Chart | VG Nett | 5 | Platinum | 40,000+ |
| Swedish Albums Chart | GLF | 10 | Platinum | 60,000+ |
| Swiss Albums Chart | Media Control | 1 | 2x platinum | 100,000+ |
| UK Albums Chart | BPI/The Official UK Charts Company | 2 | 4x platinum | 1.2 million+ |
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