Britney
by Britney Spears

Britney by Britney Spears
Year: 2001
Release date: 2001-11-06
Overall rank: 7,512th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
58/100 (from 115 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2001 (134th)
Award Top albums of of the 2000s (1,307th)
Award Best albums of all time (7,512th)

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Britney Spears bestography

Britney is ranked 4th best out of 13 albums by Britney Spears on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Britney Spears is Blackout which is ranked number 3045 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 504.

Britney Spears album bestography « Higher ranked (7,395th)
In The Zone
This album (7,512th)
Britney
Lower ranked (7,851st) »
...Baby One More Time

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Overall rank: 7,512th | 2000s rank: 1,307th | 2001 rank: 134th  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
58/100 (from 115 votes)
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Mediocre is right. It's far from great, but far from awful either. Unfortunately the worst tracks here are probably the singles, "I'm A Slave 4 U" which I find pretty annoying, and "I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman" which is only mildly annoying. Some of these songs (like the cover of "I Love Rock 'N' Roll" which is alright but not that great of a song in the first place) included on the soundtrack of the film "Crossroads" sure didn't help that movie, either. Cinderella is probably my favorite track here, and even that is just alright. Overall, not interesting or bad enough to deserve a bad rating, just forgettable. (Edited)
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Grandes hits! (Edited)
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Underwhelming and pretty much fails as a "I've grown up" album ("In The Zone" does a better job of that), but "Britney" is not without its merits. Slave 4 U is a decent lead single and Overprotected is a bit of a bop.
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I'd be lying if I said this was a bad pop album; it's decent enough & songs like "Overprotected" are genuinely good songs. She hadn't fully matured yet, we see that in her next two albums, but this marks a halfway step of sorts. Not without its merits.
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A below average pop album by a below average singer.
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