Britney Songwriting Credits by Britney Spears

Britney is the third studio album by Britney Spears, released in November 2001 on Jive Records and produced by Max Martin, Timbaland, The Neptunes, and others. It was a deliberate transition from the teen pop of the first two albums toward the adult R&B and hip-hop influenced production of 2001's mainstream, with the album's production collaborators reflecting the shift in commercial pop production toward the harder rhythmic approaches of Timbaland and Pharrell Williams. Spears co-wrote several tracks for the first time; 'I'm a Slave 4 U' (produced by The Neptunes) was the lead single, reaching the top five on the Billboard Hot 100, and its choreography and video introduced the boa constrictor performance that became one of the most discussed images of Spears's career. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 746,000 first-week sales and has been certified four-times platinum in the United States. Britney represents the commercial and creative pivot between the teenager of the first two albums and the adult pop artist of the subsequent decade, with the production collaborators chosen specifically to align Spears with the contemporary R&B mainstream rather than the bubblegum pop of her debut. The album's success marked a commercial and cultural pivot point in Britney Spears's career, the transition from the teenage phenomenon of Baby One More Time to an adult artist capable of sustaining chart dominance across the more sonically diverse and adult-contemporary-oriented pop landscape of the early 2000s.